It’s fun, games and Four Loco on this special year-end episode of Unpacking the News.

Ricochet Media’s Ethan Cox and Jacobin Magazine’s Micah Utrecht join host Andre Goulet for a kitchen table conversation on the best and worst of 2017, including:

* the rising global challenges of climate change and wealth disparity
* the US Supreme Court’s war on union organizing
* the disappointments of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2nd Year in power.

Plus organizing successes with the Chicago's Teacher's Union and new civic oversight for notoriously corrupt Montreal police force, the SPVM

This is the first of a two-part conversation.