Episodes
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Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer by Kevin Loring
English Jun 17, 2022 1:01:17A Nlaka’pamux from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, Kevin Loring, Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre, is an accomplished Canadian playwright, actor and director and was the winner of...
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The Price of Advocacy: sowing moral courage in medicine
English Jun 03, 2022 1:02:36With a background in internal medicine, hematology, and molecular biology, Dr. Nancy Olivieri has worked in thalassemia, a blood disease primarily of children of emerging countries, for over 30 years,...
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Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future by Drew Hayden Taylor
English May 27, 2022Drew Hayden Taylor is an award-winning playwright, novelist, scriptwriter and journalist. He was born and still lives on the Curve Lake First Nation in Central Ontario. Taylor has authored nearly...
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No rhyme, no reason: Poetry as sense making in a senseless world
English May 17, 2022 1:00:00Sue Goyette lives in K'jipuktuk (Halifax). She has published a novel and eight collections of poetry, including Ocean (winner of the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award...
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Voices of a Generation: Three Millennial Plays, with zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan
English Apr 25, 2022Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences. Zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan, of mixed Anishinaabe and Slovene descent,...
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What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile by Larry Audlaluk
English Mar 25, 2022What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile is written by Larry Audlaluk who was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a small camp west of Inukjuak in...
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Healing Pages: Writing as Transformation
English Jan 26, 2022 53:36Darrel J. McLeod is the author of Peyakow and Mamaskatch, which received the Govenor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. He is Cree from Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. Before...
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Just Be Human
English Nov 26, 2021 49:08Anna Mehler Paperny talks to Jillian Horton about mental health care in Canada and her own observations - both as journalist and patient. Anna Mehler Paperny is a reporter and the...
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Let’s talk…but who goes first?
English Jun 11, 2021 1:00:34Clara Hughes, a dual-season Olympian, is the only athlete in history to win multiple medals at both the summer and winter Olympic Games. She also knows what it’s like to...
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Just where are you taking that history?
English May 17, 2021 1:11:44Student doctors are taught a formulaic way of “taking” patient histories and repeating their stories. Somewhere along the way, the essence of the person - and why they are seeking...
