Latest Episodes
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Dr. Jillian Horton in Conversation with Suzette Mayr
Mar 30, 2023 1:11:51Suzette Mayr’s Giller-Prize winning The Sleeping Car Porter transports us to another time and place. But how does a writer “get" there? In this conversation, we’ll talk about art as...
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Dr. Jillian Horton in Conversation with Dr. Christine Gibson
Mar 16, 2023 53:35During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Christine Gibson turned to TikTok to help people cope with their distress. Her videos were a sensation, and she became known as the “TikTok trauma...
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The Last Doctor - Dr. Jillian Horton in in conversation with Dr. Jean Marmoreo
Dec 20, 2022 51:51Dr. Jean Marmoreo’s new book, “The Last Doctor”, is the powerful story of her experience providing medically assisted death. This hour-long conversation will explore the psychological - and practical -...
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Wired: Why music changes our brains, and our lives
Jul 11, 2022 54:20Popular Music & Variety presents Adriana Barton in conversation with Dr. Jillian Horton as part of our Arts, Medicine & #Life series / Musique populaire et variétés présente Adriana Barton...
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The Price of Advocacy: sowing moral courage in medicine
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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No rhyme, no reason: Poetry as sense making in a senseless world
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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Healing Pages: Writing as Transformation
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
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?
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?
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...