November 7, 2022
Mouth open, story jump out: The power and purpose of storytelling in these times – Part two
What are we without stories? As communities that have been cast into the margins, make their way back onto the page – Do stories ever end?
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A series of speeches and lectures from the finest minds of our time. Fresh ideas from speakers of note.
October 31, 2022
Mouth open, story jump out: The power and purpose of storytelling in these times
It’s Halloween, and for many of us this is a time of stories. But stories are always with us. They provide us with connections to the past and pathways to the future. What is the role of the storyteller in these times? And what stories must they tell?
October 11, 2022
Home is where the community is: housing as a human right
The shelter system in Ontario is under immense strain as the number of people experiencing chronic homelessness continues to grow.
September 26, 2022
Migrant workers and 'the pandemic paradox': The unseen hands that truly keep us afloat
In the second episode of the Courage My Friends podcast, Series III, Jhoey Dulaca (caregiver and organizer with the Migrant Workers’ Alliance for Change), Ethel Tungohan (Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism) and Chris Ramsaroop (activist and organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers) discuss temporary foreign workers in Canada, the multiple…
September 26, 2022
Migrant workers and 'the pandemic paradox': The unseen hands that truly keep us afloat
In the second episode of the Courage My Friends podcast, Series III, Jhoey Dulaca (caregiver and organizer with the Migrant Workers’ Alliance for Change), Ethel Tungohan (Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism) and Chris Ramsaroop (activist and organizer with Justicia for Migrant Workers) discuss temporary foreign workers in Canada, the multiple…
September 26, 2022
Migrant workers and ‘the pandemic paradox’: The unseen hands that truly keep us afloat
Temporary migrant workers in Canada, pandemic or not, have long been Canada’s essential workers.So why are they still denied belonging?
September 14, 2022
Privatization of public health: Protecting universal healthcare for the common good
What do decades of erosion and current threats of privatization mean for our public healthcare systems? And what does this say about us now?
July 18, 2022
Climate anxiety and climate justice organizing: Fearing the future, finding hope and fighting for our planet – Part 2
In the final episode of our summer series, climate justice organizer and activist Aliya Hirji and National Chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students, Mari Dolcetti-Koros, discuss the global climate crisis, its impacts on our younger populations and the ways in which youth are organizing and taking leadership in securing a truly just and sustainable…
July 18, 2022
Climate anxiety and climate justice organizing: Fearing the future, finding hope and fighting for our planet – Part 2
In the final episode of our summer series, Aliya Hirji and Mari Dolcetti-Koros discuss the global climate crisis, its impacts on our younger populations and the ways in which youth are organizing and taking leadership in securing a truly just and sustainable world for us all.
July 11, 2022
Climate anxiety and climate justice organizing: Fearing the future, finding hope and fighting for our planet – Part 1
Combating climate change means recognizing Indigenous rights and combating colonialism and capitalist greed.
July 11, 2022
Climate anxiety and climate justice organizing: Fearing the future, finding hope and fighting for our planet – Part 1
For the first segment of this special two-part episode, climate justice activist and originator of Land Back, Bryanna Brown discusses the critical need for Indigenous rights and ways of knowing and youth leadership to combat a climate crisis rooted in systems of colonial oppression and capitalist greed. Making the connection between climate and colonialism, Bryanna Brown says: …
July 4, 2022
COVID, inequality and the billionaire space-race
Amid a growing concentration of wealth in fewer hands, how do we understand billionaire wealth? And what do billionaires signal about our economic and democratic systems?