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Finding care for a loved one with a serious ongoing medical condition is heartwrenching for families. When long-term care or homecare is needed, it’s also frustrating and confusing. There are few options, and the standards of care can vary significantly from one provider to another. And most of the time, there are few choices. Though…
Election reform advocate Dave Meslin has succeeded in his Kickstarter to raise $15,000 to fund research into electoral reform at the municipal level, building on what’s been done in London, Ontario.
Indigenous researcher Melissa Tremblay talks about her award-winning research to develop a supportive housing model for teen parents and their children.
Simon Chambers of the ACT Alliance just got back from COP 25 in Madrid. He assesses Canada’s performance and also talks about activists’ frustration over the slow pace of change.
Sheila Ziman of the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust talks about how land trusts work, and why generous people sometimes give gifts of land to their communities for conservation.
Here in Canada, we like to believe that we are a welcoming people, kind and generous to anyone who shows up on our doorstep. Today’s guest challenges that assumption. Graeme Truelove’s book Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North looks specifically at our treatment and attitudes towards Muslims. The book looks further back, and demonstrates that our treatment…
Graeme Truelove says discrimination against Muslims is typical of how we’ve treated other non-white immigrant groups. An interview with the author and a reading from his book.
Here in Canada, we like to believe that we are a welcoming people, kind and generous to anyone who shows up on our doorstep. Today’s guest challenges that assumption. Graeme Truelove’s book Un-Canadian: Islamophobia in the True North looks specifically at our treatment and attitudes towards Muslims. The book looks further back, and demonstrates that our treatment…
David Mivasair talks about why he’s spending time convincing fellow American expats in Canada to register to vote in 2020. And a commentary about avoiding toxic consumerist excesses on Black Friday.
Activist and radio host Stefan Christoff tells us about the grassroots campaign to fight the deportation of Guinean refugees from Canada.
It was good news when Edwin Espinel was released on bail from a Honduran prison, but his Canadian mother-in-law says it presents more danger that he could be ordered back to prison.
Corvin Russell talks to activist, writer and educator Carlos Torres about the roots of the protests in Chile and the on the ground events of the past two weeks.
