The Courage My Friends podcast series returns for its seventh season on September 10.
After yet another summer of record-breaking heat and flood, what better way to start our season than with Episode 1: Climate and the city: Are we ready?
And who better to begin with than managing director of the C40 Centre for City Climate Policy and Economy and former mayor of Toronto, David Miller?
In our premier episode, Miller discusses the crucial role of cities in “fixing” the climate crisis and explores the question of just how prepared our Canadian cities are to meet its challenges.
Throughout the rest of this season we will continue to explore themes new and familiar, that take us across the country and across the world.
An array of guests, from the arts and activism to academia and politics, will join us in conversation on topics of: truth and reconciliation; COVID-19 and its legacy; the frustrations of office politics; ongoing shifts within a multipolar world; AI; and of course, the climate crisis.
We will also see the return of our annual Mouth Open, Story Jump Out episode on storytelling and storytellers in time for Halloween.
A new Courage My Friends
This season will also see a bit of a change to our podcast theme.
Launched in 2021 by the Tommy Douglas Institute (at George Brown College) and long-time media partner rabble.ca, and with the support of the Douglas Coldwell Layton Foundation, the podcast began under the triple-barrel theme of Covid! Capitalism! Climate!
Over the years this theme has taken us through a range of connected issues, from striking workers to billionaires, housing to immigration, war to healthcare, and storytelling to climate. Through their passion, expertise and experience our guests have enabled us to travel time, place and thought through poetry, conversation and story.
Now, in this (hopefully) dwindling time of COVID and amid the newer and perhaps worsening phases of capitalism and climate, we are also entrenched in conflict and 21st century colonialism, technologized economies, continental shifts in power and so much more.
Covid! Capitalism! Climate! doesn’t seem to cover it anymore … But ‘courage’ still does.
As we all attempt to navigate our way out of the early 2020s and into the brave new and often uncertain world of this unique decade, so too must this podcast.
Continuing under the TDI mission of creating and nurturing spaces of discourse and dialogue on issues pertinent to human rights, climate and social justice, this podcast leaves its original theme behind.
We now continue under the words of the great Tommy Douglas, “Courage my friends; ‘tis not too late to build a better world.”
Nothing more need be said.
Welcome back to the Courage My Friends podcast.
Join us for the launch of our Fall series on September 10 on Needs No Introduction.
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