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Larry Ostola speaks with David A. Borys about his book, Punching Above Our Weight: The Canadian Military at War Since 1867. Punching Above Our Weight offers a comprehensive history of the Canadian military, covering 150 years of evolution from a small, poorly equipped militia to a modern, effective force. It highlights key events such as the Red River Resistance, the Boer War, both World Wars, and peacekeeping missions, including the long Afghan conflict. Borys examines crucial battles like Amiens and Operation Medusa, and important figures such as Louis Riel and Arthur Currie. The book also delves into significant moments, including Canada's declaration of war and the 1990s peacekeeping crises. It addresses challenges faced by the military, such as resource struggles, cultural shifts, and scandals, while offering a fresh perspective on Canada's role in international conflicts. David A. Borys is a Canadian military historian and faculty member at Langara College in Vancouver. He has been seen on such history programs as APTN's Nations at War and National Geographic's Hitler's Last Stand, and is the host of the popular history podcast Curious Canadian History. He lives in Vancouver. Image Credit: Dundurn Press If you like our work, please consider supporting it: bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society's mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada's past.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, Sam George and Jill Yonit Goldberg talk about the book The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School. The Fire Still Burns was a finalist for the 2024 Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. In his conversation with host Megan Cole, Sam and Jill talk about how they started working together on the book, and Sam talks about the significance of telling his own story. Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: www.bcyukonbookprizes.com/ About The Fire Still Burns: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/the-fire-still-burns/ ABOUT SAM GEORGE AND JILL YONIT GOLDBERG: Sam George is a Squamish Elder and a survivor of the Canadian Indian Residential School system. A retired longshoreman and semi-retired drug and alcohol counsellor, Sam now works as an educator with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and speaks with students and community groups about his experiences. Jill Yonit Goldberg is a writer, and a literature and creative writing instructor at Langara College in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches the Writing Lives course in which students collaborate with Indian Residential School survivors who are writing their memoirs. She worked with Sam George to bring his story to the page. Liam Belson, Dylan MacPhee, and Tanis Wilson are students who participated in the Writing Lives class where they worked with Sam George to write his story. ABOUT MEGAN COLE: Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She is also a writer based on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. Megan writes creative nonfiction and has had essays published in Chatelaine, This Magazine, The Puritan, Untethered, and more. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College and is working her first book. Find out more about Megan at megancolewriter.com ABOUT THE PODCAST: Writing the Coast is recorded and produced on the traditional territory of the Tla'amin Nation. As a settler on these lands, Megan Cole finds opportunities to learn and listen to the stories from those whose land was stolen. Writing the Coast is a recorded series of conversations, readings, and insights into the work of the writers, illustrators, and creators whose books are nominated for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. We'll also check in on people in the writing community who are supporting books, writers and readers every day. The podcast is produced and hosted by Megan Cole.

In this episode of the Ask Canada Immigration Lawyer Evelyn Ackah podcast, Evelyn welcomes Oscar Sy, principal and founding partner at Numis CPA Inc., to discuss cross-border tax and financial strategies for Canadians and Americans. Oscar, a lifelong Vancouverite, shares his career journey from his education at Langara College to his experience at Ernst & Young and how he ultimately decided to start his own firm. He highlights Numis CPA's unique approach to client service, focusing on responsiveness, cross-border capabilities and goal-oriented strategies. The discussion explores how Numis CPA assists clients with cross-border immigration, including structuring deals, payroll and navigating the complexities of tax systems on both sides of the border. They also touch upon the firm's support for startups, offering tailored services and educational resources. Finally, Oscar shares his vision for Numis CPA's continued growth and expansion and offers insights into current tax and accounting issues.

In this  episode of Animals & Us - Voices of a New Paradigm, we welcome the wonderful Dr. Estella Carolye Kuchta, a passionate researcher and educator. With her recent PhD completion, Dr. Kuchta explores the transformative potential of love in our understanding of the natural world and our connections with it.Join us as we jump into her fascinating research on intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) and how love serves as a vital bridge in fostering deeper connections with animals, particularly trees. Dr. Kuchta shares her insights on how each being possesses intrinsic value, not only for their contributions to our lives but simply for existing.Here's what we talked about:The Role of Love in Interspecies Communication: Dr. Kuchta shared her research on how love enables intuitive communication with animals, particularly trees. She believes that by tuning into love, we can become more responsible and caring members of Earth.Re-envisioning Education: We discussed the need for a paradigm shift in educational practices, moving beyond traditional "green" initiatives to address the deeper values embedded in our systems.Messages from Trees: Dr. Kuchta revealed the insights she received from trees about how to communicate with them and the important messages they want to share with humanity.Skepticism and Fear: She shared a story about a friend who transitioned from skepticism to understanding, highlighting the often-fear-based roots of skepticism regarding intuitive communication.Future Vision for Education: Dr. Kuchta articulated her vision for integrating love and environmental awareness into educational systems, emphasizing the importance of changing how we think about our relationships with nature.About Dr. Kuchta:Dr. Estella Carolye Kuchta teaches ecocriticism and research writing at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada. Her doctoral research investigated the epistemological potential of love and the redefining of love from an ecological perspective. She is the coauthor with Sean Blenkinsop of Ecologizing Education: Nature-Centered Teaching for Cultural Change (Cornell, 2024). Her ecocritical research into Canadian love stories resulted in the novel Finding the Daydreamer(Elm Books, 2020). She has worked as a research assistant to Dr. Gabor Maté (MD), an editor for Susila Dharma International, and an intern for the CBC Radio, and is a long-time member of the International Love Research Network and the interfaith group Subud. 

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In this episode, host Megan Cole talks to Brandon Reid. Brandon is the author of Beautiful Beautiful, which is a finalist for the 2024 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In their conversation Brandon talks about the narrator in his book Redbird Anon, and how this narrator provides a unique point of view. He also talks about the influence of family stories on his novel. Visit BC and Yukon Book Prizes: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/ About Beautiful Beautiful: https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/project/beautiful-beautiful/ ABOUT BRANDON REID: Brandon Reid holds a B.Ed. from UBC with a specialization in Indigenous education, and a journalism diploma from Langara College. His work has been published in the Barely South Review, the Richmond Review and The Province. He is a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation, with a mix of Indigenous and English ancestry. He resides in Richmond, BC, where he works as a TTOC. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, playing music and listening to comedy podcasts. His debut novel, Beautiful Beautiful, was published with Nightwood Editions in fall 2023. ABOUT MEGAN COLE: Megan Cole the Director of Programming and Communications for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. She is also a writer based on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. Megan writes creative nonfiction and has had essays published in Chatelaine, This Magazine, The Puritan, Untethered, and more. She has her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College and is working her first book. Find out more about Megan at megancolewriter.com ABOUT THE PODCAST: Writing the Coast is recorded and produced on the territory of the Tla'amin Nation. As a settler on these lands, Megan Cole finds opportunities to learn and listen to the stories from those whose land was stolen. Writing the Coast is a recorded series of conversations, readings, and insights into the work of the writers, illustrators, and creators whose books are nominated for the annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. We'll also check in on people in the writing community who are supporting books, writers and readers every day. The podcast is produced and hosted by Megan Cole.

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Baba Here Love and Marcus Rummery discuss The One, Terence McKenna, underground comics, Neem Karoli Baba, homosexuality, the gay agenda and more. It is all applied to our spiritual awakening. “Allen Ginsberg is a very close friend of mine, and for a long time, because Allen was being very much publicly gay in his writings and his writing at work, I questioned whether that was my role too. I saw along the way, because of my drug history, that I was identified by many people as being a “druggie.” I began to see that every one of these roles and labels was both a way of having a feeling of comfort in a group identity, while also being a defining concept in my own mind. I see people who have labels in their mind of who I am. I found it a little too complicated to have any labels at all.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B0B94P5KV8&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp राम राम राम I AM THE ONE I AM SHIVA

In this EP I read from an interview I did with Halldor Bjarnasion.  Halldor was born with Cerebral Palsy and despite his disability, has carved quite a career and life for himself. I wanted to tell his story, and we both agreed that his speech would be to challenge for the listener.  So in this episode, I endeavor to represent his voice and bring you through a small part of the life of an incredible human.  After graduating from high school Halldor attended university in Winnipeg where he earned an honors degree in political science. He then attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree. After graduating from Queen's in 1989 he again faced some challenges in finding a firm that would allow him to article, but finally managed to do so with an established firm in Toronto's Bay Street area. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1991 and then moved to Vancouver where he was called to the Bar in 1993.During all of these years, Halldor was also involved in sports. His accomplishments are many, leading to 2 medals in the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul, gold in the 1500 M, and silver in the 3000 m trike events. After many more competitions, he again competed at the Paralympic Games in 1992 in Barcelona. He was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame for his achievements in Seoul and served on the CPISRA Athletes Commission for 4 years. He was a member of the CCPSA Constitutional Committee from 1987 – 1989. Halldor is also the recipient of many other awards: the Governor Generals Medal, the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award, and a community service award from the BC branch of the Canadian Bar Association.Over the years Halldor has been involved in many organizations: the Law Society of BC's Disability Advisory Committee, the Law Society of BC's Equity and Diversity Committee, the BC Sports Medicine Council, the Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network, and the Neil Squire Foundation, just to name a few. Halldor has also been an educator, teaching at UBC, West Coast School of Massage, and Langara College. He is a successful publisher, having written a book with co-author Lynda Cannell. He has also written a second book on the history of the Winnipeg Fire Dept, proving that his dreams as a little boy are still lurking somewhere in the back of his mind!Since 2003 Halldor has been working for the Vancouver firm Access Law Group. He is an inspiration not only to his co-workers but his clients and all who have had the pleasure of meeting and dealing with him. His sense of humor is infectious, and he has a smile you don't easily forget. I hope you enjoy this podcast, I know I enjoyed telling his story.If you liked this EP, please take the time to rate and comment, share with a friend, and connect with us on social channels IG @Kingopain, TW @BuiltbyScott, LI+FB Scott Livingston. All things LYM at www.LYMLab.com, download your free Life Lab Starter Kit today and get busy living https://lymlab.com/free-lym-lab-starter/

Phantom Electric Ghost:Interviews Katherine Lazaruk: “No One Sees Your Skills” Leveraging a Strong Professional Presence for Success Biography Katherine comes from a performance and education background with Bachelors' Degrees in Music and Education from the University of British Columbia. Before starting her business in 2007, she divided her time between singing in the opera, teaching music to primary school students and even did a stint in corporate training at one of the Big 5 accounting firms.  Katherine holds certificates in Image Consulting and Advanced Image Consulting from the International Image Institute (Ontario, Canada), as well as her second level international designation (Certified Image Professional) with the Association of Image Consultants International (AICI) and two coaching certifications, Certified Leadership Coach (CLC) with Essential Impact and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation. She helps professional women and men learn to walk, talk, act and look like leaders. With the creation of customized educational programs, she brings over twenty years of instructional development and corporate training experience to bear when teaching women and champions of women to leverage their professional presence to achieve their goals. With an additional thirty-five years of performance experience, she helps leaders with everything from how they look to how they have tough conversations. She is a sought-after keynote speaker on topics related to leadership and presence, offering engaging and effective presentations for groups.   In addition to her executive coaching and consulting practice, Katherine has been an instructor with the Image Consulting Programs at Langara College, trained consultants for Dress for Success Vancouver, has served on the Canada Chapter Board of her professional association (AICI), as Vice Chair for the Women's Leadership Council of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade and on the Nominations Committee for the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards. She currently serves as the Education Sub-Committee Chair with AICI's Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. When she's not working, she can be found singing with her eighteen piece vintage jazz big band, writing and publishing collections of poetry (Love is Not Pie: Variations on a Monogamish Theme and Songs for My Father), enjoying food experiences and jazz as well as walking on the seawall or watching movies with her film editor husband and her wide circle of very good friends in her home city of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Link: https://lzrkconsulting.com/ Support PEG by checking out our Sponsors: Download and use Newsly for free now from www.newsly or from the link in the description, and use promo code “GHOST” and receive a 1-month free premium subscription. The best tool for finding guest for your podcast: https://podmatch.com/signup/phantomelectricghost ⁠Subscribe to our YouTube to watch our latest podcasts and musical endeavours. https://youtube.com/@phantomelectricghost Subscribe to our Instagram to get exclusive content: https://www.instagram.com/expansive_sound_experiments/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phantom-electric/message

In the latest episode of The Wealth Exchange podcast, Women's LEAD segment host, Selena Woo, speaks with Joy Walcott-Francis, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at Langara College and author of “Cocktails, Cappucino and Courage: Because it takes a lot!” Together, they delve into the thought-provoking themes of Joy's book, which is an embodiment of resilience, courage, and a steadfast determination to lead life on one's own terms.  Joy provides insightful glimpses into her personal journey, including her childhood in Jamaica, her academic pursuits, and her experiences as a Black woman in academia. The discussion also encompasses Joy's endeavours in promoting equity, diversity and inclusion, and the obstacles encountered in achieving her goals. Joy also shares some words of wisdom for women who are chasing their dreams and describes her vision for the future.

This week on Below the Radar, our host Am Johal is joined by writer, editor, and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow of Contemporary Art at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts, Yani Kong. Am and Yani discuss Yani's graduate research exploring enchantment and how she got into her work writing arts criticism. They also talk about Canadian art at the 2022 Venice biennale and the relationship between public art and real-estate development in Vancouver. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/207-yani-kong.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/207-yani-kong.html Resources: Yani Kong: https://www.yanikong.com/ SFU School for the Contemporary Arts: https://www.sfu.ca/sca.html The Comparative Media Arts Journal: https://www.sfu.ca/cmajournal.html Yani Kong on the Venice Biennale: https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/venice-biennale/ Rodney Graham's Spinning Chandelier: https://westbankcorp.com/public-art/spinning-chandelier Small File Media Festival: https://smallfile.ca/ Bio: Yani Kong is a writer, editor, and scholar of contemporary art in Vancouver, Canada. She has recently published essays for the Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation, Vancouver BC, the Freedman Gallery, Reading PA, and is a regular contributor to Galleries West. She is SSHRC Doctoral Fellow of Contemporary Art at the School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA), Simon Fraser University, researching reception aesthetics and contemporary art history. As a member of the Low Carbon Research Methods Working Group, she explores sustainable practices in streaming media. Kong is a faculty member in the department of art history and religious studies at Langara College. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Enchantment, Criticism, and the Activation of Art — with Yani Kong” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, March 28, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/207-yani-kong.html.

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss creating culture, the culture of specialness, realizing our divinity, the cosmic joke, gurus and relate all of it to our spiritual awakening. “It seems to me we are all traditionalists, we are all modernists, and we are all ‘cultural creatives.' To the extent that you bring it all into consciousness, you can feel the way it affects all of it.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B0B94P5KV8&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp राम राम राम I AM THE ONE I AM SHIVA

Lori Goldberg was born and lives in Vancouver. She attended Langara College, Ontario College of Art and Design and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She is the recipient of many awards, including a Canada Council Grant, two Tony Onley Artist's Project Scholarship and the Vermont Artist Award. Her work is in the collections of the Canada Art Bank, Contemporary Art Gallery, among others.

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Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss astral beings, imaginary friends, insanity, infinity, Stanislav Grof, consciousness, spiritual emergencies, and more. All of the topics are related to our spiritual awakening. “It seems like a sort of strange path in the West, but my path involves my relationship to Maharajji, Neem Karoli Baba. The way I do that is that I just hang out with him all the time. I have an imaginary playmate in a way, I mean, he's dead. He dropped his body, yet he seems so alive to me, because I have invested that form in my mind as an emotional connection to that deeper truth. Because for me, Maharajji is the cosmic giggle. He is the wisdom that transcends time and space.“ - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif It's all One 1967 FOREVER ETERNITY NOW!!! BE HERE NOW

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. This episode is perfect cosmic-humor dharmic-flow divine-Lila. We discuss many topics and relate it all to our spiritual awakening. “In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.” Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif It's all One 1967 FOREVER ETERNITY NOW!!! BE HERE NOW

As it's one of our most popular episodes to date (and a personal favorite), I wanted highlight this conversation with Pennylane Shen. It's also excellent compliment to the the Artwork Development Series that we just wrapped up (check out the past 3 episodes if you haven't yet). Much of what we've been discussing is distilled nicely in this interview, and as well as given a totally fresh perspective by Pennylane. If you've heard this one before, re-listening is a GREAT check-in to see how you're relating to her points and suggestions now v. then. If you're coming across this conversation for the first time-- you're in for a treat! We talked about… -- The two overarching factors that make for strong artwork and how to know if you're hitting the marks --Navigating experimentation and incorporating just the right dose of it -- Why you need to bulk up the “meat and potatoes” of your work and ways to bring meaning and substance to the forefront of what you make -- How to overcome the insecurity of being self-taught -- The things to become aware of in your own self (or continued!) art education -- Determining which way of selling your work is right for you: self-representation v. working with a gallery BIO Pennylane Shen is an artist consultant, curator and educator. Since 2006, her company Dazed and Confucius has offered personalized consultations, group workshops and business development with regular seminars held worldwide. Artist consultants Pennylane and David advise over 1000 artists each year. With a variety of services catered to the fine artist, Dazed and Confucius has quickly become the "one-stop shop" for artists navigating the fine art industry. Pennylane holds a Master's Degree in Visual Culture Theory from New York University and has lectured at various forums throughout Canada, the US and the UK. Her teaching experience includes Langara College and the NYC Crit Club. For more than a decade, Pennylane has worked in commercial galleries such as the Bau-Xi Gallery, the longest standing commercial gallery in Canada. In her hometown of Vancouver, BC Pennylane has curated for the Vancouver Mural Festival. An avid supporter of art and wellness, she sits on the board for the Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Foundation, collecting notable art pieces for hospital walls. UNIQUE: a Style Development Workshop Series is open for enrollment through 10/6. Learn more and sign up here. Head to patreon.com/devonwalz for bonus episodes. FOLLOW PENNYLANE www.dazedandconfucius.com/ IG: @dazed.and.confucius FOLLOW THE SHOW @artandmagicpodcast FOLLOW DEVON IG: @devonwalzart Tittok: @devonwalz

This week, we're chatting with cartoonist Kathleen Gros about her graphic novel Jo: An Adaptation of Little Women (Sort Of), which reimagines Jo March as a middle schooler discovering her queer identity and navigating a crush on Freddie, a girl who works with her on the school's paper. Kathleen is also the author of the forthcoming Anne, a contemporary retelling of Anne of Green Gables, which is due out this summer and, yes, promises budding romance between Anne and one Diana Barry. When Kathleen's not writing queer-as-hell adaptations of your favorite classics, she teaches comics at Langara College. You can visit her online at kagcomix.com and on Twitter at kagcomix.

Seeing a superhero dealing with schizophrenia inspired writer Bevan Thomas to create a new project. He and publisher Cloudscape Comics brought together a group of 11 artists, each of whom would explore their own experiences with mental health and mental illness in a graphic novel anthology called Through The Labyrinths of the Mind. In addition […]

Be Here Now under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss the doors of perception, psychedelic yoga, fasting, vibrations and much more. It's all related to our spiritual awakening. “What calming the mind is all about what meditation is for is to cool you out so you REMEMBER so you see how it all is” - Ram Dass (Remember Be Here Now) Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B0B94P5KV8&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp राम राम राम --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

S3, E8: The new president at Langara College in British Columbia, Canada, began on June 6, but the marketing office started prepping for Dr. Paula Burns' arrival back in January. Langara's public affairs manager Mark Dawson shares why preparations kicked off so early, plus the steps they've taken to ensure employees, students, the community and key stakeholders get to know their new leader. He also points out the most vital to-dos, specifically for smaller marketing staffs ... just in case you don't have the resources to tackle every single one of those steps.

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss the transitory, psychiatry, psychosis, Timothy Leary, healing trauma, and relate it all to our spiritual awakening. “It's the interesting way in which methods are traps. Krishnamurti is right to that extent; methods are traps because of the way in which you embrace the method.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Host Jeff Crawford and Co Host Baba Here Love with first half the show with Ms. Anonymous and second half of the show with Marcus Rummery. This is the second anniversary of Giant Rock Podcast! We discuss Summer of 22 Pop Culture and other very interesting topics! Just Listen and Be Here Now Bio on Marcus -Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration.Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions.In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi.Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology.http://therummery.cahttps://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notifSupport the show

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss cosmic humor, other types of humor, freedom of speech, culture, comedians, the cosmic joke, laughter yoga and relate all of it to our spiritual awakening. “Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Show notes below:   Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    About Naomi Brand: Originally from Tkaronto (Toronto), Naomi spent ten years dancing on Treaty 7 territory (Calgary), before relocating to the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people in 2013. She holds both a BA and an MFA from the University of Calgary and a DanceAbility teaching certificate from founder Alito Alessi. As a performer, choreographer, writer and facilitator Naomi has cultivated a unique artistic practice that spans work with professional dancers to a community-engaged practice with diverse populations. She has danced in the works of many respected Canadian choreographers and her own choreography which ranges from works as a soloist, to large group ensemble pieces have been featured in numerous venues and festivals across Canada as well as in Poland, Italy and Uruguay. In recent years her practice has been focused on values of access and inclusion as she strives to make dance within a context that both creates and speaks to community connection. In addition to her work as Artistic Director of All Bodies Dance Project, Naomi is also a Community Arts Programmer with the Vancouver Park Board and a faculty member at Langara College. Naomi is the recipient of numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Art Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as well as the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award. About Tara: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level" (The Georgia Straight). Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can't remember the word for I can't remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn't creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world. Highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season), The River Project with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello and Bassano Italy, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can't remember the word for I can't remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) / East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart   © 2022 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the show. We discuss attachment to the guru, rational-materialism, the Amerikkkan psychosis, Neem Karoli Baba, oneness, everybody is the guru and relate it all to our spiritual awakening. Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ “All is God's will, but Maya prevents you from knowing it's all God's will. He gave us eyes, ears, nose, mouth. But He also gave us wisdom to use them to attain God.” - Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Julie Himel received a Diploma of Fine Art from Langara College, Vancouver, BC; a BFA Honours Degree from York University, Toronto, ON, and a Graduate Diploma from the Toronto School of Art, Toronto, ON. Her work has been exhibited across North America, including recently being featured in digital exhibitions with Visionary Projects, New York, NY;  and the TD Thor Wealth Management Juried Exhibition: Quest for the Environment, Quest Art, Midland, ON. Himel's paintings are part of private collections across the world and public collections including The University of Calgary, Calgary, AB; Westfield State University, Westfield, MA; the Armenian Centre Art Collection Canada, Toronto, ON and several corporate collections. Julie lives and works in Toronto.   Julie Himel's vivid paintings push the genre of landscape into dreamlike abstractions. Her newest works present an experiential portrait of human interaction with the natural world during this environmentally complex time. Man made structures, anthropogenic traces, and unnatural light sources become part of the view, through dream and memory-scapes that question time and connection to nature. A nod to the beautiful that inevitably unfolds as the environment adapts to human intervention.   LINKS:  www.juliehimel.com   Artist Shoutouts: Ben Reeves Emma Webster Madeline Peckenpaugh Arden Bendler Browning   I Like Your Work Links: https://www.nyccritclub.com/ https://go.sunlighttax.com/ilyw   Exhibitions Studio Visit Artists I Like Your Work Podcast Instagram Submit Work Observations on Applying to Juried Shows Studio Planner

Pepita Elena McKee shares how she overcame adversity, makes a difference in her career, and how she became the CEO of Impact Resolutions. Aaron and Pepita talk about mediating between corporations and Indigenous communities regarding developments, her personal background, attending university and founding Impact Resolutions. Pepita Elena McKee is the CEO of Impact Resolutions, an award–winning researcher, engagement specialist, and social strategist. Pepita attended Langara College for Aboriginal Studies, Simon Fraser University for a bachelors and masters degree in sociology and anthropology. She has worked as a social and health consultant, socio-economic analyst, and now acts as a human environment regulatory and monitoring and evaluation specialist with Impact Resolutions. She acts as a director for the Enrichment League, a Community Liaison with the First Nation Education Foundation and works on a sub-committee with Women in Mining BC. Pepita is the Co-Chair for the Technical Advisory Committee of the Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Effects. Chapters: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:02:14 Mediating Between Corporations & Indigenous Communities 0:24:58 First Nations Economic Development 0:33:52 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People 1:01:08 Overcoming Adversity 1:53:20 Starting Impact Resolutions 2:08:51 Reconciliation in BC 2:18:56 Working with Impact Resolutions

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the podcast. We discuss astral planes, the Kali Yuga, and spiritual practices (sadhana). “I would really like to do sadhana, but...I'm a teacher now. If I could only finish being a teacher, I could do sadhana.” BALONEY! You're either doing sadhana or you're not. Sadhana is a full time thing that you do because there is nothing else to do. You do it whether you're teaching, or sitting in a monastery...whether you're lying in bed, going to the toilet, making love, eating...EVERYTHING is part of waking up.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery and Baba discuss Shamanism, Native American spirituality, psychedelics, spirit animals and more, relating it to our spiritual awakening. Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ “Yet we are not a traditional culture like that of the Native Americans. Their deep reverence for their spiritual elders is similar to the way holy beings are woven into the fabric of spiritual life in India.” - Ram Dass --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery and Baba discuss psychedelics, yoga, the mind, psychology, science, tantra, sexuality and dreams relating it to our spiritual awakening. “When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.” - Neem Karoli Baba Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the show. We discuss Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, the 1960's revolution, Maharajji, Ram Dass, psychedelic yoga and other topics related to our spiritual awakening. Let the podcast wash over you and don't get busy being identified with he or she who listens. Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://m.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/?notif_id=1630281819980681¬if_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif “For many of us who have come into meditation through psychedelics, the model we had for changing consciousness has been of “getting high”. We pushed away our normal waking state in order to embrace a state of euphoria, harmony, bliss, peace, or ecstasy. Many of us spent long periods of time getting high and coming down. My guru, in speaking about psychedelics, said: “These medicines will allow you to come and visit Christ, but you can only stay two hours. Then you have to leave again. This is not the true samadhi. It's better to become Christ than to visit him – but even the visit of a saint for a moment is useful.” Then he added, “But love is the most powerful medicine.”  For love slowly transforms you into what the psychedelics only let you glimpse.” - Ram Dass राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम राम (108 Ram) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery returns to the show. We discuss non-duality, determinism, spiritual powers, and others topics related to our spiritual awakening. Let the podcast wash over you and don't get busy being identified with he or she who listens. Where are you? Here! What time is it? Now! Are you a listener and am I a podcast host??? Come on

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery gets to the truth of why Baba Here Love left the co-host position of the giant rock podcast. https://giantrockpodcast.com We explore the death of Balki, so to speak, in a perfect strangers analogy and get into the nitty gritty of tantra yoga. In this humorous and perhaps mind blowing episode we relate all topics that come up to our spiritual awakening that is happening NOW. “All is God's will, but Maya prevents you from knowing it's all God's will. He gave us eyes, ears, nose, mouth. But He also gave us wisdom to use them to attain God.” - Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji) Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

Technology was supposed to bring us together but somehow it has divided us. We have traded in convenience for human connection. We can do every daily activity while staying in the comforts of our house. Shopping can be done on Amazon, food delivery on Food Panda, exercise on Peleton or gym apps, calls on Zoom, etc. Our opinions can even be canceled on social media. Even though we aren't actually isolated, jobless, or friendless, why are we becoming more lonely?In this episode, Peng Fong, a 20-year veteran journalist and podcast host of Alone Together, discusses the culprits of making us lonely in this world where we are not necessarily alone, and how we can bring ourselves out of our shells in order to feel connected again.Here we discuss;- Why she started the Alone Together Podcast- Addressing loneliness- Technology's tradeoff of convenience- Parental hacks for children- Accepting and being curious about opposing opinions- Using technology to bring us togetherPeg Fong has been writing for the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, CBC, South China Morning Post, and The Economist. She also teaches Journalism at Langara College in Vancouver.Subscribe to my weekly/monthly newsletter here.Guest: Peg Fong (LinkedIn)Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)Music: ShowNing (Website)

Venture under Maharajji's blanket as Marcus Rummery divinely dances through the art of conversation with our nutty host Baba Here Love aka nobody special. We discuss psychedelic medicine, gurus, western science, revolution and the transformation of society. “These medicines will allow you to come and visit Christ, but you can only stay two hours. Then you have to leave again. This is not the true samadhi. It's better to become Christ than to visit him – but even the visit of a saint for a moment is useful.” Then he added, “But love is the most powerful medicine.”  For love slowly transforms you into what the psychedelics only let you glimpse.” - Ram Dass Marcus has been creative all of his life. Born to a journalist and scientist, and raised in a community adjacent to a nuclear research facility in rural Manitoba called Pinawa. Marcus' upbringing was one of dynamic creativity and radioactive inspiration. Marcus began performing stand-up comedy in 1996 in Ottawa. Then, less than a year later, he came third in Canada's Funniest New Comic contest. He has performed all across Canada and L.A., headlining in Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, toured the country twice, and been featured on XM Radio as well CBC Radio's Definitely Not the Opera and Madly Off in All Directions. In 2002 Marcus became certified to teach hot yoga, a then new practice involving vigorous exercise in an extreme environment where the heat is cranked to 40.6 Celsius and the humidity to 40%. For almost eleven years, ten times a week you could here his inspirational ranting all around Lotus Land until 2014 when he premiered Hot Prana. This new series that he calls the Crossfit of Yoga, was featured in his first teacher training in 2016. A disrupter in the space he later became the first yoga teacher to also sing and play guitar while instructing, a class he calls Cool Qi. Marcus completed his BA in psychology in 2005 and then two years later the Langara College digital documentary program, and in 2008 finished Big Medicine – The Techno-Shamanism of Frank Ogden. In 2017 he released his magnus opus film Bucket Chemistry, featuring a four-act psychedelic death and rebirth multimedia rock-show. In February 1995, after a life changing psilocybin experience, Marcus began the research that would lead to his interest in Frank's work when he started investigating psychoactive drugs - culminating in the publication of Shamanic Graffiti in 2016, with the second edition coming out this year. The first edition is featured at the Archives of Psychoactive Substances at Purdue University. In 2021 he began his master's degree in counseling at Athabasca University. Fronting the bands Evoke, All Possible Humans and In Defense of Tim Leary Marcus has operated as a vocalist since the beginning. Right now, he is working on his second book Shamanic Enneagram, recording and performing as well as teaching yoga, and continuing his studies in psychology. http://therummery.ca https://www.facebook.com/ShamanicGraffiti/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/baba-here-love/support

After a $3.3 million grant was awarded to Langara College's Applied Science for the Canadian Cannabis Industry program, Grow Opportunity was curious to know where the college would be directing its research focus. Editor and podcast host, Catarina Muia, sat down with Kelly Sveinson, Chair of Langara College's Applied Research Centre, to discover how the Applied Science for the Canadian Cannabis Industry will benefit the Canadian cannabis industry, what the college's research will be focused on, and where the future of the Canadian cannabis industry is headed.

This is an extra special episode for me because working with Pennylane Shen over the past year has been a game changer for my art practice. Pennylane is an artist consultant, and she's really one of the good ones out there providing support to artists who want to strengthen their work, develop their business, write their artist statement and much more. I loved getting to steal her for an hour to ask everything I've been wanting to and highlight the knowledge that she's imparted to me in our sessions together. We talked about… -- The two overarching factors that make for strong artwork and how to know if you're hitting the marks --Navigating experimentation and incorporating just the right dose of it -- Why you need to bulk up the “meat and potatoes” of your work and ways to bring meaning and substance to the forefront of what you make -- How to overcome the insecurity of being self-taught -- The things to become aware of in your own self (or continued!) art education -- Determining which way of selling your work is right for you: self-representation v. working with a gallery BIO Pennylane Shen is an artist consultant, curator and educator. Since 2006, her company Dazed and Confucius has offered personalized consultations, group workshops and business development with regular seminars held worldwide. Artist consultants Pennylane and David advise over 1000 artists each year. With a variety of services catered to the fine artist, Dazed and Confucius has quickly become the "one-stop shop" for artists navigating the fine art industry. Pennylane holds a Master's Degree in Visual Culture Theory from New York University and has lectured at various forums throughout Canada, the US and the UK. Her teaching experience includes Langara College and the NYC Crit Club. For more than a decade, Pennylane has worked in commercial galleries such as the Bau-Xi Gallery, the longest standing commercial gallery in Canada. In her hometown of Vancouver, BC Pennylane has curated for the Vancouver Mural Festival. An avid supporter of art and wellness, she sits on the board for the Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Foundation, collecting notable art pieces for hospital walls. FOLLOW PENNYLANE www.dazedandconfucius.com/ IG: @dazed.and.confucius SUPPORT THE SHOW Visit patreon.com/devonwalz for exclusive bonus episodes each month FOLLOW THE SHOW @artandmagicpodcast @devonwalzart www.devonwalz.com To get started with the Frame It Easy App and claim $100 off sample frames head to frameiteasy.com/artmagic

Sonia Orlu joined us to discuss her life experiences as a Nigerian immigrant living in Canada as well as her "controversial" essay about not supporting BLM. Sonia is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Her current academic research focuses on identity politics, diversity and inclusion, and free speech in the era of social media as the new public square. She previously held a sessional teaching position at Langara College in Vancouver, and currently maintains a political and cultural commentary account on Instagram. Her Instagram handle: @sonia_orlu You can find her peer-reviewed essay here.

Jasmine Chen is a Chinese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and Vancouver. Jasmine was born in T’karonto (the place in the water where the trees are standing), where from an early age she was immersed in arts based education. An alumni of the Claude Watson Arts Program, Jasmine studied Music, Art, Dance and Theatre for nine years. She majored as a dancer for four years, training and competing in ballet, jazz and modern. In high school she majored in Theatre, where she was president of the Arts Council. Her time spent in extracurricular shows and performances led her to continue her post-secondary training in the Theatre Performance: Acting Program at Ryerson University, graduating with a BFA. Jasmine has worked extensively as a performer in Theatre and Film/TV. She is a director, performer, educator, movement coach, community facilitator, and producer. Jasmine has engaged with audiences across Canada in repertory festivals, independent theatres, site-specific spaces, regional theatres and outdoor venues. She has worked with leaders in film, opera, music, theatre, and media, such as: Atom Egoyan, Aria Umezawa, Lido Pimienta, Hawksley Workman, Ins Choi, and Amanda Parris. She has taught at Studio 58 Langara College, McGill Schulich School of Music, the Paprika Festival, Festival Players Academy, Canadian Stage, Cahoots Theatre, and the Children’s Peace Theatre. Jasmine is the recipient of the Gina Wilkinson Award for Female Directors, the Stratford Festival Jean Gascon Award, a Toronto Harold Award, and is a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee. www.msjasminechen.com Instagram: @hausofchen Support Stageworthy: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy

Welcome to "Tiffin Talks – Zanani / Zamana / Zameen", the final episode of our #ISF2020 season! In this in-depth discussion between writer Shauna Singh Baldwin, filmmaker Baljit Sangra, and visual artist Sandeep Johal, moderated by Suvi Bains, the artists reflect on the clash of tradition and modernity within the context of patriarchy and gender inequality and share how their work creates space for South Asian voices. We couldn't be prouder of it and hope it’s as invigorating and stimulating for you as it was for us. Listen and let us know what you think and what came up for you as you did. Presented in partnership with Surrey Art Gallery Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of: - Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University ⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia ⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC ⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠ ⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC ⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada ⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC ⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation ⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP ⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM ⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver ⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society ⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

Listen to some of the most powerful thinkers in the world: Ben Okri, Anita Anand, Sanjay Kak, Marianne Nicholson, Aza Raskin and Kritika Pandey. They take us through complex histories and call on us to fight for and imagine better futures. 5×15 is a speakers series that originated in London and has featured speakers like Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem and Brian Eno. ISF has hosted the only Canadian iteration of 5×15 every year. This special global edition of 5x15 is jointly curated and hosted by Eleanor O’Keeffe (co-founder of 5×15) and our own Co-Founder and Artistic Director Sirish Rao. Presenting in Partnership with 5x15 Event Supporting Partner: Hari Sharma Foundation Event Community Partner: SFU Publishing Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of: - Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University ⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia ⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC ⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠ ⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC ⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada ⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC ⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation ⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP ⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM ⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver ⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society ⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

In our new podcast episode, Joseph Stiglitz and Arjun Jayadev, two of the world’s most renowned economists, explore whether the pandemic offers an unprecedented chance for a new social contract to emerge. What would it take to build a kinder and more equitable economic world on the other side of this, and what can we do to get the next decade right? Event Community Partner: Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP and Global Reporting Centre Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of: - Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University ⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia ⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC ⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠ ⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC ⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada ⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC ⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation ⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP ⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM ⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver ⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society ⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

For centuries, poetry has been the literary form that has told the stories of our times. Poets have been the chroniclers of our battles, the heralds of our celebrations and the ones who have offered us solace in times of need. Join me and my co-host (poet, spoken word artist, organiser) Anjalica Solomon as we take you from Vancouver to Mumbai to Abu Dhabi for a series of intimate readings by outstanding poets from around the world, offering us literature as shelter, medicine and mirror. In the third and last episode of our “It could be verse” series, you’re going to listen to poems that talk about the “Natural World, our Inner Worlds, Containment and liberation”. Poetry for a Pandemic is presented by SFU Library Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of: - Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University ⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia ⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC ⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠ ⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC ⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada ⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC ⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation ⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP ⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM ⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver ⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society ⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

For centuries, poetry has been the literary form that has told the stories of our times. Poets have been the chroniclers of our battles, the heralds of our celebrations and the ones who have offered us solace in times of need. Join me and my co-host (poet, spoken word artist, organiser) Anjalica Solomon as we take you from Vancouver to Mumbai to Abu Dhabi for a series of intimate readings by outstanding poets from around the world, offering us literature as shelter, medicine and mirror. We’ve turned our original two hour event into three separate episodes for the purposes of this podcast, with each episode featuring poems grouped around a common theme. In this episode of our three-part “It could be verse” series, you’ll hear poems that broadly speak about Love / Reunion and being in the world. Poetry for a Pandemic is presented by SFU Library. Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of: - Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University ⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia ⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC ⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠ ⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC ⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada ⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC ⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation ⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP ⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM ⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver ⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society ⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

For centuries, poetry has been the literary form that has told the stories of our times. Poets have been the chroniclers of our battles, the heralds of our celebrations and the ones who have offered us solace in times of need. Join me and my co-host (poet, spoken word artist, organiser) Anjalica Solomon as we take you from Vancouver to Mumbai to Abu Dhabi for a series of intimate readings by outstanding poets from around the world, offering us literature as shelter, medicine and mirror. We’ve turned our original two hour event into three separate episodes for the purposes of this podcast, with each episode featuring poems grouped around a common theme. The first episode of our three part ‘It Could be Verse’ series features poems that broadly speak about ancestors, inheritance and the stories we remember. To start us on our journey is Christie Lee Charles, a poet from the Musqueam Nation who is the current ‘Poet Laureate of Vancouver’. Poetry for a Pandemic is presented by SFU Library. Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of: - Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University ⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia ⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC ⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠ ⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC ⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada ⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC ⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation ⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP ⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM ⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver ⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society ⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

Legendary environmental warriors Vandana Shiva and David Suzuki, come together in this rare conversation across continents. Both are past winners of the ‘Right Livelihood Prize’ often referred to as the ‘alternative Nobel’, and have had enormous local and global impact through their work. Now, in the middle of a global pandemic, they invite us to consider the opportunity we have to change our ways of being as a species, and how we must truly be “all in this together”. Event Presenting Partner: Nature's Path Indian Summer Festival is made possible thanks to the wonderful support of: - Founding Partner⁠: Simon Fraser University ⁠- Major Partners⁠: Langara College, University of British Columbia ⁠- Emerging Artist Sponsor⁠: RBC ⁠- Festival Supporting Partners⁠: TELUS, Hari Sharma Foundation⁠ ⁠- Music Series Partner⁠: Creative BC ⁠- Event Presenting Partners⁠: SFU Library, Odlum Brown Community, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Concord Pacific - Canada ⁠- Event Supporting Partners⁠: SFU David Lam Centre, Nature's Path Organic Foods, Fasken, The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR), SoundON BC ⁠-Government Funders⁠: Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Local Government, Vancouver Foundation ⁠- Event Community Partners⁠: SFU Publishing, Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick LLP ⁠- Premier Media⁠: The Georgia Straight, CBC Vancouver, Spice Radio 1200AM ⁠- Promotional Partners⁠: Daily Hive Vancouver, Drishti Magazine, kipling media, Curiocity Vancouver ⁠- Founding Cultural Partners⁠: SFU Woodward's, Canada India Network Society ⁠- Cultural Partners⁠: Vancouver Biennale, Museum of Vancouver, 5x15stories, Granville Island, The Ismaili, Surrey Art Gallery

I interview Antonia Henderson, Ph.D, to discuss how stress effects horses from a scientific point of view. She talks about Learned Helplessness, the importance of the Seeking Reflex, and how traditional ways of keeping horses is not so healthy to the horse!  About the Guest:  Antonia Henderson, Ph.D. is a Research and Equine Psychologist in the Department of Psychology at Langara College, Vancouver BC Canada. She has written articles for horse magazines: Horse Sport and Horse Canada. About the Host: Karen Rohlf, author and creator of Dressage Naturally, is an internationally recognized clinician who is changing the equestrian educational paradigm. She teaches students of all disciplines and levels from around the world in her clinics and the Dressage Naturally virtual programs. Karen is well known for training horses with a priority on partnership, a student-empowering approach to teaching, and a positive and balanced point of view. She believes in getting to the heart of our mental, emotional, and physical partnership with our horses by bringing together the best of the worlds of dressage and partnership-based training.  Karen’s passion for teaching extends beyond horse training. Her For The Love Of The Horse: Transform Your Business Seminar and Mastermind/Mentorship programs are a result of her commitment to helping heart-centered equine professionals thrive so that horses may have a happier life in this industry. Resource Links You can get access to hundreds of training videos in the Video Classroom: https://dnc.dressagenaturally.net/ (https://dnc.dressagenaturally.net/) See all of Karen’s Online Programs here: https://dressagenaturally.net/online-programs/ (https://dressagenaturally.net/online-programs/) Sign up for 3 free videos and Karen’s mailing list: https://dressagenaturally.net/free-dressage-training-videos/ (https://dressagenaturally.net/free-dressage-training-videos/) Join the conversation in our Dressage Naturally Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DressageNaturallyLand (https://www.facebook.com/groups/DressageNaturallyLand) Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to the podcast! Leave us an iTunes review - Did you love it? Let us know

During Stewardship Month, members of St. George's share their stories of Grace & Gratitude. Our final story is from cradle Comox Valley-ite Adele Campbell.1 Corinthians 12:1-13Testimony: Adele CampbellPreacher: Rev. Ryan Slifka Adele TestimonyIt all began at Cumberland Hospital on Tuesday, November 17, 1942 (almost 78 years ago) when Dave and Hazel Campbell gave birth to Hazel Adele Campbell (that's me) with Dr. Hicks presiding who was a vivacious choir member of Cumberland United Church.My folks lived in Union Bay at the time and were very involve with the Union Bay United Church¬¬…and me? Well one of my first outings was going to Church on the Christmas Sunday, Dec. 20/42 (I remember it well! ...NOT.) and then a week later on New Years Day, I was Christened in the Church. Well as for me, what choice did I have? But to be a follower of Jesus Christ and I must admit I was not always good at it. I believe I took the prayers of my parents for granted. Anyways 10 years later we moved to Campbell River, you've got it—I went to the Campbell River United Church. Mom was choir leader and played the organ and dad sang in the Choir and was on the Board of Session and in my early teens I too sang in the choir and taught Sunday School. My first introduction to St. George's, was when our Campbell River Choir and St. George's choir joined at Easter time presenting an Easter Cantata at both churches. In 1960 I got married and 4 years later gave birth to a baby girl, Tracey. It was when I was expecting my second child Paige (a Christmas Eve baby) we moved to Saratoga Beach. A wonderful place to raise children.It was during this time that I experienced a transformation—when, in my bedroom, down on my knees in prayer, with a deep concern, I asked God to answer me by giving me the Holy Spirit and one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I will never forget that moment, it was like I had been soaked in a honey of love and then I broke out in a prayer language that continued all through the night (and is still with me) with my husband Wayne, thinking I was crazy! There were several people involved in my life at that time who helped me get to this point. It was a time when the Holy Spirit was moving up and down the island and alive in all the denominations. It was an exciting time! Also, a time when we took a United Church tour with 90% being ministers to Greece, Egypt and Israel. Among many highlights the one that stood out the most for me was reaffirming my faith by being baptized by full immersion in the Sea of Galilee. Like a computer I was rebooted and refreshed. It was a new beginning with my walk with Christ.A lot happened in the 22 years following my transformation: my husband Wayne felt called to go into the ministry and we eventually moved to Vancouver where he began his studies at Vancouver School of Theology, and I discovered I was pregnant. Through my pregnancy I took courses at Langara College with the view that I too would go into the ministry, but God had a different plan. We became involved in Ryerson United Church and ended up living in one of their houses. My husband and I lead the youth group that met on Sunday evenings in our home. After my son Samuel was born, I took some courses at Vancouver School of Theology and within that year I became ill which lasted for a few years. One never knows what road you are going to be walking on! The church, my parents, family and friends were my anchor. After some time, my husband quit his studies and left me and the three children. I began working in the office for Ryerson United Church and I also led contemporary gospel with 2 other people at the early Sunday service. When the contemporary and traditional services joined to be one service, we still led the more contemporary hymns, with a couple of guitars and then eventually drums. I was also a part of the birthing of the Single Again group which brought people from other churches or some that didn't even go to church. It was a time to learn about oneself and develop confidence of being single and enjoying fellowship with potlucks, playing badminton, etc. This included my present husband Ed, a widower at the time who lived across the street with his five children. I was eventually hired at the BC Conference office and over a course of thirteen years I worked as a support staff with Communications, Global Concerns, Native Ministries, Youth, Children's Ministry and eventually I did all of the desktop publishing. I was also chosen by the Executive Secretary of BC Conference to be the representative on the National Committee for “Confessing Our Faith.” A portion of time was spent planning various events such as the “Festival of Faith” and a Women's Conference at Ryerson. After 22 years in Vancouver, I moved back to the Comox Valley. This included Ed commuting back and forth for a few years, my mother living with me, and maintaining a bigger piece of property, so it took a little while before I got established at St. George's.Over the last 20 years I have been here, I got married to Ed, have been involved at St. George's on Council, Worship Team, Session, Drama Group, Congregational Care, Choir, Transition Team, Ministry and Personnel and the Prayer Chain. During this phase of my life I have had cancer three times. It was through my husband Ed, family members and the people of St. George's that supported me with prayer, food, and their concerns that gave me the strength to move forward. As you can see, I have a prayer shawl. This was a very meaningful gift I received by a group of ladies from St. George's who knit Prayer Shawls with prayers for healing, comfort and peace. Quite a Ministry!To have a relationship with the HOLY ONE, I can't stress enough the value of prayer and reading the Bible. It brings you closer to an intimate relationship with God. I wish I had practiced this more in my earlier years, particularly when my children were in their teens. When my mom passed away, she left me this gift, the value of prayer. I still can remember when she was living with me, I would hear her praying at night in her bedroom.I feel blessed with several of our children and grandchildren living close by and others not too far away with a brother and wife living in Parksville.God has been good to me he has been my refuge and my strength. I feel so grateful to the ministers Ryan and Ingrid and members of St. George's. I do value the treasure of community: praying, singing, working, laughing, and caring together for the glorification of God.SermonIn the 1960's, while living in Saratoga beach, alone in her bedroom, Adele told us that, she “prayed for God's Spirit.” And she prayed for God to give her one of the gifts of the Spirit. And in that moment, she was overcome by a sensation of love and began to pray in an unknown language throughout the night. This was a pivotal moment that changed her life. Set it in a whole new direction.Adele's experience shares is at least analogous to what the New Testament calls “glossolalia” or “speaking in tongues.”[i] It's a form of ecstatic speech. Energized and inspired by the Holy Spirit, a person begins to pray in an unknown or angelic language. While someone else in the community may also be inspired by the Spirit to interpret the tongues for the gathered community. Alongside wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, and the discernment of spirits, tongues are listed by the Apostle Paul in today's scripture passage as one among the Spirit's many sacred gifts.Now, no doubt that when many of us hear this kind of thing, we may react like Adele's first husband, Wayne. Thinking this person's gotta be crazy. Speaking in tongues is liable to freak us modern, scientific people out. Especially we United Church people who often pride ourselves on reasonableness. As far as Paul's list goes, we're good with wisdom and knowledge. Faith, even. Maybe we'll add accounting or serving coffee after church to the list. But we tend to go with the flow of culture, and our culture tends to dismiss or look down on out of the ordinary stuff like this. This stuff makes us a little antsy. We tend to have trouble with tongues.Believe or not, though, the early Christians had trouble with tongues, too. But it was a different kind of trouble.In today's reading the Apostle Paul was trying to settle a dispute at First Church Corinth. According to the letter, some in the community had been, like Adele, having ecstatic experiences of prayer in otherworldly languages. The problem, though, wasn't that people were speaking in tongues. After all, elsewhere Paul himself claims to have the gift. The problem is that those who did speak in tongues believed they were closer to God, more enlightened, than other people who didn't. They believed that this gift gave them more authority, more sway over the community.[ii] Like us, the Corinthians had trouble with tongues. Unlike us, though, their trouble wasn't with the gift itself. Speaking in tongues gave them a leg up on everyone else who couldn't. Causing much division.So in order to solve the tongue issue (sounds like some kind of rash or something), what Paul did was bring the community back to basics. Back to foundational stuff as church.And the first foundational thing Paul reminds them of is that all their gifts are equal. “Now there are varieties of gifts,” he says. “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord. A variety of activities, but the same God who activates all of them in everyone.” Everybody's been given a different gift, he says. And no matter the gift—whether tongues, or wisdom. Whether knowledge, accounting or serving coffee. The Spirit is democratic. Everybody's got ‘em. And there's no gift greater than another.And not only has everybody got ‘em, he says. They've got ‘em for the same purpose. “To each is given,” Paul says, “to each person is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.” For the common good. Everybody's given a gift. Every single person. Not as a sign of superiority, or divine preference, but a preparation for divine service.[iii]No gift is superior to another. But each is given to each person for the common purpose of building the community of faith. The common good.Now, I don't know what each of your individual views are on speaking in tongues. Or miraculous healing. Or anything we might call supernatural. I tend to be skeptical by temperament, personally.But what I do know is that through Adele's testimony, her long experience in the United Church and my personal experience with her leadership and ministry in this congregation… through it I've come to understand something of what Paul's talking about.He says that God not only gives every single one of us some kind of spiritual gift, but that these gifts come in an incredible variety—even ones we might not understand or be entirely comfortable with. But when they're understood properly, they build up the whole church. And that's what God has used Adele and her gifts to do.I in coming to know Adele and people like her—people who God has surely used for the common good—it's made me much more open to experiences that are not my own. Experiences like Adele's have helped me understand that we have a God who draws us together as disciples of Jesus not in our similarities, but in our differences. One Lord, one Spirit, one baptism, one body of Christ. To show the world what kind of community is possible under the leadership of Jesus Christ. One where our differences aren't erased, but put towards the common purpose of making the God of Love known to a world in such need of grace.Which is a good place, I think, to end Stewardship Month. We've heard four very different testimonies from five very different people. People whose church backgrounds, faith experiences and the way they talk about them have been quite distinct.Some critics of religion might consider this an inconsistency. While some fellow Christians might see it as an inching away from clear truth. But I think we'll go with the Apostle Paul. That our diversity—spiritual, political, social, or otherwise, is more likely evidence of the community-creating, life transforming, world-changing work of the Spirit of the Living God. A cause worth committing to with everything we've got.May the Spirit continue to grant us the gifts, and the will to do so.AMEN.[i] “Paul's understanding of glossolalia is that it is Spirit-inspired utterance that is ‘talking with God' (14:2), but that without interpretation (by the glossolalist or another) is not understandable talk and does not edify others.” J. Paul Sampley, “1 Corinthians,” in The New Interpreter's Bible, vol. X, gen. ed. Leander Keck (Nashville: Abingdon, 2002), 944.[ii] “In particular [Paul] is concerned to correct the view that speaking in tongues somehow demonstrates the higher spiritual status of those who were thus graced.” Victor Paul Furnish, “First Corinthians,” in The Harper Collins Study Bible, rev. ed., gen ed. Harold W. Attridge (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2006), 1948.[iii] “Paul joins with the Corinthians in their recognition of differences as they experience their Christian life together, appreciates the difference, accounts for them as part of the divine plan, and attempts to reintegrate differences into what he sees as God's overall purpose.” Ibid., 940.

In this episode, Dolphin Kasper speaks with Yoga Teacher and Compassinate Inquiry Facilitator Zamir Dhanji to discuss the power of presence and story. In the conversation Dolphin and Zamir discuss what it means to be an authentic and fully realized human being, the state of our current global human culture and what we might do to make our way back to individual and collective wholeness. Zamir's goal as a yoga teacher is to inspire others to embrace the depth of what yoga has to offer - integrating our potential in body, mind, emotions and spirit.  Short Bio Zamir completed his 500 hr Teacher Training with David Goulet in Chakra Yoga (http://www.pyramidyoga.com), who learned from the late Swami Gitananda, founder of the Ananda Ashram and proponent of yoga science and tradition. He is also an initiate of Ati-yoga under the guidance of Wisdom Master Maticintin, founder of HÜMÜH Clear-Mind Buddhism (http://www.humuh.org), with whom he has discipled for eight years in the practice and study of meditation and Buddhist logic. He is a lead instructor for Langara College’s Yoga Teacher Training program and offer workshops and classes in Vancouver and beyond. To learn more about Zamir and his work, or to find out how you can engage more meaningfully with it, go to: https://zamirdhanji.com/ For more information about Dolphin Kasper or to work with him go to: https://www.evolvenowinc.com/ (https://www.evolvenowinc.com/) Support this podcast

Today's guest is Erich Saide. Erich Saide is an award-winning photographer whose clients come back to him time and time again for his crisp, highly polished imagery. From soft and sensual to edgy and dramatic, his stylized, cleanly executed photos use incredible lighting to capture a diverse range of moods. After more than 19 years in the business, Erich’s body of work spans an impressive breadth of styles and industries. Winner of the Communication Arts 58th Photography Annual Competition and his work has also graced the pages of Elle Canada, and is the recipient of the L’Oreal Colour Trophy. Born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada Erich’s passion for photography led him to study commercial photography at Langara College before embarking on a career in music, fashion, commercial and advertising photography, both locally and abroad. Erich is highly motivated, energetic and full of passion for his craft, whether it's in the studio, on location, or by the side of a film set, Erich is happiest when he's creating powerful and dynamic images.Learn more about Erich here:InstagramWebsiteWebsite Humans of SupportLinkedInFacebookTwitterMaurice Jager talks to photographers and entrepreneurs about personal branding as a photographer and through photography.The podcast covers real stories and experiences from industry leaders, seasoned and up and coming photographers.Maurice is the author of the book 'Personal branding for photographers'. His approach to building his photography business made him become one of the most sought after headshot- and portrait photographers, a public speaker for both photographers and entrepreneurs and sponsored by leading brands in the photography industry.Make sure to SUBSCRIBE

The legendary Paul Eberhardt, Head Coach of the Langara Falcons Men's Basketball program, joins host Tyler Bennett on Episode 26 of the Four Quarters Podcast, powered by Four Quarters Media! The 2020-21 season marks the 40th year in coaching for Eberhardt, and he brings years of stories and experiences with him to the show. Off the top, Bennett and Eberhardt discuss what is was that led to Eberhardt getting into coaching in the first place, while discussing some of his mentors along the way. Then, Eberhardt recalls the 2014 CCAA Men's Basketball National Championship Game and what was going through his mind when Red Deer College's Lloyd Strickland put on one of the best individual shooting performances you will ever see in the final 28 seconds. That led to a discussion on Brody Greig, how good of a player he was, and what he meant to the Langara program. Then, to close, Eberhardt gives his take on our food debate here at Four Quarters Media and the Four Quarters Podcast - does pineapple belong on pizza? (MUSIC: bensound.com)

For Episode 20 of A Hoops Journey, current UBC Men's Basketball head coach Kevin Hanson joins the podcast. The winning-est coach in CANWest history, the Seaquam alum and retired elementary volleyball coach talks about growing up in Regina, playing under legendary basketball and baseball coach Bill Stebbings, going up the coaching ranks, coaching Aaron at Langara College and their infamous recruiting story that highlights the importance of communication, his time coaching at UBC and so, so much more. Plus, the former player-coach duo discuss the development of their relationship, Aaron babysitting Kevin's daughter, and features a very, very unfortunate incident involving too much coffee for producer Corbin. For good measure (in case it wasn't clear), this is Episode 20 of A Hoops Journey.   ----more----   Sponsored by: Goodlad Clothing Sponsored by: Parkside Brewery Follow @ahoopsjourney on Instagram! Send any mailbag questions to ahoopsjourney@gmail.com Sounds by: Zapsplat, AudioJungle and Finn Leahy Audio Clips from: Youtube  

Host Tyler Bennett is joined by Chris Schneller, one of the newest members of the Langara Falcons, in Part Three of Episode Nine of the Four Quarters Podcast, powered by Four Quarters Media! Off the top, Schneller and Bennett discuss the NBA's return at the end of July, and talk about who could come away with the NBA Championship if all goes according to plan. Then, Schneller talks about how he got a late start in college, and how his career has played out thus far. To close it out, Bennett and Schneller discuss Chris' year off in 2019-20, and how that has opened his eyes to what he wants to do when school is done. (MUSIC: bensound.com)

Carmen Bott has been coaching for over 20 years and is considered a resource in applied strength & conditioning for the combative and collision sport athlete population(s). Her methods are grounded in science, but it is her 20+ years of experience that allow her to transfer the science into practice. Carmen lectures and coaches internationally in the field of sport science. She is a Faculty member at Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in the Department of Kinesiology where she instructs Exercise Physiology & High Performance for Sport. She is also a Lecturer at Simon Fraser University. QUOTES “Just watch your athletes and if they can’t complete what you have programmed, give them a rest… then re-evaluate your programming” "Pick your modality first and then base your programming around that…" “Type I muscle for a combat sport athlete is just a garburator to allow your type II muscle to do more explosive work” “For combat sports athlete, give them something they feel productive doing in their recovery during power conditioning” “I borrowed a lot of exercises from wrestling coaches and then just added a bit more nuance to them for strength & conditining purposes” “With international wrestlers, it becomes a game of fatigue management and making sure they physical qualities they already have are preserved" “You can’t be too strong through mid-section or neck for combat sport athletes” SHOWNOTES 1) Carmen’s background including her time at university, masters thesis and introduction to S&C 2) The Wrestlers Edge program 3) The three types of special endurance – strength, speed and power endurance and how to train them 4) How to manage rest and recovery interval between special endurance blocks 5) The modes of exercise Carmen likes to use for special endurance: sprints/hill sprints, kettlebells, battle ropes, jump squats, uphill jumping 6) Insights into working with international wrestlers 7) Peaking considerations for wrestlers pre competition including aerobic power work to help with plasma volume losses during the weight cut 8) How strong is strong enough for the sport and how to assess what type off special endurance the athlete needs the most 9) Tests and standards for neck and trunk work for wrestlers 10) Comments on periodisation and vertical integration PEOPLE MENTIONED Pavel Tsatsouline Mladen Jovanovic Charlie Francis Joel McCallum

One of the most popular guests from Season One makes his return to the Four Quarters Podcast, powered by Four Quarters Media! Langara Falcons guard Arthur 'Ace' Reece joins host Tyler Bennett for another Bonus Episode of the show. Bennett and Reece discuss everything from Reece's cross-country drive from Fredericton, NB to Vancouver, BC, how he's adjusted to life on the West Coast, if he's found any good BBQ spots in Vancouver, and more! (MUSIC: bensound.com)

It’s another celebrity edition of Under Pressure as a pair of BC Lions coaches face off against each other in Kelly Bates and Ryan Phillips. Ron MacLean also stops by for his weekly visit, and Langara College is featured in the Honour Roll.

We chat with Colin Mills, who in partnership with Langara Students, have developed some potential methods to deal with Vancouver's lack of loo's. Colin is Chair of the Department of Geography and Geology at Langara College. His students led this research.

This episode is called “Literary Changemakers”, Chelene Knight of Growing Room Feminist Literary Festival invites Jónína Kirton, and Joanne Arnott to partake in an intimate chat about their own experiences in the Canadian Literary Community. They will discuss what it’s been like navigating a male-dominated literary scene while raising families, working, writing, and creating mind-blowing work. Learn how they demanded space, took it, and continue to hold it. Tiffin Talks at ISF2018 was supported by Vancity. Special thanks to our major partners Simon Fraser University, Langara College and Creative BC, our media partners The Georgia Straight, CBC, and Spice Radio, and our funders Government of Canada, City of Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation, British Columbia Arts Council, and Business for the Arts.

This episode is titled “Architecture as an expression of Empathy or Affluence?”. BV Doshi, the Indian architect, and winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2018, famously argues that architecture should be informed not by aesthetics of affluence but by an aesthetic of empathy. Four presenters speak to this provocation from their positions of design, advocacy, intervention, and public service. Ayme Sharma moderates this session featuring Marianne Amodio, Luugigyoo Patrick Stewart, and Andy Yan. Tiffin Talks at ISF2018 was supported by Vancity. Special thanks to our major partners Simon Fraser University, Langara College and Creative BC, our media partners The Georgia Straight, CBC, and Spice Radio, and our funders Government of Canada, City of Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation, British Columbia Arts Council, and Business for the Arts.

Dayanita Singh’s Museum Bhavan helps us reimagine what a museum is. The museum as an institution holds memory; what memories, and for whom? What would a museum without walls look like? How ought pieces that were historically stolen be engaged with now? What is the museum’s role in educating new migrants in this specific place? Join three brilliant cultural producers who are engaging/disrupting/rearranging in varying and strategic ways with the changing role of museums in society. Laura June Albert moderates ‘New Museology’ featuring Shaheen Nanji, Jordan Wilson and Marika Echachis-Swan. Tiffin Talks at ISF2018 was supported by Vancity. Special thanks to our major partners Simon Fraser University, Langara College and Creative BC, our media partners The Georgia Straight, CBC, and Spice Radio, and our funders Government of Canada, City of Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation, British Columbia Arts Council, and Business for the Arts.

Human beings have spent several centuries in the pursuit of truth, through science, philosophy, art and journalism. Where does that leave us now, when truth seems to be of little importance to the stories we hear, spin, share and react to? What is the difference between fake news, plain old lies and BS, and what is the future of truth? This topic is all the more urgent given the current situation in India, where two prominent journalists are facing multiple online death threats because of inflammatory fake news attributed to them. Moderated by Peter Klein of the Global Reporting Centre, this amazing group of journalists discusses the future of journalism and truth in an era of manufactured information. Featuring Dionne Bunsha, Jagdeesh Mann and Wawmeesh Hamilton. Tiffin Talks at ISF2018 was supported by Vancity. Special thanks to our major partners Simon Fraser University, Langara College and Creative BC, our media partners The Georgia Straight, CBC, and Spice Radio, and our funders Government of Canada, City of Vancouver, Vancouver Foundation, British Columbia Arts Council, and Business for the Arts.

Learn to understand how sex work is a caring, female dominated profession and a healing art. In this episode of Sex as Medicine we will discuss the misconceptions and stigma around the trade and how this impacts sex work law and workplace safety. Plus the different ways that governments and lawmakers put ideology over human life with respect to ‘moral’ issues like sex work and drug use; for example, a commonly-quoted statistic that ‘the average age of entry into the sex trade is 14 years old’ was taken from a study about MINORS in the street-based sex trade.Find out:The difference between decriminalization, legalization, full and asymmetrical criminalization. SESTA/FOSTA and censorship and how these laws violate everyone’s right to sexual expression, and put sex worker’s lives and livelihoods at risk.How sex trafficking is conflated with sex work, and other ways that statistics are intentionally misleading.The ways that anti-sex-work feminists erase the agency of sex workers, and how they creepily intersect with the ideology of the religious right.Examples of sex workers as healers and why our work is valuable.How sex worker’s right intersect with the rights of other marginalized people who are overrepresented in the sex trade, and how you really can’t support the rights of economically marginalized people without supporting sex worker’s rights.The old matriarchal religion of ancient Babylon, where the high priestesses were also known to provide sexual services, which were seen as sacred, in the temples. The biblical Whore of Babylon refers to the goddess Inanna, who I like to think of as a patron of sex workers.The ways that we, as a culture, can treat sex workers better, and how that shift in our consciousness can help us learn to treat our environment better as well.Join us live @7pm on CTR Network!tantra podcast - sex work as a healing artCARMEN SHAKTI | SEX WORKER & ACTIVISTCarmen Shakti is a writer, visual and performance artist, sex worker and activist. In 2016, she co-wrote and starred in The Hooker Monologues, a theatrical production featuring the stories of sex workers and their allies. She sits on the Board of Directors of PACE Society, a sex worker’s support service organization and drop-in centre in Vancouver.She holds certification in the healing modality of Authentic Tantra at the Institute of Authentic Tantra Education, and she weaves those healing arts into her sessions. She wrote a chapter about her journey of healing with Tantra for Joe Vitale’s Amazon bestseller The Abundance Factor. She has a long history of activism, including working on the SlutWalk organizing team, meeting with Canadian senators to talk about sex workers rights and the need to decriminalize sex work transactions between consenting adults. She is a guest lecturer in Women’s Studies at Langara College. She lives and works in the Greater Vancouver area.

Melanie Green is a reporter for The Star Vancouver on the politics beat. A graduate of Simon Fraser University's Communications program and Langara College's Journalism program, Melanie previously held positions at Glacier Media as a reporter and at CBC Radio as an Associate Producer of Current Affairs, where her highlights included coverage of the BC Provincial Election for “The Early Edition” and the production of the five-day human interest series, “Normalizing Burnout”.

Melanie Green is a reporter for The Star Vancouver on the politics beat. A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Communications program and Langara College’s Journalism program, Melanie previously held positions at Glacier Media as a reporter and at CBC Radio as an Associate Producer of Current Affairs, where her highlights included coverage of the BC Provincial Election for “The Early Edition” and the production of the five-day human interest series, “Normalizing Burnout”.

“Don't allow society to say you ‘are' this, rather allow this to be something you have, and something you can change.” – Jarrett Vaughan Jarrett Vaughan is not the sort of individual whose life fits neatly into a mold. He enjoys blending opportunity with action, bohemian with strategist and intellect with faith. His diverse interests, pursuits and life experiences give him a broad palette for rich conversation and perspective. Prior to graduating from Capilano University with a bachelor's degree in Tourism Management, Jarrett started his first entrepreneurial venture running charter buses to a local ski hill. After facing many challenges in this business, including the bankruptcy of the ski hill, Jarrett looked to refocus his passion for business and gained educational knowledge. Following graduation, Jarrett experienced a financial awakening and started a real estate investing company (Blue Aspect Properties) in BC and Alberta, which focuses on long term wealth development for his investors. Jarrett holds a Masters of Arts in Tourism and Leisure Management from University of Brighton in the UK and a Masters of Science in Tourism Management from Ecole de Management de Normandie in France. He spent 10 years working in the luxury hotel business, most recently for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. He is currently an Adjunct Professor teaching marketing at UBC Sauder School of Business and Langara College and has worked in marketing and guest experience consulting on projects in France, UK, Swaziland, Morocco, Mauritius and Canada. Jarrett also owns Vancouver City Plumbing where he puts his skills to work in business operations. Jarrett and is married to Ashley and together they have 3 young children: Venture, Sailor and Wilder. He is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, urban farmer, musician and is happiest when having an outdoor adventure, particularly in his own backyard.    Show Notes [02:08] Patrick introduces his next REIN Member guest: Jarrett Vaughan [04:28] Jarrett shares his multi-faceted elevator pitch and Patrick must pick just one of those avenues to explore first. [05:28] Jarrett shares his early fascination with the power of real estate which eventually led him to the community of REIN. [07:31] As one of the first McDonald's franchise owners in Western Canada, which he had for almost 30 years, Jarrett's Dad was an entrepreneurial pioneer in Jarrett's world, and it had a lasting impact. [08:35] Patrick clarifies the link of how their worlds first came together through Jarrett's time in the luxury hotel business. This is where he met Steffany, Patrick's wife, and through Steffany's coaching expertise brought Jarrett to a mindset shift that allowed him to make a change he was ready for. [10:10] Getting back to real estate, Jarrett talks about his path from buying one townhouse in British Columbia to raising capital and purchasing 16 investment properties in Central Alberta and BC, which led to his goal of purchasing a small apartment building. [12:08] A glimpse of Jarrett's past modus operandi, lots of activities, interests and jobs on the go, draws a clear line to his current “portfolio career.” [14:21] Jarrett self-describes his approach not as intense but as strategic, with a high value on his time, his passions and not always fitting into a convenient mold. [17:42] Jarrett takes us on a journey back to his upbringing, the adventures he was encouraged to explore and a couple of stories about how his parents showed up to raise him and his four brothers. [23:38] Moving forward now to his own family, Jarrett tells the story of how he met his wife Ashley through their musical pursuits in church, a difficult vehicle accident and their road less traveled from work to kid's names! [28:28] Jarrett recounts both the miracle of their daughter Sailor's birth and the substantial challenges he and Ashley faced when she was born with significant physical disabilities and ensuing health comp...

As a rule, Aboriginal Rights are the rights of Indigenous people to carry on with their traditional and ancestral customs of hunting, fishing, trapping, feasting and holding religious ceremonies. They stem in part from Indigenous occupation of lands prior to European contact and assertions of sovereignty. Aboriginal rights also flow from the many treaties that Indigenous leaders signed with the Crown over the last few centuries, which are matters of contract law—sacred contract law. Through these treaties the Crown acquired a great deal of land from Indigenous signatories, who received remuneration and rights. Insofar as Indigenous signatories entered into these contracts voluntarily and in an enlightened manner, the Crown lawfully acquired the land on which most Canadian homes are built. Aboriginal land claims arise in BC primarily because provincial lawyers cannot produce the land transfer deeds needed to prove that the Crown lawfully acquired land on which it has built cities and townships over the last two centuries. Aboriginal rights flow from the Rule of Law, a notion to which the Canadian constitution ascribes, and they should require no justification to anyone. Federal and provincial governments must justify their intrusions into the customary ways of Indigenous people, simply because one society may not lawfully intrude upon the peaceful affairs of another society, including First Nations societies, without justification. This Rule of Law was not respected during the Age of Empire and much earlier, but since the late twentieth century the Canadian legal system has purported to take it seriously. In 1982 Canada's constitution affirmed and recognized existing Aboriginal rights. In theory, therefore, Aboriginal rights are entirely reconcilable with Canadian law because they are a constituent part of a legal system that should be internally reconcilable. However, one sense in which Aboriginal rights can be said to be irreconcilable with Canadian law is that, from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, a foreign political-legal entity (such as Parliament) has never had a legal right to govern any aspect of their lives without their consent. When legal recognition of certain Aboriginal rights seems irreconcilable with Canadian law from the perspective of non-Indigenous Canadians, as it does from time to time, the source of the ‘problem' is usually that past governments built their non-Indigenous constituents' lives on insecure legal foundations vis-à-vis the rights of Indigenous peoples. Courts are expected to right these past legal wrongs. Recently an Ontario court held the Crown accountable for treaty-based annuities it had not paid the Anishinaabe since 1876. This century courts will continue to resolve Aboriginal Rights claims in ways that will not satisfy all Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada, such is the very nature of adjudicating conflict. But this fact does not make Aboriginal Rights and Canadian law irreconcilable. Rather, the legal hope and expectation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada is to diminish conflict lawfully and peaceably, so that everyone can eventually live contentedly side-by-side, each society's system of self-governance paying equal and practical respect to the other's system. Such an ideal is reflected in the concept of Treaty Federalism. Speaker: Dr. Christopher Nowlin Dr. Nowlin was born in Lethbridge. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from Brock University in 1987 and his Ph.D in criminology from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1998. He has taught Canadian law and Aboriginal law at SFU. Presently he teaches Canadian law and Canadian Aboriginal law at Langara College in Vancouver. Dr. Nowlin has represented clients at all levels of court in BC, in Alberta, as well as at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has extensive experience representing Indigenous accused persons charged with various offences, ranging from fish

As a rule, Aboriginal Rights are the rights of Indigenous people to carry on with their traditional and ancestral customs of hunting, fishing, trapping, feasting and holding religious ceremonies. They stem in part from Indigenous occupation of lands prior to European contact and assertions of sovereignty. Aboriginal rights also flow from the many treaties that Indigenous leaders signed with the Crown over the last few centuries, which are matters of contract law—sacred contract law. Through these treaties the Crown acquired a great deal of land from Indigenous signatories, who received remuneration and rights. Insofar as Indigenous signatories entered into these contracts voluntarily and in an enlightened manner, the Crown lawfully acquired the land on which most Canadian homes are built. Aboriginal land claims arise in BC primarily because provincial lawyers cannot produce the land transfer deeds needed to prove that the Crown lawfully acquired land on which it has built cities and townships over the last two centuries. Aboriginal rights flow from the Rule of Law, a notion to which the Canadian constitution ascribes, and they should require no justification to anyone. Federal and provincial governments must justify their intrusions into the customary ways of Indigenous people, simply because one society may not lawfully intrude upon the peaceful affairs of another society, including First Nations societies, without justification. This Rule of Law was not respected during the Age of Empire and much earlier, but since the late twentieth century the Canadian legal system has purported to take it seriously. In 1982 Canada's constitution affirmed and recognized existing Aboriginal rights. In theory, therefore, Aboriginal rights are entirely reconcilable with Canadian law because they are a constituent part of a legal system that should be internally reconcilable. However, one sense in which Aboriginal rights can be said to be irreconcilable with Canadian law is that, from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, a foreign political-legal entity (such as Parliament) has never had a legal right to govern any aspect of their lives without their consent. When legal recognition of certain Aboriginal rights seems irreconcilable with Canadian law from the perspective of non-Indigenous Canadians, as it does from time to time, the source of the ‘problem' is usually that past governments built their non-Indigenous constituents' lives on insecure legal foundations vis-à-vis the rights of Indigenous peoples. Courts are expected to right these past legal wrongs. Recently an Ontario court held the Crown accountable for treaty-based annuities it had not paid the Anishinaabe since 1876. This century courts will continue to resolve Aboriginal Rights claims in ways that will not satisfy all Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada, such is the very nature of adjudicating conflict. But this fact does not make Aboriginal Rights and Canadian law irreconcilable. Rather, the legal hope and expectation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada is to diminish conflict lawfully and peaceably, so that everyone can eventually live contentedly side-by-side, each society's system of self-governance paying equal and practical respect to the other's system. Such an ideal is reflected in the concept of Treaty Federalism. Speaker: Dr. Christopher Nowlin Dr. Nowlin was born in Lethbridge. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from Brock University in 1987 and his Ph.D in criminology from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1998. He has taught Canadian law and Aboriginal law at SFU. Presently he teaches Canadian law and Canadian Aboriginal law at Langara College in Vancouver. Dr. Nowlin has represented clients at all levels of court in BC, in Alberta, as well as at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has extensive experience representing Indigenous accused persons charged with various offences, ranging from fish

As a rule, Aboriginal Rights are the rights of Indigenous people to carry on with their traditional and ancestral customs of hunting, fishing, trapping, feasting and holding religious ceremonies. They stem in part from Indigenous occupation of lands prior to European contact and assertions of sovereignty. Aboriginal rights also flow from the many treaties that Indigenous leaders signed with the Crown over the last few centuries, which are matters of contract law—sacred contract law. Through these treaties the Crown acquired a great deal of land from Indigenous signatories, who received remuneration and rights. Insofar as Indigenous signatories entered into these contracts voluntarily and in an enlightened manner, the Crown lawfully acquired the land on which most Canadian homes are built. Aboriginal land claims arise in BC primarily because provincial lawyers cannot produce the land transfer deeds needed to prove that the Crown lawfully acquired land on which it has built cities and townships over the last two centuries. Aboriginal rights flow from the Rule of Law, a notion to which the Canadian constitution ascribes, and they should require no justification to anyone. Federal and provincial governments must justify their intrusions into the customary ways of Indigenous people, simply because one society may not lawfully intrude upon the peaceful affairs of another society, including First Nations societies, without justification. This Rule of Law was not respected during the Age of Empire and much earlier, but since the late twentieth century the Canadian legal system has purported to take it seriously. In 1982 Canada's constitution affirmed and recognized existing Aboriginal rights. In theory, therefore, Aboriginal rights are entirely reconcilable with Canadian law because they are a constituent part of a legal system that should be internally reconcilable. However, one sense in which Aboriginal rights can be said to be irreconcilable with Canadian law is that, from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, a foreign political-legal entity (such as Parliament) has never had a legal right to govern any aspect of their lives without their consent. When legal recognition of certain Aboriginal rights seems irreconcilable with Canadian law from the perspective of non-Indigenous Canadians, as it does from time to time, the source of the ‘problem' is usually that past governments built their non-Indigenous constituents' lives on insecure legal foundations vis-à-vis the rights of Indigenous peoples. Courts are expected to right these past legal wrongs. Recently an Ontario court held the Crown accountable for treaty-based annuities it had not paid the Anishinaabe since 1876. This century courts will continue to resolve Aboriginal Rights claims in ways that will not satisfy all Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada, such is the very nature of adjudicating conflict. But this fact does not make Aboriginal Rights and Canadian law irreconcilable. Rather, the legal hope and expectation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada is to diminish conflict lawfully and peaceably, so that everyone can eventually live contentedly side-by-side, each society's system of self-governance paying equal and practical respect to the other's system. Such an ideal is reflected in the concept of Treaty Federalism. Speaker: Dr. Christopher Nowlin Dr. Nowlin was born in Lethbridge. He received his M.A. in Philosophy from Brock University in 1987 and his Ph.D in criminology from Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1998. He has taught Canadian law and Aboriginal law at SFU. Presently he teaches Canadian law and Canadian Aboriginal law at Langara College in Vancouver. Dr. Nowlin has represented clients at all levels of court in BC, in Alberta, as well as at the Supreme Court of Canada. He has extensive experience representing Indigenous accused persons charged with various offences, ranging from fish

This episode ties together everything we've talked about around speech delivery with one big idea for truly powerful speaking: commitment. Links: Here’s David Granirer’s long-running comedy course at Vancouver’s Langara College. David’s also the founder and driving force behind Stand Up for Mental Health. Music: “Upbeat” by John Luc Hefferman. Used under a Creative Commons license. Photo: Helena Lopes on Unsplash

Emily May is most at home while she is in the studio. Emily is an emerging, multidisciplinary artist from Vancouver, British Columbia who communicates her ideas mainly through ceramics but will also include sculpture, painting, film, performance, and collaborative work. Emily's love for clay came accidentally when she enrolled in art school with the hopes of becoming a painter. In April 2016, Emily received her Fine Arts Diploma from Langara College and she is currently residing in Halifax, Nova Scotia where she transferred to NSCAD University. Emily is hoping to complete her BFA with a major in Ceramics this year (2019). 

Tracey has been a successful photographer for over 25 years. She graduated at Langara College with her photography degree, shot weddings and portraits for 15 years and went on to be an interior and lifestyle photographer. You can see her work published in numerous national & international magazines and online articles including: Martha Stewart, Domain...

This episode features Carmen Bott who has been in the sports performance and fitness training industry for over twenty years and her passion and focus go deep in combative and collision sports athlete preparation. She is currently a professor of Kinesiology at Langara College and Simon Fraser University.  She is grounded in a combination of pure and applied science in her coaching practice and her many years of experience allow her to innovate and challenge coaching convention. I invited Carmen on Leave Your Mark because she is a shining example of the combination of teacher, coach, and mother, combining all of these things and thriving as a professional through the amazing growth of her students, athletes, and child. 

Craig Keating completed his PhD in 20th century European history at McMaster University in 1996. He joined the Department of History at Langara College in January 1992, and has also taught at UBC and Simon Fraser University. To learn more about the BC Humanist Association visit https://bchumanist.ca

As a professional herbalist with a practical orientation, Don believes in seeing results. His knowledge of what works comes from his years of experience in treating the widest range of conditions amongst thousands of clients. In 1987, Don along with his partner Sandy began to offer an intensive herbal training program called the Herbal Healing Journey, and they also developed a home study program. Over the years they have created many herbal programs and Don has taught at many colleges and universities including: The University of British Columbia, The University of Victoria, Bastyr University, Langara College and Royal Roads University. Don is the author (Sandy Ollsin - editor) of Pathways To Healing: A Guide to Ayurveda, Herbs, Dreambody and Shamanism. It is a Time/Life One Spirit Book Club selection that is used as the textbook for his Herbal Programs. In 2013 Don completed his MA in Environmental Education and Communication at Royal Roads University. The focus of his thesis was online learning, and transitioning his classes into an online format. Don's teachings are about healing the environment and communities with sustainable medicine. He is and always will be a Grassroots Herbalist. He wishes to empower people with the knowledge to heal themselves and others, using herbs and holistic healing systems. He now offers online herbal education and mentorship through his two programs: the Online Herbal Course and the Herbal Mentorship Collective. https://grassrootsherbalism.com

Erin Millar and Face2Face host David Peck talk about radical transparency, trust in journalism, community engagement and why millennials are the key to the future of media. Biography Erin Millar is Discourse Media’s editor-in-chief and CEO. She has received multiple awards for journalism innovation, including being named 2015 Bob Carty Fellow by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Storyteller-in-Residence at Ashoka Canada, and an AmEx Emerging Innovator. She has hosted talks and workshops across Canada and internationally, including at the Canadian Association of Journalists national conference and Italy’s International Journalism Festival. She has reported from over a dozen countries for Canadian and international publications. She taught journalism at Quest University Canada and Langara College. She is a trustee of the Uncharted Journalism Fund and serves on the board of the National Magazine Awards Foundation. ---------- For more information about David Peck's podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here or check out the site of his podcast on film, social change and much more. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. Image Copyright: Erin Millar and Discourse media. Used with permission. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guest: Peter Babiak - English Professor at Langara College  

In this special double-episode, Ken shares hilarious highlights from last year’s April Fool’s Day around the world. If you’re curious, looking for laughs, or seeking inspiration for your own pranks this April, check out the collection! Some colleges and universities put real energy into prank media releases, hoax videos, or absurd webpages each April First. Last year, in “Ten Kinds of April Foolery,” we inventoried the basic categories, from minor name changes or new mascots to outrageous infrastructure announcements or bizarre new program offerings. We also analyzed the typical structure: begin with something almost reasonable, build credibility with authoritative sound bytes, pile on the absurdities and puns, and finally (often) deflate the whole hoax. Check out last year’s special at https://youtu.be/v-dSiWr3KHM On April 1 2016, we carefully monitored thousands of higher ed news releases and video feeds, and here are some of the highlights we found. (This summary doesn’t do the jokes justice at all – watch the episode!) Thompson Rivers University tweeted that they were dropping the “S” from their name. Ohio State University’s colours were being renamed “ruby and porpoise.” The University of Oregon announced an incredible upgrade to their playing field. SAIT Polytechnic almost unveiled their new visual identity. (But not quite.) Bryn Mawr College launched a replacement for campus email, Bananagrams. Biola University Math professor Matthew Weathers got into a tussle with his videotaped self. Sheridan College announced a new Bachelor of Modern Media Consumption degree. Lethbridge College unveiled the Canadian Centre for Excellence and Innovation in Northern Hemisphere Coffee Bean Cultivation. Simon Fraser University released the new Canadian taste sensation, Poutine Lattes. Animals: Kwantlen Polytechnic University announced a partnership between their Farrier program and campus security. SAIT Polytechnic became an official “Kitty Campus.” Duke University added a squirrel video to their homepage. The University of Nottingham built an urban gym for tubby squirrels. York University’s Glendon Campus announced a new Wildlife Communications program. Canadian Mennonite University launched a new major in Equestrian Studies. Acadia University announced that livestock would return to the campus farm. Iowa’s Luther College added sheep and goats to its grounds crew. University of Victoria announced mixed results for their interactive petting zoo in the campus library. Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast created dragon eggs. Oakland University brought grizzly bear cubs to campus. The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum announced a one-day tribble breeding program. Campus Infrastructure: The University of Saskatchewan held a lottery for a luxury loft on campus. Durham College got an interdimensional portal. Langara College’s demolished its famous rock to make room for a park bench. West Virginia University replaced stone staircases with weatherproof escalators. The University of Wisconsin-Madison installed pneumatic tubes to bypass elevators. MacEwan University installed magical staircases. The University of Glasgow installed a “helter-skelter” inside its historic clock tower. Oakland University was repurposing miles of underground tunnels. Dalhousie University announced “Dal-Kea” furniture. The CERN LHC uncovered music inside the Higgs Boson. Library & Archives Canada acquired the journals of Wolverine. Oberlin College replaced student pics with preschoolers. The University of Rochester went full-on Harry Potter. Fanshawe College’s library was closing to become a movie theatre and Starbucks. Best of Show: The government demanded UK universities rent out underused space to AirBnB guests. The “Fortunate 500” ranked world universities at completely random. The University of Florida and Florida State University announced a merger, in the tiny town of Perry. Virginia Commonwealth University launched their “Tats, not SATs” program, requiring tattoos for admission and graduation. To watch the originals of any of the videos excerpted in this webcast (at least, those that are still on YouTube), check out our playlist at https://youtu.be/v-dSiWr3KHM?list=PLodJ8ParJmYXiHt5dDGxr-7Vf3-ob87Ko

In this special double-episode, Ken shares hilarious highlights from last year’s April Fool’s Day around the world. If you’re curious, looking for laughs, or seeking inspiration for your own pranks this April, check out the collection! Some colleges and universities put real energy into prank media releases, hoax videos, or absurd webpages each April First. Last year, in “Ten Kinds of April Foolery,” we inventoried the basic categories, from minor name changes or new mascots to outrageous infrastructure announcements or bizarre new program offerings. We also analyzed the typical structure: begin with something almost reasonable, build credibility with authoritative sound bytes, pile on the absurdities and puns, and finally (often) deflate the whole hoax. Check out last year’s special at https://youtu.be/v-dSiWr3KHM On April 1 2016, we carefully monitored thousands of higher ed news releases and video feeds, and here are some of the highlights we found. (This summary doesn’t do the jokes justice at all – watch the episode!) Thompson Rivers University tweeted that they were dropping the “S” from their name. Ohio State University’s colours were being renamed “ruby and porpoise.” The University of Oregon announced an incredible upgrade to their playing field. SAIT Polytechnic almost unveiled their new visual identity. (But not quite.) Bryn Mawr College launched a replacement for campus email, Bananagrams. Biola University Math professor Matthew Weathers got into a tussle with his videotaped self. Sheridan College announced a new Bachelor of Modern Media Consumption degree. Lethbridge College unveiled the Canadian Centre for Excellence and Innovation in Northern Hemisphere Coffee Bean Cultivation. Simon Fraser University released the new Canadian taste sensation, Poutine Lattes. Animals: Kwantlen Polytechnic University announced a partnership between their Farrier program and campus security. SAIT Polytechnic became an official “Kitty Campus.” Duke University added a squirrel video to their homepage. The University of Nottingham built an urban gym for tubby squirrels. York University’s Glendon Campus announced a new Wildlife Communications program. Canadian Mennonite University launched a new major in Equestrian Studies. Acadia University announced that livestock would return to the campus farm. Iowa’s Luther College added sheep and goats to its grounds crew. University of Victoria announced mixed results for their interactive petting zoo in the campus library. Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast created dragon eggs. Oakland University brought grizzly bear cubs to campus. The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum announced a one-day tribble breeding program. Campus Infrastructure: The University of Saskatchewan held a lottery for a luxury loft on campus. Durham College got an interdimensional portal. Langara College’s demolished its famous rock to make room for a park bench. West Virginia University replaced stone staircases with weatherproof escalators. The University of Wisconsin-Madison installed pneumatic tubes to bypass elevators. MacEwan University installed magical staircases. The University of Glasgow installed a “helter-skelter” inside its historic clock tower. Oakland University was repurposing miles of underground tunnels. Dalhousie University announced “Dal-Kea” furniture. The CERN LHC uncovered music inside the Higgs Boson. Library & Archives Canada acquired the journals of Wolverine. Oberlin College replaced student pics with preschoolers. The University of Rochester went full-on Harry Potter. Fanshawe College’s library was closing to become a movie theatre and Starbucks. Best of Show: The government demanded UK universities rent out underused space to AirBnB guests. The “Fortunate 500” ranked world universities at completely random. The University of Florida and Florida State University announced a merger, in the tiny town of Perry. Virginia Commonwealth University launched their “Tats, not SATs” program, requiring tattoos for admission and graduation. To watch the originals of any of the videos excerpted in this webcast (at least, those that are still on YouTube), check out our playlist at https://youtu.be/v-dSiWr3KHM?list=PLodJ8ParJmYXiHt5dDGxr-7Vf3-ob87Ko

It seems like in every city there are production companies popping up everywhere that want to produce shows that speak to them. But not every company has the budget, or space to produce a broadway size show. In New York the shows that really bring in the audiences are big budgets in big theatres with big casts and big orchestras. In Vancouver there aren't many companies that have large budgets or spaces to produce such big shows. So there is a movement to rethink or reimagine large broadway shows for the small stage and in some cases just a small room. In Vancouver Studio 58 at Langara College is a well know acting program and they have been successfully staging musicals in their quite famous black box basement theatre for many years. 42nd Street is the next musical opening this February in what is their 51st season of shows. On today's episode we talk to the Associate Director David Hudgins and Artistic Director Kathyrn Shaw about producing musicals in this unique space. Visit fromthepitpodcast.com to view photos of the space!

Phyllis’ classes are inspired by her love of travel, nature, music, meditation and her personal yoga practice. She has practiced yoga since 2003 and she began teaching in 2011. With a love of adventure, Phyllis brings a spark of enthusiasm and playfulness to her yoga classes. A consistent practice has brought peacefulness and joy which she loves to share with those around her. Phyllis teaches for Westcoast Hot Yoga and Yyoga. She also teaches private classes, corporate classes and internationally in studios, small ocean platforms and yoga festivals.  As a dedicated student fascinated with the human body, Phyllis is studying Kinesiology at Langara College with the intention of pursuing an education in Physiotherapy. Last year Phyllis was accepted into the 500 HR Dharma Yoga teacher training where she learned from 76-year-old living yoga master Sri Dharma Mittra. Learn more about Phyllis Chan by visiting http://www.phyllischan.com/ Click here to visit the show notes page!   Like this episode? Please leave an honest rating on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. P.S: Just takes a minute! :-)   SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES  Click here to leave us a rating & review on iTunes Follow us on social media:  | Facebook | Twitter | Join our Facebook Tribe

Garwin Sanford is a professional actor and the Head of the Film Arts Program at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada. He has been cast in hundreds of projects including recurring roles in over 16 television series. The program at Langara College is a very successful example of the kind of short-term intensive production programs available to those who have the time, talent and inclination to take advantage of them. This particular film arts program has actors, writers and directors working together as a group and also in their own separate professional streams. This approach gives each student a broader appreciation of what their colleagues experience and are responsible for in related craft categories. Students arrive from all over the world and the mix of cultures increases exposure to the various ways that stories can be shared with collaborators and audiences. You may need to realize (or be told!) that you’re just not ready for an intensive program such as this. But you won’t really know until you apply, audition, interview and are assessed. And being told you’re not ready yet is not a “no” … it’s an invitation to continue to sharpen your skills elsewhere and re-apply at a later date. Do you have the spark that creative leaders such as Garwin Sanford seek in aspiring students? There’s only one way to find out. And listening to this episode would be a good way to start! You can learn more about Langara College at www.langara.ca Subscribe to the free Monetizing Your Creativity podcast: itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/monet…d1082894462?mt=2 While you're there, please leave your comments and suggestions for future episodes. We love your feedback! Or search for Monetizing Your Creativity on Stitcher, Google Play Music, Overcast or your other podcast app. SoundCloud: www.monetizingyourcreativity.com Follow us on Instagram: @monetizingyourcreativity www.instagram.com/monetizingyourcreativity

Melanie Jones could write a book called "How to Produce and Direct an Award Winning Feature Film for $10,000" except for the fact that she's usually too busy DOING it! 10 years out from Vancouver's Langara College Film Arts Program find Melanie with 13 films and counting. Much of Melanie's work has been accepted on the global film festival circuit. And she still works with some of her former classmates on projects. Melanie recounts for you her lessons learned - hard and soft – along the path to production. Keeping promises to crowdfunding patrons and trying to do too many jobs on set come to mind. In fact, her advice on crowdfunding is priceless. Some lessons are only learned after film school as young producers and directors hit the pavement to gather resources for their projects. For more information on the Langara College Film Arts Program check out our future episodes of Monetizing Your Creativity, featuring Garwin Sanford. He runs the Film Arts Program at Melanie's alma mater, Langara College. http://langara.ca Subscribe to the free Monetizing Your Creativity podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/monetizing-your-creativity/id1082894462?mt=2 While you're there, please leave your comments and suggestions for future episodes. We love your feedback! Or search for Monetizing Your Creativity on Stitcher, Google Play Music, Overcast or your other podcast app. SoundCloud: www.monetizingyourcreativity.com

Live in Studio with Lyndsay Wills, Clare Ruby, Mat Cote (VAYU), Mackenzie Baxfield, James Ferguson and Natalie Rae Dixon. They are all taking part in Langara's Singer/songwriter program.

Maia Aziz P.S.W., C.L.Y.L., writes and speaks on living a life of love and laughter. President-Elect of The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Maia is joined each week on Morning Moments With Maia...Conversations of Love and Laughter by an eclectic lineup of guests who live their lives with love and laughter and work to help others do the same. www.withloveandlaughter.ca     David Granirer is a counselor, stand-up comic, mental health keynote speaker and author of the Happy Neurotic, How Fear and Angst Can Lead To Happiness and Success. He performs, maintains a counseling practice and teaches Stand-Up Comedy Clinic at Langara College in Vancouver, where he takes people from all walks of life who have had a secret desire to do stand-up comedy and after eight weeks has them on stage performing at a comedy club. Many of his students have gone on to become professional comics, performing at festivals such as Just For Laughs, and on TV shows like Jay Leno and Craig Ferguson. David founded Stand Up For Mental Health, a program teaching stand-up comedy to people with mental illness as a way of building self-esteem and fighting public stigma. Stand Up For Mental Health has groups across Canada and the U.S. Today David joins Maia for a conversation about the link between Comedy, Mental Health and Healing. www.standupformentalhealth.com  

The Director of the Westcoast Reiki Centre, Karen McCullough, is a graduate from Langara College’s three-year Integrative Energy Healing Program, and holds certification in Reiki and Reflexology. Karen’s primary desire is to facilitate a path to wellness using energy based treatment therapies that stimulate the body’s own natural resources for healing. Bridging eastern and western healing science, the therapies she uses are designed to complement conventional approaches to health care. Like this episode? SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES  Click here to leave us a rating & review on iTunes Follow us on social media: | Facebook | Twitter |

Mariko Paterson has been around the ceramic block. Born and raised in Vancouver, she first attended Langara College and then completed her bachelor's degree at the Alberta College of Art. Kent State University was her next destination where she knocked out her MFA degree. While she has also made New York, Michigan, Ohio and Manitoba as just some points of her professional pursuits, Halifax, Nova Scotia now serves as ceramic headquarters. Forage Studios strives to produce a subversive strain of wheel thrown and ceramic work as well as serve the community with an education of the arts. Historical meets handbuilding where her sculptural interests lay and a dalliance with the pottery wheel has resulted in both forms and a forum for exploring her love of creamy cone 6 clay bodies and illustration.

Canada's most trusted higher ed monitor and futurist, Ken Steele, begins his review of trends in visual identity design at Canada's colleges looking at new brands for Lethbridge Community College, NAIT, Red Deer College, College of the North Atlantic, University College of the North, Niagara College, Sault College, Northern College, Mohawk College, Langara College, Douglas College, and Vancouver Community College.

Assistant Professor, Interaction Design, Faculty of Design + Dynamic Media "Blended Learning and Students using the WordPress Blogging content management system" For over 15 years Haig Armen has been producing award-winning design. Haig was a key figure behind the concept, strategic and design development for CBC Radio 3, a project that earned over 20 international awards. Furthermore, his interactive design boutique, LiFT studios has become a prominent design force in the Vancouver industry over the past two years. As a designer, Haig has designed corporate identities, book covers, ads, promotional items and cd covers for prestigious clients like bmw, Chanel & Nokia. Haig has taught Design and Web Strategy courses at Emily Carr and Simon Fraser Universities & Langara College. Armen's background is as a professional musician and he continues to create music for film and art projects. Educators on Educating is an Emily Carr University of Art + Design Teaching and Learning Centre video series on faculty talking about their approaches to pedagogy in the classroom, online and with incorporating new media and technologies in their practice. Filming began in August 2014 and will continue through to the end of the Spring semester in 2015. For more information please send an email to tlc@ecuad.ca

In this episode of the History Slam, Sean Graham chats with various participants in the Celebrating Canada workshop about their contributions to the project. He starts by talking with Lee Blanding, Sessional Lecturer at Langara College, about issues of multiculturalism during centennial celebrations. He then chats with Anne Trepanier of Carleton University about the contested […]

In this episode of the History Slam, Sean Graham chats with various participants in the Celebrating Canada workshop about their contributions to the project. He starts by talking with Lee Blanding, Sessional Lecturer at Langara College, about issues of multiculturalism during centennial celebrations. He then chats with Anne Trepanier of Carleton University about the contested […]

Since March 2008, The Local Grain Revolution series has been following the evolution of Canada's first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project for grain. A total of 180 members and one business from the communities of Nelson and Creston, British Columbia, are blazing a trail towards a local grain economy. Kootenay Harvest Revival II On this Part V of the series, we explore the second in a three-part series of recordings from the Kootenay Harvest Revival - an event hosted by Deconstructing Dinner, the Nelson-Creston Grain CSA and All Seasons Café. The two-day event was held to celebrate the CSA's monumental harvest of grain and to use the success of the project as a "catalyst for a local food revolution." Day 1 of the event heard from a series of speakers who shared the history of food production in the Kootenay regions of British Columbia. By exploring what was once possible to grow and produce in the area, it was hoped that the event would inspire visions of what the soil is currently able to provide both now and into the future. Certainly the Grain CSA is one of those projects unearthing the potential of the region. On this Part II of the Revival recordings, we hear from author and farmer Luanne Armstrong who spoke on finding one's sense of self through place. "In this day in age, we need to think about where we live, not only where we live and how we connect to it but how we look after it so it can look after us," says Luanne. She also described what the word "farmer" means to her. Also on this broadcast; CSA farmer Keith Huscroft, actor/writer/historian Richard Rowberry and the music of Bessie Wapp. Voices Luanne Armstrong, Author, Blue Valley: An Ecological Memoir (Boswell, BC) - Luanne Armstrong is a novelist, freelance writer, editor, and publisher. She is deeply interested in writing about place and nature. Her recent book, Blue Valley, An Ecological Memoir, is about growing up in the Kootenay region of B.C. and was published in 2007 by Maa Press. Luanne has taught Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Langara College, and in venues across Canada. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from UBC and a Ph.D in Education from UBC. She presently lives on her organic heritage farm on the east shore of Kootenay Lake. Keith Huscroft, Farmer, Huscroft Farm (Lister, BC) - Keith is a fourth-generation farmer. His great-grandparents were the first white settlers in the Creston Valley and his farm has been in operation for about 100 years. Keith takes all measures to ensure no inputs are required on his farm. He uses mixed farming practices and fertilizes using only animal and green manures. He is one of a shrinking number of farmers farming with horses instead of fossil-fuel dependent technologies. Richard Rowberry, Actor, The Nelson Theatre Company (TNT) (Nelson, BC) - Richard Rowberry is the Artistic Director of The Nelson Theatre Company (TNT). He trained "eons" ago at The National Theatre School of Canada and has worked as an arts administrator, actor, writer, and director throughout his life. He has written five plays based on local history, including Frank And The Elephants, which won the Sybil Cooke Award (Play for Young Audiences) at the 2004 Canadian One Act Play Competition. Russell Precious, Board of Directors, West Kootenay EcoSociety (Sunshine Bay, BC) - After graduating with a BA in Asian History at UBC and UC Berkeley, Russell studied organic farming with pioneer organic farmer and teacher, John Harrison. Subsequently he co-founded the Naam vegetarian restaurant in Vancouver (still running after 35 years); an organic fruit stand & wholesale fruit operation; Quadra Foods Market on Quadra Island and Capers natural foods stores in Vancouver. In 1993 he was finalist for both the regional Entrepreneur of the Year and Van Citys Ethics in Action awards. In 1999 he was one of three first recipients of the B.C. Organic Pioneers Award. He most recently joined the Board of Directors at the Kootenay Country Store Co-operative. Music Bessie Wapp, Musician/Performer (Nelson, BC) - Since 1995, Bessie Wapp has been busy performing and recording with Eastern European music ensemble Zeellia. Bessie Wapp is a two-time Jessie nominated musician, actor, designer, and stilt dancer who studied visual art and music before becoming a Co-Director of stilt-dance theatre company Mortal Coil in 1993. Bessie Wapp has worked with The Electric Company, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Caravan Theatre, and the Vancouver Moving Theatre among others.