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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Tonight's Host Miko Lee speaks with authors who have used their personal lives to tell their stories. They both talk and write about trauma, joy and resilience but in two very different ways. First up she chats with Chanel Miller. Many folx might know of Chanel's best selling first book Know My Name which expands on the powerful victim impact letter she wrote to Brock Turner who brutally sexually assaulted her on the Stanford Campus. We talk about her latest work – two delightful books for young people. Then Miko talks with Kazu Haga who weaves his spiritual practice and trauma healing with a deep lineage of nonviolent social change.  In his books, Fierce Vulnerability and Healing Resistance he shares with us his personal journey and offers some insightful visions for our current tumultuous world.  Links to the Author's work: Kazu Haga  Fierce Vulnerability Kinship Lab,  Chanel Miller Chanel Miller The Moon Without Stars Purchase Chanel's books at East Wind Books and Kazu's books at Parallax Press  SHOW TRANSCRIPT APEX Opening: Apex Express. Asian Pacific Expression. Community and cultural coverage. Music and calendar. New visions and voices. Coming to you with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view. It's time to get on board the Apex Express. Miko Lee: Good evening. Welcome to apex express. This is your host, Miko Lee. Join us as you hop along the apex express. Tonight I speak with authors who have used their personal lives to tell their stories. They both talk and write about trauma, joy, and resilience, but in two very different and distinct ways. First up, I chat with Chanel Miller. Many folks might know of Chanel's bestselling first book Know My Name, which expands on the powerful victim impact letter she wrote to Brock Turner, who brutally sexually assaulted her on the Stanford campus. But tonight we talk about her latest work, two delightful books for young people. And then I talk with Kazu Haga, who weaves his spiritual practice and trauma healing with a deep lineage of nonviolent social change. In his books Fierce vulnerability and Healing Resistance, he shares with us his personal journey and offers some insightful visions for our current tumultuous world. First off, listen to my conversation with Chanel Miller. Welcome, author Chanel Miller to Apex Express. Chanel Miller: Thank you so much for having me. It's a delight to be here with you. Miko Lee: I'm really excited to talk to you, and I wanna start with my first question, which I ask all of my guests, which is, who are your people and what legacy do you carry with you? Chanel Miller: Oh, I have so many people. Today, you're my people who continue to help guide me forward. I grew up in the Bay Area and I feel like honestly all of my books are attempts at saying thank you to the people who raised me, the English teachers in my public schools. For helping me stay aligned with myself and never letting me drift too far. And so even though I tell very different stories for different demographics, I think if you look at the root of everything that I write, it's gratitude because they are the people who protected my voice in the first place. Miko Lee: Thank you so much. So we're talking about your third book. Your first book was amazing. Know my name, which is really powerful memoir about surviving sexual assault at Stanford, and this incredible public reclamation of your voice. And then you move from that very personal, internal, very adult work to your second book, which was so lovely and sweet. Magnolia Woo unfolds it all, which was an illustrated book set New York about a little girl and her friend who reunite people with their lost socks. From this all the way to this young person's book and your latest book, the Moon Without Stars, your second, YA novel is based in middle school. So talk to me a little bit about this journey from personal memoir to elementary school to middle school books. Chanel Miller: Yeah, so like you said, the first book was so internal and gutting to write. I knew I needed. Something that would help me breathe a little easier and get in touch with playfulness again. I wrote Magnolia Woo Unfolds it all. It's perfect for kids ages seven to 12. My goal was just to enjoy the process of writing and story making. And it was confusing because I thought if I'm not, you know, during the memoir, I would be like crying while I was writing and it was just taking everything out of me. And I was like, if I'm not actively upset. Is the writing even good? Like, like, you know, does it count? And it turns out, yes, you can still create successful stories and have a good time. So I did that book for myself really. And the kid in me who always wanted to, who was always, writing stories unprompted. Like you said, it was a book about a sock detective and pursuing socks makes no sense. It's almost impossible to return a missing sock in New York City. But I loved the idea of these. This little girl in pursuit of something, even if she doesn't know what the outcome will be. Right. It's just trying even if you're not promised a reward, I love this. And for me it's like I keep attempting to love my reality, right? Attempting to go out into the world with an exploratory lens rather than a fearful one. And so that was very healing for me. After I finished that book, I spent the next year writing this new book, the Moon Without Stars. It's for slightly older kids, like you said in middle school. So my protagonist Luna, is 12 years old and she's biracial like me, goes to middle school in Northern California like I did in Palo Alto. I was just reflecting on my. Upbringing, I would say, and really sitting back and letting memories come to the surface. Trying to see how much, was just unexplored. And then sitting down to, to figure out what it all meant that I remembered all of these things. Miko Lee: So how much of Luna is inspired by Chanel? Chanel Miller: A fair amount, I'd say. And it's not always an intentional, I think fiction deals a lot with the subconscious and you end up writing about yourself on accent luna in the book. She is the campus book doctor, is what I call it. Because when kids are going through something, they'll come to her and she'll prescribe them a book that'll help them for whatever phase of life they're going through. And I know for me from a very young age, I loved reading, writing, and drawing. It's all that I ever wanted to do and I was so mad in school that we had six different subjects and you know, the Bay Area was very tech. Centered, STEM centered. And so I felt all this pressure even through high school to take AP Science classes. In retrospect, I thought, why was I trying so hard to be good at it? Everything. This is impossible. And so for Luna, I own her gifts early. And understand that they were gifts at all. The fact that she loves to read and then she shares her gifts and she takes pride in the things that she's passionate about. She's not ashamed that she's not so hot about math. Miko Lee: So the hating math part is a little Chanel inspired also. Chanel Miller: The hating math part is fully me. I'm sorry to say. Miko Lee: No worries. I think that stereotype about Asians and math is so highly overrated. I'm wondering if there was a Scott for you, a bestie that was also an outcast, if there was someone like that for you when you were growing up. Chanel Miller: Yeah, so in the book, Luna is best friends with Scott. They've been friends since childhood, and as Luna starts to get more attention, their relationship is threatened and it begins to dissolve. I was really interested in how, Luna obviously loves Scott as a friend and she would never. Mean to hurt him, right? It's not inflicting intentional emotional pain, but Scott gets very hurt. I think about how sometimes when we're growing up, we get drawn to certain crowds or paid a kind of attention and we have this longing to be desired to fit in. we sometimes make choices that we're not very proud of, but this is a part of it, right? And so I wanted Luna to reckon with maybe some of the emotional harm she's causing and not run away from it. But also think about like, why am I making these choices and what is important to me? We're all kind of constantly reevaluating our value systems, trying to keep our relationships alive, like this is, starts at a very young age and I wanted her to learn some of the self gifts that maybe I didn't give myself when I was that age. Miko Lee: So in a way, she's a little bit of a remedy for your young self or a gift to your young self. Do you think? Chanel Miller: Oh, that's a nice way of putting it. Yeah, I would definitely say so. I think all writing is, is remedy in some form, at least for me, but I like the, it being a gift to little Chanel. Miko Lee: It's been compared to the classic. Are you there god, it's me, Margaret? What is it like for you to hear that? Chanel Miller: It's an honor, obviously. I think what's most stunning is a lot of the themes that were contested in that book. You know, talking about bodily changes, menstruation like. A lot of that is still kind of hush hush, and I'm surprised by the things that haven't changed , or how our society hasn't completely evolved. I really wanted middle school so hard physically, emotionally, and. It can feel so humiliating that you're trying to solve a lot of your issues in private, and I wanted to take the shame out of it as quickly as possible and just say, this is a universal experience. Everyone goes through these things. It's totally okay to talk about it, even if books get banned. Find a way, find your people. Find a way to have these conversations. Miko Lee: For me, it's so much better than, are you there? God, it's me, Margaret, because it's set in a contemporary. There's a young biracial Asian American girl who's a outcast and really it's about belonging and getting your first period and all the things you have to go through in middle school. That seems really. Relatable for a young woman in our society. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. I read it really quick one night, easily read 'cause it's so lovely. I'm wondering about your process because you illustrated, your last book and then also the cover of this book. And on the cover it's sweet because it has all these cute little zines that she writes about are encapsulated on the cover of the book, which you only realize after you read it. I'm wondering for you as an artist, what comes first in the story, the image or the words? Chanel Miller: That's a great question. Yeah. I like to illustrate my books. Sometimes I'll think of a, something I do wanna draw and then think, how can I build a story around that, or like a visually rich scene. Then I come up with writing to allow myself to draw the thing. Other times I will just write, but I, I will say that when I'm writing, I never have a plot. I'm not an outliner. I am very much an explorer. I'm okay with not knowing for long periods of time where the book is gonna go, what it's about , and how it's gonna end. I don't know any of these things. And luckily I have a very gracious, agent and editor and my editor. I had two editors, Jill and Juan, and they let me just submit chunks of writing for six months. Scenes that didn't go together, that were completely out of order , to show them I'm attempting to build this world and this school full of kids, but I don't know how it's all gonna play out yet. And then after six months, we had enough material to, to begin to identify like who the primary characters were gonna be, what the essential conflict was gonna be. I'm saying this because I want people to know that you don't have to know much before you sit down to write. And the knowing comes with the practice of doing every day, and then slowly things start to reveal themselves. Miko Lee: Oh, I appreciate that. So you don't have a linear timeframe. You kind of just let things come to you. Sometimes they're in images, sometimes they're in words. Chanel Miller: Yes. And then your job is to capture them and be curious about them and then make more until you have enough. Then you can edit, but you edit too early, you're gonna , kill the spirit of the thing. Miko Lee: When do you know you have enough? Chanel Miller: When you fulfill the word count in your contract? No, no, I think it's, it's like you can. Sort of start to feel things click into place or a voice is emerging that's very strong. Even Scott know, Luna's best friend, I didn't have him at the very beginning, I don't think originally. Originally, I think Luna had a sister. It was gonna be a sister book, and then it became a friend. You're just open to it evolving, and then suddenly you're like, oh, I can, I can see this relationship. Can see them existing within the structure. It feels more real to you and at that point you can just go in and start revising Miko Lee: Did you create images for know my name? Chanel Miller: I actually tried to, at the very end, I made a bunch of drawings and I said, can we put these at the start of each chapter? And my editor, who's incredible, she said, you know, when I look at your drawings, they have a different voice than your writing voice. And I was like, that is true. Like, that's a great critique. So instead I went to New York, they were like about to send the book to print and I was like, okay, but I need like one drawing. They said, okay, if you can do it at lunch, like have it done by the end of lunch, we'll put it in the acknowledgement. So I dedicated the book to my family and. I sat at the desk and just did this little, these four little creatures that represented my immediate family and cut it outta my notebook. They scanned it in and sent it off to print with a book. So I did get, I did get it. Miko Lee: And how is the illustrator's voice different from the author's voice? Chanel Miller: The illustrator's voice can be very loose, whimsical, playful, whereas the writing, you know, was so measured and heavy and intentional, and so. I liked that edit, and I also, my editor was confident that I would have more opportunities in the future to write and draw, whereas I felt so vulnerable. It's my first book, it's my only chance to say or do anything, but that's not true. Now I understand like I have time to make all kinds of things. You don't have to shove it all into one project. Miko Lee: And are these, more youth-focused books? Do you feel like that's more a combination of your illustrator and your author voice? Chanel Miller: Totally. The medium like allows you to do both. It kind of asks for images also. Who knows, maybe, I still wanna write, contemporary fiction for adults and maybe I'll adults like visuals too. Absolutely. Miko Lee: Absolutely. Yeah. I'm wondering what you want young readers to walk away with after reading the, your latest book. Chanel Miller: Things smooth out in really unexpected ways. And that you can never truly mess up. Like I messed up so many times growing up or would get a really bad grade. I really would think like, this is the end. Like my future just disappeared. I just can't recover from this, and I always would, and I'm here now, like there, there are so many times I guess, that I thought my life was totally and completely over and, it was never the case. Sure, life could be sour for a bit, or you could be really stressed out, but it's not the end. Different things will change. People will be introduced to help you. Like you just keep showing up in whatever way you can. You won't be stuck in that place. It's been a nice thing to learn, as you get older. I just remember when I felt young, it felt so impossible sometimes, and I promise it's not, Miko Lee: I imagine that with Know my name. Many people came up with you, survivors came up and shared their stories with you, and I'm wondering if that was the same with your second book, if people came up and just told stories about, being a kid detective or what their, if it brought things up for them in a totally different realm. Chanel Miller: Oh yeah, absolutely. In the book, Magnolia's parents are Chinese and, , they're working at a laundromat and a customer comes in and there's, microaggressions happen and, I think with microaggressions you can always. Justify them in your head and say, it's not as bad as explicit violence or something, where it's not a truly a crime. And so you kind of push them to the side, push them to the side, but over time, like they do really stick with you and they're so hurtful and they accumulate and they're not okay to begin with. And I wanted my little character, Magnolia to. Just feel that anger that I often suppress and be like, it's not okay for people to talk to you like that. Like we are allowed to say something about it. It's dehumanizing and it's unacceptable. I wanted to give her the opportunity to confront that emotion and really express what, how it made her feel. Miko Lee: You're just starting your book tour right now. Is that right? For the Moon Without Stars. Chanel Miller: My book comes out January 13th. I'll go on a two week book tour. I'll have two stops in the Bay area. One at, book passage in Cord Madera. One in Los Altos at a church. It's sponsored by Linden Tree Books. We're just doing the event offsite, so if you're in the bay and wanna come say hello, please do that. Miko Lee: Yay. Excited to hear about that. I'm curious, I'm really curious what kind of stories people will tell you about their kind of middle school bully experience or their standing up to bullies and wanting to be in the popular crowd and what's that like? It's such a common middle school experience. Chanel Miller: I'm just really happy that people like have the opportunity to remember, 'cause it's not what we talk about every day. I just love that things are coming up for people and you're like, wow, I never would've thought about that or. I, I, that's why writing is so fun. You get to remember. Miko Lee: It's definitely not what we talk about every day, but definitely that middle school time really, helps shape who we are as adults. That's a really tough time because there's so many hormones going crazy in your body. So many changes that I think a lot of people have big feelings about middle school. Tell us what's next for you. Chanel Miller: I still love writing middle grade like this age is so sweet. It's so rich, emotionally rich. I would like to do something that's, you know, this one was more contemporary realism and I would love to do something that, not pure fantasy, but like breaks the rules of reality a little bit. Just really see where my imagination can go. A little magical realism perhaps. Yeah, absolutely. Miko Lee: I would just encourage you, I really love the Scott and Luna characters and seeing them patch their relationship up in high school as friends and how they can grow. Oh, I think would be a really sweet story also, and how they could explore maybe through magical realism. Some of the, book Doctors Zine World would be fun. Yeah. Yeah. I like those characters, is what I'm saying. I think there's more to come outta those characters and their friendship. Chanel Miller: Oh, that's really sweet. You don't wanna say goodbye to them yet. Miko Lee: Yeah, that's right. Well, it has been a delight chatting with you. Thank you so much for sharing your stories and your work and it's very powerful. Appreciate chatting with you. Chanel Miller: I really appreciate the platform you provide and how you're making room for these genuine conversations. So thank you so much. Jalena Keane-Lee: Next up, listen to blues scholars ode to Yuri Kochiyama. That was Blue Scholars, Ode to Yuri Kochiyama. Miko Lee: Yuri Koyama said, we are all part of one another, and that relates so well to my conversation with author, organizer and teacher Kazu Haga. Welcome, Kazu Haga to Apex Express. I'm so glad to have you with us. Kazu Haga: Yeah, thanks so much for having me. Miko Lee: I'm gonna start with a question that I ask all of my guests because I'm a curious person, and my question is, who are your people and what legacy do you carry with you? Kazu Haga: Oh, wow. Well, when you ask the second question, the immediate response is that I am Japanese. There's a lot of important legacies that come with that. Of course there's so much of my Japanese ancestry that I'm proud of and want to continue to deepen in and understand better. But I'm also aware that, you know, being Japanese, I come from colonizer people, right? And I'm so aware of the. Harm that my ancestors caused to so many people, whether dating back all the way to indigenous. I knew people in Japan, or a lot of the violence that my ancestors committed during the war to Zan Korean communities and Chinese communities and Filipino communities. I feel like in addition to all the beauty and the amazing things that I love about Japanese culture, that's a legacy that I carry with me and a lot of my work has to do with trying to understand what it means to carry that legacy and what it means to try to heal from that legacy and how I take that approach into my own personal life as well as into my activist work. Miko Lee: Thank you so much for recognizing that history and sharing a little bit about your path. I can see so much of how that turns up in your work. So I've had the pleasure of reading your two latest two books. I'm sure there'll be many more to come, I hope. Can you speak a little bit about what inspired you to create healing resistance? Kazu Haga: Yeah, so healing resistance is my interpretation of a set of teachings called kingian non-violence, and it's a philosophy that was based on the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King. And I have the great privilege to have been mentored by a lot of elders who work very closely with Dr. King and were some of the most instrumental leaders in the civil Rights movement. I started my kind of activist career back in 1999 or something like that when I was 18, 19 years old. And for the longest time, the word non-violence didn't have a lot of meaning to me. But when I was 28 years old, I think I took this two-day workshop on this philosophy called King Non-Violence, and that two-day workshop just completely changed my life forever. I thought after 10 years of doing nothing but social justice movement building work, that I had some idea of what the word non-violence meant and some idea of who Dr. King was. But that two day workshop taught me that I knew nothing about what the word non-violence meant. Since I took that workshop, I feel like I've been on this never ending journey to better understand what it means to practice non-violence and incorporate that as a value into my life. And so healing resistance is, yeah, just my spin on the teachings of Dr. King told through the stories of my life experiences. Miko Lee: I really appreciated how you wove together your personal journey with your, understanding of movement building and how you incorporated that in. I'm wondering, I think it was in this book, but I read both of your books close to back to back, so I might be mixing them up, but I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the salt protestors that happened in India and the two years of training that it took them to be able to stand up and for our listeners, just like really back up and explain what that protest was about, and then the kind of training that it took to get there. Kazu Haga: It was actually more than two years. So, you know, everyone, or a lot of people know about the Salt March. It's the thing that I think a lot of people look to as the thing that really sparked the Indian Independence Movement, similar to the Montgomery Bus boycott in the US Civil Rights Movement. It's when a group of people marched across India all the way to the ocean. Engaged in an act of civil disobedience was, which was to go into the water and make their own salt. Salt is something that had been heavily controlled and taxed by the British Empire, and so the people who lived even on the coast of the ocean were not allowed to make their own salt. And so it was an act of civil disobedience to break a British colonial law saying that we are reclaiming this ancestral cottage industry for ourselves. And one of the reasons why it was so powerful and drew so many millions of people out into the street was because when Gandhi envisioned it. He didn't just put out an open call and said, anyone who wants to join the March can join. Ultimately, that's where they landed. But when the March started, he selected, I think it was about 76 of his followers, and he chose these 76 people and said, you all are gonna start the Salt March. And he chose those 76 people because they had lived in Astrom. And did spiritual practice and engaged in creative nonviolent direct action together for 16 years before they embarked on the salt march. So it was 16 years of kinda like dedicated residential spiritual training , and nonviolent direct action training that allowed these people to become the type of leaders that could draw out millions and millions of people into the street. And so it's one of the things that I really learned about the legacy of nonviolence is the importance of training and understanding that preparing ourselves spiritually to lead a movement that can transform nations is a lifetime of work. And to not underestimate the importance of that training and that rigor. Miko Lee: Thank you so much for correcting me. Not two but 16 years and a really a lifetime to, that's right. To develop the skills. I wonder if you've been following the Buddhist monks that are walking across the US right now. Kazu Haga: Yeah. And the dog, right? Miko Lee: Yeah. Whose dog and that dog. And I wonder what your thoughts are on that. Kazu Haga: I've really come to this place where I understand injustice and state violence, not as a political issue, but as a manifestation of our collective trauma. Like all the forms of state violence and injustice that we see, they happen because collectively as nation states and as communities and as a species, we have unresolved trauma that we haven't been able to heal from. And I think if we can see injustice less as a political issue and more as a manifestation of collective trauma, then perhaps we can build movements that have the sensitivity to understand that we can't just shut down injustice that when you're responding to a trauma response, what you need to do is to try to open things up. Things like spiritual practice and spiritual worldviews, like what, however that word spiritual lands on people. I think that there's a broad understanding of spirituality that doesn't have to include any sort of religious stigma. But when we ground ourselves in spiritual practice, when we ground ourselves in this larger reality that we belong to something so much larger than ourselves as individuals, then a lot more is possible and we're able to open things up and we're able to slow things down in response to the urgency of this moment, which I think is so necessary. When I look at these Buddhist monks spending however months it's gonna take for them to reach Washington dc the patience. The rigor and the slowness. How every step is a prayer for them. And so all of those steps, all of that effort is I think adding to something that has the possibility to open something up in a way that a one day protest cannot. So I'm really inspired by that work. Miko Lee: And it's amazing to see how many people are turning out to walk with them or to watch them. And then on the same hand, or the other hand, is seeing some folks that are protesting against them saying, that this is not the right religion, which is just. Kind of shocking to me. Grew up in a seminary environment. My dad was a professor of social ethics and we were really taught that Jesus is a son of God and Kuan is a daughter of God. And Muhammad, all these different people are sons and daughters of God and we're all under the same sky. So it seems strange that to me, that so many folks are using religion as a tool for. Pain and suffering and injustice and using it as a justification. Kazu Haga: Yeah. It's sad to hear people say that this is the wrong religion to try to create change in the world because I think it's that worldview that is at the heart of what is destroying this planet. Right. It's, it's not this way. It has to be that way and this binary right. Wrong way of thinking. Miko Lee: Yeah. Kazu Haga: But yeah. The first spiritual book I ever read when I was 16 years old was a book by Thích Nhất Hanh called Living Buddha, living Christ. Yes. And in that book he was saying that the teachings of the Buddha and the teachings of Jesus Christ, if you really look at the essence of it, is the same thing. Miko Lee: That's right. Yeah. This brings us to your book, fierce Vulnerability, healing from Trauma Emerging Through Collapse. And we are living in that time right now. We're living in a time of utter collapse where every day it seems like there's a new calamity. We are seeing our government try to take over Venezuela right now and put police forces into Minnesota. It's just crazy what's going on. I wonder if you can just talk a little bit about this book. Clearly it's the Times that has influenced your title and [00:34:00] in influenced you to write this book can be, share a little bit more about what you're aiming to do. Kazu Haga: Yeah, and you know, it's also Greenland and Cuba and Colombia and Panama, and it's also the climate crisis and it's also all of these other authoritarian regimes that are rising to power around the co, around the world. And it's also pandemics and the next pandemics. And we are living in a time of the poly crisis. A time that our recent ancestor, Joanna Macy calls the great turning or the great unraveling so we can get to the great turning where all of these systems are in a state of collapse and the things that we have come to, to be able to rely on are all unraveling. And I think if we are not grounded in. Again, I use this word spirituality very broadly speaking, but if we are not grounded in a sense that we are connected to something so much larger than ourselves as individuals, I think it's so easy to just collapse and get into this trauma response state in response to all of the crises that we are facing, and so fierce vulnerability. It's at the intersection of spiritual practice, trauma healing, and nonviolent action, and understanding that in response to all of these crises that we are facing, we need powerful forms of action. To harness the power necessary to create the transformations that we need to see. And at the same time, can we see even forms of nonviolent resistance as a form of, as a modality of collective trauma healing? And what are the practices that we need to be doing internally within our own movements to stay grounded enough to remember that we are interdependent with all people and with all life. What does it take for us to be so deeply grounded that even as we face a possible mass extinction event that we can remember to breathe and that we can remember that we are trying to create beauty, not just to destroy what we don't like, but we are trying to affirm life. What does that look like? And so if fierce vulnerability is an experiment, like we don't have all the answers, but if I could just put in a plug, we're about to launch this three month. Experiment called the Fierce Vulnerability Kinship Lab, where we'll be gathering across the world. Participants will be placed in small teams, that are regionally based, so you can meet with people in person, hopefully, and to really try to run a bunch of experiments of what is it gonna take to respond to state violence, to respond to these crises in a way that continues to affirm life and reminds us that we belong to each other. Miko Lee: That sounds amazingly powerful. Can you share how people can get involved in these labs? Kazu Haga: People can check it out on my website, kazu haga.com, and it'll link to the actual website, which is convene.community. It's K-I-N-V-E-N-E. It's a combination of the idea of kinship and community. It's gonna be a really cool program. We just announced it publicly and France Weller and Ma Muse and Kairo Jewel Lingo, and it's gonna be a lot of great teach. And we're trying to just give people, I know so many people are yearning for a way to respond to state violence in a way that feels deeply aligned with their most sacred beliefs and their value systems around interdependence, and peacemaking and reconciliation, but also recognizes that we need to harness power that we need to. Step out of the comfort of our meditation cushions and yoga centers and actually hit the streets. But to do so in a way that brings about healing. It's our way of creating some communities where we can experiment with that in supportive ways. Miko Lee: What is giving you hope these days? Kazu Haga: My daughter and the community that I live in. Like when I look up at the world, things are in a state of collapse. Like when I watch the news, there's a lot of things that are happening that can take away my hope. But I think if we stop looking up all the time and just start looking around, if I start looking around in, not at the vertical plane, but at the horizontal plane, what I see are so many. Amazing communities that are being birthed, land-based communities, mutual aid networks, communities, where people are living together in relationship and trying to recreate village like structures. There are so many incredible, like healing collaboratives. And even the ways that we have brought song culture and spirit back into social movement spaces more and more in the last 10, 15 years, there are so many things that are happening that are giving birth to new life sustaining systems. We're so used to thinking that because the crisis is so big, the response that we need is equally big. When we're looking for like big things, we're not seeing movements with millions of millions of people into the in, in the streets. We're not seeing a new nonprofit organizations with billions of dollars that have the capacity to transform the world because I think we keep looking for big in response to big. But I think if we look at a lot of wisdom traditions, particularly Eastern Traditions, Daoism and things like that, they'll tell us that. Perhaps the best way to respond to the bigness of the crises of our times is to stay small. And so if we look for small signs of new life, new systems, new ways of being in relationship to each other and to the earth, I think we see signs of that all over the place. You know, small spiritual communities that are starting up. And so I see so much of that in my life, and I'm really blessed to be surrounded by a lot of that. Miko Lee: I really appreciate how you walk the walk and talk, the talk in terms of teaching and living in a collective space and even how you live your life in terms of speaking engagements and things. Can you share a little bit about the gift economy that you practice and what's that about? Share with our audience what that even means. Kazu Haga: Yeah. I love this question. Thank you. So the gift economy to me is our attempts at building economic structures that learn from how natural ecosystems share and distribute its resources, right? It's an alternative model to the market system of economics where everything is transac. If you look out into nature, nothing is transactional. Right? All of the gifts that a mycelial network gives to the forest, that it's a part of the ecology that it's a part of. It's given freely, but it's also given freely because it knows that it is part of a deeply interdependent ecosystem where it will also receive everything it needs to be nourished. And so there's a lot that I can say about that. I actually working on, my next book will be on the Gift Economy. But one of the main manifestations of that is all of the work that I do, I try to offer as a gift. So I don't charge anything for the work that I do. The workshops that I organize, you know, the Convene three month program that I told you about, it's a three month long program with world renowned leaders and we are asking people to pay a $25 registration fee that'll support the platform that, that we're building, the program on. And. There's no kind of set fee for the teachers, myself, Francis Weller, mam, all these people. And people have an opportunity to give back to the ecosystem if they feel called and if they're able to try to sustain, to help sustain our work. But we really want to be able to offer this as a gift. And I think in the market economy, a three month virtual training with well-known teachers for $25 is unheard of. Of course $25 doesn't sustain me. It doesn't sustain all of the teachers that are gonna be part of this, but I have so much faith that if we give our work freely and have faith that we are doing the work that we're meant to be doing, that the universe will come together to sustain us. And so I am sustained with the generosity of a lot of [00:42:00] people, a lot of donors, a lot of people who come to my workshop and feel called to give, not out of a sense of obligation, but because they want to support me in my work. Miko Lee: Thank you for sharing and I was so impressed on your website where you break down your family's whole annual budget and everything that you spent funds on. Everybody talks about transparency, but nobody really does it. But you're actually doing it. And for reals, just showing something that's an antidote to the capitalist system to be able to say, okay, this is us. This is our family, this is how we travel, this is what we do, and. I found it really charming and impressive in our, it's hard to rebel against a system where everything has been built up so that we're supposed to act a certain way. So appreciate you. Absolutely. Yeah. Showing some alternatives and I didn't know that's gonna be your next book. So exciting. Kazu Haga: Yeah, I just started it. I'm really grateful that I have a partner that is okay with sharing all of our family's finances transparently. That helps because it is a big thing, you know? Yeah. But one of the things that I really learned. But the gift economy is that if there isn't information, if there isn't transparency about what the system's needs are, then it becomes dependent on every individual to figure out. How much they want to give to that system. And I think the gift economy is trying to break outta that the model of individualism and understand that we are interdependent and we live in this rich ecosystem of interdependence. And so if people's needs aren't transparent, then it's hard for people to figure out how they want to engage in that relationship. Miko Lee: Can you share a little bit more the example of Buddhist monks and how they have the basket and. Share that story a bit for our audience. Kazu Haga: Yeah. So historically, in a lot of, particularly south and southeastern, Asian countries, Buddhist monks, they go around, they walk their community every morning, begging, quote unquote for alms. They ask for donations, and the people in that village in that town will offer them bread or rice or whatever it is. That's kind of the food that, that monks and monastics eat. And so if a Buddhist monk is walking around with a bowl and you see that their bowl is already full, you have a sense, oh, this monastic might not need any more food, but the next monastic that comes along might. And so it's this transparent way of saying, oh, this person's needs are met, so let me hold on to the one piece of bread that I have that I can donate today and see if the next person will need it. And so in that way. If I share my finance transparently, you know, if my financial needs for the month or for the quarter are met, then maybe people who attend my workshops will feel like, oh, I don't have a lot of money to give. Maybe I don't need to give to support Kazu Haga, but maybe I can support, the facilitator for the next workshop that I attend. And so, in that way, I'm hoping that me being transparent about where my finances are will help people gauge how they want to be in relationship with me. Miko Lee: Thank you. I appreciate it. You talk a lot about in your work about ancestral technology or the wisdom, our ancestral wisdoms and how powerful that is. It made me think about the day after the election when Trump was elected. I happened to be in this gathering of progressive artists in the Bay Area and everybody was. Incredibly depressed. There was even, should we cancel that day or not? But we pulled together, it was at the Parkway Theater in Oakland and there was an aone leader and she talked about the eighth fire and how we are in the time of the eighth fire and you write about the fires in your book, and I'm wondering if you can talk about the seven fires and the prophecy belt. Kazu Haga: Yeah. So through a strange course of events, I had the incredible privilege early on in my life when I was in my early teens, 11, 12, 13, 14 years old, to spend every summer going to the Algonquin Reservation, Anishnabe Nation, way up in Northern Quebec, and spend my evenings sleeping in the basement of Chief William Commander, who was the holder of the seven Fire Prophecies Wampum Belt. This is a prophecy that told the story of the seventh fire that we are in the time of the seventh fire. And this is a moment in the history of our species where we can remember what it means to be human and to go backwards and to reclaim our spiritual path. If we are able to do that, then we can rebuild a new world, the eighth fire and build a world of lasting peace. But if we are unable to do that and continue down this material journey, that will lead to a world of destruction. And this is, prophecies like this one and similar indigenous prophecies that speak the same exact things are the things that were. Just surrounded, that I was surrounded by when I was younger, and I'm so grateful that even though I didn't really believe this kind of stuff when I was younger, it was like the, you know, crazy hippie newey stuff that my mom was into. I'm so grateful to have been surrounded by these teachings and hearing these teachings directly from the elders whose lives purpose. It was to share these teachings with us because when I look out at the world now, it really feels like we are in a choice point as a species. Like we can continue to walk down one journey, one path, and I could very easily see how it would lead to a world of destruction. But we have an opportunity to remember who we are and how we're meant to live in relationship with each other and to the earth. And I have a lot of faith that if we're able to do that, we can build such a beautiful future for our children. And so I think this is the moment that we're in. Miko Lee: Yeah. Thank you so much. Can you share a little bit about your mom? It seems like she was a rule breaker and she introduced you to so many things and you're appreciating it later as an adult, but at the time you're like, what is this? Kazu Haga: Yeah. You know, she was. She grew up in Japan. We were all born in Japan, but she spent a year overseas in the United States as ex as an exchange student in high school. And she always tells me when she went back to Japan, she was listening to the Beatles, and she shaved her legs and she was this like rebellious person in Japan. But yeah, my mom is never been a political activist in the same way that, that I've become. But she's always been deeply, deeply grounded in spiritual practice. Miko Lee: Mm-hmm. Kazu Haga: And for various reasons have always had deep relationships with indigenous elders in North America and Turtle Island. And so I'm always grateful. I feel like she sowed a lot of seeds that when I was young, I made fun of meditation and I was not into spiritual practice at all. 45 years into my life, I find myself doing all the same things that, that she was doing when I was young, and really seeing that as the foundation of the work that I do in the world today. Miko Lee: And have you, have you talked with her about this? Kazu Haga: Oh yeah. I live with her, so we regularly Oh, I Miko Lee: didn't realize Kazu Haga: that.Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she's read the book and Yeah. We have a lot of opportunities to, to yeah, just talk and, and reminisce and, and wonder at. How life has a tendency to always come back full circle. Miko Lee: Mm. The paths we lead and how they intertwine in some ways. Definitely. Mm, I love that. I let you know before we went on air is that I'm also interviewing the author Chanel Miller in this episode. You shared with me that you are familiar with her work. Can you talk about that? Kazu Haga: Yeah, so, you know, I talk quite a bit in both of my books about how one of the great privileges that I have is to do restorative justice and trauma healing work with incarcerated people, mostly through the prisons in California. And one of the programs that I've had the privilege to be a part of is with the Ahimsa Collective, where we work with a lot of men who have an experience with sexual violence specifically, both as survivors of sexual harm and as perpetrators oftentimes. And in that program we actually used the letter that she wrote and published as an example of the power of what it could mean to be a survivor speaking their truth. And we used to read this letter in the groups with incarcerated people. And I remember the first time I ever read it, I was the one that was reading it out loud. I broke down into tears reading that, that letter, and it was so powerful. And it's one of those written statements that I think has helped a lot of people, incarcerated people, and survivors, oftentimes, they're both the same people, really heal from the scars that they've experienced in life. So yeah, I have a really deep connection to specifically that statement and her work. Miko Lee: Yeah, it's really powerful. I'm wondering, given that how you use art as a tool to heal for yourself. Kazu Haga: You know, I always wished I was a better poet or a better painter or something like that, but I do really feel like there are certain deep truths that cannot be expressed in just regular linear language. It can only be spoken in song or in dance or in poetry. There's something mystical. There's something that, that is beyond the intellect capacity to understand that I think can be powerfully and beautifully expressed through art. I think art and spiritual practice and prayer and things like that are very like closely aligned. And so in that way I, I try to touch the sacred, I try to touch spirit. I try to touch mystery in the things that I can't quite articulate. Just through conversation and giving in a lecture or a PowerPoint presentation, to, yeah, to touch into something more, more important. Miko Lee: And is your spiritual practice built into your every day? Kazu Haga: To the extent possible. One of the traditions that I have really learned a lot from and love is the Plum Village tradition founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. And they're so good at really reminding us that when we wash our dishes, that can be a spiritual practice, right? I'm the father of a young child. And so it's hard to actually sit down and meditate and to find time for that. And so, how can I use. My moments with my daughter when I'm reading her a book as a spiritual practice, how can I, use the time that I'm picking up the toys that's thrown all around the house as spiritual practice. So in that way, I really try to incorporate that sort of awareness and that reminder that I belong to something larger and everything that we do. Miko Lee: After hearing Ty speak one time, I tried to practice the chewing your food 45 times. I could not do it. Like, how does he do Kazu Haga: that? Some food is easier than others. If you eat oatmeal, it's a little harder, but Miko Lee: like that is some kind of practice I cannot do. Kazu Haga: But, you know, I have, a meditation teacher that years ago taught me every time you get inside your car. The moment that you turn the keys and turn on the ignition in your car, just take that moment and see if you can notice the texture of the keys and see if you can really feel your muscles turning to turn the key. And it's in these little moments that if we bring that intention to it, we can really turn what is like a, you know, a mindless moment into something with deep, deep awareness. Hmm. Miko Lee: Thank you for that. That's an interesting one. I have not heard that one before. Kazu Haga: Nowadays I just like push a button so it's even more mind less. Miko Lee: That's right. There's just a button Now. Keys, there's not even the time anymore to do that. That's right. What is it that you'd love folks to walk away with from being familiar with your work? You, there's so many aspects. You have different books that are out, you lead workshops, you're speaking, you are everyday walking through the world, sharing different things. What is one thing you'd love people to understand? Kazu Haga: Between both of my books and all the work that I do, so much of the essence is to try to help us remember. We belong to each other. I think the fear of isolation, the fear that we do not belong, is one of the most common fears that every human being has. Right? At some point in our lives, we felt like we don't belong. And while that is such a real fear, it's also a delusion. Like in an interdependent world, there is nothing outside of belonging, right? And so we already belong. We are already whole, we are already part of the vastness of the cosmos. There is so much power in remembering that we are part of the infinite universe, and I think the delusion that we do not belong to each other is like is the seed that creates the us versus them worldview, and it's that us versus them worldview that is at the heart of what is destroying our planet. In our efforts to create social change, how can we do so in a way that reminds us that even the people that are causing harm is a deeply critical interwoven web of relationships. That we are all in this web of relationship, that there's nobody outside of that, and how can we go about trying to create change in a way that reminds us of that? Miko Lee: Thank you. And my last question is, I'm wondering if there's something that you're learning from your child these days. Kazu Haga: Yeah, the, just the, the pure presence, right? That each moment is so deeply, deeply real, and each moment is to be honored. Like I am amazed at, we were eating asparagus the other day, and she was eating a whole bowl of asparagus, and she desperately needed me to get her the one piece of asparagus that she wanted. She was so frustrated that I couldn't find the one asparagus that she wanted, and so she was crying and screaming and throwing asparagus across the room, and then the moment I was able to find the one asparagus that she wanted, everything is fine. Everything is beautiful. She's smiling, she's laughing, and so just to. Not that we should be like throwing things around if we're not getting exactly what we want, but how can we honor our emotions every moment in a way that in that moment there is nothing outside of that moment. That sort of presence, is something that I really try to embody and try to learn from her. Miko Lee: Thank you so much for sharing with me. I really appreciate reading your books and being in community with you and, we'll put links to your website so that people Awesome. Thank you. Can find out more. And also, I really appreciate that you're having your books published by a small Buddhist press as and encouraging people to buy from that. Kazu Haga: Yeah. Shout out to ax. Miko Lee: Yes, we will absolutely put those links in our show notes. And thank you so much for joining us on Apex Today. Kazu Haga: Thank you so much for having me. Miko Lee: Thank you so much for joining me on this evening conversation with two different authors, Chanel Miller and Kazu Haga, and my little pitch is just to keep reading. Reading is such a critical and important way we learn about the world. I was just reading this thing that said the average Americans read 12 to 13 books a year. And when I checked in with friends and family, they said that could not be true. That they think they know many people who don't read any books. And I am just encouraging you all to pick up a book, especially by an Asian American Pacific Islander author, hear our perspectives, hear our stories. This is how we expand and understand our knowledge around the world. Grow closer to the people in both our lives and people around the world. So yea to reading, yea to Chanel Miller and Kazu Haga. And check out a local bookstore near you. If you wanna find out more information, please check out our website, kpfa.org, black slash programs, apex Express, where I will link both of these authors and how you can purchase their books at your local independent bookstore. Thank you very much. Goodnight. Please check out our website, kpfa.org. To find out more about our show tonight. We think all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world because your voices are important. Apex Express is produced by Ayame Keane-Lee, Anuj Vaidya, Cheryl Truong, Isabel Li, Jalena Keane-Lee, Miko Lee, Nina Phillips, Preeti Mangala Shekar and Swati Rayasam Tonight's show was produced by me, your host, Miko Lee. Thank you so much for joining us. The post APEX Express – 1.15.26 – Chat with Authors appeared first on KPFA.

In today's episode, we're joined by Pascal Hamelin, President and CEO of Abcourt Mines, a Canadian gold producer and explorer with a strong footprint in Quebec. We'll be discussing Abcourt's flagship Sleeping Giant Mine, the company's focus on narrow vein underground mining, and how innovation, automation, and community engagement are shaping its next phase of growth. Pascal is also going to be attending the upcoming Resourcing Tomorrow event - the premier gathering for the world's mining leaders taking place in London from 2-4 December. What sets this event apart is its unmatched audience: C-level executives from the biggest mining companies worldwide, over 40 government ministers, leading mining technology providers, and more. Dig Deep The Mining Podcast is proud to partner with Resourcing Tomorrow so to register, go to https://hubs.ly/Q03JvH2K0 and use DIGDEEP10 for 10% off your pass. KEY TAKEAWAYS The company, originally focused on zinc, shifted to gold assets in Northern Quebec in the mid-2000s, leveraging its ownership of the Elder Mine and eventually acquiring the high-grade Sleeping Giant Mine and Mill in 2016. Abcourt secured financing in mid-2025 to restart the Sleeping Giant Mine, which boasts historically high-grade, narrow-vein underground gold (averaging 10.3 grams/tonne G/T) The company champions narrow-vein underground mining to minimise waste and surface disruption, a model with higher social acceptability Abcourt sees significant deep exploration potential at Sleeping Giant, believing the high-grade deposit extends to greater depths where "no one drilled yet" BEST MOMENTS "The main focus and why I came in was to actually start the Sleeping Giant Mine." "The issue we have with mining that narrow is the equipment is not there... I believe that the advancement of technology right now is going at full speed." "The belief is there's a giant at depth. And no one drilled at depth yet... So we're just scratching the surface on that deposit." "If you have an underground narrow-vein mine with 200 employees, 300 employees, with a 20, 30-year life – that's what people like." VALUABLE RESOURCES Mail:        ⁠rob@mining-international.org⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/⁠ X:              ⁠https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson⁠  YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast⁠  Web:        ⁠http://www.mining-international.org⁠ CONTACT METHOD ⁠rob@mining-international.org⁠ ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson-3a26a68/⁠ Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics.  This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media. https://disruptivemedia.co.uk/

In this episode of the Matriarch Movement podcast, host Shayla Oulette Stonechild speaks with the Honourable Mandy Gault-Masty, Canada's first Indigenous Minister of Indigenous Services. They discuss the importance of Indigenous leadership, the role of Indigenous Services Canada, and the challenges faced by Indigenous communities. The minister shares her personal journey to leadership, the significance of matriarchs in her life, and the need for holistic approaches to health and well-being for Indigenous women and girls. The conversation also touches on the vision for Indigenous futurism and the importance of representation in all aspects of society, including policy-making. She offers advice for Indigenous youth aspiring to enter politics highlighting the importance of community engagement. Ahead of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, she discusses the need for healing, and the critical issues surrounding child welfare and Jordan's Principle.  More About Minister Gull-Masty The Honourable Mandy Gull-Masty, member of the Cree Nation of Waswanipi, was elected as the Member of Parliament for Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou on April 28, 2025. On May 13, 2025, she was appointed Minister of Indigenous Services, becoming the first Indigenous person to hold this role. Gull-Masty began her political career in 2014 when she was elected Deputy Chief of the Cree Nation of Waswanipi, where she held key portfolios including finance, housing, mining, and administration. In 2017, she later served as the Deputy Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)/Cree Nation Government, and in 2021, she made history as the first woman elected Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)/Cree Nation Government representing the Cree people in Northern Quebec. During her time as Grand Chief from 2021 to 2025, Minister Gull-Masty was recognized for her leadership in expanding protected lands, advancing moose conservation initiatives, revitalizing Cree language and culture, and promoting transparent governance and economic planning across the region and for promoting Indigenous women's leadership. As Minister of Indigenous Services, Gull Masty brings a wealth of experience in Indigenous governance, environmental stewardship, and community-led development. https://www.canada.ca/en/government/ministers/mandy-gull-masty.html  https://www.instagram.com/mandygullmastymp/ https://www.instagram.com/mandyingaround/  Thanks for checking out this episode of the Matriarch Movement podcast! If you enjoyed the conversation, please leave a comment and thumbs-up on YouTube, or leave a five star review on your favourite podcast app! Find Shayla Oulette Stonechild on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/shayla0h/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find more about Matriarch Movement at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://matriarchmovement.ca/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This podcast is produced by Women in Media Network ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.womeninmedia.network/show/matriarch-movement/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special summer bonus episode of The Food Professor Podcast, recorded live at the SIAL Food Innovation Show in Toronto, co-hosts Michael LeBlanc and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois welcome two exceptional guests: Joanne McArthur, President of Nourish Food Marketing and co-chair of the SIAL Innovation jury, and Chantal Van Winden, CEO of Olimega and this year's SIAL Innovation Gold Medal winner. The episode dives deep into Chantal's award-winning product—Camelina oil with a buttery flavour—unpacking its health benefits, sustainable production, and commercial potential.Chantal shares the remarkable 18-year journey behind the development of camelina oil, a uniquely Canadian innovation. With 35% Omega-3, high antioxidant content, and an exceptionally high smoke point (475°F), the oil is a healthy, locally grown alternative to avocado and olive oil. Grown in cold climates with short growing seasons, camelina thrives in Northern Quebec and supports sustainable farming practices, including soil health improvement and pollinator partnerships with beekeepers.Joanne offers behind-the-scenes insight into the SIAL Innovation judging process, where over 170 products from more than 70 countries are evaluated. She highlights the rigorous selection process and emphasizes why Chantal's camelina oil stood out—not just for its health properties but also for its taste, innovation, and commercial viability. The buttery flavour was developed through natural aroma infusion and is particularly suited for applications like popcorn—a detail that excited the hosts and exemplifies the product's consumer appeal.Beyond its nutritional edge, camelina oil tells a compelling Canadian story—rooted in agricultural innovation, sustainability, and female entrepreneurship. Chantal recounts how the crop was initially planted to improve soil health on her family farm and later developed into a premium oil after discovering its omega-rich properties. With demand rising internationally—35% of Olimega's business is export-based—she now has a waitlist of Canadian farmers eager to grow the crop.Tune in to hear how this buttery Canadian oil may be the next pantry staple and discover what it takes to win one of the most prestigious awards in food innovation. The Food Professor #podcast is presented by Caddle. About UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph's Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.Dr. Charlebois sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global Food Traceability Centre's Advisory Board based in Washington DC, and a member of the National Scientific Committee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa. Michael LeBlanc is the president and founder of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc, a senior retail advisor, keynote speaker and now, media entrepreneur. He has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career. Michael has delivered keynotes, hosted fire-side discussions and participated worldwide in thought leadership panels, most recently on the main stage in Toronto at Retail Council of Canada's Retail Marketing conference with leaders from Walmart & Google. He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience with Levi's, Black & Decker, Hudson's Bay, CanWest Media, Pandora Jewellery, The Shopping Channel and Retail Council of Canada to his advisory, speaking and media practice.Michael produces and hosts a network of leading retail trade podcasts, including the award-winning No.1 independent retail industry podcast in America, Remarkable Retail with his partner, Dallas-based best-selling author Steve Dennis; Canada's top retail industry podcast The Voice of Retail and Canada's top food industry and one of the top Canadian-produced management independent podcasts in the country, The Food Professor with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois from Dalhousie University in Halifax.Rethink Retail has recognized Michael as one of the top global retail experts for the fourth year in a row, Thinkers 360 has named him on of the Top 50 global thought leaders in retail, RTIH has named him a top 100 global though leader in retail technology and Coresight Research has named Michael a Retail AI Influencer. If you are a BBQ fan, you can tune into Michael's cooking show, Last Request BBQ, on YouTube, Instagram, X and yes, TikTok.Michael is available for keynote presentations helping retailers, brands and retail industry insiders explaining the current state and future of the retail industry in North America and around the world.

With the federal election campaign heading into its last days, party leaders sharpen their messages to voters. Mark Carney leans into the public fear of American annexation, while Pierre Poilievre details the changes he'd deliver in his first 100 days if elected prime minister. Both the NDP and Bloc Quebecois leaders argue they'd have vital roles to play in holding the major parties to account. Polls still show the Liberals with a lead over the Conservatives, one reason being the seats the Liberals are poised to snatch from the Bloc Quebecois. For the first time in 20 years, the Liberals are threatening the Bloc in Northern Quebec, where the pitch is for voters to join the winning team.  The U.S. culture war takes another turn. The FBI arrests a sitting judge in Wisconsin, accusing her of helping a man wanted for deportation to evade the immigration officers waiting to nab him outside the courtroom. It was the last day for the public to pay respects to Pope Francis. People crowded into St. Peter's Square in the Vatican – for a last farewell. A delegation of Canadian officials led by Governor General Mary Simon has arrived in Rome ahead of tomorrow's funeral for the pontiff. And more….

On this week's episode of The Unbeatable Mind, Mark Divine shares his compelling and personal tale of resilience of the recent snowmobile accident that left him with serious injuries and a harrowing journey towards recovery.    Shortly after completing his PhD in Global Leadership & Change, Mark accepted an invitation to explore Northern Quebec by way of a snowmobiling adventure. The would-be rejuvenating experience soon turned into a test of resilience and fortitude, leaving Mark with multiple fractures and a punctured lung.    Mark shares these details not solely for the purpose of recounting a personal story, but to explore the pivotal role his extensive training and mindset played on the road to healing. He dives into the techniques he uses—-from advanced visualization to staying physically active to the extent of his recovery capacity. In addition, Mark explores alternative healing methods, like peptides and the potential use of stem cells to illustrate a holistic approach to healing.   Mark provides a fascinating look into how one's philosophies on life can, and do provide a valuable framework to overcome even the most significant of challenges!  Key Takeaways:  Opportunity From Adversity: Listen to Mark recount how this challenging experience actually deepened his mindfulness practice and strengthened his familial relationships. He reminds listeners that every setback can become an opportunity for growth.    Tools For Resilience: Discover the power of tools like maintaining a positive mindset and creative visualisation in getting through a crisis and improving your day-to-day life.    Mindful Recovery: Recognize how staying active is crucial in recovery—-but it must be done within the limits of your capabilities.  Exploring Alternative Healing: Explore the value of staying open to new advances in health and recovery technology, just as Mark is in trying peptides and considering stem cell therapy. Mark Divine is a former Navy SEAL Commander, entrepreneur, and NYT Bestselling author with PhD in Global Leadership and Change who has dedicated his life to unlocking human potential through integrated training in mental toughness, leadership, and physical readiness. Mark's journey began in New York City, where his fascination with eastern philosophy and martial arts set the stage for a transformative path. After a successful stint as a consultant at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, he made the pivotal decision to join the Navy SEALs at 25. Over two decades of service, Mark commanded critical missions globally, retiring as a Commander in 2011. Mark has trained elite organizations including Google, Nike, SpaceX, Boeing, Harvard University, The Olympics, YPO, and many others.Co-founding ventures such as SEALFIT, Unbeatable Mind, LLC, and Coronado Brewing Company have allowed Mark to blend his military expertise with entrepreneurial spirit. SEALFIT, born from his SEAL training insights, revolutionized physical and mental conditioning, impacting diverse groups from executives to athletes.Inspired by his military service, Mark founded the Courage Foundation to support veterans in holistic healing and restoration of purpose. Advocating for mental resilience and compassionate leadership, he aims to impact 100 million lives, fostering a more connected and courageous world. Mark's Links:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markdivine/   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@markdivineshow  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/RealMarkDivine/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sealfit/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/markdivineleadership/   Sponsors and Promotions:   Momentous: If you're interested in making a true investment in your health, why not join the best in human performance and be part of the change in raising the bar on supplements. Just go to livemomentous.com and use code DIVINE for 20% off your new routine today.   Indeed:  Listeners of this show will get a SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLAR SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to get your jobs more visibility at Indeed.com/DIVINE.    Kinsta:  Tired of being your own hosting support team? Switch to Kinsta and get your first month free. And don't worry about the move - they'll handle the migration for you, no tech expertise required. Visit Kinsta.com/Mark to get started.   

Chris Smith had long made a tradition of planning annual motorcycle adventures with friends and family. The year before, their trip was cut short when several people dropped out due to various challenges. This time, with a smaller group, they pushed farther—riding through active wildfires on their way to the end of Quebec's remote Trans-Taiga Road. After a night camping at the Caniapiscau Reservoir, they began the ride back toward Radisson as the smoke thickened and the sky darkened. Pressing on, they discovered the road south had been closed due to the fires. Stranded for a couple of days, they made the most of it—sharing meals, swapping stories, and strengthening the bonds that make these adventures unforgettable. This wasn't just another ride. It was a reminder of why they go: for the adventure, the challenge, and the connection.

Interview with Justin Reid, President & CEO of Troilus GoldOur previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/troilus-gold-tsxtlg-binding-lois-change-everything-6626Recording date: 14th March 2025 Troilus Gold stands at an inflection point as it advances its flagship copper-gold project in Northern Quebec toward production. With a recently secured $700 million debt financing package and gold prices reaching $3,000 per ounce, the company represents a compelling investment opportunity in the precious metals sector. The Troilus project boasts impressive scale and economics, including a 22+ year mine life producing over 350,000 gold equivalent ounces annually, an after-tax NPV of $3 billion, and potential for $350 million in annual free cash flow.Troilus has systematically addressed key developmental risks, creating a clear pathway to production. With $700 million in debt secured with favorable terms, permitting in final review stages, and an experienced development team assembled, the company has positioned itself for success. Pre-construction activities include detailed engineering with BBA (engineers behind Detour and Malartic) and active site preparation including pit dewatering.Management has crafted a sophisticated financing approach that minimizes dilution while ensuring adequate funding. Using a 70-30 debt-to-equity structure on the $1 billion capital requirement, finalizing offtake agreements for concentrate sales, and strategically positioning to monetize a new royalty or stream for up to $400 million, Troilus has created multiple funding options beyond traditional equity raises.With a current market capitalization of approximately $165 million against an after-tax NPV of $3 billion, Troilus presents a compelling valuation opportunity. CEO Justin Reid draws comparisons to similar-stage peers that have seen significant revaluation upon financing completion. Several macroeconomic factors further enhance the investment case, including rising gold prices, global copper concentrate shortages, the expanding margins created by Canadian dollar weakness, and increasing focus on secure critical minerals supply chains.The next 12 months present several potential catalysts that could drive revaluation, including finalization of offtake agreements, completion of royalty/stream financing, financial close on the debt package, final permitting approvals, and ultimately a construction decision. As Troilus Gold transitions from developer to producer, investors have a rare opportunity to participate in a gold-copper project that combines scale, economics, jurisdictional advantages, and strategic relevance in today's commodity environment.—Learn more: https://cruxinvestor.com/companies/troilus-goldSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

In this episode of Talking TESL, we chat with Suzanne Tremonte, a student in the TESL certificate program at Concordia University. Suzanne shares her journey into teaching and her experiences with United for Literacy, a national charitable organization supporting learners across Canada. She reflects on her transformative summer teaching in Aupaluk, a small Inuit community of 200 people in Nunavik, Northern Quebec—an experience that deeply influenced her approach to education.We explore key topics such as neo-colonialism in TESL, plurilingualism, and the power of gamification in language learning for children.Interested in volunteering with United for Literacy? Reach out to Suzanne at unitedforliteracy@csu.qc.ca—she'd love to connect!

Get ready to dig deep into the geological weeds with Dr. Jesse Reimink and Chris Bolhuis as they tackle the rock-solid debate about Earth's oldest rocks! Is the Ujaraaluk unit in Northern Quebec truly 4.25 billion years old? Or is it just a rocky mix-up? We meticulously break down isotope geochemistry, hydrothermal beauties, and field observations. Discover how extinct isotope systems shed light on our planet's fiendishly old secrets. Plus, we'll uncover the realities of cross-cutting relationships and metamorphic mysteries. Dive in, and don't get too basalt by the complexity!Download the CampGeo app now at this link. On the app you can get tons of free content, exclusive images, and access to our Geology of National Parks series. You can also learn the basics of geology at the college level in our FREE CampGeo content series - get learning now!Like, Subscribe, and leave us a Rating!——————————————————Instagram: @planetgeocastTwitter: @planetgeocastFacebook: @planetgeocastSupport us: https://planetgeocast.com/support-usEmail: planetgeocast@gmail.comWebsite: https://planetgeocast.com/

Erik Wetterling, Founder and Editor of The Hedgeless Horseman website, joins us to discuss some of the larger recent merger and acquisition deals in the higher quality projects in tier one jurisdictions, and the value arbitrage that is setting up in the high-quality gold development projects of size and scale that are still held by juniors.   We start off also noting the recent $5Billion takeover of De Grey Mining (ASX:DEG) by Aussie major gold producer Northern Star Resources (ASX:NST), for their Hemi gold project in Western Australia. We also recounted the last few divestments by Newmont Corp (NYSE: NEM) (TSX: NGT) where Dhilmar is acquiring the Éléonore operation in Northern Quebec, Canada for $795million, and there was also the $850 million sale from Newmont of the Musselwhite mining operation to Orla Mining Ltd. (TSX: OLA) (NYSE: ORLA).   This leads to a discussion of the big disconnect in the value of gold development projects with significant gold resources and compelling economic studies in place, that are trading at a mere fraction of where these most advanced assets are at the time of their sale.  It is a nuanced discussion, where we review that not all ounces in the ground should be valued the same, and we get into the quality of the project, the proximity to other major operations, the jurisdiction premiums and discounts, and whether or not the project has already attracted strategic investors in the form of larger producers.   In full disclosure, Integra Resources mentioned by Erik in this interview, is a position held in his personal portfolio, and also may be site sponsors of The Hedgeless Horseman website at the time of this recording. Additionally, Shad is a shareholder of Integra Resources at the time of this recording.   Click here to visit Erik's site – The Hedgeless Horseman

Pacific Ridge Exploration announced that the Company's inaugural drill program at the Chuchi copper-gold project in British Columbia returned some of the best drill results ever recorded at the project. Aldebaran Resources is pleased to announce the results of an updated mineral resource estimate for the Altar copper-gold project in San Juan, Argentina. US Copper also reporting an update to their mineral resource estimate on the  Moonlight-Superior Copper Project in Northeast California. Calibre Mining announced Discoveries of Significant Gold Mineralization 1,000 metres Beyond the Valentine Gold Mine Resource in Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. Newmont Corporation announced that it will sell its Éléonore gold operation in Northern Quebec to Dhilmar Ltd for $795 million in cash consideration.

A man visiting NL for the first time has captured some of the finest drone footage of whales you're likely to see. Kris Hall is from Ontario, and he's spent the past more than three years travelling the world, mostly on motorcycle. He came to this province by way of Northern Ontario and Northern Quebec, travelling through Labrador. Hall is now on the Northern Peninsula. He's fallen in love with the people and, of course, those whales.

Dive into the depths of workplace mental health with Dr. MH Pelletier, as she decodes the art of 'strategic resilience.' Her award-winning book, "The Resilience Plan," sets the stage for a dialogue on navigating work performance peaks and mental health valleys with strategic finesse.Key Questions:1. Dr. Pelletier, could you describe your early days in Northern Quebec and how your life experiences drew you to psychology?2. Throughout your career transitions, how has your focus on mental health evolved from clinical practice to the business sector?3. What is 'strategic resilience' and how does it intersect with successful work performance?4. Could you explain the concept of a 'strategic resilience' plan and offer an actionable step for our listeners to start crafting their own?5. Your book, "The Resilience Plan," stands out in the crowded space of wellness literature. What unique insights does it offer?6. With your extensive speaking engagements and book clubs, beyond book sales, what pivotal message do you hope to impart?7. Entrepreneurs often juggle multiple demands; how do you decide where to focus your time and energy?8. Your quote on behavioral principles touches on influencing others. What's your take on asking for 'kindness' instead of 'favors'?9. Balancing a disciplined life with fun and joy is crucial. What's your strategy for unwinding and what advice can you give to our audience?Quotable Moments:"Strategic resilience isn't just about bouncing back; it's about springing forward with a plan and purpose.""People yearn for reasons in their actions; understanding this can pivot how we influence and interact."Connect with Dr. Pelletier:- LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmhpelletier/)Listener Engagement:We're eager to hear your reflections on Dr. Pelletier's insights into the resilience plan and its role in your life. Email us through our website, www.bravingbusiness.comDisclaimer:The views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily represent those of the Braving Business Podcast or its hosts.Stay brave and embrace your journey with strategic resilience.

Our adventure through queer Quebec is coming to an end! In this latest episode, Ensemble pour toustes meets Inuit and non-indigenous youth who organize Kuujjuaq Pride, in Northern Quebec.With : Saralikitaa Angnatuk Tobi Nassak Rei Harris Niivi Snowball Tommy Sequaluk 

Lithium Exploration: Eureka's New Junior Company Jeff Wilson discussed Eureka, a new exploration company focusing on the lithium space. The company, listed on the Canadian Stock Exchange a year and a half ago (Stock symbol:  ERKA), raised significant funds and started field exploration in 2023. Jeff also highlighted the role of a renowned prospector, Shawn Ryan, who brought a thesis about potential lithium exploration in an overlooked area of Canada. Michael D. Levitt expressed interest in the company's approach and the promising lithium readings from government surveys. Electric Vehicles and Lithium Demand Rise Michael and Jeff discussed the increasing global demand for electric vehicles and the subsequent need for lithium, a critical component in lithium-ion batteries. They noted that governments, particularly in California and China, are pushing for electric vehicle adoption, which will further strain the demand for lithium. Jeff highlighted how automakers are investing in the lithium sector to secure their supply and prevent potential disruptions in production. Michael pointed out that this is a significant shift for the auto industry, as these companies are now directly investing in parts production, a trend not seen since the days of Henry Ford. Northern Quebec's Mineral Potential Discussed Michael D. Levitt and Jeff Wilson discussed the mineral potential of Northern Quebec. Jeff highlighted the region's rich mineral history, particularly in gold, silver, copper, and nickel. He emphasized the importance of large land packages for exploration and the need for infrastructure support. Jeff also mentioned the presence of Kobold Metals, a private company with notable investors working nearby, which he sees as validating the region's potential. Jeff concluded by mentioning that people can find more information about Eureka Lithium Corp on their website.   https://eurekalithiumcorp.com/  

In this 1418th episode of Toronto Mike'd, Mike chats with nature documentary director and producer Susan Fleming about racoons, coywolves, crows, moose and the beautiful and fast-flowing Magpie river in Northern Quebec becoming Canada's first natural phenomenon to be granted legal personhood. Toronto Mike'd is proudly brought to you by Great Lakes Brewery, Palma Pasta, Ridley Funeral Home, The Advantaged Investor podcast from Raymond James Canada and Electronic Products Recycling Association.

Rosalie Mednick Nepom and her brother Sol Mednick were born in the mining town of Rouyn-Noranda, Que., and grew up there–the children of a local grocer. Meanwhile, Dr. Issac Katz is the son of the community's first permanent rabbi. Now, these former Rouyn-Noranda residents have collected memories and stories of growing up in the once-vibrant pioneering Jewish community, and published them in a new book so their grandchildren will know where they came from. Rouyn-Noranda sprung up in the bush in the 1920s after prospectors discovered gold and copper deposits. It was so far north, it took 10 hours by bus on gravel roads to get there from Montreal. But at its peak, Rouyn-Noranda's 45 Jewish families enjoyed a vibrant community life. That ended in the 1970s, as young people left to go to university and never returned. Their parents soon followed. The once-busy synagogue closed in 1972. Today, as the authors explain on The CJN Daily, the facade is a historic site, but the buiding is now apartments—and Jewish life there is hard to find. What we talked about Learn more about Rouyn-Noranda and Northern Quebec's vanished Jewish community in The CJN Buy the book, The Jewish Community of Rouyn-Noranda How a Jewish dad brought a taste of Tinseltown to Val D'Or, Quebec, in The CJN Credits The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our intern is Ashok Lamichhane (@jesterschest on Twitter).Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To subscribe to this podcast, please watch this video. Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt by clicking here.

The Nunatsiavut Government wants to get tourists thinking about visiting the north coast but what should tourists do when they're in town? To help brainstorm, they're hosting a series of tourism walks.(1:05) We hear from Tim Collins, a local photographer from Labrador West, who discovered all the dead fish in little Wabush lake last week. We hear what he hopes to hear from the town on what happened to all those fish. (8:05) A pricey problem for Muskrat Falls.... Radio Canada's Patrick Butler will tell us why NL Hydro needs to buy nine thousand pieces of equipment to install on transmission lines. (13:21) Sheshatshiu's David Hart is helping people who've been displaced by wildfires burning in Northern Quebec. He's not only running around to help out, but also playing tunes for evacuees. We find out why it's important for him to lend a hand. (20:51) NDP MHA Jordan Brown is sounding the alarm about the province's shortage of waterbombers. We hear from him and NAPE president Jerry Earle on this issue. (27:05) Parliamentary Reporter for The National Post, Ryan Tumilty joins us to talk about a gathering of Finance ministers in India this week, representing most of the world's largest economies.... Chrystia Freeland is there, on behalf of Canada. (37:40)

Interview with Justin Reid, CEO of Troilus Gold Corporation (TSX:TLG and OTC:CHXMF)Our previous interview: https://youtu.be/mQ-Rbwf0zvQRecording date: 19th June 2023Troilus Gold (TLG) is a mining company focused on the development of the Trellis Gold asset located in Northern Quebec. With a strong balance sheet and institutional support, TLG has positioned itself as a significant player in the mining industry. The company boasts a substantial resource base of 8.1 million ounces, and they are expected to release a feasibility study by the end of the year, indicating the project's economic viability.TLG has actively engaged with shareholders and government entities in Quebec, recognizing their importance in obtaining permits and securing necessary allocations for power and resources. The company's CEO regularly attends industry events to foster relationships with both Quebec-based shareholders and government officials.By strategically acquiring additional land holdings and expanding their exploration efforts, TLG has demonstrated its commitment to long-term growth and value creation. With over $30 million in cash and securities, the company remains well-positioned to advance its operations and achieve its goals.

In the early 1960s, the Canadian government launched an experimental programme to take academically promising Inuit children from their homes to be educated in Canada's cities. The aim was to produce administrators who could spearhead development in the north of the country, but the project came at a great cost for the children and their families. Adamie Kalingo, born and raised in Nunavik, Northern Quebec, speaks to Maria Margaronis about being taken away at the age of 12 in 1964, his years living with a white family in Ottawa, and his eventual return. (Photo: Adamie Kalingo in 1963. Credit: Maureen Bus)

For World Radio Day, we celebrate four vibrant community radio stations on four continents. Northern Malawi's Rumphi FM supports the Tumbuka tribe while giving young women a space to speak out against early marriage and for education. From Budapest, Radio Dikh broadcasts “about the Roma, but not just for the Roma,” presenting Romany culture in its own distinctive voice. In Nunavik, Northern Quebec, Inuit radio beams Inuktitut music and talk to 14 remote villages, helping to keep an ancient language and threatened tradition alive. And in Myanmar, brave journalists risk their lives to resist the military dictatorship with news and views sent out from portable transmitters, sometimes under fire.

Troilus Gold Corporation is a Canadian copper and gold development company focused on the advancement of the Troilus Gold Mine located northeast of the Val-d'Or district in Northern Quebec. The Troilus project has access to infrastructure which includes a network of maintained roads, a substation and tension power lines maintained by Hydro-Quebec. The project also has a permitted tailings facility as well as an operating water treatment plant. 

JaajiJaaji is from the band Twin Flames.He is Inuk from Quaqtaq, Nunavik in Northern Quebec, and also Mohawk, from Kahnawake.Twin Flames is a Multi-award winning, chart-topping Indigenous band which consists of Jaaji and his wife Chelsey June.Jaaji has been sober for 8 years.On this episode Jaaji courageously shares his story for those still struggling.https://www.twinflamesmusic.com/?fbclid=PAAaawCen5deFMYjbSBmi8CUDIh4VkkMB3aabzG0IpbC_WloRCgy8URxED8rUhttps://instagram.com/twinflamesband?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://www.facebook.com/twinflamesmusichttps://www.tiktok.com/@twinflamesmusic?_t=8XHCsfLj3zH&_r=1https://on.soundcloud.com/fBDyjSupport the show

JaajiJaaji is from the band Twin Flames.He is Inuk from Quaqtaq, Nunavik in Northern Quebec, and also Mohawk, from Kahnawake.Twin Flames is a Multi-award winning, chart-topping Indigenous band which consists of Jaaji and his wife Chelsey June.Jaaji has been sober for 8 years.On this episode Jaaji courageously shares his story for those still struggling.https://www.twinflamesmusic.com/?fbclid=PAAaawCen5deFMYjbSBmi8CUDIh4VkkMB3aabzG0IpbC_WloRCgy8URxED8rUhttps://instagram.com/twinflamesband?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://www.facebook.com/twinflamesmusichttps://www.tiktok.com/@twinflamesmusic?_t=8XHCsfLj3zH&_r=1https://on.soundcloud.com/fBDyjSupport the show

Falcon Gold Corp (TSX-V:FG, OTC:FGLDF) CEO Karim Rayani tells Proactive's Stephen Gunnion that the company hopes to emulate the success of neighbouring Go Metals Corp's Havre St. Pierre Anorthositic (HSAP) complex with the 413 claims covering 22,302 hectares of strategic ground it recently acquired in Quebec. Rayani says Go Metals recently discovered wide intervals of nickel and copper sulphides at HSAP and Falcon Gold is building further shareholder value by expanding its property portfolio with a focus on battery metals in both Northern Quebec and Timmins Ontario. #ProactiveInvestors #FalconGold #GoMetalsCorp #TSXV #OTC

Orford Mining Corp. is a Canadian mineral resource company, focused on the advancement of its base and precious metal assets. The company is primarily focused on underexplored areas within Northern Quebec. The asset portfolio of the company consists of the Qiqavik and West Raglan projects as well as three property positions in the Joutel region of the Abitibi District of northern Quebec. The Qiqavik project of the company is a 39,000-hectare land package that hosts multiple gold discoveries. The West Raglan project of the company holds a land position of 70,700 hectares and hosts nickel, copper and platinum group mineralisation. 

Orford Mining Corporation is a Canada-based mineral resource company. The Company is primarily focused on the acquisition, exploration, and evaluation of base and precious metal assets. It is a gold exploration Company focused on prospective and underexplored areas of Northern Quebec. The Company's principal assets are the Qiqavik and West Raglan projects comprising a land package totaling over 80,000 hectares in the Cape Smith Belt of Northern Quebec. The Qiqavik Project hosts several new gold discoveries along a 40 kilometer (km) mineralized trend. The West Raglan project hosts Raglan-style nickel/copper/platinum group metal discoveries along a 55 km mineralized trend. The Company has three property positions in the Joutel region of the Abitibi District of northern Quebec, which hosts deposits such as the Eagle/Telbel, Joutel Copper, Poirier Copper, and Vezza deposits. The Company seeks new gold exploration opportunities in North America.

Troilus Gold Corporation is a Canadian copper and gold development company focused on the advancement of the Troilus Gold Mine located northeast of the Val-d'Or district in Northern Quebec. The Troilus project has access to infrastructure which includes a network of maintained roads, a substation and tension power lines maintained by Hydro-Quebec. The project also has a permitted tailings facility as well as an operating water treatment plant. The junior gold environment currently faces a lack of liquidity due to the retail investment community investing less. Reid believes that the disconnect between a company readily receiving institutional investment and the lack of retail investors may be accredited to a decrease in disposable income, leading to retail investors being hesitant to invest in junior companies. Reid believes that there will be a shortage of gold stockpiles in the future, creating an opportunity for junior developers. He believes that a retail investor should look for companies that have assets in safe jurisdictions, which show size and scalability and are also well capitalised for the advancement of their projects.Troilus Gold Corporation recently announced assay results from the Southwest and Gap Zones at the Troilus project. The highlights of the assay results include high-grade gold mineralisation at the Southwest Zone of 92 g/t and 68 g/t gold over 1 m and 3.07 g/t AuEq over 15 m. The Gap Zone drilling results show mineralisation of 4.2 g/t AuEq Over 7 m, which includes a 1 m intercept of 22.81 g/t AuEq. The company is preparing to initiate an 11,000 m drilling program at the Gap Zone which will be aimed at identifying and better understanding the zone's mineralisation. 

Wallbridge Mining Company Limited is a Canada-based company, which is engaged in the acquisition, discovery, development and production of metals focusing on gold, copper, nickel and platinum group metals. The Company is focused on exploring and developing its Fenelon Gold Property (Fenelon Gold) in Northern Quebec. The Fenelon Gold is located in the Nord-du-Quebec administrative region, approximately 75 kilometers (km) west-northwest of the town of Matagami, in the province of Quebec, Canada. Its Martiniere Project is located approximately 110 km west of the town of Matagami. The Company owns interest in Grasset property, Detour East property and Hwy 810 property. Its other Quebec properties include N2 property, six properties in the Lac Rocher Nickel District in Quebec (the RUM properties), Casault Gold property, Harri, Nantel, and Jeremie properties. It also owns the Beschefer Project, which is a gold exploration property located approximately 30 km southwest of Fenelon Gold.

Orford Mining Corporation is a Canada-based mineral resource company. The Company is primarily focused on the acquisition, exploration, and evaluation of base and precious metal assets. It is a gold exploration Company focused on prospective and underexplored areas of Northern Quebec. The Company's principal assets are the Qiqavik and West Raglan projects comprising a land package totaling over 80,000 hectares in the Cape Smith Belt of Northern Quebec. The Qiqavik Project hosts several new gold discoveries along a 40 kilometer (km) mineralized trend. The West Raglan project hosts Raglan-style nickel/copper/platinum group metal discoveries along a 55 km mineralized trend. The Company has three property positions in the Joutel region of the Abitibi District of northern Quebec, which hosts deposits such as the Eagle/Telbel, Joutel Copper, Poirier Copper, and Vezza deposits. The Company seeks new gold exploration opportunities in North America.

Wallbridge Mining Company Limited is a Canada-based company, which is engaged in the acquisition, discovery, development and production of metals focusing on gold, copper, nickel and platinum group metals. The Company is focused on exploring and developing its Fenelon Gold Property (Fenelon Gold) in Northern Quebec. The Fenelon Gold is located in the Nord-du-Quebec administrative region, approximately 75 kilometers (km) west-northwest of the town of Matagami, in the province of Quebec, Canada. Its Martiniere Project is located approximately 110 km west of the town of Matagami. The Company owns interest in Grasset property, Detour East property and Hwy 810 property. Its other Quebec properties include N2 property, six properties in the Lac Rocher Nickel District in Quebec (the RUM properties), Casault Gold property, Harri, Nantel, and Jeremie properties. It also owns the Beschefer Project, which is a gold exploration property located approximately 30 km southwest of Fenelon Gold.

In Episode 17: Our guest this week on the podcast is Dr. Lauren Erland, research associate at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna. Dr. Erland shares and discusses with us Artic native plant species and their conservation in the face of climate change. The area of Dr. Erland's study was Inuit Nunangat, a unique cultural, political and geographic zone that encompasses, Nunavut, and Northern Quebec, Labrador and the Northwest Territories. Lauren explains a little bit about the botanical exploration of this area as well as botanical collection methods of seeds, traditional and tissue culture vouchers.  Also discussed in this episode is the invitro method of plant propagation using agar with a plant tissue culture as a substrate medium for germination of historically difficult to propagate flora. Who else loves the Orobanchaceae family of plants!?Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=65399395)

With Patricia Sung and Alexander Dickson of McGill University and Mihskakwan James Harper of NRStor Inc. At what age did you first learn about climate change? How was it framed? Was there much talk of solutions? What is the true meaning of the word “sustainability”? How can it be more intricately woven throughout elementary and secondary education? When it comes to reciprocity, which books could be mandatory reading in certain university courses? Each member of our latest Gen-Z panel shares their experiences with environmental education before offering advice for improving it at all ages and across multiple subject areas. Though the ideas shared here do not necessarily represent the collective voice of a generation, it's important to hear the stories and insights from those on the cusp of the workforce. Guests: Patricia Sung moved from Hawaii to Montreal in 2018 to pursue a Bachelors of Science in Honours Environment with a minor in GIS & Remote Sensing at McGill University. Eager to become a better caretaker of the Earth, she co-founded the Macdonald Campus Pollination Meadow in 2021 to increase local biodiversity of native wildlife species. For her honours thesis (in the Cardille Computational Landscape Ecology Laboratory), she is researching how satellite imagery can be used to better detect beaver dams in Northern Quebec (as part of a collaboration with Nunavik Geomatics and the Northern Wildlife Ecology Lab). Alexander Kuijper Dickson is currently working towards completing his Bachelors in Bioresource Engineering and Agronomy, with a minor in entrepreneurship. His interests lie at the intersection of regenerative agriculture, ecology, and food security. He is currently leading a project to convert half an acre of lawn into a tall grass meadow to support native pollinators. Mihskakwan James Harper is from Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 8, Alberta. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering and holds a Masters of Science in Renewable Energy from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and École Polytechnique. He continues to advocate for meaningful climate action through the lens of his Niheyaw upbringing, tying concepts like clean energy with long-term community well-being, sovereignty, and empowerment. He currently works full time as the Business Development Manager with an energy storage developer, NRStor Inc. He loves his family and his community now and generations ahead, which inspires him to work on energy storage and renewable energy projects to build a future that is sustainable and empowers all.

Pack 300 pounds of luggage, parts, and tools - Check. Set FM transmitters to 30 watts TPO - Check. Set STL data rate to 8 kbps - Check. Take the day off if the weather is nice because no one else will be working - Check. Bring the caribou and beluga recipe books - Check. Such is the to-do list for Pierre Boucher, broadcast technician for some of the most northern radio stations in Canada. Working in far Northern Quebec and Nunavut, Pierre keeps these vital communications resources on-the-air for the Inuit people and others living in these northern extremes. Pierre joins Chris Tarr and Kirk Harnack on this intriguing episode of TWiRT.

Pack 300 pounds of luggage, parts, and tools - Check. Set FM transmitters to 30 watts TPO - Check. Set STL data rate to 8 kbps - Check. Take the day off if the weather is nice because no one else will be working - Check. Bring the caribou and beluga recipe books - Check. Such is the to-do list for Pierre Boucher, broadcast technician for some of the most northern radio stations in Canada. Working in far Northern Quebec and Nunavut, Pierre keeps these vital communications resources on-the-air for the Inuit people and others living in these northern extremes. Pierre joins Chris Tarr and Kirk Harnack on this intriguing episode of TWiRT.

Pack 300 pounds of luggage, parts, and tools - Check. Set FM transmitters to 30 watts TPO - Check. Set STL data rate to 8 kbps - Check. Take the day off if the weather is nice because no one else will be working - Check. Bring the caribou and beluga recipe books - Check. Such is the to-do list for Pierre Boucher, broadcast technician for some of the most northern radio stations in Canada. Working in far Northern Quebec and Nunavut, Pierre keeps these vital communications resources on-the-air for the Inuit people and others living in these northern extremes. Pierre joins Chris Tarr and Kirk Harnack on this intriguing episode of TWiRT. Show Notes:Taqramiut Nipingat Radio Network official websiteWikipedia’s description of the Taqramiut Nipingat network of stationsVF2446-FM - Low Power FM station in Salluit, QC, CA on Radio-Locator.comA Salluit 360º Street View from March, 2016Many of Pierre’s hand-selected tools are from WeraGuest:Pierre Boucher - Technicien en radiodiffusion Co-Hosts:Chris Tarr - Group Director of Engineering at Magnum.MediaKirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, & South Seas BroadcastingFollow TWiRT on Twitter and on FacebookTWiRT is brought to you by:Nautel and the continuing informative live webinars. Sign up for free!Broadcasters General Store, with outstanding service, saving, and support. Online at BGS.cc. Broadcast Bionics - making radio smarter with Bionic Studio, visual radio, and social media tools at Bionic.radio.Nautel and the regular Transmission Talk Tuesday series of online engineering roundtable events.Angry Audio - with StudioHub cables and adapters. Audio problems disappear when you get Angry at AngryAudio.com. And MaxxKonnectWireless - Prioritized High Speed Internet Service designed for Transmitter Sites and Remote Broadcasts. Look for in-depth radio engineering articles in Radio-Guide magazine.Subscribe to Audio:iTunesRSSStitcherTuneInSubscribe to Video:iTunesRSSYouTube

In this episode, we chat with Belinda Labatte, CEO and Director of Lomiko Metals which is a Canadian junior exploration and development company with properties in Quebec. They are focused on the development of two main graphite and Lithium projects. Belinda has more than 15 years of senior management experience in mining. She has also worked in the capital and investment markets, for 20 years. Belinda tells us more about the exciting changes that Lomiko Metals has recently gone through and the vision of the company moving forward.   KEY TAKEAWAYS To be successful, companies need to represent the interests of all stakeholders. Including, the country they are working in. Lomiko Metals is focused on providing Canada with the critical minerals they need for energy creation. Minerals that are sustainably and ethically mined. The board is majority female, which gives the company a different perspective and approach. Building relationships, collaborations, and partnerships with the community is different from simply ticking boxes to secure permits. Graphite is one of Canada´s 31 critical minerals. It is considered a national security priority. By 2040, the market shortfall is going to go from 200,00 tonnes to millions of tonnes for graphite, by which point, Lomiko Metals will be in production. Modern mines need to be decarbonized. Critical mineral companies are increasingly looking at getting involved in processing as a way to produce a truly green product. Be open to all kinds of collaborations and partnerships, it is the best way to solve complex problems. Drilling is starting at La Loutre in February, along with environmental and metallurgic studies. Later in the year, they are going to start exploring their lithium asset, in Northern Quebec.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I was touching on both the mining and energy spaces, which has impacted my perspective on critical minerals. ´ ‘70% of (electric vehicle) projects being developed are in Canada… so we can develop a strong supply chain here.' ‘Mining is a very small part of what Lomiko does… we are a new energy business. We supply a stable and secure source of critical minerals.'   EPISODE RESOURCES Website: https://lomiko.com/ LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/belindalabatte Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LomikoMetals/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LomikoMetals Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lomikometals/   VALUABLE RESOURCES Email: rob@mining-international.org Website: https://www.mining-international.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-tyson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiningRobTyson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theminingpodcast/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DigDeepTheMiningPodcast/videos   ABOUT THE HOST Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics. Rob is the Founder and Director of Mining International Ltd, a leading global recruitment and headhunting consultancy based in the UK specializing in all areas of mining across the globe from the first world to third world countries from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. We source, headhunt, and discover new and top talent through a targeted approach and search methodology and have a proven track record in sourcing and positioning exceptional candidates into our client's organizations in any mining discipline or level. Mining International provides a transparent, informative, and trusted consultancy service to our candidates and clients to help them develop their careers and business goals and objectives in this ever-changing marketplace.   Podcast Description Rob Tyson is an established recruiter in the mining and quarrying sector and decided to produce the “Dig Deep” The Mining Podcast to provide valuable and informative content around the mining industry. He has a passion and desire to promote the industry and the podcast aims to offer the mining community an insight into people's experiences and careers covering any mining discipline, giving the listeners helpful advice and guidance on industry topics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The moose is the largest of all deer species, standing about five to six and a half feet tall. Moose require habitat with adequate edible plants; grasses, young trees and shrubs, cover from predators, and protection from extremely hot or cold weather. Moose travel or migrate among different habitats with the seasons to address these requirements. Moose are cold-adapted mammals with thickened skin, a dense, heat-retaining coat, and a low surface volume ratio, which provides excellent cold tolerance but poor heat tolerance. Moose survive hot weather by accessing shade or cooling wind, or by immersion in cool water. In hot weather, moose are often found wading or swimming in lakes or ponds. When heat-stressed, moose may fail to adequately forage in summer and may not gain adequate body fat to survive the winter. Also, moose cows may not calve without adequate summer weight gain. Moose require access to both young forest for browsing and mature forest for shelter and cover. Forest disturbed by fire and logging promotes the growth of fodder for moose. Moose also require access to mineral licks, safe places for calving and aquatic feeding sites so they do move from season to season. The autumn season of 2003 was quite mild across northern Canada and on November 15 as the moose started their migration trek from Northern Quebec to the Labrador Sea it stalled car and truck traffic. Moose had to use the highways because the ground was not frozen due to unusually warm weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on I Wish I Knew EDU, It's P1 or Ramona's conversation with Dawn Fyn @AFynClass about her EDU journey, #safeschools, equity & diversity, teaching/unlearning in Northern Quebec, the 80/20 split and promoting a positive school culture.

On this week's episode of the Legacy of Hope Foundation's Roots & Hoots, host Gordon Spence is delighted to be joined by Alex Flaherty. Alex is from Iqaluit, Nunavut, and spent his childhood in Grise Fiord, the most northern community in Canada. With a small population of less than 200, Alex's grandparents moved in the 1950s from Northern Quebec to the High Arctic, where they had to adapt to difficult hunting and living conditions. Alex grew up hunting and camping with his father, which inspired his passion for the outdoors and his reverence for the stunning landscapes of the North. These experiences, coupled with his strong connection to the land, and his enthusiasm for place-based learning, helped spark Alex's vision for what would become his company, Polar Outfitting.

For some, grammar has a reputation for being the "boring" aspect of language learning. However, grammar is fascinating! All languages have their own unique grammatical system, and there is so much potential for it to be taught in a way that is engaging. For that reason, in this episode we are joined by Professor Mark McAndrews to talk all about the history and different approaches to teaching grammar. Professor Mark McAndrews teaches courses in Concordia's B.Ed. in TESL and M.A. in Applied Linguistics programs. He has previously taught in the U.S., China, and Nunavik, Northern Quebec. In this episode we'll be addressing the questions: how can teachers make teaching grammar more engaging and student-centered? How have our approaches to teaching grammar changed over time? What discussions about grammar can we have with our students? Music by Nomerodin1

In the premier episode of Treebark Podcast Season 3 Julia Slanina is joined by Dr. Karline Wilson-Mitchell to discuss the importance of Midwifery as a profession.Dr. Karline Wilson-Mitchell has practiced midwifery in the US and Canada since 1992 (including clinics, birth centres and hospitals in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Northern Quebec, and Ontario). She has taught in the MEP at Ryerson University since 2008. She is a member of the ACNM (Midwives of Color Committee).If you want to check out Dr. Karline and her work out on Ryerson's website If you want to learn more about Julia's work check it out at treehousemedical.caIf you're a provider and are interested in the Treehouse Medical Early Access Program you can check it out at treehousemedical.ca/eap See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Teacher shortages in Nunavik, Northern Quebec, often force these Inuit communities to hire teachers from “the south.” For these teachers, taking these contracts can represent a life-changing decision that is equal parts rewarding and challenging. In this episode, we are visited again by Sebastien, a graduate of the B.Ed. in TESL. This time, we discuss Sebastien's experience teaching in Kuujjuaq, Northern Quebec. Topics include becoming acquainted with the Inuit culture, the responsibilities of teachers in these communities, culture shock, and the neo-colonial aspects of TESL. Music by Nomerodin1

In this episode, host Gwen Madiba (MA '12; BSocSc '08), is joined from Los Angeles by celebrity fitness trainer alumna Jeanette Jenkins, founder and president of the Hollywood Trainer. Jeanette talks about her journey to reaching millions online with her workouts and the evolving landscape of the fitness industry. She shares inclusive fitness tips for individuals of all abilities and backgrounds to motivate, build confidence and embrace healthy living. This episode also includes a special spotlight question by alumnus Trevor Monaghan (Gee Gees Men's Football '97-'01) member of the Cree Nation of Chisasibi, and fitness manager of the Chisasibi Fitness Center located on the eastern shore of James Bay in Northern Quebec. (In English only with English and French transcript available).Transcripts of this episode are available in English and French.Guest: Jeanette Jenkins, Faculty of Health Sciences Alumna Spotlight Question: Trevor Monaghan, Gee Gees Men's Football '97-'01Host: Gwen Madiba, MA '12; BSocSc '08Production: University of Ottawa's Alumni Relations teamProducer: Rhea LaubeSound Engineer: Nathalie Nadeau MijalRecording Assistance: Pop-Up Podcasting Please send your questions and comments to alumni@uottawa.ca. Stay connected with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. 

POEMS FOR THE JOURNEY by Christina Watkins This collection of poems tells stories about a few people and events which have been formative in the poet’s life. Carefully selected and told from the poet’s heart, these poems invite readers to consider their own personal formative experiences with people, places and events. The photos on the pages immediately in front of each poem prompt readers’ own memories and imaginations. ‘Travelling with Sister Mary Luke Tobin,’ is set in the intimate space between two good friends driving a blue highway towards home in Denver, Colorado. The older woman, a nun, and younger woman, the writer, like to tell each other stories when they are together. What unfolds on the car ride towards home is a story that resonates with Peter’s betrayal of Jesus by Peter’s denying that he knows him. Silence is mentioned and also present all the way through the poem. ‘Like Light in Running water’ holds up to the light of understanding what the poet knows about her beloved grandfather’s story. ‘Waves,’ is a playful yet poignant sestina about the poet’s family who grew up on the shores of Lake Erie. The repetition and arrangement of the sestina’s selected 6 words at the ends of the lines move the poem along with the energy of growing up and losing beloved family in movement towards a place of wider new life. ‘Diamonds and Sutras’ is also a playful sestina about living one’s life. ‘The Way Things Are Is Large,’ is a villanelle which holds up the largeness of ‘The Story’ which seems to be the model or blueprint for all our lives. Christina Watkins: teacher, soul friend, pilgrim, poet, wife, mother and grandmother. I was born in London, in Southern Ontario, Canada. When I was a child, we spent our summers at a family cottage near our grandparents’ cottage on the shores of Lake Erie. Since I married my husband, who is a geologist, we have lived in Australia, Ottawa, Mexico, Northern Ontario, Northern Quebec, Vancouver, Toronto, Denver Colorado, Scottsdale Arizona, Vancouver (again) and now in Victoria British Columbia. I like to walk and hike and dance, listen to music and write poems, read, go to the movies and attend theatrical and musical productions. I love the experiences that come from meeting people, connecting with people and learning about their lives. I live with my husband in Victoria. One daughter, her husband and three sons live near us in Victoria. One son, another daughter, a grandson and agranddaughter live in the US. https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Journey-Christina-Watkins/dp/1648589650/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=poems+for+the+journey+matchstick+literary&qid=1614302887&s=books&sr=1-1 http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/chriswatkinsml.mp3 POEMS~POEMAS by Christina Watkins These are simple poems about significant feelings and the coming to new consciousness in a particular woman’s life. The poems invite the reader’s own reflections. The white sea of space around each poem suggests that something meaningful has been noticed and highlighted. The way the poems are presented, a photograph that takes up two pages followed by each poem, Spanish on the left hand page and English on the right, enhances the wide spiritual and reflective circle of the poems. The two languages together invite readers to learn some words from a second language. ‘The Ancients Say,’ speaks of separation and the feelings of the heart that yearn for a larger more lasting connection. ‘Close Together’ speaks of the mysterious union of opposites which love and trust engender. ‘This One,’ is a poem about the power of particular love which invites a person’s joyful expansive commitment into something bigger. https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Poemas-Christina-Watkins/dp/1637900015/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Poems-poemas+matchstick+literary&qid=1614302977&s=books&sr=1-2

In February, Ryan Atkins took on his Seven Summits challenge. For seven days, he climbed, virtually that is, the highest peaks on each of the world’s continents. The place where he actually gained all that elevation was in and around his home in Sutton, Que., a little more than 100 km east of Montreal. The way he climbed was on a fat bike one day, on a virtual riding platform another and on a gravel bike as well. He also ran and skied his way to the high elevations he needed to reach.You might remember hearing Atkins on this podcast more than a year ago. He and two other riders took on the Wapusk Trail, the world’s longest winter road that runs from Northern Ontario to Manitoba. He’s also been part of bike-based expeditions along James Bay and in Northern Quebec.About 10 years ago, Atkins raced mountain bikes in Canada Cups and a few World Cups, such as Bromont and Mont-Sainte-Anne. He was a world unicycle trials champion, in 2006 and 2008. More recently, he’s been focused on obstacle course racing. He’s been the World's Toughest Mudder six times, the Spartan Ultra world champion twice and the OCR world champion. He likes to push and challenge himself.Atkins’s Seven Summits challenge is, well, bonkers, especially the day he gained 6,961 m on a treadmill. That’s the height of Argentina’s Aconcagua. What attracted Atkins to this challenge with its jaw-dropping difficulty, both physically and mentally? The athlete seems to have a superhuman enthusiasm for daunting, repetitive tasks. Still, he found very cool moments throughout the challenge. They were more than just silver linings, but insights he would have never gotten otherwise. He also ate a lot of cookies and gummy bears.If you think you might want to try climbing Seven Summits yourself, you’ll hear some tips that will help you with your own bonkers challenge.

Enjoying the pods? Buy me a Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/brianholidae -- Find All Brian Holidae's Social Media @ https://brianholidae.com Leave a Message and hear it on the next episode - https://anchor.fm/not-a-journalist/me... -- I spoke with Dr. Justin Ross for a second time. Ross is a family doctor who also works for public health. He works primarily with Indigenous populations in isolated Northern Quebec, where resources are quite limited. We tackle the difficulties of dealing with COVID, the vaccine, sending kids back to school and so many other COVID related subjects. Most importantly, why we need more transparency on a government level and in our personal lives. -- Dr. Ross Recommended Sites Wearing A Mask In The Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic New York State Department of Health

This question comes from Meg in New Canaan NY. Hi Victor Hope all is well with you and your family. I have a question with regard to sustainable building practices in real estate investment projects. We have been designing our homes using more sustainable building practices for the past several years. Here in NY, the requirements for clean energy are set to get even stricter and, on top of that, we have a moratorium on new natural gas lines in our area that I don’t envision the state lifting in full. For residential, natural gas is not supplied to a development unless there is already gas on site and upgrades to the existing meter are not allowed. For commercial projects it is similar although I don’t know all the specifics. I was wondering how you are handling the call for clean energy, energy reduction, and sustainability in your projects. As well, are you seeing any appreciation from the buyers/renters/investors for your efforts to provide cleaner energy and more sustainable, energy efficient buildings? Are people willing to pay more rent in these types of projects or willing to purchase for more of a premium? Do you have more or less investors interested in these types of projects? Thank you for your time. I always appreciate your perspective. Meg, This is a great question. There are two ways to answer this question. Don’t develop in NY State. There are so many easier places to develop with less overhead, less bureaucracy, lower taxes, stronger demand, better profit margins, and on and on. But that’s not a very good answer to your question. 2) If natural gas is no longer permitted for new installations, you could comply by putting in an electric system and simply pushing the environmental problem onto the electric utility. The old resistive systems are very inefficient and among the most costly to operate. Still, NY has access to relatively cheap power. New York State gets 44% of its electricity from burning natural gas. 30% comes from nuclear, and tt buys 18% of its electricity from the James Bay hydroelectric project in Northern Quebec and Labrador. This environmentally friendly alternative to burning fossil fuels flooded 4,500 square miles of forest causing incalculable ecological damage to this ancient boreal forest. But since there were only about 5,000 native indigenous people living in the area, the impact was deemed acceptable and the project got pushed through and built with no environmental assessment. NY state still has four coal fired electric power plants in operation. Natural gas is among the cleanest burning fuels in existence. It’s a bit hypocritical that they’re converting coal fired plants to natural gas at the same time as they’re telling homeowners they can’t use it. We have not found a meaningful metric that would make the benefit of a low emissions system attractive to tenants. We have found that achieving energy efficiency requires a number of changes to the design. In fact, it has more to do with choice of materials than anything else. This includes more expensive, more highly insulated windows. Naturally, each of these choices increases the cost. Closed cell foam insulation is more effective than other forms of insulation. But again, it costs more. By far the most effective and cost effect method of providing heat to a property is by using a geothermal system. This is like a heat pump, except that the heat source is the thermal mass of the ground rather than trying to extract heat from the winter air that is potentially very cold. These systems require a fair bit of land or a deep well in order to gain access to a meaningful heat source.

Mission Unstoppable Host Frankie Picasso interviewed Paul S Rogers about his incredible journey of Transformation and how he became a Transformation Coach as well as a Amazon best-selling author , director at Core Mentors Association, a life coach, a Trauma TBI, PTSD mentor, a public speaking coach, and Ikigai coach, and you2 Quantum leap trainer.Paul has had to overcome Skin Cancer and a Horrific Train Crash that left him with a Traumatic Brain Injury, PTSD ,and incredible Chronic Pain. Paul went from being a Lawyer in Great Britain, to a Kite surfing Instructor in the Cayman Islands to teaching at a Cree reservation in Northern Quebec and now a Coach and Transformation expert. He is an incredible man with an unbelievable outlook and life story.

The moose is the largest of all deer species, standing about five to six and a half feet tall. Moose require habitat with adequate edible plants; grasses, young trees and shrubs, cover from predators, and protection from extremely hot or cold weather. Moose travel or migrate among different habitats with the seasons to address these requirements. Moose are cold-adapted mammals with thickened skin, dense, heat-retaining coat, and a low surface volume ratio, which provides excellent cold tolerance but poor heat tolerance. Moose survive hot weather by accessing shade or cooling wind, or by immersion in cool water. In hot weather, moose are often found wading or swimming in lakes or ponds. When heat-stressed, moose may fail to adequately forage in summer and may not gain adequate body fat to survive the winter. Also, moose cows may not calve without adequate summer weight gain. Moose require access to both young forest for browsing and mature forest for shelter and cover. Forest disturbed by fire and logging promotes the growth of fodder for moose. Moose also require access to mineral licks, safe places for calving and aquatic feeding sites so they do move from season to season. The autumn season of 2003 was quite mild across northern Canada and on November 15 as the moose started their migration trek from Northern Quebec to the Labrador Sea it stalled car and truck traffic. Moose had to use the highways because the ground was not frozen due to unusually warm weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was quite common for a boy growing up in the region of Rimouski, Quebec in the 1880s to want to become a Catholic priest.  But Francois Jean, would answer a calling to serve Ukrainian Catholics.  He would join the Ukrainian rite.  Along the way he would even change his given name to Josephat.  Today, we bring you his story and the dream Ukrainian settlement he attempted to grow in Northern Quebec, and those who still live there.

Did you know that there are 1 BILLION views of tutorial videos on Youtube?! Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 5! We continue to explore online learning and how services providing support for lifelong literacy are adapting. We start the episode with a discussion with Krystyna Slawecki, program manager for Montreal and Northern Quebec from Frontier College. Krystyna teaches us about Frontier college’s history in providing literacy services to Canada since the 1800s. Today Frontier college reaches over 40,000 participants across Canada! Frontier College is holding an online technology and literacy forum on Sept 30th. Register here: https://www.frontiercollege.ca/Get-Involved/Events/2019-National-Forum-Literacy-and-Civic-Engagement We are also joined for an in-depth discussion about the new online frontier of lifelong learning with Daniel Baril. Daniel is the Director-General at the Canadian Institute for Cooperation in Adult Education (ICAE) and Chair of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Governing Board. Daniel talks about the key UNES.Doc Digital Library report Embracing a culture of lifelong learning: contribution to the Futures of Education initiative and a blog post he wrote on the new learning frontier that the sector is facing. We learn about how online learning has exploded to reach more people than ever but also risks increasing some inequalities and risks leaving people behind. What are the structures in the government and in our services we need in place to adapt and reach the people who need support and to push forward the agenda of literacy? Events Quebec City Reading Council's Travellin’ Toddler Activities are now online. Check their Facebook page for the next one: https://www.facebook.com/events/331432064629446/ The Learning Exchange is looking for online volunteers to help with their services https://tleliteracy.com/i-want-to-volunteer Literacy Quebec Annual General Meeting 2020 - Sept 29 5-6pm via zoom. For more: literacyquebec.org The Learning Exchange Annual General Meeting 2020 - Oct 6, 11 am TLEliteracy@yahoo.ca to receive the TLE AGM zoom Book Giveaway! Books and Hot Chocolate for adults and kids hosted by LQ at 4322 rue Wellington (please enter via garden) in Verdun. October 3 at 10 AM – 2 PM https://www.facebook.com/events/946654209159112 Western Quebec Literacy Council is hosting Smart Art: Family Graffiti in Campbell's Bay, QC Saturday, October 10 at 1 PM – 4 PM You need to contact WQLC to register in advance as there is limited space due to health protocols https://www.facebook.com/events/1639888489513234 Check out LQ's On the Road series hosted by our very own Chris to learn more about our member organizations! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3297573793696271&extid=06tGIvObWR2FdUE1

Learn more, and see Special Offer here: https://bit.ly/NoraWhales During the 9-9 Gateway, Nora engaged in sonar & telepathic communication with the whales at Gasp Bay Pennisula in Northern Quebec. During today’s show Nora will provide us with an update to prepare our consciousness and awaken the dormant DNA and the dormant consciousness of who we are back into the regular format of a higher molecular magnetic field in our bodies. It will be done thru the so below magnetic fields of Gaia and her whales and it will be aligned above and beyond intelligence of the dimensions to crossover into our crystal DNA threads that will be awakened and tapped into by the whales. The consciousness of the Whales is moving into the consciousness of humanity. This is the crystal consciousness of the whales connecting into the elevating consciousness of mankind thru telepathcially synchronizing the master codes of consciousness into all species of consciousness. Above and beyond, above and so below. We are ready to accelerate into the ascension of becoming crystalline light bodies. These whales will be communicating with us and coordinating with us to become telepathically aligned to their grid system. This is the highest form of connecting and communicating in consciousness. We are moving into higher realms in the 9-9 Gateway when the star realms connect with us. It’s the highest level of communicating because the whales house all of consciousness for the grid system of the planet and the universe.

Now based in Montreal, growing up in Northern Quebec. Beatrice Deer spent a lot of time outside in her Inuit community of Quaqtaq. Her village was small (population of about 350/400) and very tight knit. Raised in a big family, her parents brought music into their house and would often play around the house as well as expose Beatrice to music in their church where they served as pastors. Even though her town is so remote, you can only access it by plane, she had access to plenty of popular music: Disney soundtracks, Grease, Michael Jackson and so many music videos from MuchMusic (the MTV of Canada). Because MuchMusic was not available at home, she would tape videos while visiting Montreal. She sings in English and French, but she mostly sings in her native Inuktitut, which she feel most comfortable in expressing herself. Through the influence of her community and the pop music she loved growing up, she created a genre of music: "Inuindie" and has released three albums in that style.Beatrice has overcome a lot in her life: sexual abuse, alcoholism, toxic relationships, depression and thoughts of suicide.  The starting point for her latest album, My All To You, was a desire to relive the moment in when she decided to transform her outlook and do some serious work on herself. Now an advocate for mental and physical well-being as well as for her Inuit community, she travels the North in Canada visiting First Nation communities. She plays with her band, performs speaking engagements about overcoming trauma and offers professional development training. I'm grateful to Beatrice for sharing her story on the podcast! American Songwriter Podcast Network Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Greg & Emma discuss sending the kids back to day care, their first time in a hotel in several months and their trip to an amazing remote lake in Northern Quebec for Greg's dads 60th birthday.

Enjoying the pods? Buy me a Ko-fi - https://ko-fi.com/brianholidae -- Find All Brian Holidae's Social Media @ https://brianholidae.com Leave a Message and hear it on the next episode - https://anchor.fm/not-a-journalist/me... -- I spoke with Dr. Justin Ross who is currently living in Brooklyn New York. Ross is a family doctor who also works for public health. He works primarily with Indigenous populations in isolated Northern Quebec, where resources are quite limited. Since he lives in Brooklyn NY when not working in the North of Quebec, he's seen firsthand how COVID is being handled in both a rural and city setting. Which has given him a unique perspective that we discuss along with, schools reopening, viral spread, medical science, is 0 cases a possible goal, and the great mask debate. -- Dr. Ross Recommended Sites Wearing A Mask In The Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic New York State Department of Health

As society slowly returns to activity, there is no denying that our conversations among one another have changed. Covid-19 has awakened us and brought to light fragilities in our current system. Though we have demonstrated our ability to transform many of the ways in which we conduct business, we see more clearly the elements of society that we must work harder on. One of the most pressing issues that demands our attention is the significantly large portion of the population that is not in good health.  Remote indigenous populations are among those who suffer most from health inequality. It is imperative that we acknowledge that these populations represent the failure of our system to foster diversity and support communities far from urban centres. Indigenous people live closest to the natural environment and therefore are most impacted by the deterioration of our ecosystem and poor government polocies. Diversity is our only safeguard for the future of our planet and should we fail to recognize the urgency to reestablish the health of these remote communities, we risk failing our planet.  This weeks guest is Dr. Bernard Reid. He is a family care practitioner in North Eastern Canada. He shares his learning experience and insights into working with these unique remote communities.  In this episode we discuss:  The Waskaganish region in Northern Quebec where Bernard practices as a doctor in family medicine.  Waskaganish is a very rural region that poses very unique challenges to practice medicine.  Bernard describes the diverse medical conditions that present daily in his clinic.  Urban settings verses rural settings and how they differ in a family medical practice.  Bernard acknowledges the challenges of being thrust into this rural setting and dealing with such a variety of medical conditions after only 2 years internship.  We discuss the incredibly steep learning curve in the first year of a medical practice.  Bernard’s passion for the unique challenges that come with practicing family medicine in a remote region.  The unique challenges the region had to face with Covid-19.  The health status of the indigenous people in the James Bay region.  The rates of chronic diseases among indigenous people. Very high rates of obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and coronary heart disease.  The major challenges of health inequality.  Our imperative to respect and embrace cultural diversity as an absolute requirement to safeguard our planets future.  The systematic destruction by Western practices to destroy the indigenous way of life.  The root cause of many of our cultural problems is the disregard for the indigenous people through colonial practices.   

Tori is an avid canoeist and backcountry adventurer who lives in the small town of Magnetawan, Ontario with her husband, Jim, and her 21 month old son, Wesley. She has been paddling whitewater for the last 7 years and has navigated some of Ontario's most challenging white water rivers. Her more substantial trips include fly-in remote wilderness rivers in Northern Quebec, Northern Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. She has also completed a 100 mile, 8 day backpacking trip through the Rockies from Jasper to Grand Cache. In early 2020, her experience and passion inspired her to create Paddle Like a Girl, which is an overnight workshop geared towards women who are interested in learning how to plan and execute their own backcountry canoe trips. Some notable moments in this episode: 14:45: Gaining confidence and empowerment through outdoor sports 15:35: How society leads women to believe they're weak 25:00: Actionable steps for how to open up space for BIPOC and other groups less represented in the outdoors 42:00: Sport as common ground Follow Paddle Like a Girl: Website: https://www.paddlelikeagirl.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paddlelikeagirl_/ Follow Tori: https://www.instagram.com/torigoesoutside/ Also mentioned in this episode: Cliff Jacobson: https://www.cliffcanoe.com Tori's fundraiser for FOXG1: www.campforacure.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/socialsport/support

This episode features an interview with Kassandra Churcher, former Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies and the current Assistant Director for Post-Secondary Education services for the Inuit in Nunavut.Our last podcast featured an interview with Nontombi Naomi Tutu and Mungi Ngomane who spoke about racial injustice and systemic racism in today's America. While the current movement of protest stems from events that have taken place in the US - police brutality, oppression and injustice - we would be wrong to assume that Canada is faring much better when it comes to systemic racism. We spoke about the issues from a Canadian standpoint with Kassandra Churcher, an advocate for education and women's issues whose work has been focused on supporting oppressed minorities in Canadian communities, from incarcerated women through her work at the Elizabeth Fry Societies and through her involvement with Aboriginal communities in Northern Quebec. Kassandra also shared her recommendations for the best way to support minorities and help fight racism in our everyday lives.This season of The Brand is Female is brought to you by TD Bank - Women Entrepreneurs. TD is proud to support women entrepreneurs and help them achieve success and growth through its program of educational workshops, financing and mentorship opportunities! Find out how you can benefit from their support!

In this week's episode your podcast aunties sit down with Cree superstar, Scott Wabano. Scott is an aspiring stylist from the Cree Nation of Waskaganish (located in the Eeyou Istchee territory in Northern Quebec). You may recognize him from the viral city natives meme that took the Indigenous internet world by storm, but before being more searched on TikTok then Scott Disik - Scott grew up in Moose Factory, Ontario. He shares with us his experience of moving around Ontario and his journey through post-secondary which eventually lead him to finding his passion. Follow this creative native on Instagram & TikTok: @ScottWabano ! Please leave a rating and give us a review and remember that your podcast aunties love you xo

Today's new episode of Bridging the Social distance interviews psychotherapist Shane Smyth of Spacious Mind Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre. Shane is based out of Guelph, but during this interview I reached him in a small Cree community in Northern Quebec. We talk about the role and space for counselling and support in times of crisis, the process of trying to adapt to online for platforms for therapy, mindfulness, ADD, and lots of other interesting topics. Shane shares a quote, how we "can't remember the future", and don't yet know the full potential we have for caring for each other. While recognizing the heaviness of our current situation, we also explore the positive possibilities, including moving away from the patriarchy towards the feminist concept of the sharing of power.This interview was originally recorded on March 25th 2020 Get on the email list at bridgingthesocialdistance.substack.com

Today on Sojourner Truth: For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world. Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world. Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world. Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world. Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world. Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world. Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world. Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

Today on Sojourner Truth: For our weekly Earth Watch, we get a First Nations perspective on what we must do during and after this coronavirus pandemic. Matthew Mukash, born in traditional Cree territory in what is now known as Northern Quebec, Canada, is our guest. He has a message from elders for the world. Mainstream media is finally catching up with a story we have been covering for quite some time on Sojourner Truth. The devastating impact of the coronavirus on Black people. Whats going on? For our Campaigners for Black Lives series, we speak with Aislinn Pulley of Black Lives Matter Chicago. Meanwhile, in this age of the pandemic, the Trump administration continues its efforts at regime change in Venezuela. We speak with the Deputy Foreign Minister for North American Affairs for the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr. Carlos Ron. Lastly, our weekly Earth Minute.

On today's show in our Cryptids in the News and history segment, Kevin reviews two different Bigfoot encounters from north of the border, one in Saskatchewan and a second in Northern Quebec.  And in part two, Bill goes through an account from the state of Maine where a Bigfoot is seen attacking and killing a large moose.  And in part three, we've got some excellent listener mail which we will be reviewing, that you don't want to miss   Thank you for listening! www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.com Produced by:  "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."

On today's show in our Cryptids in the News and history segment, Kevin reviews two different Bigfoot encounters from north of the border, one in Saskatchewan and a second in Northern Quebec.  And in part two, Bill goes through an account from the state of Maine where a Bigfoot is seen attacking and killing a large moose.  And in part three, we've got some excellent listener mail which we will be reviewing, that you don't want to miss   Thank you for listening! www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.com Produced by:  "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."

In this episode, Joy will describe what it was like for her to spend the first 17 summers of life at an isolated fly-fishing tourist camp owned by her parents in Northern Quebec. She will speak about her time teaching screenwriting at the Vancouver Film School and what it was like backpacking around the world for a year with her husband Evan and two children. Plus, Joy will go in-depth describing the multiple hiking adventures she has had on the Camino de Santiago. All that and so much more. Enjoy!                                       

Claire is an actor and voice over artist who also happens to enjoy spending all of her spare time outside. Her favourite hobby is to run silly distances in incredibly scenic locations with her two dogs and a handful of crazy friends. When she’s not running, you can find her on a mountain bike, rock, skis, kiteboard, paraglider or stuffing her face with plants. She is also the host of the UnderGo Podcast. In this episode we dive into being raised by a single mom and growing up with 3 sisters in Northern Quebec, how she got into acting and sports at a young age, how she initially used running to combat insomnia and anxiety, overcoming an eating disorder, getting into triathlon and Ironmans, ultras, her first 100 miler, all the crazy activities she enjoys (paragliding, kite boarding, mountain biking, skiing), and love!  Follow Claire on IG @runlikethewild or @undergopodcast Follow Claire's Podcast Under Go Follow the show on IG: @Journeytoultrapodcast Follow me on IG: @nicola.gildersleeve Have any feedback for the show? Have a guest you'd like to see on the show? email me at Nicola.gildersleeve@gmail.com or slide into my DMs on IG.  Enjoy the show, an easy way to let us know is to leave a rating and review on iTunes!   

John Pollock and Wai Ting broadcast live from the POST Office for this week’s Café Hangout: **Paul Heyman & Eric Bischoff are named WWE Executive Directors **Ex-WWE writer Brian Mann joins us for his thoughts on this story **A preview of this weekend’s AEW Fyter Fest and ROH Best In The World cards **Damian Abraham joins us to discuss last night’s editions of The Wrestlers: Episode 7 features a look at the world's craziest wrestling promotion, DDT including interviews with Kota Ibushi and Danshoku Dino. Episode 8 sees Damian and his crew travel to Northern Quebec where a group of wrestlers brave weather and isolation to bring professional wrestling to remote and disadvantaged First Nations communities. Watch The Wrestlers here (US Only): https://www.viceland.com/en_us/show/the-wrestlers Watch this show and follow the live chat on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/Fb9ivZlVlV4 Café Hangouts are recorded live every Thursday. Patreon Double Double, Iced Capp and Espresso supporters have the opportunity to watch and interact live each week. Music: “Down In New Orleans” by Giorgio Di Campo for Freesound Music Subscribe: Apple Podcasts  | Android | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | TuneIn | Mac & PC | RSS Discuss: https://forum.postwrestling.com Support us on Patreon – The POST Wrestling Café: http://www.patreon.com/POSTwrestling T-Shirts & Hats: https://store.postwrestling.com Follow: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube

Nasha Kasha tells the story of one of 24 internment camps. It happened during the First World War. Of the 24, this one was in Northern Quebec, near Amos in the Abitibi Region. Like the rest, it was exclusively for Ukrainians, who committed no crime.

This week I sat down with the mother of all mothers, my mom, Diana Greig Stavert.  Diana Greig Stavert has over 30 years of mothering experience and at 70 years old, sure has a story to tell. We went on a journey from learning how to produce maple syrup in her back yard in the 1950's to the challenges of being a working woman in the 60's and delivering babies as an outpost nurse in isolated communities in Northern Quebec, to being an 'older' mother in the 80's & 90's. This was an emotional episode for both of us as she tells us about her experience with miscarriage* and post partum depression.  My mother is one of the most open hearted and generous women I know and I am proud to share Her Story with you.   *some of this conversation may be triggering for some. Cet épisode se déroule en anglais seulement. Je vous promets que le prochain épisode sera bilingue!

In this episode Marleigh Pirnasar talks about working in Northern Quebec after growing up, going to school, and becoming a CYC in southern Ontario. She explains how she had to reckon with her southern geographical privilege, differentiates between cultural competency, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and discusses the necessity of understanding self when working in cultures different from one’s own. Marleigh Pirnasar is a Child and Youth Care Practitioner who works in Nunavik, northern Quebec.

In this episode Marleigh Pirnasar talks about working in Northern Quebec after growing up, going to school, and becoming a CYC in southern Ontario. She explains how she had to reckon with her southern geographical privilege, differentiates between cultural competency, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and discusses the necessity of understanding self when working in cultures different from one’s own.   Marleigh Pirnasar is a Child and Youth Care Practitioner who works in Nunavik, northern Quebec.

In this episode Marleigh Pirnasar talks about working in Northern Quebec after growing up, going to school, and becoming a CYC in southern Ontario. She explains how she had to reckon with her southern geographical privilege, differentiates between cultural competency, cultural humility, and cultural safety, and discusses the necessity of understanding self when working in cultures different from one’s own.   Marleigh Pirnasar is a Child and Youth Care Practitioner who works in Nunavik, northern Quebec.

Award winning travel writer Elaine Masters, publisher of TripWellGal.com, who talks about her Fermes Cinq Etoiles Farm and Northern Quebec adventures, as well as her world travels, culinary and wine tasting explorations, diving experiences, and travel writing. See her story here: https://nationalparktraveling.com/listing/wild-ways-and-a-farm-stay-in-northern-quebec-province/Thanks to the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association for sponsoring this segment - www.IFWTWA.org Featured music is ‘Travel Song’ from the album ‘Double Take’ by guitarist Micha Schellhaas - www.MichaMusic.com

CANADIAN GOVT AND CREE NATION REACH SETTLEMENT The Canadian government and the indigenous Cree Nation of Northern Quebec have signed a landmark agreement to settle outstanding lawsuits against the Canadian government. Stefan Christoff reports from Montreal. /// listen to reports produced for Free Speech Radio News between 2002 - 2012, the flagship Pacifica radio daily news program, these reports were produced in Montreal, but also in Beirut, Lebanon. putting these reports up for archiving purposes, they address numerous grassroots struggles for justice and against oppression, particularly looking at struggles surrounding migrant justice, also indigenous movements for land and rights, while also struggles against colonialist wars today & the persisting impacts of wars past. thank you for listening ! stefan @spirodon

Southern New England is hungry for more clean energy, and states like Connecticut and Massachusetts are turning to Hydro-Quebec for its excess hydropower.There's one sticking point: they need a new transmission line to get all that power from Northern Quebec. And citizens in the states that could host new transmission projects -- New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine -- are resisting construction plans.A lot of attention has focused on controversial transmission projects like Northern Pass. But what about the source of the electrons feeding the line? In this week's podcast, we talk with Sam Evans-Brown, a journalist who's been exploring the history of Canadian hydro. It's a decades-long story filled with conflict, controversy, racism, and billions of dollars at stake.Sam is host of the Outside/In podcast. He and his colleague Hannah McCarthy just published a 4-part audio series, called Powerline, about the hydropower working its way down to the Northeastern U.S. We'll talk about the stories they uncovered.Then, Cape Wind is dead. We’ll have a eulogy.And finally, we'll discuss that tax bill again. It’s messier than anyone thought possible.This podcast is sponsored by Mission Solar Energy, a solar module manufacturer based in San Antonio, Texas. You can find out more about Mission’s American-made, high-power modules at missionsolar.com.Are you coming to GTM's Storage Summit on December 12-13? Podcast listeners get 20 percent off their registration with the promo code PODCASTS.Recommended reading and listening:Outside/In: The 4-part Powerline seriesGTM: Cape Wind’s Demise Comes Amidst a Resurgence for US Offshore WindGTM: Senate Doubles Down on Tax Provisions That Would Harm Renewable EnergySubscribe to The Energy Gang podcast via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher or wherever you find your audio content.

Recorded right after we got back from our trip to northern Quebec where we spent a week immersed in Cree Culture. Living in a traditional shelter on the side of a lake, we learned about hunting, trapping, snaring, fishing with gill nets as part of learning about traditional northern life ways. In the podcast we […]

This session's guest has been running independent tours for people of all ages through some of the colder regions of the world for over 20 years, including tours of Alaska and sailing trips to Antarctica - both of which really piqued my curiosity. Laurent Dick grew up in Switzerland and like so many of the Swiss, speaks four languages. And for the past 25 years, he’s lived in Alaska with his wife and son where started his tour company, Wild Alaska Travel. I’ve always been curious about the 49th State — and what’s waiting up there, so I’m curious to hear from Laurent about why he moved there and what it was about the place that he fell in love with. And then there’s Antarctica, a destination so many people dream to visit — yet seems so inaccessible and extreme. What We Cover: Laurent moved to Alaska after accepting an invitation to go mountaineering in British Columbia How spending two weeks alone in the wild traversing 2000 miles on a river through the Yukon Territory gave Laurent insight on what he wanted out of life, and how you can find the same through solo travel by taking the leap of faith The cultural and spiritual element of Alaskan native cultures. How there can often be more of a community in the more remote areas of the world. Laurent's near death experience after capsizing alone in freezing rapids in Northern Quebec and how that forced him to reevaluate the way he values his time. What are the Northern Lights and what time of year can you catch them? The best way to experience Alaska by getting off the beaten path, including witnessing and becoming a part of the Iditarod. The local foods of Alaska, like moose. What compelled Laurent to visit Antarctica and how he takes his guests down there. Explore further: Laurent's travel company, Wild Alaska Travel Laurent's trips to Antarctica on SailAntartica Music credit: Imogen Heap – Wait It Out (Artec Remix), Intrepid Journey, by Aaron Static Become a Friend of the Show: Please subscribe and review! It just takes a second and you can help the show increase its rankings on iTunes just by this simple and quick gesture. We’d be grateful for a review. Leave one here. If you do, click here to let me know so I can personally thank you! Your Feedback If you have an idea for a podcast you would like to see or a question about an upcoming episode, email me! I’d love to hear from you. Thank you so much for your support! The post 93: Explore Alaska and Antarctica with Adventurer Laurent Dick appeared first on The Daily Travel Podcast.

Managing natural resources in the North effectively means that many voices need to be at the table when decisions are made. Gregor Gilbert is the resource management coordinator for the Makivik Corporation and has been part of the co-management process in Northern Quebec. In this podcast he shares his thoughts on how it can work best.

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Untamed children run wild through the streets of Paris this week on WireTap as Heather O'Neill reads her latest short story "The Little Wolf-Boy of Northern Quebec". And the never-ending search for a WireTap intern continues with the unlikeliest candidate yet: Jonathan's father. That's WireTap, with Jonathan Goldstein, Sunday afternoon at 1 (1:30 NT, 4 PT) on CBC Radio One.