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Today I'm thrilled to be bringing you my conversation with award-winning writer Leslie Shimotakahara about her new novel SISTERS OF THE SPRUCE, set during World War One in Haida Gwaii (then known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) and loosely inspired by her grandmother's experiences, and how the spirit of Charlotte Bronte's classic JANE EYRE both infuses the novel's atmosphere and also helped inspire its protagonist. Pickle Me This is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Leslie tells me about her long history as an avid reader, the story behind her memoir THE READING LIST (in which a wayward academic learns to love reading for pleasure again), how she first came upon JANE EYRE, what it felt like to encounter the novel again years later, and I also mention the fascinating bit of historical detail in SISTER OF THE SPRUCE that blew my mind! About SISTERS OF THE SPRUCE: World War One is in high gear. Fourteen-year-old Khya Terada moves with her family to a remote, misty inlet on Haida Gwaii, then the Queen Charlotte Islands, in northern British Columbia, known for its Sitka spruces. The Canadian government has passed an act to expedite logging of these majestic trees, desperately needed for the Allies' aircrafts in Europe. At a camp on the inlet, Khya's father, Sannosuke—a talented, daring logger with twenty years of experience since immigrating from Japan—assumes a position of leadership among the Japanese and Chinese workers.But the arrival of a group of white loggers, eager to assert their authority, throws off balance the precarious life that Khya and her family have begun to establish. When a quarrel between Sannosuke and a white man known as “the Captain” escalates, leading to the betrayal of her older sister, Izzy, and humiliation for the family, Khya embarks on a perilous journey with her one friend—a half-Chinese sex worker, on the lam for her own reasons—to track down the man and force him to take responsibility. Yet nothing in the forest is as it appears. Can they save Izzy from ruination and find justice without condemning her to a life of danger, or exposing themselves to the violence of an angry, power-hungry man?Drawing on inspiration from her ancestors' stories and experiences, Shimotakahara weaves an entrancing tale of female adventure, friendship, and survival.Leslie Shimotakahara's memoir, The Reading List, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the KM Hunter Artist Award. She has written two critically acclaimed novels, After the Bloom and Red Oblivion. After the Bloom received a starred review from Booklist and is Bustle's number one choice in “50 Books To Read With Your Book Club,” while Kirkus Review praised Red Oblivion for displaying “virtuosity in this subtle deconstruction of one family's tainted origins.” Her writing has appeared in the National Post, World Literature Today, and Changing the Face of Canadian Literature, among other anthologies and periodicals. She completed a PhD in English at Brown University. She and her husband live in Toronto's west end. Get full access to Pickle Me This at kerryreads.substack.com/subscribe

Hereditary Haida Gwaii Chief (Queen Charlotte Islands) who has been involved, for many years, in marine ecosystem management, seal product development from abundant and humanely captured seals and seal hunt advocacy programs. - The Seals & Sealing Network is committed to the conservation of the world's seals through sound scientific management and the principles of humane, sustainable and wise use, balanced with the economic realities and traditions of maritime peoples. Advancing respectful hunting practices is central to our purpose. This includes certifying the welfare, health and sustainability of seal herds while promoting maximum utilization of the meat, oil and pelts of abundant populations. To this end we support educational efforts to enhance understanding of the relationship between conservation and sustainable use. SUSTAINABLE USE: "... the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Brundtland Commission, 1987listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

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Guest, Janine, tarot card reader, astrology and numerology Janine's esoteric background includes years of intensive training in Tarot, astrology and numerology. She mentored with several teachers including spiritualist Connie Leonard. In 1993, Janine answered the call of her native ancestry by pursuing traditional medicine training with an Haida elder in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. Her Tarot work is featured in "Eyes of an Angel" by new age author Paul Elder. In January 2001 Janine correctly predicted some of the catastrophic events of September 11. Janine is renown for her accuracy in predicting outcomes and infamous for intuiting romantic potentials. An effective life coach, Janine has assisted countless individuals through challenging relationship situations, career decisions and other major life transitions. Janine focuses on empowerment and helps clients awaken to their spiritual potential. She offers "spiritual alignment", exposing potential blocks and limitations - while providing powerful insights on how to "recreate our lives"

Justine is an award-winning adventure filmmaker and expedition sea kayaker, whose programmes have aired on the National Geographic Channel, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the BBC. She runs Cackle TV and created the highly acclaimed “This is the Sea” series of sea kayaking DVDs. Her films have won over 20 prestigious prizes including best film at Graz Mountain Film Festival and best adventure film at Banff & Kendal Mountain Film Festivals. She's been runner up in CKUK magazine's “Paddler of the Year” & a finalist in Canoe & Kayak Magazine's “Female Paddler of the Year” and “Expedition of the Year”. She was named as one of the UK's top 20 living explorers by ‘The Telegraph' and was invited to meet the Queen at a Buckingham Palace reception for adventurers. In 2016, she won “Media Professional of the Year” at the World Paddle Awards. Justine's speciality is challenging sea kayaking journeys. Her sea kayaking expeditions include; The first all-female circumnavigation of Tasmania – 900-miles in 42 days. A solo trip around Iceland's West Fjords A 400mile journey up the Pacific coast of Kamchatka with Hadas Feldman and a novice Russian sea kayaker. A 500mile circumnavigation of the Queen Charlotte Islands with Shawna Franklin & Leon Somme A kayak crossing of the eastern Bass Strait, island-hopping between mainland Australia and Tasmania The first kayak circumnavigation of Wales ( by sea, river and canal) with Fiona Whitehead A 2400km circumnavigation of the South island of New Zealand taking 67 days, with Barry Shaw A 500 mile circumnavigation of Sardinia with Barry Shaw 3 crossings of the Irish Sea of between 45-57 nautical miles – from Anglesey to the Isle of Man, from the Llyn Peninsula to Wicklow in Ireland and from Holyhead to Dublin. All the crossings were done in strong following ( or side) winds. The Llyn- Wicklow Crossing was on New Years Day, one of the shortest ( and coldest) days of the year. A crossing from mainland Scotland to Shetland, via the Orkney islands and Fair Isle Kayaking 120 miles from London to France in 50 hours & kayaking from Russia to Japan in a series of open water crossings – both with Sarah Outen. See the film on ‘This is the Sea 5' A world first kayak trip 1000 miles around ‘Isla Grande', Tierra Del Fuego – a remote windswept Patagonian island, with Barry Shaw. Circumnavigation of Ireland in 2013 with Barry Shaw & Roger Chandler 64 nautical mile paddle around Anglesey in 10 hours 8 minutes (2nd fastest person to date). Kayaking 2500 km along the Aleutian island chain and Alaskan peninsula with Sarah Outen in 2014 over 101 days Paddling over 1000km along West Papua & Papua in Indonesia with Sandy Robson in 2016. Sandy is kayaking from Germany to Australia re-tracing the route of Oskar Speck. Solo circumnavigation of Vancouver island in 32 days in May 2016. Justine teamed up with expert rollers, Cheri Perry & Turner Wilson, to make a highly acclaimed instructional rolling DVDs, “This is the Roll” and “This is the Roll 2”. https://www.cackletv.com/

Hereditary Haida Gwaii Chief (Queen Charlotte Islands) who has been involved, for many years, in marine ecosystem management, seal product development from abundant and humanely captured seals and seal hunt advocacy programs. - The Seals & Sealing Network is committed to the conservation of the world's seals through sound scientific management and the principles of humane, sustainable and wise use, balanced with the economic realities and traditions of maritime peoples. Advancing respectful hunting practices is central to our purpose. This includes certifying the welfare, health and sustainability of seal herds while promoting maximum utilization of the meat, oil and pelts of abundant populations. To this end we support educational efforts to enhance understanding of the relationship between conservation and sustainable use. SUSTAINABLE USE: "... the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Brundtland Commission, 1987listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Hereditary Haida Gwaii Chief (Queen Charlotte Islands) who has been involved, for many years, in marine ecosystem management, seal product development from abundant and humanely captured seals and seal hunt advocacy programs. - The Seals & Sealing Network is committed to the conservation of the world's seals through sound scientific management and the principles of humane, sustainable and wise use, balanced with the economic realities and traditions of maritime peoples. Advancing respectful hunting practices is central to our purpose. This includes certifying the welfare, health and sustainability of seal herds while promoting maximum utilization of the meat, oil and pelts of abundant populations. To this end we support educational efforts to enhance understanding of the relationship between conservation and sustainable use. SUSTAINABLE USE: "... the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Brundtland Commission, 1987 listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Hereditary Haida Gwaii Chief (Queen Charlotte Islands) who has been involved, for many years, in marine ecosystem management, seal product development from abundant and humanely captured seals and seal hunt advocacy programs. - The Seals & Sealing Network is committed to the conservation of the world's seals through sound scientific management and the principles of humane, sustainable and wise use, balanced with the economic realities and traditions of maritime peoples. Advancing respectful hunting practices is central to our purpose. This includes certifying the welfare, health and sustainability of seal herds while promoting maximum utilization of the meat, oil and pelts of abundant populations. To this end we support educational efforts to enhance understanding of the relationship between conservation and sustainable use. SUSTAINABLE USE: "... the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Brundtland Commission, 1987 listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Hereditary Haida Gwaii Chief (Queen Charlotte Islands) who has been involved, for many years, in marine ecosystem management, seal product development from abundant and humanely captured seals and seal hunt advocacy programs. - The Seals & Sealing Network is committed to the conservation of the world's seals through sound scientific management and the principles of humane, sustainable and wise use, balanced with the economic realities and traditions of maritime peoples. Advancing respectful hunting practices is central to our purpose. This includes certifying the welfare, health and sustainability of seal herds while promoting maximum utilization of the meat, oil and pelts of abundant populations. To this end we support educational efforts to enhance understanding of the relationship between conservation and sustainable use. SUSTAINABLE USE: "... the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Brundtland Commission, 1987listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com

Hereditary Haida Gwaii Chief (Queen Charlotte Islands) who has been involved, for many years, in marine ecosystem management, seal product development from abundant and humanely captured seals and seal hunt advocacy programs. - The Seals & Sealing Network is committed to the conservation of the world's seals through sound scientific management and the principles of humane, sustainable and wise use, balanced with the economic realities and traditions of maritime peoples. Advancing respectful hunting practices is central to our purpose. This includes certifying the welfare, health and sustainability of seal herds while promoting maximum utilization of the meat, oil and pelts of abundant populations. To this end we support educational efforts to enhance understanding of the relationship between conservation and sustainable use. SUSTAINABLE USE: "... the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Brundtland Commission, 1987Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; America's Soul Doctor with Ken Unger; Back in Control Radio Show with Dr. David Hanscom, MD; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Imagine More Success Radio Show with Syndee Hendricks and Thomas Hydes; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; Two Good To Be True with Justina Marsh and Peter Marsh; and many other!That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv

Hereditary Haida Gwaii Chief (Queen Charlotte Islands) who has been involved, for many years, in marine ecosystem management, seal product development from abundant and humanely captured seals and seal hunt advocacy programs. - The Seals & Sealing Network is committed to the conservation of the world's seals through sound scientific management and the principles of humane, sustainable and wise use, balanced with the economic realities and traditions of maritime peoples. Advancing respectful hunting practices is central to our purpose. This includes certifying the welfare, health and sustainability of seal herds while promoting maximum utilization of the meat, oil and pelts of abundant populations. To this end we support educational efforts to enhance understanding of the relationship between conservation and sustainable use. SUSTAINABLE USE: "... the use of resources at a rate which will meet the needs of the present without impairing the ability of future generations to meet their needs." Brundtland Commission, 1987 Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; America's Soul Doctor with Ken Unger; Back in Control Radio Show with Dr. David Hanscom, MD; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Imagine More Success Radio Show with Syndee Hendricks and Thomas Hydes; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; Two Good To Be True with Justina Marsh and Peter Marsh; and many other! That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv

Finding Bigfoot: What Bigfoot Eats-Sasquatch and Herring If you want increase your chances of finding Bigfoot, a good place to start is thinking about what a Sasquatch eats.    Another unique perspective on where to increase your chances of a close encounter of the hairy kind with Sasquatch! Most would never equate the Pacific herring spawn as a prime area to go investigate for Sasquatch. Thomas Sewid brings to us a lifetime being a commercial fisherman plying the entire British Columbia coast for herring during March and April. His career as a fisherman allowed him the opportunity to journey to where most Sasquatch enthusiasts would give their eye teeth to investigate at. Thomas was visiting Klemtu decades before Les Stroud even heard of the isolated Indian village out in the middle of the central coast of British Columbia. Butedale, where John Green documented a sighting Thomas explored that place back in the early 1980’s when it still was a standing abandoned cannery. Then there’s the west coast of Vancouver Island and throughout the Queen Charlotte Islands a.k.a. Haida Gwaii where Thomas investigated for what the Haida call Gogeet. He’s even been deep into the coastal fjords/inlets to fish and explore. There he would experience at anchor on a few occasions the deep forlorn howl of Sasquatch up in the isolated hills. Best of all though, a lifetime sitting on fishing decks, docks and bar stools allowed Thomas to ask that question to locals and fellow fisherman, “What you know about Sasquatch?” Thomas has compiled a lifetime of reports from people that one will more than likely never see in a book or on the Internet. So sit back and enjoy Sasquatch Island Finding Bigfoot: What Bigfoot Eats-Sasquatch and Herring.

Join Canada's Balladeer Wiz Bryant as he Travels This Land exploring Canadian history through tales of adventure, courage and compassion in story and song. In this episode Wiz visits Haida Gwaii, The Home Of The Haida on Canada's Queen Charlotte Islands. Includes original song "Home Of The Haida" from Wiz Bryant's album Spirit Of The North.

Elizabeth Hay is a Giller Prize-winning author of novels such as Late Nights on Air, His Whole Life, and Alone in the Classroom. Most recently, she published a memoir about her parents' final years in Ottawa: All Things Consoled. She has been writing since she was fifteen, and also spent ten years working as a radio broadcaster, living in Yellowknife, Winnipeg, Toronto and Latin America. Ben sits down with Elizabeth in her Ottawa home to talk about her books, her writing process, and much more. About the Guest I was born in 1951 in a beautiful part of the world. Owen Sound, Ontario, is on the southern shores of Georgian Bay. When I was five, we moved about twenty miles north to Wiarton on the Bruce Peninsula, a small town defined by limestone cliffs, icy water, poison ivy and an abundance of colourful characters. I roamed as freely around Wiarton as I did through books. My otherwise strict parents let me read whatever I wanted to. With Eric Friesen at The Lodge on Amherst Island, April 2008. My father was the high-school principal. My mother painted in her spare time, not that she had much time, since I was one of four children. The public library was almost a second home, a place in which I didn’t have to set the table or do the dishes or cope with being teased. I read good and bad alike. We had no television until I was nine, when we inherited my grandmother’s television set and were allowed to watch it for two hours a week. It stopped working after a few years and was never replaced. Then when I was almost ten, we moved inland and about a hundred miles south to another small town, this one on the edge of Alice Munro country. My five years in flat, agricultural Mitchell were probably the worst in my life—the years of puberty, unpopularity, self-consciousness. When I was fourteen, everything changed. Out of the blue my father moved us to London, England for a year and the world opened up in a thrilling way. I saw places every reader dreams about—the British countryside and famous cities—and I went to plays, ballet, art galleries, to Covent Garden as it used to be. That year I attended Camden School for Girls, where by accident (a random English assignment) I discovered that I could write poetry of a sort. A year later we came back to Canada, settling in Guelph, Ontario, where I finished high school. My years at the University of Toronto convinced me that what I needed was not academia but the real world. At the end of second year, I hitchhiked to Newfoundland, and at the beginning of third year I dropped out for a year and took the train to the west coast, eventually making my way to the Queen Charlotte Islands, now Haida Gwaii. I returned to university at the end of August and completed my third year, but went no further in school. After that, I moved west again, then north to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to join the man who would be my first husband, Craig McInnes. The northern photographs on the website are his. In Yellowknife I began to work in radio. During the ten years I was a broadcaster, I was a writer with a split personality, writing to a formula for radio and writing privately in the notebooks I began to keep. It took me a long time to see that the clarity and economy and directness required to tell a story to a radio audience would serve me well in whatever I wrote. After Yellowknife, I moved to Winnipeg, then Toronto, and then I freelanced in Latin America for a time, basing myself in Mexico. While in Mexico I met Mark Fried and we have been together ever since. We have two children, a daughter and a son. For six years we lived in New York City, where I put together my first books, Crossing the Snow Line and The Only Snow in Havana, and gathered the experiences that I used in Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York. Finally, my homesickness became intolerable and I dragged everyone to Ottawa, where we’ve been since 1992. Small Change, the collection of stories about friendships gone wrong, draws on material from throughout my life and explores the pain we experience in the name of friendship. My neighbourhood is Old Ottawa South, the setting for part of my first novel, A Student of Weather, and for all of my second novel Garbo Laughs. The Rideau Canal is two blocks away, the Rideau River an easy walk in the other direction. The streets look much as they did in the 1950s. It’s a quiet backwater, which suits me. I like to walk, I don’t like to drive and avoid it. The Sunnyside branch of the public library is a ten-minute walk from my house. I use it a lot. Almost directly across the street from the library is the Mayfair movie theatre, in constant use since the 1930s. This is the part of the world, not Ottawa but the Ottawa Valley, where my mother grew up. It has a lot of emotional resonance for me as a result. While I was writing my third novel, Late Nights on Air, I was already making notes for my fourth, Alone in the Classroom, which focuses to a large degree on the Ottawa Valley. His Whole Life, which has the 1995 Quebec referendum woven through it, moves between New York City and a lake in eastern Ontario. All Things Consoled, a daughter’s memoir is about my mother and father at the end of their lives. They both died in Ottawa, in a retirement home a six-minute walk from my house. From the age of fifteen I have been writing. The great struggle has been to believe that I have enough imagination of the necessary kind to write compelling material. I am dogged but self-doubting, and happiest at my desk. Learn more about Elizabeth. Mentioned in this Episode Late Nights on Air, 2007 novel by Elizabeth Hay All Things Consoled, 2018 memoir by Elizabeth Hay A Life in Letters by Anton Chekhov, a collection of letters published in 2004 for the hundredth anniversary of his death Video of the comedian Louis CK saying "everything is amazing and nobody is happy" His Whole Life, 2015 novel by Elizabeth Hay DH Lawrence, English writer (1885-1930) The Only Snow in Havana, 2008 novel by Elizabeth Hay Succession, an HBO television drama The Crown, a Netflix television drama Oedipus Rex, an ancient Greek tragic play by Sophocles Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel Laureate Gustav Mahler, renowned 19th century composer Charlie Kaufman, American screenwriter of films such as Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind A Moveable Feast, a 1964 memoir by Ernest Hemingway "The Mere Presence of Your Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, Study Shows", article from the University of Texas Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer A quote from American writer Kurt Vonnegut: "Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time." Franz Kafka (1883-1924), German-speaking writer Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010), British writer The Quote of the Week You are confusing two notions, "the solution of a problem" and "the correct posing of the question". Only the second is essential for the artist. - Anton Chekhov

Justine lives in Wales, is 35 years old and started kayaking 12 years ago with a local canoe club.  When she was at university Justine loved team sports and represented England in hockey, only discovering walking, mountain biking and kayaking when she left university.   She started a career in television at about the same time she discovered kayaking, and she soon gave up her job to pursue sea kayaking adventures and film them to make a living.   Following her passion, was challenging and difficult for the first four years - people refused to believe that sea kayaking could be exciting! Justine soon changed their minds once they saw her movies. Justine is an avid and accomplished sea kayaker and has explored many of the world’s best paddling spots - New Zealand, Newfoundland, Norway, Tasmania, the Queen Charlotte Islands, Alaska, California...the list goes on! Show notes How she discovered the outdoors and fell in love with the mountain The challenges she faced of wanting to follow her passion Why it did come down to luck and her determination How she came to make her first sea kayaking video Remembering the important first steps and why she learnt to ask for what she wanted Why its important to share your goals and why you need to give 100% to your goals The expeditions that have stood out for Justine and why she kept upping the challenge after every adventure.  Taking on the Aleutian Islands, “the birth place of the winds” with Sarah Outen  Why she decided to say yes the adventure and why for her attitude is more important than skill Being told the crossings they wanted to do were impossible! (It wasn’t!) Being prepared to give it a go and being prepared to work hard and to wait for the weather 5 months for the planning and training Dealing with the long crossings and how she keeps on going The addictive feeling from from being on an adventure Dealing with the fear and worry in your head Mental tricks she uses while out Kayaking What she’s learnt from making mistakes  Dealing with fear and how she turns it into action Future challenges! Focusing more on - Fun, Family & Friends! Why she named her company - Cackle TV! Advice for women who want to get into Sea Kayaking Connect with Justine - Visit her website  & Say hi to Justine on Twitter @cackletv  Sponsor the Tough Girl Podcast!! Become a Patron!

07/31/16 - Jessica Liese and Dan Heaton recap of Season 4, Episode 5 of The Amazing Race Canada, in which teams visit the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia. The post The Amazing Race Canada 4 | Ep 5 Recap: The Little Blind Tugboat That Could appeared first on RobHasAwebsite.com.

Check out David’s thinking on a host of different issues, including how to be funny, why comedy works and how tough it can be in Canadian show business.David Merry is a veteran comedian, television personality and host, actor, master of ceremonies, magician and certified golf professional. He has traveled the globe for the last twenty years with many versions of his 45 min. stand up comedy magic act as well as doing unbelievable sleight of hand in close up settings and corporate functions.Since his appearances on “SCTV”, “BIZARRE” and “An Evening at the Improv”, David has been on “Open Mike with Mike Bullard”, (2 appearances), “Yuk Yuk’s the TV Show”, “The John Oakley Show”, “Cooking with Comics”, “Comedy College”, 3 episodes of “Comedy at Club 54″ including their 7th Anniversary Special, the “Komedy Kitchen”, and has just completed his own half-hour comedy special of “Comics!”, on CBC. He is a past recipient of Canada’s “Club Comic of the Year” Honors. Theater is David’s true love, playing many of Canada’s premiere stages. They include “Night of 100 Stars with Michael Burgess and Maureen Forrester at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, The Blythe Festival Theater and The Stratford Festival Theater.David has performed on cruise ships in the Caribbean and Mediterranean and has performed in such places as St. Kitts, Bermuda, Athens, Greece, Maui, Alert (Northwest Territories), Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Tucson, Paris, France Walt Disney World, Yellowknife, Banff, Venezuela, , Malaga, Iqaluit, Queen Charlotte Islands, Key Largo, Los Cabos Mexico, Gothaab (Greenland), Whistler, Goose Bay (Labrador), Lake Tahoe (Nevada), Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Atlantic City, and Monte Carlo. He has written jokes for Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers and has been a contributing writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Besides the several TV commercials he’s done, most notably the 1050 CHUM D.J. commercial, David also appeared in a movie called Recruits. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lisa Graham Knight's story begins like a lot of new farmer stories do: a kid in her twenties, high on idealism and extremely low on any actual farming experience, decides to apprentice on a veggie farm. But the veggie farm Lisa chose? It was in the Queen Charlotte Islands, which are clustered at the 53rd parallel, a twenty hour drive north of Vancouver, and then a seven hour ferry from Prince Rupert. During that apprenticeship, Lisa realized just how precarious her new community's food security was, so she did what any good farmer would do. She went back down South, learned animal husbandry, bought some cows, and returned to start the islands' only dairy. Recently, she told me all about her adventure.

Gerhard's West Canada Euer Wegweiser den Westen Canadas für euch zu entdecken Haida Gwaii - Queen Charlotte Islands Begleitende Internetseite, Bilder und Kartenausschnitte www.gerhards-west-canada.de   In den bisherigen Folgen der Podcast-Serie Gerhard's West Canada hat man sich den ganzen Süden British Columbia's und den Südwesten der Nachbarprovinz Alberta erschlossen. Die Metropole Vancouver und die sie umgebenden Coast Mountains, auch die riesige Insel Vancouver Island hat man sich angesehen. Man ist quer durch den Süden Britisch Columbia's durch die Regionen Thompson, Okanagan, Kootenay und Cariboo Chilcotin Coast gekommen, sowie durch die atemberaubende Landschaft der Canadian Rocky Mountains Alberta's und British Columbia's. Man hat sich Gedanken gemacht über das Reisen mit dem Wohnmobil, sogar, was es bedeutet, seinen eigenen Camper in Kanada zu besitzen. Entdeckungsfahrten mit dem Kanu lassen einem die Regionen noch viel intensiver erleben. Vorgelagert vor der nördlichsten Pazifikküste British Columbia's, gleich südlich des schmalen, nach Süden ragenden Landstreifens Alaska's, befindet sich die Inselgruppe der Haida Gwaii, den früheren Queen Charlotte Islands. Der First Nations interessierte Reisende nimmt vielleicht die aufwendige Überfahrt zu dieser Inselgruppe hin, um auf deren nördlicher Hauptinsel Graham Island gelebte und historische First Nation-Kultur in nahezu unberührter Küstenlandschaft zu erleben, auf Haida Gwaii - Queen Charlotte Islands Viel Vergnügen beim Zuhören, der Reiseplanung und natürlich dem Wichtigsten, der Reise selbst. Herzlichen Gruß Gerhard Ibl

Ian Gill joins the program today to talk about his book All That We Say is Ours. The subtitle of the book: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation. Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is Canada’s Galapagos, a West Coast archipelago famous for its wild beauty. It is also the ancient homeland of the Haida nation. In the 1970s, after decades of rapacious logging, the Haida joined forces with environmentalists in a high-profile struggle to save the islands. The battle found powerful expression through Giindajin Haawasti Guujaaw, the visionary artist, drummer and orator who would later become president of the Council of the Haida Nation.

[Show Notes Link]Direct Download Link | | Direct download link A ferry sank yesterday off the coast of British Columbia. I take a moment to provide some insight to the incident. In the second portion of today’s episode, you get to go on a ride with me in the car as I drive in a car by myself for only the second time that I’ve been living in Vancouver. All my apologies for the quality, but I promise to not make the same mistake next time. Links for this episode: News Articles: Queen of the North Accident Vancouver Sun: Ferry sinks off coast of Queen Charlotte Islands Vancouver Sun: Ferry had been sailing on borrowed time Globe and Mail: B.C. to replace 3 northern ferries Vancouver Sun: Other accidents involving BC Ferries Global Television Network Podsafe Music Network Artist Links: SubCity Dwellers – hold the pressure downThe Appleseed Cast – ice heavy branchesEels – the sound of fear 49:40 minutes Email: radiozoom [AT] gmail [DOT] com Show notes: https://radiozoom.net/ Subscribe: RSS Podcast Feed Subscribe on iTunes © Copyright Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), RadioZoom (John Bollwitt)