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The Conversation Piece — 170 episodes

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Jorge Garza: The Value of Relational Infrastructure

2

Anna Gallagher-Ross: The Power of Public Space

3

Michelle Hoar: Housing and Belonging

4

Prasanna Ranganathan: Using Storytelling to Advance Accessibility

5

Tranna Wintour: Transcending Gender Labels

6

Jeff Gray: Cities Are Asked to Do More with Less

7

Chief Ken McMullen: Why Canada Needs a National Fire Strategy

8

Suzanne Obiorah: Public Safety Should Include Everyone

9

André Picard: Aging in the Right Place

10

Dr. Nel Wieman: Elders, Belonging, and Public Health in First Nations Communities

11

Dr. Olive Bryanton: The Lifelong Need for Connection

12

Dr. Rose Joudi: The Power of Purpose in Later Life

13

Dr. Emma Duerden: Teenage Digital Consumption

14

Jeff Adams: Resilience in Sport

15

Dr. Daniel Munro: Challenging Technology that Enforces Bias

16

Rachel Blais: Food Insecurity in Nunavut

17

Jesse McCormick: We Can’t Build Canada Strong Without Building Trust First

18

Pacinthe Mattar: DEI and Anti-Palestinian Racism

19

Bardia Sinaee: Poetry Versus The Machine

20

Dr. Jan Hare: The Role of Teachers

21

Rachel Doran: Canada’s Electrification Opportunity

22

Cyndi Gilbert: How The Bike Brigade Fosters a Culture of Community Care

23

Vinod Rajasekaran: Prioritizing Wellbeing in the Volunteer Sector

24

Kasandra James: Reimagining More Diverse Stories of Volunteerism

25

Suman Roy: Volunteer Programs Must Respect the Needs of Volunteers

26

Darrell Pinto: Finding Purpose Through Volunteering

27

Susan Pinker: Volunteerism’s Impact on Health, Happiness, and Longevity

28

Sara Lyons: Canada’s National Volunteer Action Strategy

29

Chief Kluane Adamek: Land, Water, and Belonging

30

Kelly Lendsay: Indigenous Workplace Belonging

31

Dr. Becky Cook: Rebuilding Indigenous Autonomy, Nationhood, and Belonging

32

Camryn Dewar: Finding Belonging Through Indigenous Opera

33

Kahir Lalji: The Importance of Culturally Relevant Social Prescribing

34

Diana Rose: Social Prescribing in Action

35

Dr. Kate Mulligan: Focusing on What Matters to Us

36

Kim Samuel: Social Prescribing and the Four Ps of Belonging

37

Samantha Reusch: Why Civic Leaders Need to Listen to Youth

38

Kishone Roy: Tackling Generational Gentrification

39

Justin Ling: Three Factors Behind Increased Polarization in Canada

40

Valerie Creighton: Canada Is a Creative Powerhouse

41

Golnaz Golnaraghi: Why Career Programs Fail Racialized Women

42

Elizabeth Dubois: Digital Citizenship

43

Luna Matatas: Reconnecting to Pleasure During Menopause

44

Dr. Sheila Wijayasinghe: How to Self-Advocate as a Perimenopausal Patient

45

Dr. Iliana Lega: Understanding Hormone Replacement Therapy

46

Dr. Ariel Dalfen: Four Questions for Menopausal Mental Health

47

Dr. Jenny Godley: Menopause in the Modern Workplace

48

Sarain Fox: Sitting With Your Grandmother

49

Janet Ko: Closing the Menopause Knowledge Gap

50

Dianne Whelan: 7 Lessons From Travelling the Trans Canada Trail

51

Carolynne Crawley: My Relations

52

Ambika Tenneti: Newcomers Access to Nature is Vital

53

Iraz Soyalp: Why We Need Equitable Access to Nature

54

Dr. Melissa Lem: The Prescription calls for Nature

55

Sean Kheraj: Canadians’ Troubled History with Oil Pipelines

56

Marlaine Koehler: Civic Engagement Builds Our Access to Nature

57

Nick Saul: The Magic of Sharing Food in Your Community

58

Jessica Ching: Trust Patients, Trust Women

59

Paulette Senior: Gender-Based Violence Is Not an Exceptional Experience

60

Fay Slift and Fluffy Soufflé: Empowering Children to Be Proud of Who They Are

61

Angela Sterritt: Believe Indigenous Peoples' Stories

62

Shree Paradkar: You Cannot Silence Journalists with Abuse

63

Anuradha Dugal: The Gender Gap in Emergency Planning

64

Jake Stika: The Papercuts of Patriarchy

65

Pamela Cross: The Unintended Consequences of Criminalizing Intimate Partner Violence

66

Navneet Alang: AI in Debate

67

Kamal Al-Solaylee: In Defence of Ghettos

68

Chief Sharleen Gale: First Nations Are on the Front Line of Energy Projects—and Their Impacts

69

Max Brault: Improving Employment for People with Disabilities

70

Sharon Nyangweso: Equity and Justice as a Technical Skill

71

Cheyenne Sundance: The Next Generation of Farmers Are in Our Cities

72

Tabatha Bull: We Will Not Achieve Reconciliation without Vibrant Indigenous Economies

73

Cadar Mohamud: Podcasting to Share Authentic Narratives

74

Lynne Groulx: It’s a Life and Death Matter

75

Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware: Toward a Future That Is Bigger than We Dreamed

76

Agapi Gessesse: Building Employment Opportunities for Black Youth

77

International Women's Day | Heather O’Neill: Girls Contain Multitudes

78

The Late Stephen Trumper: Troubleshooting Disability

79

André Picard: Were Pandemic Elder Deaths Preventable?

80

Toufah Jallow: How to Humanize and Accept Survivor Stories

81

Andrea Gunraj: The 5 C's and the Care Economy

82

Ashlee Cunsolo: Ecological Grief and the Climate Crisis

83

Chief Cadmus Delorme: The Future of Truth and Reconciliation

84

Camille Dundas: Going Farther than Hiring a BIPOC

85

Naila Moloo: Including Youth in the Climate Change Conversation

86

Candice Shaw: Colonialism Creates Poverty By Design

87

Fae Johnstone: Mental Health Is about More than Self-care

88

Jake Stika: Redefining What It Means to Be a Man

89

Kate Harris: Satisfying Our Inner Explorer

90

David MacDonald: CEO Bonuses are Boundless

91

Menaka Thakkar: Dance is a Universal Language

92

Claire Trottier: Tax Me, I Am The 1%

93

Karina LeBlanc: Becoming your Best Self off the Field

94

Joel Bothello: Who Is Most Susceptible to Imposter Syndrome?

95

Myrna Lashley: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Equity and Compassion

96

Natalie Bull: A Hope and a Prayer for Places of Faith

97

Kerri Martin: Gratitude for Nature and Access to its Beauty

98

Devyani Saltzman: Our Culture is at a Tipping Point

99

Mark Henick: Surrendering to Discomfort

100

Carly Ziter: The Ecosystems in Our Cities

101

Roberta Jamieson: I Honour You by Giving, You Honour Me by Receiving

102

Steve Shih: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

103

Damian Rogers: World Alzheimer's Day

104

Prerna Singh: Nationalism Is Not Always Bad for Democracy

105

Vanessa Tait: Reclaiming Our Place in the Teepee

106

Sara Abdessamie: International Youth Day

107

Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika: Resilience is Not Simply Survival

108

Vinita Srivastava: Resilience Is Not a Policy

109

Season Three Trailer

110

Ann Hui: Shifting the She-Cession

111

Lauren McKeon: The Leadership of Women

112

Wency Leung: The Toxicity of Loneliness

113

Anubha Momin: The Immigrant Settler

114

Eternity Martis: Sharing your Truths

115

Waubgeshig Rice: World Book Day

116

Dianna Hu: Spoon Suckers

117

Daryl Haggard: Why Black Holes Have Excellent Manners

118

Krista Byers-Heinlein: The Value of Linguistic Diversity

119

Anand Giridharadas: Giving, Getting, and Glorification

120

Kim Samuel: One Year of Social Isolation

121

Sally Armstrong: The Power of Inclusivity

122

Graham Greene: Better Living through Kindness

123

Irwin Adam: Your Mouth is Transforming the World

124

Aimee Louw: What Would Life be like Without Ableism?

125

Siri Agrell: How to Get Laid Without your Phone

126

Terry O'Reilly: Marketing to our Vices

127

Sandy Hudson: Why Am I Waiting for Somebody Else to Do This?

128

Deb Saucier: The Glass Steeple Chase of Academia

129

Samra Habib: Owning Our Identities

130

Carol Off: This Campfire that is Canada

131

Teva Harrison: Appreciating the Small Everyday Successes

132

Andrew Boozary: Housing and the Pathologies of Poverty

133

Valérie Plante: Is There Privilege in Pandemic Times?

134

Shari Austin: We Need More Canadians

135

Hilary Black and the Fight to Legalize Cannabis

136

Julie S. Lalonde and the (uncomfortable) Canadian Conversation

137

Cherise Burda and the Cost of Location, Location, Location

138

Kaite Burkholder Harris and the Context of the Homeless

139

Yann LeCun and Artificial Intelligence VS Cats

140

Season Two Trailer

141

CIFAR Fellow Adrian Owen

142

Filmmaker Atom Egoyan

143

Historian Paige Raibmon

144

Dr. Deena Hinshaw

145

Brenda Andress

146

Annie Kidder

147

Writer Noor Naga

148

Singer-Songwriter Corb Lund

149

Writer Emma Donoghue

150

Lauren Voisin

151

Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller

152

Songwriter Bif Naked

153

Inclusion Specialist Ritu Bhasin

154

Spoken Word Poet Mustafa Ahmed

155

Social Entrepreneur Zita Cobb

156

Host and Playwright Amanda Parris

157

Actor Eva Greyeyes

158

Brittany Andrew-Amofah

159

Author Desmond Cole

160

Samantha Reusch of Apathy is Boring

161

Poet Rupi Kaur

162

Banff Centre's Janice Price

163

Lisa Moore + Pierre Kwenders + Lido Pimienta

164

Innovator Kamran Khan

165

Story-teller Margaret Atwood

166

UNESCO's Vivek Venkatesh

167

Researcher Jennifer McGrath

168

Singer-Songwriter Christa Couture

169

Broadcaster Shelagh Rogers

170

Health Journalist Andre Picard