Nov 30, 2021

Guest: Andrew Young, founder and director of Vaccine Hunters Canada

For more than a million Canadians, volunteers for Vaccine Hunters Canada have been heroes and messengers of hope in the difficulties of the pandemic. After the initial rollout of vaccines in spring 2021 were plagued by shipment delays,...

Nov 29, 2021

Guest: Brandi Morin, French/Cree/Iroquois human rights journalist who lives in Treaty 6 territory

Last Friday, RCMP arrested award-winning journalist Amber Bracken and documentary maker Michael Toledano, as well as 15 others, as part of a raid on one of the camps set up to keep TransCanada Energy's Coastal GasLink gas...

Nov 26, 2021

Guest: Emma Westecott, associate professor of game design at OCAD University and co-director of the Game: Play Lab

The Metaverse is coming. Long thought to be one of the next great leaps in shared digital spaces, the idea of the Metaverse recently got a boost from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg when he announced the...

Nov 25, 2021

Guests: Canadian astronaut Dr. Dave Williams and Alex Boyd, Toronto Star reporter

What if the answers and solutions of the pandemic are found in the stars? The two industries of space and medicine are more closely aligned than we may think, as many of the technologies we use today were first tested in the rigours of...

Nov 24, 2021

Guest: May Warren, reporter for the Toronto Star

With winter months bringing in an uptick in COVID-19 cases and a relatively static vaccination rate, Canada's top health officers are urging people to double down on masking because masks are the last line of defence against the virus. With a major shift (again!) in the...