🎙️ Canada’s housing crisis is about more than rising home prices and affordability.
🏡 Journalist Jessica Barrett says the real issue may be our definition of home itself.
🌍 From Vancouver’s soaring housing market to innovative housing models in cities like Vienna and Harare, we explore how community shapes our wellbeing.
👭 Jessica explains why building more homes hasn’t solved affordability and what happens when we design housing around people.
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🎙️ Young Canadians are being squeezed like never before, facing rising costs, unaffordable housing and a changing climate.
💪 Dr. Paul Kershaw, founder of Generation Squeeze, believes it’s time to “squeeze back.”
💡He joins us to explain what generational fairness really means and how smart policy can create a future where every generation thrives.
🤗 We discuss what it means to build intergenerational solidarity and why being a good ancestor starts with rethinking how we spend, save and care for one another.
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🎙️ What if menopause was a chance to reset your health?
💪 Dr. Kelly Casperson believes understanding your hormones is the key to feeling better and living longer.
🤔 Tamara and Kelly break down significant myths about menopause and share how to approach midlife with confidence.
👩⚕️ If you’ve ever needed guidance for discussing menopause symptoms with your doctor, Kelly has great advice for you.
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🤖 AI is making its way into our emotional relationships.
👩💻 Writer and digital anthropologist Caia Hagel agreed to bond with an experimental AI companion designed to learn her, mirror her and respond to her emotions.
💻 What began as an experiment quickly became something more personal.
👭 We discuss why more people are turning to AI for connection and why everyone should get familiar with what these new technologies have to offer.
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✨ We wanted to give you a sneak peek into our brilliant upcoming podcast guests!
🎙️ Which conversation are you most looking forward to?
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☀️ Hope is about finding a way forward, even when life feels uncertain.
💪 Psychology and education behaviorist expert Robyne Hanley-Dafoe explains how hope is a skill we can build.
🪫 We discuss why so many people feel low on hope right now and how that impacts our mental health.
💜 Robyne shares practical ways to reconnect with hope in our everyday life and how we can share that positivity with others.
▶️ Watch the full episode on YouTube or listen where ever you find your favourite podcasts!
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🎙️ When you fall asleep, your brain gets to work.
🧠 Dreams are a tool for your mind to process emotions, store memories and make sense of your day.
💤 But what happens when we don’t dream enough?
🥱 Journalist Karen van Kampen says we’re not just sleep-deprived, we’re dream-deprived.
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🎙️Behind every fertility journey is a story of persistence, uncertainty and emotional resilience.
💜 Journalist Kathryn Blaze Baum shares her personal experience through miscarriage and fertility treatment, alongside deep reporting on the growing fertility industry.
🧬 We discuss how IVF works and the emotional and physical toll it can take.
▶️ Watch the full episode on YouTube or download where ever you find your favourite podcasts!
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🎙️ If you keep repeating the same patterns, it’s probably more than a willpower issue.
💜 Psychiatrist Suzan Song says we get often stuck in narratives formed by our family, culture and life experience.
👭 These patterns can show up in our relationships and how we see ourselves.
✨ We explore why it’s so hard to break these emotional cycles and how we can rewrite our narratives by defining what we really want out of life.
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🎙️ A hysterectomy is often presented as a clear solution to ongoing health issues.
🩺 But patients aren’t always given the full picture.
👩⚕️ Andréa Becker is a medical sociologist and she has explored how this common surgery became so widely used.
🏥 While a hysterectomy can be positively life-changing for some, Andréa says others do not have the same access to the surgery.
💜 We discuss what can get overlooked in medical conversations, how inequalities can shape care and what informed consent should involve.
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🎙️ Many parents worry that every anxious moment will shape their child’s future.
🧠 Clinical psychologist Dr. Meredith Elkins says anxiety itself is a normal human emotion and the real issue is avoidance.
🤱When parents rush to remove discomfort, they may unintentionally make anxiety stronger.
💪 We explore why kids need manageable challenges to build confidence and resilience.
▶️ Watch the full episode on YouTube or listen where ever you download your favourite podcasts!
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🎙️ Before he became a household name, David Suzuki was a scientist chasing questions.
🧬 He joins us to reflect on his journey from geneticist to one of Canada’s most trusted science communicators.
📚 David shares the moments that shaped him and why curiosity has guided every chapter of his story.
📺 From the laboratory to television screens across the country, David explains why making science accessible matters.
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