Zoomer Week in Review Zoomer Podcast Network
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Join host Libby Znaimer as she brings you the latest Zoomer Headlines from around the world and shines a spotlight on the key issues affecting you. Youll also get the freshest perspective from CARP and Zoomer Media experts on health, wellness and living the good life!
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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's Journey to Self-Acceptance & Jane Philpott on the Primary Care Crisis
May 5 2024-Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's Journey to Self-Acceptance & Jane Philpott on the Primary Care Crisis
Its not exactly a memoir - though the Prime Ministers ex, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau talks about her struggle with an eating disorder, growing up an only child, and meeting Justin Trudeau. Her book is about her journey to self-awareness and self-acceptance. Libby talked with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau about Closer Together, Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other".
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If theres anyone qualified to figure out a fix for our health system, its former Liberal Health Minister Jane Philpott - currently the Dean of Queens University School of Medicine. Shes calling for a radical overhaul with one crisis at the core: the shortage of family doctors. I talked to Jane Philpott about "Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada". -
Crossing the Trans Canada Trail at 50 & Preparing Your Lawn
April 28 2024-Crossing the Trans Canada Trail at 50 & Preparing Your Lawn
The first person to cross the Trans Canada Trail:
500 DAYS IN THE WILD, a documentary by the award-winning filmmaker Dianne Whelan who spent six years crossing the entire 24,000 kilometre Trans Canada Trail, mostly alone. She began in St. Johns Newfoundland in 2015 ending in Victoria BC in 2021 and has documented her trek across the worlds largest trail in her new film thats now streaming.
Preparing your lawn after the damage from winter:
Itching to get your lawn green and lush again after the damage of winter that can cause long-lasting damage? We live in a lawn obsessed culture, some say embrace the dandelions others mortified by the sight of annoying weeds on their lawn. What are the best practices you can do right now to get your lawn in the best shape? We consulted an expert, Professor Katerina Jordan, the Director of the Guelph Turf Grass Institute. -
Canadian charitable donations dropping: report & National Volunteer Week
April 21 2024- Canadian charitable donations dropping: report & National Volunteer Week
Have you ever made any charitable donations? Do you still make them? Any? Or have you stopped? Many have as Nicole Danesi at CanadaHelps explains.
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National Volunteer Week that just ended is held annually as a way to celebrate the many who give of their time to help others in the community, who possibly would be in even more difficulty without volunteers. Bob Komsic spoke to a volunteer driver for Meals on Wheels. -
How a Runaway Orphan Became a Big Time Chef & Are We Too Afraid of Cancer?
How a Runaway Orphan Became a Big Time Chef
A new documentary-"Born Hungry"-tells the real life rags to riches tale of Sash Simpson, a runaway child from the streets of India, who was adopted into a Toronto family with 31 siblings before becoming a world-renowned chef. Libby spoke with Chef Sash Simpson about his life and why he decided that now was the time to make a movie about it.
Are We Too Afraid of Cancer?
April is Daffodil Month, a time devoted to raising awareness about Cancer.The all-consuming fear of it is still with us even though survival rates have skyrocketed. Author David Ropeik argues that this fear is also harming us. I talked with him about "Curing Cancerphobia: How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us". -
An Elder Rights Lawyer's Fight Against For-Profit Homes & What You Need to Know About Tinnitus
An Elder Rights Lawyers Fight Against For-Profit Homes is the subject of new Doc "Stolen Time"
Elder rights lawyer and advocate Melissa Miller is the subject of a new documentarytitled Stolen time-- that follows her legal battle against some of the worlds most powerful long-term care corporations. I talked with her about the film which chronicles her toughest case yeta mass tort representing hundreds of families
Are You Suffering from Tinnitus? Here's What You Need to Know
Ringing, buzzing, clicking and hissing. Those are the kind of sounds you may hear if youre afflicted with Tinnitus. The symptoms range from mild to debilitating and more than 9 million Canadians are affected. I talked with Dr. Yvonne Chan, Otolaryngologist-in-Chief, St. Michaels Hospital, Unity Health. -
Religion in Canada & Ottawas Arms Embargo with Israel
March 31 2024 - Religion in Canada & Ottawas Arms Embargo with Israel
What Research Tells Us About Canadians Relationship with Religion
Its Easter Sunday and its likely that family dinners and easter egg Hunts outstripped church attendance as a way to mark the holiday. Formal religious observance has been declining for years in our country though about half the population still believe in God. And many people are closely attached to their religion but do not have faith in a higher power. Libby talked with Dr. Jack Jedwab about the state of our spirituality.
Ottawas Arms Embargo with Israel
Last week Melanie Joly, Canada's foreign minister, announced an arms embargo on Israel. But it turns out Canada has spent much more - over a billion in recent years- on Israeli weapons systems and they are being used to protect Canadian pilots, fighters, and naval combatants around the world. Libby spoke with israels ambassador to canada Iddo moed.