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Updated 07/09/2020
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Medicine

Updated 09/01/2021
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Updated 10/26/2019
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Society & Culture

Society & Culture

Updated 02/22/2023

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Possibility Seeds Podcast

A podcast about gender justice activism in Canada, hosted by Farrah Khan. This season, we’re hosting multi-generational conversations between student leaders and long-time activists who inspire us and fuel our belief that positive change is possible. This is a documentation of local feminist histories and a celebration of new futures being created! Content Note: Although there are no descriptions of sexual violence in this podcast series, any conversation about sexual violence can bring up big feelings and be hard to hear. Listen in a way that feels safer for you. You get to choose.

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1 min
06/14/2022

Meet John, the Caregiver

At the core of Nurse Next Door are our Caregivers, and John Steele exemplifies everything it means to embrace Caregiving as a Career. It’s about shifting the mindset of what that role of the Caregiver could be. Sarah, Cathy and John dig into the rewards of this work and what it takes to be a Caregiver. Find out how John uses skills gained in his sales career to provide Happier Aging, Nurse Next Door’s Care Philosophy in this first part of our series exploring different areas of care at Nurse Next Door.

06/14/2022

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22 min
06/22/2023

Exploring the Queer Filmmaker Galaxy with Director Pat Mills, Editor Maureen Grant and Production Manager Moe Rai

In this episode of The Wider Lens, we’re shining a spotlight on queer film and TV with three passionate DGC Ontario Members: Director Pat Mills, Picture Editor Maureen Grant, and Production Manager Moe Rai. Over the last few years, there has been an extraordinary push for queer representation. Audiences all over the world are connecting with queer shows shot right here in Ontario, like Sort Of, Schitt's Creek, What We Do in the Shadows, and The Umbrella Academy. From behind the camera to the production office to the editing suite, Pat, Maureen and Moe shed light on what this surge in representation means for the community, the challenges they've encountered working within a predominantly straight and cisgender industry, the power of seeing yourself reflected authentically on screen, and the profound impact representation has for future generations. Sign up for the Wider Lens newsletter: https://dgcontario.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6e52b6d929667900875e2e8fa&id=ae0da0b008

06/22/2023

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39 min
06/27/2022

Hormones: a love story

Puberty, pregnancy, ovulation, even love… these are all things our body regulates with hormones, and brains love hormones. They are chemical messengers used by the body when one part wants to tell another what to do… and in this episode our protagonist’s brain is stewing in them like a squishy teabag. Follow the show: Twitter: @marblespodInstagram: @marblespod

06/27/2022

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31 min
09/01/2021

Harm Reduction Approaches to Opioid Use

In this episode, we’ll talk with a nurse whose interest in the field was sparked after she was the recipient of nursing services as a pregnant young mother. She’ll reflect on her current work: harm reduction specific to opioid use and the extensive process to develop a community drug prevention strategy. Observations about community engagement, addressing fear-based perspectives, and reflecting on personal bias will be highlighted for listeners. Stories from the Field is hosted by Maureen Cava and Susan Blue. This series is produced by Katie Jensen and Sabrina Brathwaite of Vocal Fry Studios for the University of Toronto Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing.

09/01/2021

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25 min
12/07/2015

Featuring Tanya Tagaq

On fear, the legacy of the residential school system, and pandering to the bottom feeders of the country.

12/07/2015

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39 min
09/18/2016

Featuring Namugenyi Kiwanuka

Embracing your accents (9:12), little voices yelling things (14:25), and the high cost of telling your story (17:47).

09/18/2016

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52 min
10/23/2019

Featuring Georgia Webber

Georgia Webber, writer and illustrator, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about what it means when you can’t express yourself, learning to draw again, and allowing the possibility that someone will say ‘yes’ and help you. Georgia’s graphic memoir, Dumb, is about what it means to become voiceless and how it changes you. Our favourite moments: “If there’s something that calls for my voice to be raised at all in a really loud way, I can push it if I want to and I most of the time really want to. But it’s a bad idea.” [4:43] “I had always wanted to make comics but I didn’t feel like I was good enough to start. Which is a terrible trap to be caught in.” [5:34] I hit send. I woke up the next morning and I felt - god, I’m gonna sound like such an a*****e right now - I felt the closest thing I can to enlightened.” [10:05] It’s much harder for us to accept something that changes constantly and it’s much harder for the wide broad us to accept complication” [14:55] “It’s also fascinating to collaborate with someone and have her voice at the centre of it but she can’t see what I’m doing. She’s exercising a massive amount of trust…” [17:00] “This idea of disability as a shift in health paradigm as the rest of the world to accept is something that I’m grappling with” [24:00] “I could see all the accommodations that were being made for people who had those different needs and being in that space and sharing it with them was not a detriment to my experience in any way” [28:05] CREDITS: Cavern of Secrets is hosted by Lauren Mitchell. Produced by Ellen Payne Smith & Katie Jensen, with assistance from Vicky Mochama and Sarah Daniel.

10/23/2019

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39 min
10/22/2019

Featuring Sarah Hagi

Sarah Hagi, writer and queen of Twitter @geeklylonglegs, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about the Garfield restaurant, the Blackest cartoons and how to have fun (again) as a writer. “It was intended to be a joke piece where I was like, yeah, Bugs Bunny is black.” Our favourite moments: “In a lot of ways, editors only hit me up when it’s like ‘ooh, we need a little spice here’ which is annoying.” [9:55] The thing about when you make something your brand. And I don’t know how it happened but I associated myself with Garfield but it happened somehow. And to this day, people are always sending me something to do with Garfield. Like, people who do not know me. And it feels great But again, I’m like, “Oh no is this why I’m single?” [10:50] “I was walking down Bloor with my friend and I was really sad and crying, then I was like “What’s Garfield doing on that storefront?” [11:59] “I spent my whole life thinking, “Julia Stiles? She’s got RHYTHM. Only to realize now that she cannot dance” [21:37] “I didn’t go to my prom. I went to Dairy Queen.” [23:51] CREDITS: Cavern of Secrets is hosted by Lauren Mitchell. Produced by Ellen Payne Smith & Katie Jensen, with assistance from Vicky Mochama and Sarah Daniel.

10/22/2019

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33 min
12/21/2015

Featuring Carrie Brownstein

On fandom, tweeting the pope, and the collective fatigue of the U.S. electoral process. Also turtles.

12/21/2015

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49 min

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