Pardon my Passion Peter Wen

Seth Klein is an author and storied political scientist. He is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy of the Climate Emergency Unit (a 5-year project of the David Suzuki Institute that Seth launched in early 2021). Prior to that, he served for 22 years (1996-2018) as the founding BC Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives, a public policy research institute
committed to social, economic and environmental justice.

Seth wrote A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, a book that looks at how Canada responded to the emergency of WW2 and what we can apply today during the climate crisis.

Peter catches up with his friend Jeremiah McCleary who recently worked for a year in Palestine. Jeremiah shares his stories and thoughts including the businesses that sell art made from tear gas canisters, his friends getting detained on their way to Tel Aviv, and the importance of open discourse on tough matters



Link to Jeremiah's travel blog: https://jeremiahonajourney.blogspot.com/?m=0



Cover photo credit: Bangishimo

PhD candidate, fellow nerd, and renaissance man Carl Tutton tells me the difference between an iPhone and a fridge, and we discuss what's in common between an obsession with material goods and a drug addiction 

How to Save a Planet podcast referred to multiple times in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Dmp79iTEVqizinjOmjGpP?si=0a04c8ab632c40e8 

I have a fun (and definitely sober) conversation with Charles Holtforster from Hacksmith Industries, a Youtube channel that pushes the limits of tinkering and hacking to make gadgets from movies and comic books in real life. We discuss intellectual inspirations, coil guns, and discuss how aspiring engineers and hackers can get started (hint - just start making)

Part 2 of my conversation with Michael McMaster, former curriculum leader of the TOPS enrichment program at Marc Garneau CI in Toronto, where we discuss private vs public schooling, TOPS as an experiment, and what happens when teachers are given agency to teach

I catch up remotely with my recently retired math teacher and former TOPS program head Mr McMaster (or Michael as he lets me call him now). In this part of the multi-part series we run through the history of TOPS before he took over headship 1987-97, the program under him 1997-2019, and we touch on present day TOPS which is navigating through uncharted waters. We talk about the admission process, the program's philosophy, and its struggles with the TDSB