Don’t Call Me Resilient The Conversation

Two Indigenous Land defenders from two different nations as well as generations, join us to explain why they work to protect the Land against invasive development and why their work is necessary for everyone’s survival. Ellen Gabriel, a human rights activist and artist well known for her role during the 1990 Oka crisis, and Anne Spice, a professor at TMU, discuss the importance and urgency of defending land. This episode is part of our Summer Flashback: it originally aired in March 2021. This flashback was recommended by Vinita Srivastava, the Host + Producer and Senior Editor of The Conversation Canada.

In this bonus episode, you’ll meet some of the producers who help make this podcast to revisit some of our favourite episodes from past seasons.

Our seventh season is officially over, but we will be back next week for a special bonus episode. You’ll get to meet some of our amazing producers who work hard behind the scenes to produce this podcast.

In Sudan, amid a growing humanitarian crisis caused by a year-long and ongoing war, neighbourhood organizations have stepped in as first responders, and to lead the call for peace.

We’re bringing you an extra episode this week to share a fascinating interview from “The Conversation Weekly.” It’s a podcast hosted by our colleague Gemma Ware, from The Conversation UK. In this episode, psychiatrist Karandeep Sonu Gaind speaks to Gemma Ware on why he's a vocal opponent of Canada's expansion of its medically assisted dying laws to people with solely mental illness.

Political scientist Shikata Banerjee and cinema studies scholar Rakesh Sengupta sit down with Vinita to talk about how Bollywood and popular culture in general are being used by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP to sway voters in the world's largest election.