Episodes

This Rural Canadian History Moment was created by Emma Rutledge as part of the University of Guelph Diarist course project in 2023. The course was taught by Catharine A. Wilson, PhD, F.R.S.C. / Redelmeier Professor in Rural H...

Lisa Gallant-McRobb - Leading Indigenous Healing Through Trauma and Triumph June is traditionally Pride Month but June is also Indigenous History month. It’s an opportunity to learn about the unique cultures, traditions and e...

Sister Patricia and the Drag Storytime Guardians Earlier this month, a Drag Storytime was scheduled in the rural town of Parkhill, Ontario. Protestors were expected but what wasn’t expected was a group of woman-identifying mo...

Who Fuels Division in Rural Canada and Why? - Kurt Phillips - Canadian Anti-Hate Network I’ve spoken with Kurt Phillips from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network in an episode previously, called Bias, Hate and Extremism in Rural Ca...

Pride and Prejudice in Rural Ontario In April of 2023, in the town of Norwich, Ontario the municipal council voted to ban all flags except for Canadian flags and provincial flags. At the same meeting, the council refused to r...

Andrea Palframan and RAVEN - Supporting Indigenous Land Back Legal Claims Many of us have colonial roots and understand that our ancestors were responsible for attempting to erase Indigenous people and culture in Canada. But ...

Kendra Fry - Rural and Remote Churches - What's Next? This episode came about when I was looking up how many churches are for sale or even abandoned in rural and remote Canada. I couldn’t find a current number but …

Dr. Jacquie Newman - How Some Rural Municipalities Use Power to Exclude Through a chain of events, I found myself watching a previous recording of a municipal council meeting, a municipality in rural Alberta. It’s called Olds...

Kim English - Addressing a Rural Canadian Nursing Crisis Professor Kim English first sent me an email, suggesting the topic of rural and remote nursing. Kim is a Doctoral candidate who has been teaching nurses at the undergra...

Isaac Murdoch - Revolution of the Heart I first saw Isaac Murdoch telling his stories on Facebook, during the pandemic. A prolific and legendary Indigenous storyteller, he was so entertaining he left an indelible impression o...

Emily McIntosh - Bill 5 - Women of Ontario Say No I first heard about the Women of Ontario Say No campaign on Instagram . One of the campaign’s posts was shared by a number of female municipal council members …

Rural Women Councillors in Ontario - 100 Days in Office This episode is a conversation with four first-time rural women councilors, all serving in small communities across Ontario. They talk about what their experience has be...

Gitanjali Aggarwal - Meeting Rural Women Where They Are The PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise is an organization that supports women entrepreneurs across Ontario. The organization’s approach to supporting women is unique in ...

Jean Bota - ‘Building Capacity in Rural Crime Prevention Project In our last episode , we talked about just one element of crime in rural Canada, intimate partner violence, with Pamela Cross of Luke’s Place . She mentioned th...

Pamela Cross - Luke’s Place - A Rural Inquest Pamela Cross is a feminist lawyer ; a well respected expert on violence against women and the law. She is revered for her work as a researcher, writer, educator and trainer. …

Councillor Michelle Friesen - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory Michelle Friesen caught my eye, initially, with a post on Instagram. She was addressing her city’s council, as a sitting councillor herself, about the discovery of chi...

Duane Kumala-Thomas: Highlander Studios - History and Truth Duane Kumala-Thomas recently invited me to his art studio called Highlander Studios in Woodstock, Ontario for a tour and a conversation about his studio, his work, h...

How Freebruary Helps Canadian Producers Last week, my good friend Stella Sehn , a family farm honey producer in the Prairies told me about Freebruary . She started to explain and then she said she’d just send me this one …

Filling the Gaps - Dee Ann Benard & Daniela Seiferling - Rural Development Network I first came across the Rural Development Network or RDN when I started the podcast in 2021 and I signed up for its newsletter, following its …

Ame-Lia Tamburrini: Circles for Change in Rural Canada Recently, I’ve been thinking deeply about the value of circles when it comes to community building and community engagement. It seems to me that the division we see in Ca...

Belinda Clemmensen - Women, Leadership and Saving the World Over the holidays this year, I took a connection break. That meant trying my best to unhinge from social media and work. I felt like I needed to rethink the podcast...

Will 2023 Bring Clean and Resilient Growth for Rural Canada? - John McNally - PLACE Centre What is clean and resilient growth and how does it fit into a rural perspective in Canada and will 2023 be the year we …

Autumn Ongaro - FEAD: A Taste of Home in Norfolk County This is the third in a series of rural-based authors. I love this book because it’s a combination of a recipe book and a storybook. Autumn Ongaro is the …

Grandview HealthCare Solutions is a grassroots, community driven organization that grew out of the need to better serve patients in Grandview, Manitoba and the immediate surrounding area. This is another case of a community c...