- How a First Nation fought the "new Residential School system"
Wednesday, November 9th 2022
This is Mia's story, but she is far from the only one. When the BC government decided to take her from her band and her closest family, and ship her halfway across the country to non-Indigenous foster parent, the Gitxsan fought back. What happened offers a glimpse into a system that supposedly has learned the lessons of residential school horrors, but somehow hasn't learned enough to stop taking kids from Indigenous communities that want to care for them...
GUEST: Amy Romer, writing in The Walrus
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- Inside Ontario's 'unprecedented' labour fight
Tuesday, November 8th 2022
Ontario kids will be back in school Tuesday, after the provincial government backed down on its use of the notwithstanding clause to force CUPE workers into a contract. That's the simple part. But this fight was important well beyond a few days of school—with unions across the country threatening solidarity strikes, sending money to support Ontario's education support workers and generally creating a show of force not seen in decades.
So will the two sides at the heart of this now find a solution? How will Doug Ford's government handle other upcoming labour battles, now that they know how hard the pushback can be? What does this one fight mean for labour in Canada this month and beyond?
GUEST: Cynthia Mulligan, Queen's Park reporter, CityNews
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- Is converting office buildings into apartments a solution to the housing crisis?
Monday, November 7th 2022
Nearly three years of into the on-going pandemic and there's still plenty of unused office spaces in most downtowns right now.
The City of Calgary is leading the trend of office to residential space conversion projects. So much so that American media in San Francisco and other places has picked up on it. This kind of urban revitalization is called "adaptive re-use," and it turns out, it's not actually as inexpensive or easy to do as it seems. So, what's required to get office conversion projects off the ground, in terms of legislation, but also, just, practically? And could this plan scale up quickly, to solve a housing crisis?
Guest: Tracy Hadden Loh, Fellow with the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking at Brookings Metro.
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- BONUS EPISODE: The Big Story survey results
Saturday, November 5th 2022
If you listen to the show with any regularity, you know that we recently concluded a TBS listener survey. We appreciate all of you who took the time to give us your feedback, and with this special Saturday release we're hoping to show you that we've taken all of your suggestions to heart.
In this episode, Jordan and TBS producer, Ebyan Abdigir, discuss some of the more revealing results of the survey, and the ways in which your comments and thoughts will influence the way we do things moving forward. They also provide a small sneak peek into some of the more exciting projects we've got coming down the pipe.
We hope you enjoy!
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- The Osoyoos desert's wild horses, and the man who cares for all of them
Friday, November 4th 2022
There are roughly 300 wild horses left, and sometimes Aaron Stelkia has awful decisions to make as he tries to ensure their survival. But this is his job, and he's been doing it his entire life. Stelkia is a member of the Okanagan Syilx community. He's known locally as "the last Syilx cowboy". And his story is what happens when one person takes on a task because the land and its animals need him. But what happens when he's gone?
GUEST: Kate Helmore, writing in the Globe and Mail
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