Health and Healthcare
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Culture
Writers Unbound
Childhood and growing up
Join us this week when authors Greg Santos and Shanice Nicole talk about the challenges of childhood. We also welcome Anna Leventhal, who tells us about AELAQ's involvement in this project.
Change and Transformation
This week's guests discuss two crucial and under-told moments in Montreal's history. A new nonfiction book brings forward diverse perspectives on the Sir George Williams Affair.
Isolation and community
A new anthology of nonfiction brings the COVID-19 self-isolation experiences of 105 writers from all over Quebec into one powerful volume.
Health and Healthcare
This week's guests, Richard King and Samir Shaheen-Hussain, discuss the power of books to change how we think about health, healthcare, and how the system serves most vulnerable among us.
Travel and Movement
"If you sit and meditate, you're travelling... you don't have to move." So says Tawhida Tanya Evanson, author of a new novel that follows a young woman from her home in Canada to the USA...
Identity and Belonging
This week, we meets Mariam Pal, whose memoir, Ballet Is Not for Muslim Girls, deals with her Pakistani-Canadian identity, and Anita Anand, whose novel, A Convergence of Solitude.
Making Choices, Taking Chances
This week, we meets Tara McGowan-Ross, whose memoir, Nothing Will Be Different, tackles her struggles with alcohol, monogamy, and depression, while Baharan Baniahmadi’s Prophetess...
Old Poems in a New Light
This week, Old Poems in a New Light, with poets Jason Camlot and Gillian Sze. Jason finds inspiration in Victorian prose, limericks, Leonard Cohen, and a couple of guinea pigs...
À propos de l’épisode
A pediatric emergency physician and activist takes on medical colonialism in a new book that discusses the treatment of Indigenous children in Canada's medical system. A mystery writer with ten years of volunteer experience at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital sets his latest series in part in a very similar institution, with a nurse as a main character.
