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.
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...
Family
This week, join host Shelley Pomerance when two Montreal novelists talk about family, chosen and biological. “Friendships are the bedrock of a lot of gay and queer families”, says DiRaddo,
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.
