Episode 15 - Grant Shilling
The Ranger Cabin
Today we sit fireside with street outreach worker, author, and community facilitator Grant Shilling to discuss solutions to the growing homelessness issues across Canada, using my hometown as an example. Grant is a warm spirit. We get a small snapshot of his childhood in Toronto, a story about smuggling surfboards into Gaza and caught up to his latest work on a small housing project for queer and Indigenous youth. Keep your fire hot! https://dawntodawn.org/
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Episode 14 - Chief Willie Sellars
The Ranger Cabin
Today we visit Secwepemc Territory with elected Chief Willie Sellars of Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) to learn about the start of their meteoric economic journey. In this episode we discuss WLFNs recent $135M settlement in Supreme court, and the Prime Minister’s recent visit to walk the grounds of St. Joseph’s Residential School. We talk economic growth and how this nation is working towards self-governance without relying on the treaty process. Let's keep our fire hot!
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Episode 13 - Andrew Knight
The Ranger Cabin
People are seeking their fame and fortune in the virtual world. This episode explores how blockchain, NFTs, and video game development are evolving our social interactions and our own identities. My guest Andrew Knight is a veteran of the video game industry who has worked around the world. He is currently a Development Director at Electronic Arts.
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Episode 12 - Matt Rader
The Ranger Cabin
So you want to be a poet? Matt Rader is a poet, fiction writer and creative writing professor at University of British Columbia. We discuss being a poet, parenthood, men's health and mindfulness. We keep our fire hot by discussing his new book Ghosthawk, a deeply personal volume of poetry and his fifth poetry publication. Ghosthawk is available October 31st, 2021 in Canada (Nightwood Editions) and early 2022 internationally.
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Episode 11 - Ocean Hyland & Jesse Recalma
The Ranger Cabin
Linguists, artists and culture keepers Ocean Hyland and Jesse Recalma discuss their pursuit of keeping Indigenous languages thriving and using them to wake a sleeping language called Puntlatch. We discuss why individual languages are so valuable and explore Indigenous perspectives on the southern coast of Canada.
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Episode 10 - la̱lx̱sa̱n dala'ogwa Keisha Everson
The Ranger Cabin
There is so much knowledge hard-wired into languages and learning them is foundational to understanding any culture. la̱lx̱sa̱n dala'ogwa Keisha Everson offers her perspectives on language revitalization and completely shifts my understanding of the struggles that Indigenous learners and elders are having reclaiming their ancestral languages. Listening to this discussion will give you a deeper understanding of Indigenous perspectives around reclaiming language and keep your fire hot!
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Episode 9 - Mo Moshiri
The Ranger Cabin
Mo Moshiri is most known as a MC/rapper and co-founder of the Vancouver hip-hop group Sweatshop Union. Mo was born into the Iranian revolution and escaped the country on a camel with his mother after his father was captured and imprisoned. Mo and I discuss his music, parenthood, navigating trauma and his spiritual journey to discover his identity.
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Episode 8 - Nanekawasis George Littlechild
The Ranger Cabin
Between 1960 and 1990, over 11000 indigenous children in Canada were taken from their natural families and placed into foster care or adopted in a social welfare initiative later called The Sixties Scoop. Nanekawasis George Littlechild, a prolific indigenous artist, is one of those children. In this episode George shares the incredible life story behind his art.
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Episode 7 - Marc Mazzocchi
The Ranger Cabin
Marc Mazzocchi is a talented strength and conditioning coach, gym owner and competitive powerlifter. Today we chat about Marc’s journey and discuss identity traps, goal setting, physical and mental health, men’s testosterone levels and my gnarly misdiagnosed heart issue that was operated on twice in 2020.
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Episode 6 - Ian MacKay
The Ranger Cabin
For over a decade Ian MacKay has committed himself to being in the middle of disaster response efforts around the world. In this episode Ian talks about his evolution as a naive nursing student in war torn DRC to the center of the Ebola crisis in Liberia where he and his team are later acknowledged as 2014 Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
info_outlineHereditary Chief Wedlidi Speck explains differences between coastal indigenous culture and the rest of Canada. He also speaks about symbols and their sacred importance. Wedlidi is Kwakwaka’wakw, Nuuchanulth and E’iksan, and the head chief of the Gixsam namima of the Kwaguł tribe.