MIR Meets: Patrick Low

Host Ava Francin sits down with Anne-Isabelle Bonifassi, Executive Director of the Haiti National Trust and a 2026 National Geographic Wayfinder Award recipient, to discuss using social media as a tool for environmental education, securing funding for conservation initiatives, and protecting Haiti's unique biodiversity.  

For the final episode in MIR’s series on AI in Canadian health care, host Sydney Murray sits down with Dr. Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Co-Director and Executive Scientific Director of the AI Hub at University Health Network, to discuss mitigating bias in health-care algorithms, translating AI into clinical practice, and how AI-powered tools could help match cancer patients with the most appropriate clinical trials.       

For the second episode in the three-part series focusing on AI in healthcare across Canada, host Sydney Murray sits down with Dr. Kendall Ho, Medical Director of British Columbia's Virtual Physician Service and lead of the Artificial Intelligence and Technology Enhanced Care Collaboration Centre (AITECCC) at the University of British Columbia, to discuss the safe integration of AI in healthcare, its potential to improve patient access and outcomes, and the research, policy, and collaboration needed to ensure the responsible adoption of emerging health technologies.  

For the first episode in a three-part series focusing on A.I. in healthcare across Canada, host Sydney Murray sits down with Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, President and CEO of the West-Central Montreal Integrated Health and Social Services University Network and founder of the Netiv Institute for Health Systems Thinking, to discuss the current integration of A.I. into systems at the Jewish General Hospital, how medical students can and should engage with A.I. technologies, and the work beginning at Netiv. 

Host Sydney Murray sits down with Omar Siddique, the new Head of Office at UN-Habitat Canada, to discuss his path into urban planning and journey through the UN system, Canada's role in advancing affordable housing, the meaning of sustainability across communities, and how UN-Habitat is bringing together partners to drive housing solutions in Canada and beyond.    

Host Lina Boehmer sits down with Agatha Gorski and Naomi Nemickas, founders of the Shadows Project, a youth-led NGO and digital media platform dedicated to promoting and protecting Ukrainian culture and heritage, while harnessing the power of culture to build resilience and combat misinformation and fear.

Host Margot Walkowicz sits down with former World Trade Organization Chief Economist Patrick Low to discuss international trade, the challenges facing the multilateral trading system, the growing intersection of trade and climate policy, and what it all means for developing countries.

Host Galia Pakman Arrojo chats with Gabe Rottman, Vice President of Policy at the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington D.C. -based non-profit. They discuss the state of media freedom in the United States under Trump's second term up to late February 2026, touching on protest coverage, social media and citizen journalism, legal challenges in court, and more.

Host Sydney Murray sits down with Dre. Joanne Liu, the former international president of Médecins Sans Frontières and founder of PERL, the new pandemic evaluation and readiness lab at McGill. 

Host Ava Francin speaks with Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of American Studies at Yale University, whose research examines the rise of the multiracial right. HoSang is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume The Politics of the Multiracial Right and co-author of Producers, Parasites, Patriots. They discuss a political phenomenon that has puzzled many observers: the growing support for Donald Trump among voters of color. Drawing on his research, HoSang explains the complex political, social, and historical forces behind this shift and challenges common assumptions about race and political alignment in the United States. Learn more about his work at https://www.politicsmultiracialright.org, and on the Substack What’s Going On: A Notebook on Political Transformation.