Episode 15: The Columnist- Catherine Ford

Aleqa Hammond, Greenland’s first female Prime Minister, was born and raised in the country she loves. She talks about growing up on the ice, dealing with the expansionist threats from the United States, and her dream of an independent Greenland.

Chris Hadfield on his latest work of fiction, the modern-day race to the moon, the threat of American expansionism, the future of AI, life as a fighter pilot, his love of music and so much more. A rare one-on-one interview in front of a live audience at Calgary's Wordfest literary festival.

Can “The Deadliest Catch” fishery survive warming seas and years of reckless overfishing? A walk on deck with one of the Discovery Channel’s former real-life stars, Captain Casey McManus. The takeaway? Reality TV has very little to do with reality.

“The whole history of Canada is the history of the fear of being taken over by the United States”. Come along for a wander through the woods with author and historian Stephen R. Bown. His latest work of literary non-ficiton is titled "Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada".

A walk with 91 year old Richard Flohil is like a walk back in time.Miles Davis tried to buy his car to skip out on a gig. Benny Goodman was “miserable as sin”. Chuck Berry would only play an encore “if you slipped cash under his dressing room door”. And The Chieftains were “a feckless bunch of good time people who drank a lot”. Keep walking, and he’ll tell stories of working with Eric Idle, Alice Cooper, k.d. lang, and Billy Connelly. As a nonagenarian, he is a living repository of music history, and he tells his (often profane) stories with a twinkle in his eye, a delight in mischief, and with little regard to what anyone else thinks.

Martin Gray is a lifelong beachcomber on the wild islands of Orkney, off Scotland’s northern coast. Orkney men have been beachcombers for generations; making use of whatever washes ashore.Most of what washes up these days comes from Canada, and to be blunt, it makes an ugly mess. But the sea also brings mystery. Martin’s lifetime spent among Scotland’s remote islands has lead him to both find and lose far more than he ever could have expected.

For a quarter century Ed Miller has toured all corners of Scotland, singing songs and recording stories that reveal the beating heart of his home country; a world apart from the “shortbread tin” version found on tourist brochures. Tune in to join us for a walk through the real Scotland.

Every winter the leeward waters of the island of Maui are home to the world's densest humpback whale population. They migrate from cold northern waters to mate, and give birth. A time when the whales and their offspring are at their most vulnerable.Dr. Rachel Cartwright leads a team of researchers tracking and counting the whales. The current focus of their study; how have the whales been impacted by the devastating fire that swept through and utterly destroyed the seaport town of Lahaina in 2023?

She’s acerbic, insightful, passionate, and blunt. She’s Catherine Ford. The former national newspaper columnist is 80 years old, and still has a lot to say about life, politics, the human condition, the current plight of the media, and her immunity to hangovers. What do two veteran journalists talk about when they wash up on the same beach? Tune in to find out.

Marc Garneau was the first Canadian in space, and later served as Transport Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In this revealing one-on-one conversation we talk about his "Most Extraordinary Ride", a phrase that both describes his life and is the name of his new memoir. We cover topics as wide-ranging as Canada’s space program, the rise of commercial space travel, his roll in navigating the country through the Covid pandemic, and his frustrations working with Justin Trudeau and the Prime Minister’s office.