Mino Bimaadiziwin - Conversations on Addictions and Mental Wellness

"You have to be honest. Not a lot of people are going to respect your story. Not a lot of people are going to like your story. But what they are going to respect is your truth and your honesty. So if anything, just be honest and make sure your truth is your strength and not your dysfunction." Jonathan Peltier is an opioid survivor who now works in helping people come through drug and alcohol addic...

We’re really thrilled to have Dr Evan Adams as our guest on this podcast. He is the deputy chief medical officer at Indigenous Services Canada, where he has helped lead their on-going national COVID-19 response, while ensuring culturally safe and efficient service delivery. And for many of you, he is a familiar face and voice from his days as an actor, before he began practicing medicine, especial...

"We are naturally outdoors people and getting that understanding and learning our history and our culture about all of the traditional medicine, the history of our land, our teachings, hunting, all of those areas that have been proven to be effective in mental health and addictions, this has been very impactful in our First Nations community." Our guest this episode is Tim Ominika, Deputy Chief of...

We're thrilled to have Dr Alika Lafontaine, the first Indigenous president of the Canadian Medical Association, as our guest on this episode of Mino Bimaadiziwin. In this frank and thoughtful conversation, host Sherry Huff and Dr Lafontaine talk about the barriers to health and wellness caused by systemic racism, what the death of First Nations woman Joyce Echaguan in a Quebec hospital revealed ab...

Welcome to the first episode of Mino Bimaadiziwin – a podcast by the Thunderbird Partnership Foundation, thunderbirdpf.org Mino bimaadiziwin means living the good life in the language of the Anishinabe. We chose that as a name for our podcast because it captures what we all hope for. This podcast aims to seek and share insight about addictions and mental health issues that many of our families and...