The Final Word

Friday, August 16, 2024. Met Radio's Radio Producer, and this week's guest-reporter for The Final Word, Sarra Gillani, talked to Caliber Funk, a local jazz/funk band. In this interview, they talk about their work, their experience playing the Beaches Jazz Fest StreetFest and their recent rebrand when they went from being called Accolades to Caliber Funk.

Friday, August 2, 2024. Today's episode is all about climate initiatives. The City of Toronto announced this June the winners of the fourth annual Women4ClimateTO pitch competition. Ten local entrepreneurs pitched their climate-related initiatives to a panel of judges for a chance to claim the first prize of twenty thousand dollars and two secondary prizes of five thousand dollars each. Katherine...

Friday, July 26. For today's episode The Final Word's reporter Lamar McIntosh speaks to Arinola Olowoporoku, an arts and cultural producer for the Harbourfront Centre, about the 26th edition of Island Soul, a lively summer weekend celebrating the rich legacy of Caribbean music, art, performance and food starting on Aug. 1.  Host Mariana Schuetze interviews Nathi Zamisa, co-executive director of HO...

Friday, July 19, 2024. On this week's The Final Word show, we heard from Margaret McGuffin, CEO of Music Publishers Canada on this year's edition of the Women in the Studio National Accelerator. This is an initiative, now in its sixth year, created to foster the professional growth and advancement of talented producer-songwriters from across Canada. The Final Word also spoke to one of this year's...

Friday, July 12, 2024. For this week's The Final Word, host Mariana Schuetze and reporter Karen Young review four Toronto Fringe Festival shows (Painting By Numbers, The Bluffs, Bus Stop and Sheila: The Musical). The Final Word reporter Rogene Teodoro interviews Spencer West on this year's Toronto Disability Pride March and The Final Word reporter Lamar McIntosh has this week's top news.

Friday, July 5, 2024. For this week's The Final Word, host Mariana Schuetze, interviews the team behind When You Close Your Eyes, Makeshift Company's debut production. Makeshift Company is a Toronto-based musical theatre company aiming to facilitate the expansion of the Canadian musical theatre canon by developing and deepening new works in the early stages of development. For this episode, The Fi...

Friday June 28, 2024. For this week's episode, The Final Word host Mariana Schuetze spoke to NFB Collection Curator Camilo Martin Florez on the NFB's Canada Day film collection, highlighting movies from all over Canada. Mariana also interviewed climate activist Vanessa Gray, to learn a bit more about the Unite the Swifties for Climate Justice campaign that gives climate-conscious Canadians a chanc...

This week, The Final Word’s reporter Rogene Teodoro talks about summer events in the city, and also interviews Toronto's annual Mermaid Ball organizer, James Zirco Fisher. Shaden Aly has the top news of the day.

This week, The Final Word’s reporter Paula Zeballos interviews filmmaker Akash Jones, a recent TMU graduate and writer, director and animator of the NFB short, "Amma." Shaden Aly has the top news of the day.

This week, The Final Word’s reporter Gabriela Silva Ponte spoke to Ellie Bothwell, the ranking editor at Times Higher Education, about their recent findings and the increase in the number of women as the heads of the top 200 universities in the world. Shaden Aly has the top news of the day.

Friday, May 31, 2024. In this episode, Mariana Schuetze speaks to Helen Stoumbos,  the President and CEO of The GOOD Games and Kristina May, Canadian Olympic beach volleyball player, about this year's The GOOD Games, a sports festival taking place in Guelph from July 6-7th.

Friday, May 24, 2024. In this episode, Gabriela Silva Ponte interviews Batul Gulamhusain and Mimi O’Handley about the Climate Finance Scholarship, which offered two CA$2500 prizes for submissions for visions of a climate-safe economy from young people ages 18-30 across Canada. In addition, The Final Word reporter Lamar McIntosh gives the top news from this week.

Friday, May 17, 2024. In this episode, Gabriela Silva Ponte interviews Andrew Cash, president and CEO of the Canadian Independent Music Association, on the increased music budget announced by the federal government. In addition, The Final Word reporter Paula Zeballos gives the top news from this week and reporter Rogene Teodoro interviews Warda Youssouf, the curator and social media coordinator fo...

Friday, May 10, 2024. In this episode, The Final Word host Gabriela Silva Ponte and Local Journalist Owen Thompson discuss their most memorable stories from the past few months.

In the April 5th episode, we covered the Toronto Met Theatre Company’s “Catch Me If You Can” musical, which had several showings at the end of March.

In the March 22 episode, we covered Halifax’s clearing out of encampments, to the Doug Ford government’s changes to proposed plans to fix the housing crisis in the province to a story on a Black Oak Savannah.

In the March 15 episode, we’re covering the Mississauga mayor race and its candidates, the newly developed #MigrantSpring campaign to a touching story about a Canadian detainee’s mother.

In the March 8 Final Word episode, we spoke to two wonderful entrepreneurs, discussed Nikki Hailey dropping out of the presidential race and some other top news.

In the March 1 episode of The Final Word, we covered the presidential primary in Michigan, imagineNATIVE’s newly announced dates and long walk-in clinic wait times.

In this episode, we covered a Yorkdale Mall robbery, to Minister Miller’s restrictions to a safety app for students.

In the Feb. 23 episode of The Final Word, in this episode we covered the new Pharmacare deal, to the cut to funding in the Wellness Together Canada program to IKEA’s new Plan and Order points.

In the Feb. 9 episode of The Final Word, we covered the Bell Media layoffs, to Eating Disorders Awareness Week to a spoken word concert. Trigger warning: This episode contains mentions of eating disorders. 

In this episode, we covered stories from a dog from Saskatchewan that was found in Toronto, to the Women from Space music festival to Minister Miller’s new restrictions for international students. A trigger warning on this episode: It contains mentions of sexual assault.