Bridging the Social Distance

Today's interview is with Barbara Salsberg Mathews, a local artist and performer, who is in Quarantine after having returned from a cruise to Cambodia and Vietnam. The cruise was organized over a year ago, and was meant to be eleven days - five days in and they were hurried home. It was interesting to hear the different ways other countries are dealing with this crisis - in some cases some of the...

For this episode I interview local-to-Guelph mom-in-tech, Ruth Morton. Ruth and her husband both work in tech and are able to continue working from home at this time, and and are sharing this space with their twin eleven year old boys. Between "Family Saturdays" online, Minecraft, and dog walks, they're making it work. This interview was originally recorded on March 17th 2020 This is a public epis...

Photo credit: Chris Healey This episode I speak with Crickett Wilder, who recently relocated from Guelph to Dawson City to work at the  Dawson Women's Shelter . Crickett has wise words for folks who also experience anxiety ("Avoid survival websites!"), and made some neat observations about things helpful to learn right now, such as "What does six feet look like"? We also talked about how awesome i...

This episode features Robin Cecelia Posluns, a local to Guelph Children's Entertainer. We talk about the immediate impacts this has had on her livelihood, the way in which this may permanently change the health practices involved in facepainting and Henna, the ripple affect of event cancelation, and our shared dreams of a universal basic income. Robin can be found at https://www.facebook.com/kitty...

In this debut episode I interview  Barry Rooke , the Executive Director of the  NCRA - National Campus and Community Radio Association , in Ottawa ON. We talk about what's going on for Barry during this time, as well as the role of Campus and Community radio in the climate of a global pandemic. If you are interested in being interviewed for this show, please reach out to me at mobile@cfru.ca Inter...