Bridging Connections

When Peggy Garritty was appointed Chancellor in 2020, she could not have anticipated the many challenges that would face the University of Alberta throughout her term. In order to reflect on her four years as the U of A’s 22nd Chancellor, Peggy asked her friend and former colleague Glenn Kubish to take on the role as show host and interview her. In her final episode as Chancellor, Peggy reflects o...

Following Chancellor Garritty’s interview with Cheryl Whiskeyjack from Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society and Jordan Reiniger from Boyle Street Community Services about Edmonton’s housing crisis and what we can do to support unhoused people, it’s the audience’s turn. Folks who attend the live recording session tell their own stories and ask more questions of the panel, seeking to understand wh...

There are an estimated 3,000+ unhoused people living on Edmonton’s streets, a number that has increased significantly from where it was before the pandemic. University of Alberta Chancellor Peggy Garritty interviews Cheryl Whiskeyjack from Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society and Jordan Reiniger from Boyle Street Community Services about this housing crisis. Cheryl and Jordan share stories about...

University of Alberta Chancellor Peggy Garritty chats with Adrian LaChance, a renowned Plains Cree dancer, singer, and helper, about Indigenous drumming, and what it means as a creative and cultural expression. LaChance plays a few songs on his hand drum and describes music as ceremony and a connection to the Creator.

University of Alberta Chancellor Peggy Garritty interviews Edmonton musicians Ben Spencer , Ellen Doty and Biboye Onanuga about all things music: how inspiration strikes them, how they write songs, and how they know when a song is finished. Then, the Chancellor passes the mic to the audience who ask the musicians questions about criticism and the experience of writing music without lyrics.

University of Alberta Chancellor Peggy Garritty interviews David Marples, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Classics at the U of A; Oleksandr Melnyk, an academic from Ukraine studying at the U of A with the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies; and, Lyudmyla Honcharova, one of 80 Ukrainian students studying at the U of A who arrived here from Ukraine on August 20, 2022...

Following Chancellor Garritty’s conversation with Lana Cuthbertson from Areto Labs , the audience was invited to ask questions and share their own insights.  This was a topic that resonated with the folks who attended the talk, and there was a variety of questions from whether or not trolls are a true reflection of society to the notion that perpetrators of online abuse could be anyone, not j...

University of Alberta Chancellor Peggy Garritty interviews Lana Cuthbertson, one of the founders of Areto Labs , a company that is finding ways to identify and mitigate online abuse and hate. Areto Labs is a Canada-based, women-led company that started out of conversations the founders had with other women about how “online toxicity was getting in the way of gender equality in politics - women wer...

Following Chancellor Garritty’s conversation with Doug Stollery about the landmark Delwin Vriend case, the audience was invited to ask questions and share their own stories.  Along with one of Chancellor’s Conversations producers, the Chancellor examines these questions and stories from the conversation that evening and reflects on not only what Vriend did for gay rights in Alberta, but also...

In her inaugural episode, University of Alberta Chancellor Peggy Garritty interviews Doug Stollery, KC, one of the lawyers who took Delwin Vriend’s human rights case all the way to Canada’s Supreme Court. Vriend was fired in 1991 because he is openly gay, and at the time there was no protection in Alberta’s Human Rights Act against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.  The landm...