Change My Mind

The FIFA World Cup is one of the biggest sporting events on the planet. But for host cities, it's about far more than what happens on the pitch. Hosting a global event of this scale comes with enormous public investment, high expectations and no shortage of debate. Is it money well spent? Or could those dollars be better used elsewhere? In this episode of Change My Mind, Lynda Steele is joined by...

Social media was supposed to bring us together. Instead, many people now describe it as exhausting, divisive but also impossible to escape. In this episode of Change My Mind , Lynda Steele examines her own complicated relationship with social media and asks a question that feels increasingly relevant: is staying online still worth it? Joined by technology analyst and journalist Carmi Levy, the con...

Ozempic arrived and suddenly the conversation around obesity changed. New medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists are transforming how many people think about weight, health and obesity. But they are also raising difficult questions about access, stigma, personal responsibility and the role of public health systems. In this episode of Change My Mind, Lynda Steele sits down with Dr. Ali Zentne...

What does it mean to force someone to get better — and does it work? In this episode, host Lynda Steele sits down with Guy Felicella, a harm reduction advocate and addiction educator, whose life story resists easy categorization. Over nearly two decades, Guy cycled through addiction, homelessness, gang involvement and incarceration, surviving six overdoses before finding his way to recovery. Today...

This episode of Change My Mind with Lynda Steele explores one of the most current and complex questions in Canadian healthcare: should Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) be available when a psychiatric disorder is the sole underlying condition? Rather than debating whether MAID and mental illness belong together, this conversation with Claire Brosseau — a writer, actor and advocate living in palli...

It’s called Change My Mind — but not in the way you think. In this first episode, Lynda Steele introduces the podcast and the kind of conversations she is trying to create — thoughtful, curious and grounded in listening. Along with her producer, she explores what’s driving division and why it matters to talk things through instead of diving into polarizing noise. They share stories about how we've...