Face2Face with David Peck

Today’s conversation is about thinking local, acting municipally and global change. Robert talks about a “space for alternatives”, his own approach to the environment and a “transportation solution” and why altering the chemistry of our planet is essential to our future. Biography Rob Shirkey is a recognized global authority on the subject of climate change warnings on gas pump nozzles. He has giv...

Join Kalyanee and I today as she talks about her love for Cambodia and the environment, about “us” as the centre of the ripple, the universal nature to stories and why as a film director she feels that we need to “touch and feel” to get a better understanding of the world we live in. Biography KALYANEE MAM  (DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, & CINEMATOGRAPHER) Award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, and born storytell...

Today’s conversation is about water, social enterprise and about being a “rational optimist.” Listen in as Bradley tells us about his passion for clean water, the market place, and why he believes that more equality is fundamentally a good thing. He talks about gratuitous wealth, conspicuous consumption and about why he was “unhappy about being in a cubicle.” Biography Bradley Pierik is an enginee...

Listen today to the interview with one of my favourite people in the field of social justice, innovation and change. Hear what he has to say about perseverance, measuring the little things and structural violence and why he believes money can be dangerous. Biography Veteran civil society organization executive director skilled in CSO capacity building. Retired Executive Director of the John Howard...

Justin will change the way you think about design. He’s a Lego advocate and always appreciated the simple building block like nature of the toy. He has a relational edge when it comes to design and believes that space can inspire. Listen in to why he thinks that design is an exercise in compromise, how good design transcends and why we all need to feel like we’re a little more at home in the world...

Mark talks to day about shame versus guilt, mental health issues and how we are all wired for relationships. Listen in to hear his thoughts on desperate and difficult issues of our time. Mark tells us why we need to listen more, how we should reflect on despair and why we all need to look beyond ourselves. Biography Mark is our Executive Director. He has been a marriage and family therapist since...

Gwyneth talks about giving back, being hooked on volunteerism, why her right and left-brains are intimately linked, and why numbers are the key to the universe. Biography Gwyneth is a partner in Cody and James and worked for several years providing management and financial consulting to a variety of corporate clients before acquiring TCP Accounting in 2009. A strong believer in giving back to the...

Listen in today to a friend and one of my former professors talk about some interesting things. We talk sex, gender, and pornography. Jean has plenty to say about how we use labels and often don’t understand them, respect for other people, and what we need to do with hypocrisy. Biography Jean Saindon, Ph. D., is a retired professor of philosophy and science at York University in Toronto. His areas...

Listen in today as I chat to one of my new heroes from India. Smita tells us why she works in the world of human trafficking, how young women are so resilient, why the issue is not always related to poverty and how she thinks things are getting better. Biography Smita grew up in a Christian home where she was inspired to help others. She knew at a young age that she would pursue a degree in clinic...

Today’s interview was a real thrill for me. I was able to spend some time with the former Prime Minister of Bhutan – Jigme Thinley while he was in town for a Humber College IDI and SoChange Symposium recently called: Beyond GDP. Listen is as he talks about Gross National Happiness , “enlightened selfishness”, creating living conditions that matter, how to control our greed and about universal aspi...

Abram today talks about the moral and wise application of knowledge, learning to be quiet, why technology is only going to take us so far, “crops of merit” and how humility is essential to good development. Biography Dr. Abram Bicksler is the Director of the ECHO Asia Impact Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. For over 30 years, ECHO has been helping thousands of development workers and organizations...

Today’s conversation covered a lot of ground. Listen in as Atom speaks about his approach to understanding the human condition, remorse and reconciliation, national self-determination and the stories he tells. Biography With fifteen features and related projects, Egoyan has won numerous prizes at international film festivals including the Grand Prix and International Critics Awards from the Cannes...

Wendy talks about shame, guilt, principled pluralism and the walking wounded. She considers how many of us have been socialized to feel disgust for the other and touch on how secrets breed toxicity and ultimately cover up truth and justice. Biography Wendy Gritter, M.Div, D.Min cand. is the author of, “ Generous Spaciousness : Responding to Gay Christians in the Church.” She has served as executiv...

Steve discusses his passion for clean water, prioritization, volunteerism and mentorship. He reminds us that even Ghandi used the media well to further his cause and speaks about the power of one. Check out The Cherry Trees Band initiative and their  website  and find out more about what Steve’s up to on their Facebook page. And for more info check out this piece in the Globe and Mail and a recent...

Michelle talks to day about her approach to solving social issues in her community. She speaks about celebrating difference, facilitating community and how we really need to learn how to say hello more often. Biography Michelle lives in Oakville with her husband Jeff. She has 4 adult children and one teenager. Michelle attended Humber College for the Community Worker program and had great placemen...

Brett talks about empowerment, innovation and money. He asks how we can bring the villagers struggling for survival all over the developing world, inside our evolving ‘global village’? Biography Brett Hudson Matthews is dedicated to lighting the path out of poverty for the poorest billion rural citizens of our planet. In 2012, following a fellowship at the McLuhan Program for Culture and Technolog...

Martin speaks passionately about tacit knowledge, mentorship, the Master/Disciple relationship, the relief found in realizing that we don’t have to “prove” everything and why the thought of Michael Polanyi matters. Biography Martin is a Jesuit priest and a Professor at  Canisius College  in Buffalo, New York. He teaches introduction to world religions (“Lose Your Faith 101″) and various topics in...

Join us today as Annie talks candidly about “why she’s not special”, her fight with a rare form of Cancer, about “we” versus “me”, why she’s so positive and why her life and philosophy has changed so radically over the past few years. Biography ANNE PARKER is a Canadian living in Toronto, Ontario. She was born in 1951 and lost her mother and her sister to cancer. Having survived both breast (1980)...

In this fun and engaging chat Brady speaks about love, thoughtful speech as action, why he doesn’t believe in the good old days and why we have to be the authors of ourselves. Biography Dr. Brayton Polka is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at York University in Toronto . He is the author of several books and numerous smaller studies in which he focuses on the issue of interpretation. He shows that...

Join us for a lively chat about leadership, community wellbeing and why we should care, why democracy matters and why we need to leave the planet in a better place than how we found it. Biography David Miller is President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund – Canada , Canada’s foremost conservation organization. The WWF creates solutions to the most serious conservation challenges facing our planet, he...

Dennis talks in today’s interview about the social determinants of health, the working poor, poverty in Canada, influence, corporate power, income inequality and the power of unions and how they’re all connected. Biography Dennis Raphael is Professor of Health Policy and Management at York University, as well as the author of over 250 publications that speak to topics in public policy, poverty, an...

Tom talks about why ghosts haunt places not people and about magic, ufology and superstition and why as a sleight of hand magician he’s still believes in the notion of mystery. Biography Tom Ogden has never seen a ghost. But as a professional magician for the past forty years, his interest in ghosts, hauntings, and all things paranormal was a given. Tom’s tours have taken him to more than a hundre...

Listen in today as Ron and I discuss Gross National Happiness, full cost accounting, political will, social change and integrated ways of looking at progress. Biography Dr. Colman is founder and executive director of GPI Atlantic , a non-profit research group that, over 15 years, constructed a comprehensive index of wellbeing and sustainable development in Nova Scotia, Canada, called the Genuine P...

Photo credit: Véro Boncompagni Listen in today as these filmmakers, Mina Shum and Selwyn Jacobs, talk about Canada’s hidden history, implicit and explicit racism, why we need to listen to others and why they’re confident we can overcome our fears. Check out the trailer of their new NFB film Ninth Floor making its world premiere at TIFF 2015. Synopsis of Film It started quietly when a group of Cari...

Listen in as Patrick and Michelle talk candidly about truth, injustice and provide important insights into the life of Omar Khadr. Synopsis of Film Omar Khadr : child soldier or unrepentant terrorist? The 28-year-old Canadian has been a polarizing figure since he was 15. In 2002, Khadr was captured by Americans in Afghanistan and charged with war crimes. In October 2010, Khadr pleaded guilty to fi...