Real Talk Ryan Jespersen

Chartered Professionals in Human Resources of Alberta CEO Rod Miller on the importance and productivity benefits in the workplace when employees get allyship and inclusion training. Is consuming less our best strategy for saving the planet and can we even do it? Journalist J. B. MacKinnon shares what he found out while investigating his new book "The Day the World Stops Shopping".  Digital Underta...

24:07 | Directors Robert Watt and Georgina Liberty share about the new Commissioner of Indigenous Languages Office designed to help First Nations, Inuit and Métis reclaim their traditional names on passports and other government ID.  59:33 | Chef Andrew George Jr. explains how food is vital in promoting cultural understanding and the ways he learned about it from his Wet'suwet'en Nation family mem...

Ryan rolls out the best rants of the week, as submitted to talk@ryanjespersen.com. Buckle up for another edition of Trash Talk, presented by Local Waste.

15:30 | Canada Research Chair for Internet Law, Dr. Michael Geist dissects the Broadcasting Act Bill C-10  and botched work on it as Speaker Anthony Rota found that the committee “exceeded its authority” by passing the amendments after the House-imposed time limit on further work by the committee had expired. 38:00 | Urban Planner Ashley Salvador, City Planner Brent Toderian, Halifax Parking Servi...

15:03 | Pride Toronto's Sherwin Modeste discusses the indefinite ban on uniformed police at the city's Pride events and how healing is necessary before officers can be involved again.  33:06 | Openly gay Calgary Constable Tad Milmine shares how Pride police bans impact him while he also appreciates that trust needs to be built between the LGBTQ2S+ community and law enforcement.  51:55 | Canadian V...

9:37 | Ryan unpacks the speech Nunavut NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq gave in the House of Commons about Canadian inaction on Indigenous issues and lack of inclusion on the Hill, saying “people like me don’t belong here in the federal institution”.  35:58 | #MyJasper Memories | How to hit the river ways on whitewater rafts in the Rocky Mountains (your dog can come too). https://www.jasper.travel/realtalk...

Colombia Calling podcast host and South America-based foreign correspondent Richard McColl discusses the current political unrest in Colombia and why it's persisting.  Dr. Pamela Roach unpacks her Canadian Medical Association Journal article about the draft Alberta curriculum. The piece, "The Potential Health and Social Effects of Alberta’s Draft K-6 Curriculum" outlines how the proposed education...

Ryan rolls out the best rants of the week, as submitted to talk@ryanjespersen.com . Buckle up for another edition of Trash Talk, presented by Local Waste .

Alberta "rural resentment" is detailed by Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities' Acting Director, Dr. Clark Banack. The Camrose-based political scientist shares how he visited 16 non-urban communities to speak with Albertans who are increasingly feeling left behind economically and culturally and are eager to overturn the status quo.  The many implications of the recently announced 1.3...

Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs' Adir Krafman and Jewish Federation of Edmonton CEO Stacey Leavitt-Wright offer their perspectives on Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health Associate Director Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle discusses the issues related to Indigenous health including the history of Residential Schools, culture, language, land-based learning...

Annamie Paul discusses taking over the helm of the federal Green Party after 13 years of Elizabeth May's leadership and what she anticipates the political future will hold.  #MyJasper Memories | Reminiscing about the many charming patios in the town of Jasper, at the Lodge and on the ski slopes, where beverages of choice can be savoured. https://www.jasper.travel/realtalk The new Sustainable and T...

Ryan grapples with three generations of a London, Ont. family being murdered on Sunday (June 6) in a terrorist act motivated by hate against Muslims.   Ottawa-based Public Educator, Julie Lalonde, shares how bystanders can intervene when they witness harassment on the street. She's been teaching bystander intervention for over a decade with the organization Hollaback. The Town of High River Mayor...

First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada's Dr. Cindy Blackstock discusses today's House of Commons vote on ending litigation against First Nations kids, Residential school survivors and implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action. She explains the history of the legal proceedings to date and her hopes for the future.  With the Alberta government announc...

Ryan rolls out the best rants of the week, as submitted to talk@ryanjespersen.com . Buckle up for another edition of Trash Talk, presented by Local Waste .  

Chief Economist for ATB Financial Todd Hirsch discusses his new report, The State of the Alberta Economy and The Path Forward. He explains where the regional, national and global financial scene is headed and how we need to prepare. Queer youth living in Canada, author jaye simpson, Pride Fund Founder Shane Scott and 2SLGBTQIA+ activist Ophelia Ravencroft share the protest nature of Pride and why...

Ryan isn't drinking up what's on tap at the premier's recent Sky Palace Supper. Instead he calls for continued attention on what the rooftop party is attempting to distract from.  University of Manitoba Indigenous Studies Scholar Dr. Sean Carleton rebukes Alberta premier's false statements about John A. Macdonald who "took positions on issues at the time that we now judge harshly". Carleton identi...

Senator Dr. Patti LaBoucane-Benson explains the need and her drive to see the establishment of a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Canadian laws align with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. #MyJasper Memories | Meet Matricia Bauer, an Indigenous singer, drummer and storyteller in Jasper. Through her business Warrior Women, Matricia offers musical perfo...

Métis Archaeologist and the Director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology at the University of Alberta, Dr. Kisha Supernant discusses the need for Indigenous communities to decide what happens at former residential schools sites in seeking the truth around the genocide. Systems engineer and policy analyst Dr. Costa Samaras shares why electric trucks are the future of sustainable...

Ryan reflects on the gruesome discovery by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc of the remains of 215 children on a former residential school site near Kamloops, BC.  The photographer of the massive chopped down old-growth spruce tree, Lorna Beecroft shares why she felt compelled to take a photo on the highway while the tree was being transported by semi-truck. Since posting it on May 24 via Facebook, the i...

Ryan rolls out the best rants of the week, as submitted to talk@ryanjespersen.com . Buckle up for another edition of Trash Talk, presented by Local Waste .

Didsbury, Alberta-based physician Dr. Akin Osakuade clarifies the need for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour to get vaccinated. He's seen vaccine hesitancy amongst these communities and he explains how the polio campaigns he helped with in Nigeria inform his work now.   Edmonton Public Library's Elder in Residence Jo-Ann Saddleback, Métis educator, writer and harvester Conor Kerr plus Governo...

Pediatrician Dr. Tehseen Ladha discusses the latest pandemic plan announced by the Alberta government as well as the emerging cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) and Long COVID sufferers.  Cat researcher, Gabriella Smith explains her research on 'If I Fits I Sits' exploring one of the distinctive feline behaviours endearing them to humans. She's part of the Edmonton Inte...

Author of 'Feminist City: A Field Guide' Dr. Leslie Kern explores how cities exclude women and other minority groups when being designed and constructed. #MyJasper Memories | Spirit Island - Ryan reminisces about the jagged mountain peaks surrounding the glacier-fed waters of magical Maligne Lake, where the world-famous Spirit Island can be discovered (only by boat). jasper.travel/realtalk Introdu...

Reflecting and reckoning with what's changed and what remains the same since George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020 by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Anti-racism activist, educator and writer Matthew R. Morris, Cree/Iroquois/French award-winning journalist Brandi Morin, and MLA for Edmonton-City Centre David Shepherd explore where Canada is at in relation to racism on the one...

Ryan rolls out the best rants of the week, as submitted to talk@ryanjespersen.com . Buckle up for another edition of Trash Talk, presented by Local Waste .