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Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 Wide Mouth Mason is a Canadian blues-based rock band, consisting of Shaun Verreault (Lead Vocals, Guitar) and Safwan Javed (Percussion, Backing Vocals). Former bassist Earl Pereira was also co-founder of Wide Mouth Mason. The band hails from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and has been active since 1995.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 Jonathan Manthorpe is the author of three books on international relations, politics, and history, including the national bestseller and Globe and Mail Top 100 Books of 2019, Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada. Over his fifty-year career as a journalist, he has been the foreign corres...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 Gord Hume is recognized as one of Canada's leading voices on municipal government, sustainable urban development, cultural planning, and creative cities. He is a passionate and provocative public speaker, an advisor to civic governments, and a respected and thoughtful author and commentator on local government and community iss...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 It's been some time since the release of the podcast, and the initial interview with Dennis himself. Let's catch up with him.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Known for the Rising Son trilogy, Dennis interviews R.L. Pace.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 A journalist by trade and nature, passionate about newspapers, magazines and even some websites. Diving into the fight between good and evil. ​ She didn't set out to write the Great Canadian novel (or notebook). She writes something fun to read, fast-paced, with a salting of morality, a dash of peppery sex.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   We interview blogger Ruth Adams, who blogs as Widow's Endorphins. Endorphins are natural pain and stress relievers. She writes and photographs for her own healing and joy.

Allan Kehler joins us again in a follow up interview. It's one year later and we catch up with Allan Kehler again since the release of his new book "MENtal Health...It's Time to Talk". Men and mental health is the focus and Allan shares stories from some very brave men.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Kim Mitchell is a rock musician. He was the lead singer and guitarist for the band Max Webster, before going on to a solo career. His 1984 single, "Go For Soda", was his only charted song on the US Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 86. He put out six other singles, "Patio Lanterns", "Rock and Roll Duty", "Rockland Wonderland...

Ralph Crawford, from Crawford's Books (Episode 12) has passed away.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Eric Wilder grew up in Louisiana listening to his grandmothers' tales of ghosts and voodoo. He is the author of the French Quarter Mystery Series featuring sleuth Wyatt Thomas, and the Buck McDivit Mystery Series. He is also the author of several best-selling regional cookbooks, including Lily's Little Cajun Cookbook, in whic...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   She is a poet, and the author of 25 books, and co-founder of FPoint Collective, a photography collective; and Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, a magazine that promotes uplifting and positive poetry, no matter the topic. She is the former Head of Marketing and Communications at Connexion Franco Coop.

Ashley Morin was a Saskatchewan woman last seen July 10, 2018. Police announced that she is the victim of a homicide, which they announced on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance. Two years after she disappeared friends and family of Ashley Morin, are on a journey to keep her memory alive. Ood Galifrey from the Occultae Veritatis Podcast sits down with her family, to discuss this tragic s...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Jenn joins us to learn about Saskatchewan's outstanding food artisans and local food system.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   John Mighton is a Canadian mathematician, author, and playwright. He was awarded the Order of Canada. He founded JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies) Math, a charitable organization that works to educate students in mathematics. He has a Ph. D. in mathematics at the University of Toronto.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 Anne Nelson (born 1954) is an American journalist, author, playwright, and professor. From 1980 to 1983, Nelson served as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Guatemala. She currently teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett, 13 September 1941) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition "Spinning Wheel" was enshrined...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Beth Torbert (born June 15, 1971) is an Indo-Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and motivational speaker best known by her stage name Bif Naked. Between 1995 and 2016, Bif Naked was among the Top 150 selling Canadian artists in Canada. Bif played with punk bands Gorilla Gorilla and Chrome Dog. She has toured Europe, the Uni...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Growing up in Montreal, Andy Kim is known for his 1960s and 1970s musical hits. He co-wrote "Sugar, Sugar" in 1968 and sang on the recording as part of The Archies; it was #1 for four weeks and was "Record of the Year" for 1969.

Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. Mr. Towstego entered this world with an audience watching! Nurses and doctors in training watched the delivery! Anthony has dedicated his life to the production of quality television and film production. He likes to be involved in programs of "significance" that are earthly bound, but with heavenly meaning. He Produced the first feature film in Saskatoon in...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Theo Tams is a Canadian singer. His debut album, Give It All Away, was released on 19 May 2009 by Sony Music Canada. He auditioned for Canadian Idol in February 2008, and would later win. Tams came out as gay during the show's run by referring to a male partner during one of his post-performance interviews.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   John Peter "Jay" Semko is a singer/songwriter and bassist with Canadian band, The Northern Pikes. He is also a music composer for numerous film and television productions, most notably the successful Canadian television series Due South. Semko has been nominated for a Juno Award eight times as a member of the Northern Pikes,...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 A prairie naturalist, activist, and writer living on the northern edge of the Great Plains in Regina, Saskatchewan. Trevor's fifth book, Towards a Prairie Atonement, came out in October, 2016, published by the University of Regina Press.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Bill Jones is creating an educational documentary/film that focuses on the positive support African Americans experienced in the 1950's, coming to Canada to play semi-pro baseball.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 The typewriters lined up at Thom Cholowski's home resembles a display in a museum. These are a few of the machines he has restored and hopes to sell at a pop-up shop at a stationery store on the weekend. Cholowski has about 80 typewriters at his home in Saskatoon, but he's not a collector — he's one of only a few typewriter rep...