The Conversation Lab

Kim Haxton, co-founder of IndigenEYEZ, which builds the confidence of Indigenous youth through a creative land-based program that rests on traditional philosophy and values.

Scott Elliott, Executive Director of Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, speaks with Don Shafer about the unique challenges people living with HIV have.

Truth & Inspiration - Three different views regarding the social and political impact of climate change. In this episode of the Conversation Lab, I talk with Naomi Klein, Al Gore, and Michael Mann about climate change, politics, and social justice. While dated, the speakers emphasize the urgency of addressing climate change and the need for transformative change and progressive policies. They...

Heather Wong-Mitchell and I talk about key issues, QMUNITY's many programs, outreach through BC, funding, aging and a few other interesting and quirky things.

Kit Rothschild and Olive Bing are with the PACE Society located in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. They talk about its origins and issues and about an amazing group of dedicated, compassionate people committed to providing Sex Worker-led and driven programs and services for Sex Workers.

Linda Solomon Wood is a journalist, entrepreneur, and the publisher of the National Observer. In our conversation, Linda talks about her vision to build a local and national news platform, what’s wrong with journalism, diversity in media, local and global citizenship and more. She also talks about "dark nights of the soul" and how to get through them.

Trying to understand Vancouver's Downtown East Side is complex. Which is why professionals come from all over the world to try and understand. Tom Wanklin is a senior planner with the City of Vancouver and he explains many of the issues.

Karen Mahon is a strategist, organizer, facilitator, fundraiser, and teacher with more than 25 years in making social change. Early in her career, she led Greenpeace's campaign to protect the old growth rainforest of Clayoquot Sound, now a UN Biosphere Reserve. Karen has been a student and teacher focused on the intersection of the inner spiritual and emotional realms with the outer ecological and...

Of the estimated $360 million per year to operate 260 social services and housing sites in the greater downtown east side, three-quarters of the spending is funded by governments, and the rest by private donors. For those like Mission Possible that can't rely on funding alone they have created a social enterprise to help support their work with community development, and street-level care. Mathew...

Eco-Justice lawyers have represented community groups, not for profits, First Nations, and individual Canadians on the frontlines of the fight for environmental justice since 1999. This conversation with the Executive Director explores our "gold rush laws" and Canada's environmental track record.

Roy Scranton is the author of War Porm, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, and We're Doomed, Now What? His journalism, essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in Rolling Stone, the New York Times and many other publications. He is also one of the editors of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He holds a Ph. D. and teaches creative writing in the Department of Engli...

Women in Canada live at greater risk than men of domestic violence, sexual assault, harassment, and sex trafficking. Because it costs women their lives: approximately every six days, a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner. Thankfully there are gentle warriors like Angela Marie MacDougall to help.

Naomi Oreskes talks about writing the introduction to the Encyclical, climate change, propaganda, and hope!

A conversation with Katharine Hayhoe about Climate Change and how we talk about it! And yes, there is hope.

Cally Wesson & George Pitman talk about Variety and the work being done to help kids and their families in British Columbia.

Tzeporah Berman talks about Canada’s climate plan. The good, the bad and the ugly!

Naomi Klein talks about Trump politics, No Is Not Enough, activism, and why we need to get off the couch!

The importance of community radio station and ensuring its voices are heard!