To North Bay With Love

Taylor Simard from Degagne Carpentry joins the show to talk about building homes vs buying. Lisa and Taylor also delve into the changing landscape over the last 5 years of the real estate market and Lisa has her tiny home dreams crushed. Taylor joins the show 2:30 Is there a problem with a lack of tradesman? 7:40 Process for building homes 15:30 Every home should have a mud room 24:50 Thanks to ou...

Amanda Boettcher from BioPed in North Bay joins the podcast to talk about Soles4Souls and her recent trip to Honduras. Amanda tells a story of a local in Honduras who sold shoes to make ends meet through the Soles4Souls program. Amanda joins the show 2:30 Soles4Souls and her recent trip to Honduras 8:10 What was it like coming home following her trip? 15:30 Thanks to our sponsor Services. Visit yo...

Jess Diggles and Sara Lecappelain join the show to talk about their new initiative Queen of the North. A local event to bring local women in business together to collaborate and grow each other's businesses. You can find more information on social media @QOTN2024 and at eventcreate.ca/qotn2024 Jess and Sara join the show to talk about their own business journeys 2:20 How did Jess and Sara meet and...

Lisa visits The Village at Canadore College to view The Witness Blanket exhibit, a large-scale work of art by Carey Newman. He uses objects to tell the genocidal history of Residential Schools and the generational impact endured by Indigenous peoples. Lisa talks to Nancy Black - Executive Director of the Learning Library, Denali Meyer - The Village Assistant, and Micheline Demers - The Village Pro...

Dave Dale and Scott Clark join Lisa to talk about the Echo Essentials Podcast they are launching this afternoon. They say their ‘odd couple’ personalities and polar opposite outlooks will make for interesting conversations while shedding more light on local news and issues in the community. Their podcast will be posted weekly and include guest interviews.. Listen to the trailer on our website Nort...

Tonya Raymond joins the show today to talk about Nurse Next Door which focuses on helping with senior care and keeping allowing people to continue to live in their own homes. Lisa and Tonya talk about the burden it takes off the loved ones to provide 24/7 care. Tonya also talks about the current crisis happening in health care with nursing and how Nurse Next Door is changing the narrative. Tonya j...

Lisa is joined by Backroads Bill and to talk about his podcast on the Echo Network alongside Producer Ben (also the co-host/producer of The Backroads Bill Podcast). T hey go off track after Bill mentions a certain town in Ontario which brings the topic around to what Bill calls “The Shining”. The podcast delves into intuition, ghosts, fairies and even sasquatches! Check out Bill's podcast "The Bac...

Lisa is joined by Executive Director of the Nipissing Serenity Hospice Gil Pharand to talk about how the impact the hospice has on their patients and the community. Gil shares the difference between a hospital environment vs a hospice environment and how the hospice tries to make the experience for the patients and families as positive as they can. He shares how the hospice came to be in the North...

Lisa takes a trip down to The Gathering Place to chat with Dennis Chippa. Dennis talks about how The Gathering Place is more than just a soup kitchen and how important it is for people from all walks of life. Dennis and Lisa dive into the stigma of soup kitchens and dealing with feeling shame for using their services. Dennis puts it well when saying “using a soup kitchen doesn’t mean you failed. I...

Arwyn Patterson is a local realtor who was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and started using the “Specific Carbohydrate Diet” which drastically improved her condition. She joins the show to talk with Lisa and Kelly Martin who have also started to follow this diet and have noticed big changes to their day to day life Lisa and Kelly talk about how this diet has helped their gut health 2:10 Arwyn join...

Lisa gets out of the studio and takes a trip to White Water Gallery downtown to chat with Artistic Director Alex Maeve Campbell. She also brings on two artists, Victoria Ward and Gary Blundell, to talk about their trip to the Bay of Fundy inspiring them to paint the pieces featured on display Lisa shares a funny Sal story about a trip to the Bay of Fundy 2:00 Alex joins to talk about the White Wat...

Lisa sits down with Scott Clark to talk about the trip he took over the holidays to Sweden to watch the World Junior hockey tournament. Scott talks about the cultural differences and how Sweden embraces winter compared to how Canada deals with this time of year. Lisa shares her recent experience with covid 1:40 Scott joins to talk about Sweden and the World Juniors 5:20 What are malls like in Swed...

Lisa took a trip downtown to visit Rae Brenne who owns Stix & Stones which is a local yarn store that also offers workshops throughout the week. Rae talked about how she originally got involved with knitting and decided to open up her store and her response to the idea that knitting is a dying art. Lisa also got the chance to talk to a few other people who were attending “Stitch and Craft Nigh...

We brought in 3 North Bay reporters Chris Dawson of BayToday, Clarke Heipel of Cogeco and Greg Estabrooks of The Nugget. The three talk about the recent BayToday article asking for people to vote for their favourite local sports story of the past year. Lisa is out of commission this episode with covid so producer Ben steps in to man the ship to try to rein in these three rowdy reporters. Nipissing...

Kelly and Karen Sarlo are a North Bay based mother-daughter duo who offer medium, medical intuitive and psychic modalities services. Lisa sat down with both of them to talk about their line of work, the podcasts they host and Karen shares a funny story about seeing a show at the Capitol Centre. Kelly and Karen Sarlo join Lisa 6:20 Why do people ignore their intuition? 9:20 Karen at the Capitol Cen...

The Village at Canadore College is the first of its kind facility in Canada. Today on the show we are joined by The Village’s Intergenerational Lead Kelsey Lecappelain and VIP Linda Coghlan. Kelsey and Linda explain how The Village is helping seniors remain active and social. Linda tells her story of first getting involved and, even though she was hesitant at first, she became and ambassador for T...

Today's episode Lisa and producer Ben look back at the first 4 months of To North Bay With Love and share some of the team's favourite moments. We are looking forward to the new year and have plenty of exciting things up our sleeves at the Echo Community Podcast Network! Links to the episodes featured in the episode Paige - https://www.northbayecho.ca/traffic-tickets-from-the-sky-and-jordans-bash-...

It’s a special boxing day edition of To North Bay With Love and the team gathered to reminisce about their favourite Christmas memories and traditions. Lisa is joined by producer Ben, Content Director Dave Dale, and the man that pays for everything Scott Clark. As is usual in most holiday gatherings there are some disagreements between Scott and Ben on if Ben is actually 6 feet tall (which for the...

Rebecca McGlynn, Executive Director of Marketing, for Ontario Northland joins the show to talk about the passenger train almost being ready to go again after being shut down in 2012 . Lisa also tells a story of her encounter with, what she coins as, “an invisible pedestrian” and the dangers some pedestrians put themselves in by not following proper traffic laws. Lisa talks about the invisible pede...

Jaimee Bull has a long list of accolades in the sport of water skiing including: 3x Waterski Pro Tour Champion,​ 2x Open World Champion, Masters Champion, U21 Women's World Record Holder, 2x U21 World Slalom Champion, Junior World Slalom Champion, Canadian National Team Member. She also recently featured in the documentary “The Unknown Sport of Waterskiing”. She joins the show to talk about her jo...

Samanta Izquierdo from Guerilla Grooves joins Lisa to talk about how Guerilla Grooves is using unique venues to showcase different artists in North Bay. Samanta also talks about her time before moving to Canada in Ecuador and Lisa shows off her spanish chops and gets a passing grade from Samanta. Samanta joins the show to talk about Guerilla Grooves 2:00 Being born in Ecuador and living in Chile 9...

Mariah Thibert from the Little Bitty Plant Shop stops by to talk with Lisa about all things plants. The pair dive into plant care, tips on being a new plant owner, and debunking some popular myths about the industry. It’s a small world in North Bay and Echo Producer Ben reveals how him and Mariah crossed paths once many years ago. Ben talks about knowing Mariah a long time ago 2:00 Mariah joins to...

How often do you take a shopping road trip to bigger cities or shop online because of a lack of options in North Bay? North Bay Vision Development Inc. is trying to change that by developing parts of North Bay to entice big brands and more economic traffic to our city. Ben Farella, one of the managing partners, joins Lisa to talk about how this project started and his hopes for the future of North...

Journalistic integrity can be difficult when you have to cover a controversial and public figure. Dave Dale, Echo’s Content Director, and Bay Today journalist Stu Campaigne talk about their decision to cover the Sheldon Forgette case in Echo Essentials, Bay Today and on Dave’s podcast Small Town Times. Both Dave and Stu talk about trying to cover the case ethically and without bias and waiting for...

One play cemented a brotherly bond between 2 actors and now Josh Bainbridge and Morgan Bedard get to re-enact that play but with a new twist. Lisa dives into the story of Josh writing his version of The Three Musketeers and how, at its heart, is the story of friendship and people willing to put it all on the line to support each other. Josh and Morgan join to talk about how their friendship starte...