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Welcome to Season 7 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec !  In this episode, Chris Shee is joined by Margo Legault, LQ's Executive Director to speak to everyone's favourite unofficial auntie, drag queen Uma Gahd ! Listen to hear our drag lingo quiz, about drag story time , and Uma's fascinating origin story. Watch the video version of this episode now on Youtube ! To join...

Welcome to Season 7 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec ! In this episode, we discuss how to communicate our own stories,  the importance of creating accessible resources for youth to learn Canadian Black History, and get some media training to pitch our stories and impact! We also celebrate the winner of this year's Freda Hudson Award given each year to an outstanding vo...

Join us in this special episode Part#2 "The Sequel" with Dr Denny Taylor for this emotional conversation about Family Literacy and the life long bonds families can create by sharing stories with each one another. Discover how Denny describes how spinning a "caring web" through reading stories to family members, or even if you happen to be low in literacy skills, sharing stories verbally with your...

Welcome to Season 7 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec ! We start the season off with a bang having conversations with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library & DESTA Black Youth Network ! These two organizations are committed to creating opportunity, equality and inclusion through the gift of literacy! We discuss the importance of creating opportunities to learn from the...

Welcome to the 6th episode of season 6 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec.  This week's theme is The need to integrate  Black history in Canadian education for cultural literacy and how to build a resilient mindset for peak performance. We have two amazing guests on today! First, we have a virtual sit-down with Dr Dorothy Williams the President & Founder of Blac...

Welcome to the 5th episode of season 6 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec.  This week's theme is Celebrating Adult Learners & Community Education Week with Dr. Denny Taylor, champion of Family Literacy! Dr. Denny Taylor is a scholar, author, and activist who introduced the concept of of Family Literacy. Taylor recently gave the Literacy Quebec network a webinar via Z...

Welcome to the 4th episode of season 6 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec.  This week's theme is Overcoming reluctant reading and learning to love the way you learn with two amazing writers! We continue our min-series on Black leaders in Literacy and learn about encouraging people of all ages to embrace how they learn and to continue pursuing learning and reading. ...

Welcome to the 3rd episode of season 6 of What's Literacy Got To Do With It? by Literacy Quebec .  This week's theme is Black Leaders in Literacy and Going from Burnout to Balance - self-care tips from an expert! What's Literacy Got To Do With It? is a community-based podcast for English-speaking, lifelong literacy learners in Quebec. Our hosts Chris Shee and Jaimie Cudmore from Literacy Queb...

Welcome to the 2nd episode of Season 6 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast ! The theme this week is Celebrating Family Literacy Day & Let’s Talk about Mental Health Join our hosts Chris Shee and Jaimie Cudmore discuss two big topics that are very much linked and were celebrated in the last week of January- Family Literacy Day (January 27) and Bell Let’s Talk Day (28). Let’s Talk Day is an annual ca...

On this month's episode, we kick off season six with a bang! We discuss the importance of building our Health Literacy with plain language with Dr. Joe (and Science Literacy with Magic!) + celebrate International Volunteer Day by discussing the importance of volunteer advocacy on behalf of nonprofit organizations in Canada.  We have special guests: Karen Ball president & CEO of CCVO the C...

Communicating, Compassion and Community through COVID and Beyond! Welcome to the 5th episode of season 6 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast! Hosts Chris Shee and Jaimie Cudmore explore the power of clear communication in our communities, and how clear communication creates understanding, building a thriving culture of compassionate and resilient people during challenging periods. We will have special...

It's Media Literacy Week! Welcome to the Literacy Quebec Podcast. It's already the 5th episode of season 5! This week we talk about Media Literacy (how to critically examine the media that is giving us) and digital Literacy (making computers accessible for non-profits and low-income families). We are joined by two special guests: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education from MediaSmarts https://medi...

Did you know that there are 1 BILLION views of tutorial videos on Youtube?! Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 5! We continue to explore online learning and how services providing support for lifelong literacy are adapting.  We start the episode with a discussion with Krystyna Slawecki, program manager for Montreal and Northern Quebec from Frontier College . Krystyna teaches us about Frontier col...

On this week’s HUGE episode, we celebrate International Literacy Day! We learn why it is essential to reflect, advocate and celebrate all of the work that is going into promoting literacy worldwide, and the challenges and adaptations during the pandemic. Our hosts, Chris Shee and Jaimie Cudmore, talk to UNESCO, First Book Canada, DragonBunnyBoooks. Com, Literacy Quebec and telecommunications exper...

Welcome to PART 2 of Season 5 Episode 1 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast! Literacy organizations have had to adapt their tutoring styles due to the pandemic and we'll have a segment in this episode to discuss the transition to online tutoring for their volunteer teachers and students "Members Moment" We interview Cheryl from the Gaspésie Literacy Council on how they have had to adapt their volunteer...

WE ARE BACK!  Welcome to Season 5 Episode 1 (PART 1) of the Literacy Quebec Podcast!  ➡️ The Freda Hudson Volunteer Recognition Award and Getting Connected. In this weeks episode, first up Chris gets the chance to interview Gordon Cook, the 2019 winner of the Freda Hudson Volunteer Recognition Award , as well as Gordon's math student Stella and amazing TLE staff member Enza from The Lear...

Welcome to a special episode of the Literacy Quebec Podcast for International Women’s Day! ***A head's up for listeners we discuss sexual assault and violence in this episode.*** Check out the LQ Facebook page for our annual #WomeninLiteracy campaign throughout the week to come!  To kick off the week in this episode Chris and Jaimie spoke with Natasha Harvey from the Girls Action Foundation ....

Welcome to the 6th and final episode of season 4! It’s Black History Month 2020! In this week’s episode we celebrate the many achievements and contributions of Black Canadians who, throughout history, have done so much to make Canada the culturally diverse, compassionate and prosperous nation it is today! We have special guest Kassandra Kernisan the executive director of DESTA on Literacy Lowdown...

Do stats really count? A Conversation with Statistics Canada Welcome to the 5th episode of season 4 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast! In this week’s episode we are talking about statistics!  Numbers can be scary and confusing, but with help from Samuel Dupéré, Manager, Montréal Data Service Centre, Statistics Canada we learn why data is important and how we can learn to use data to advocat...

Welcome to the 4th episode of season 4 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast! In this week’s episode we talk with Quebec City Reading Council about celebrating Family Literacy Day / Week, plus QCRC shares with us their launch of an exciting new literacy program called Learning Without Limits... you need to listen to find out how much of a positive impact this program will make to literacy learners around...

Happy 2020! Welcome to the 3rd episode of season 4 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast!  In this week’s episode we recorded our regular book club at the LQ office. We discussed the book Dare to Lead by Brene Brown, which fits perfectly in with the topic we wanted to launch into 2020 with How to Fail Successfully in 2020. We also talk about Cal Newport’s Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Di...

Welcome to the Literacy Quebec Podcast and the last episode of 2019! (Season 4 Episode 2... don't worry we will be back in January 2020!) This week’s episode brings you some of the best snippets of 2019! (well as much "best" as we could fit into an hour-long episode anyway!) It's a time to Celebrate Literacy, continue to better understand how literacy is so important in each one of our everyday li...

Do you know how life-changing using your imagination can be?? " Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." - Albert Einstein Welcome to the 1st episode of season 4 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast ! In this week’s episode, we were able to capture the magic our literacy member...

Welcome to the 6th episode of season 3 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast! With November being Financial Literacy Month our theme this month has been focussed around financial literacy, and what it means to be financially literate #GainControl Today we speak with Brian Smith from the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE), Jaimie reviews a free online course on Personal Finance Essentials f...

Welcome to the 5th episode of season 3 of the Literacy Quebec Podcast! With November being Financial Literacy Month, our theme for the next couple of episodes will be focussed around financial literacy, and what it means to be financially literate. Also we learn some practical tips we can try and action to gain some more financial control in 2019 heading  into 2020!  Gabrielle Thomas fro...