Our eighth show of the seasonbegan with an ending…to the longest-ever college strike in Ontario, affecting 12,000 faculty members and 500,000 students, and went on to deal with financial literacy, net neutrality, autism awareness, creating new utopias, why pronouns matter, and one heck of a fine string orchestra made up of locals with day jobs.
This week’s show explored the fall and recovery of a local opioid addict, the struggle to save dying Indigenous languages, the debate over a new home for a homeless shelter, the possibility of Olympic pole dancing, goat yoga, and much, much more. (That’s right: goat yoga…)
We devoted our entire show this week to themes touching on war, loss, wounds, recovery and rebuilding — stories that reflect how people across our community mark Remembrance Day…and how many have been marked by what that day represents.
There was just a skim of snow down at Fish Lake in Yukon when Midweek’s Bronwyn Beairsto visited a family of dogsledders, but they were already well into training for the coming season — a long, cold season up there in the North.
A show on the day after Halloween was a perfect time for stories on phone zombies, the Day of the Dead, a Pumpkinferno, Pokémon and other horrors — but much more, too: Nato, human rights, dogsledding in the Yukon and more!
Midweek reporter Liam Harrap heads to Algonquin Park for his gang’s annual “Turkey Trot” canoe trip — and tells us how it’s done: is the secret to cooking a turkey on a campfire the tinfoil? the bacon? the garlic? the boxed wine? or lots and lots of patience?