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Clearing a New Path™
Inspiring and building a more united, feminist, anti-racist rural Canada. Produced by Radar Media. Podcast art inspired by the graphic design of Katie Wilhelm. Music branding by The Hankering Studio. Subscribe to the Clearing a New Path™ weekly newsletter: https://substack.com/@clearinganewpath...
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Season 3 Episode 11 - Craig Boddy, Fusion Youth Centre in Ingersoll, Ontario
I was fortunate enough to have a tour of the Fusion Youth Centre in Ingersoll, Ontario last month. Craig Boddy has been with the organization for over...

Disrupting Rural Business
Summary
I met Helen Tremethick, a rurally-based Regenerative Business Designer and Holistic Business Coach, through her workshop for the Canadia...

Prof. April Lindgren - Metropolitan University School of Journalism - Mapping Local News
April Lindgren, a former journalist and current professor, discusses the state of local journalism in Canada and the challenges it faces. She shares i...

Andrew Button - MashUp Lab
Andrew Button - MashUp Lab
I first met Andrew Button from MashUp Lab over the phone. He was inquiring about the national conferenc...

Elder Cindy Crowe - Sacred Circles
Elder Cindy Crowe - Sacred Circles
This is the third time I have had the pleasure of speaking with Elder Cindy Crowe for a podcast...

The Coxes: Rural Ontario in Colour
The Coxes: Rural Ontario in Colour
This episode, I again handed the microphone to folks who share a lens I do not have.

Organizing and Activism in Rural Canada
Organizing and Activism in Rural Canada
As a response to injustices that happen around the globe, protests and demonstrations have...

Racism: Rural vs Urban - A Gen Z Perspective
Racism: Rural vs Urban - A Gen Z Perspective
Racial inequities exist in Canada, and particularly in rural, remote and northern Can...

BONUS CONTENT - Rural Canadian History Moment - Diary of Thomas Alexander Loghrin (1878-1936)
This Rural Canadian History Moment was created by Christian Doran as part of the University of Guelph Diarist course project in 2023. The course was t...

Dispelling Period Stigma with Free Periods Canada - Niki Oveisi and Zeba Kahn
Dispelling Period Stigma with Free Periods Canada - Zeba Kahn and Niki Oveisi
As our rural Canadian communities grapple with confl...

BONUS CONTENT: Rural Canadian History Moment - Diary of Jemima Ripley (1850-1919)
This Rural Canadian History Moment was created by Emma Rutledge as part of the University of Guelph Diarist course project in 2023.

Lisa Gallant-McRobb - Leading Indigenous Healing Through Trauma and Triumph
Lisa Gallant-McRobb - Leading Indigenous Healing Through Trauma and Triumph
June is traditionally Pride Month but June is also Ind...

Sista Patricia and the Drag Storytime Guardians
Sista Patricia and the Drag Storytime Guardians
Earlier this month, a Drag Storytime was scheduled in the rural town of Parkhill,...

Who Fuels Division in Rural Canada and Why? Kurt Phillips - Canadian Anti-Hate Network
Who Fuels Division in Rural Canada and Why? - Kurt Phillips - Canadian Anti-Hate Network
I’ve spoken with Kurt Phillips from the C...

Pride and Prejudice in Rural Ontario - Tami Murray and Patricia Marshal
Pride and Prejudice in Rural Ontario
In April of 2023, in the town of Norwich, Ontario the municipal council voted to ban all flag...

Andrea Palframan and RAVEN - Supporting Indigenous Land Back Legal Claims
Andrea Palframan and RAVEN - Supporting Indigenous Land Back Legal Claims
Many of us have colonial roots and understand that our a...

Kendra Fry - Rural and Remote Churches - What's Next?
Kendra Fry - Rural and Remote Churches - What's Next?
This episode came about when I was looking up how many churches are for sale...

Dr. Jaquie Newman - How Some Rural Municipalities Use Power to Exclude
Dr. Jacquie Newman - How Some Rural Municipalities Use Power to Exclude
Through a chain of events, I found myself watching a previ...

Kim English - The Rural and Remote Nursing Crisis
Kim English - Addressing a Rural Canadian Nursing Crisis
Professor Kim English first sent me an email, suggesting the topic of rur...

Isaac Murdoch - Revolution of the Heart
Isaac Murdoch - Revolution of the Heart
I first saw Isaac Murdoch telling his stories on Facebook, during the pandemic. A prolific...

Emily McIntosh - Bill 5 - Women of Ontario Say No
Emily McIntosh - Bill 5 - Women of Ontario Say No
I first heard about the Women of Ontario Say No campaign on Instagram. One of t...

Rural Women Councillors - 100 Days in Office
Rural Women Councillors in Ontario - 100 Days in Office
This episode is a conversation with four first-time rural women councilors...

Gitanjali Aggarwal - PARO - Meeting Rural Women Where They Are
Gitanjali Aggarwal - Meeting Rural Women Where They Are
The PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise is an organization that supports wo...

Jean Bota - Community Crime Prevention in Rural Canada
Jean Bota - ‘Building Capacity in Rural Crime Prevention Project
In our last episode, we talked about just one element of crime in...

Pamela Cross - Luke's Place - A Rural Inquest
Pamela Cross - Luke’s Place - A Rural Inquest
Pamela Cross is a feminist lawyer; a well respected expert on violence against women...

Michelle Friesen - Municipal Government and Reconciliation
Councillor Michelle Friesen - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
Michelle Friesen caught my eye, initially, with a post on Instagram. She...

Duane Kumala-Thomas - Highlander Studios - History and Truth
Duane Kumala-Thomas: Highlander Studios - History and Truth
Duane Kumala-Thomas recently invited me to his art studio called Highl...

How Freebruary Helps Canada's Producers - Andrew Kinnear and Stella Sehn
How Freebruary Helps Canadian Producers
Last week, my good friend Stella Sehn, a family farm honey producer in the Prairies told m...

Rural Development Network - Filling the gaps in rural Canada - Dee Ann Benard and Daniela Seiferling
Filling the Gaps - Dee Ann Benard & Daniela Seiferling - Rural Development Network
I first came across the Rural Development Netwo...

Circles for Change in Rural Canada - Ame-Lia Tamburrini
Ame-Lia Tamburrini: Circles for Change in Rural Canada
Recently, I’ve been thinking deeply about the value of circles when it come...

RURAL BOOKS: BELINDA CLEMMENSEN - Women, Leadership & Saving the World
Belinda Clemmensen - Women, Leadership and Saving the World
Over the holidays this year, I took a connection break. That meant try...

WILL 2023 BRING CLEAN AND RESILIENT GROWTH FOR RURAL CANADA? John McNally - PLACE Centre
Will 2023 Bring Clean and Resilient Growth for Rural Canada? - John McNally - PLACE Centre
What is clean and resilient growth and...

RURAL BOOKS - AUTUMN ONGARO - FEAD: A Taste of Home in Norfolk County
Autumn Ongaro - FEAD: A Taste of Home in Norfolk County
This is the third in a series of rural-based authors. I love this book bec...

The Disconnection Between Health Authority and Community: Grandview Healthcare Solutions
Grandview HealthCare Solutions is a grassroots, community driven organization that grew out of the need to better serve patients in Grandview, Manitob...

RURAL BOOKS - CATHARINE A. WILSON - Being Neighbours
Catharine Wilson - Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830–1960
I have a fascination with Canadian history and...

Physician Assistants: Can Physicians Side-Step Ego to Help Rural Health Care? Eric Demers and Dr. Alex Nataros
Physicians Assistants: Can Physicians Side-Step Ego to Health Rural Health Care? Eric Demers and Dr. Alex Nataros
Physicians Assis...

RURAL BOOKS - ANN DOUGLAS - Navigating the Messy Middle
Ann Douglas - Navigating the Messy Middle
A Fiercely Honest and Wildly Encouraging Guide for Midlife Women
This is the first...

A Report on Access to Health Care in Rural Canada - Dr. Ruth Wilson and Dr. James Rourke
This is the second in a series of interviews about rural Canadian health care. Last episode we talked about the BC Rural Health Network, a collective...

BC Rural Health Network - Paul Adams
One of the fundamental challenges in rural Canadian communities is health care. Folks in rural and remote communities are not the same as our urban co...

Kaity Adams - Adams Family Ink and Boutique - Decolonizing Business, Politics and Mental Health
Kaity and Montana Adams own Adams Family Ink and Boutique on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, near Brantford, Ontario but it is clear Kaity r...