Full Show: The ethics of friendship, Having tough conversations & Innovating within indigenous communities

Seg 1: Are there ethics to friendship?

Guest: Dr. Cathy Mason, Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Central European University

Seg 2: View From Victoria:

Masks, boosters and COVID and other respiratory viruses are back! We get a local look at the top political stories with the help of Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer.

Seg 3: Michelle Good is a Cree writer and member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation, known for her advocacy for Indigenous people and her successful writing career.

Guest: Michelle Good, Award Winning Author of Five Little Indians and Truth Telling

Seg 4: Archaeologists investigating potential unmarked graves at suspected residential school sites often rely on survivor accounts for critical information before using ground-penetrating radar technology.

Guest: Dr. Andrew Martindale, Professor of Archeology at UBC and Member of the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials

Seg 5: Between 1951 and 1984, over 20,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit infants and children were forcibly removed from their families by child welfare authorities and adopted into primarily non-Indigenous households, often in different provinces or countries, severing their connections to their languages, traditions, and extended families.

Guest: Eugenea Couture, Author of Adoption Not an Option and Executive Producer and Director of “In Darkness I See You” and “The Big Whiteout”

Seg 6: Denise is a dedicated advocate at the intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, technology, and innovation.

Guest: Denise Williams, Member of the Cowichan Tribes and Visiting Lecturer at Simon Fraser University

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