Best Movement Department Podcasts (2024)

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Boundaries with Emily Stride 33:04

2h ago33:04

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Emily Stride, Workforce Strategist for Talent Acquisition. In this episode, we speak about the three types of boundaries – Fragile, Flexible and Rigid – that we may have in place in our lives. Emily speaks about the boundaries she has set up, and how they help…

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Movement with Andrew Bonsey 34:34

3h ago34:34

34:34

In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Andrew Bonsey, Exercise Physiologist from HT Health Group. In this episode, Andrew suggests we each think about the things we would like to be able to do when are 70, and to work backwards from them when considering how active we need to be now. He speaks abou…

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Episode 183 - Ethiopia, Part II 30:18

1h ago30:18

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I wrap up the intro to Ethiopia this week by covering the key points of Menelik's successful reign, and the rise to power of Ras Tafari Makonnen. Who before this episode is finished will have established himself under his much more famous royal name of Haile Selassie. His reign would see forceful attempts at modernization, which was carried out aga…

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Police department budgets rise sharply across Canada despite calls to defund (encore) 24:07

22m ago24:07

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In 2020, there were widespread calls to defund the police following the police murder of George Floyd. In Canada, a poll from that year found over 50% of Canadians wanted to see police budgets reduced. Despite this, no major Canadian city police department has had its funding reduced and in fact, budgets have gone up. We speak with Ted Rutland is a…

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Episode 182 - Ethiopia, Part I 30:14

1h ago30:14

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Today marks the start of another new miniseries, this time cover the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. But before I get going on the main topic, I'm going to be spending the next two episodes introducing modern Ethiopia. If you missed the overview histories from last season, you're in luck as this is a crash course how the country unified and survived …

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Waterfront Conference: Designing for Tomorrow – The Multisector Approach to Climate Adaptation with the Waterfront Alliance 2:07:27

10d ago2:07:27

2:07:27

In episode 209 of America Adapts, I attended the Waterfront Conference in New York City hosted by the Waterfront Alliance. The conference took place at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower Manhattan. In this episode, you'll hear from state and local government officials talking about how they do coastal climate adaptation. We’ll also have insight…

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Supreme Court suspends BC's drug decriminalization rollbacks (encore) 14:54

39m ago14:54

14:54

On December 29, 2023, the BC Supreme Court granted a temporary injunction to the Harm Reduction Nurses Association, putting BC’s Bill 34 on hold for 3 months. The Bill imposes sweeping restrictions on the province’s decriminalization pilot launched a year ago. We spoke with Caitlin Shane of Pivot Legal, one of the lawyers representing the Harm Redu…

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Self-Regulation with Dr Polly McGee 32:10

9d ago32:10

32:10

In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Dr Polly McGee, Psychotherapist and Neuroleadership Consultant from Second Mountain Co. In this episode, Polly describes the autonomic nervous system and explains how its branches shape our responses to situations, whether that’s a car crash or a meeting. Poll…

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Sustainability with Georgie Opie and Dr Tom Clemens 24:28

9d ago24:28

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Georgie Opie, Program Manager for Sustainability at the Royal Hobart Hospital and Dr Tom Clemens, Staff Specialist Paediatrician for the Tasmanian Community Paediatric Service. Georgie and Tom speak about how the health of our planet is linked to the health of…

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Episode 181 - Backlash 34:35

3d ago34:35

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Given all the misfortune to have befallen the Roosevelt administration going into the 1934 mid-terms, you'd probably think FDR and the Democrats were going to pay a political price. Well, turns out their opposition wasn't exactly the most effectual. Or in the case of Huey Long it was complicated by actually being a Democrat at the time. Anyway, tod…

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National Farmers Union calls for ban on investor ownership of farmland (encore) 16:02

6d ago16:02

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The National Farmers Union’s held their annual conference in Ottawa in November, 2023. The day before the conference began, NFU members gathered on Parliament Hill to demand a ban on investor ownership of farmland. To find out more, I spoke with Rav Singh, youth advisor with the National Farmers Union – Ontario and Hannah Kaya, the NFU’s farm worke…

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“Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat: How to Break the Climate Disaster Cycle" with Mark Nevitt 45:00

15d ago45:00

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In episode 208 of America Adapts, Mark Nevitt, an associate professor of law at Emory University joins the podcast to discuss his new paper that’s under review, entitled, Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat: How to Break the Climate Disaster Cycle. Mark delves into the expansion of climate change law courses and his research on the security implications of cl…

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Episode 180 - An Entirely Different Deal 32:42

21d ago32:42

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One of the big criticisms of the New Deal, and one of the most valid, was the fact that it didn't do much of anything to try and tackle the plight of African-Americans. Sure, the relief efforts and public works projects were mostly made available to all Americans. But these efforts didn't reckon with the institutional discrimination of the country,…

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Debunking the myths about for-profit health care (encore) 15:17

26d ago15:17

15:17

Last fall, the BC Health Coalition was in Vancouver talking about the urgent need for reform and innovation in public health care. Meanwhile the Canadian Medical Association was sponsoring a cross-country conversation about the role of private – read for-profit – health care. We talk with Dr. Saad Ahmed of Canadian Doctors for Medicare about the tr…

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Long-term Wellbeing with Cat Schofield 39:12

23d ago39:12

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Cat Schofield, Executive Director of Nursing and Director of Services for Statewide Mental Health Services. Cat says that when working in Health, we have a responsibility to look after our own mental and physical health. She shares how she learnt to not act li…

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Manager Wellbeing with David Carter 36:31

23d ago36:31

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know David Carter, Manager of Physiotherapy Services at the North West Regional Hospital. David speaks he speaks about finding value in taking a detour and reward in stepping out of habits. He talks about learning how to be a manager to his team and shares how he t…

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#15 Public affection, morality police & gendered violence in Mumbai w/Atreyee Sen 45:36

17d ago45:36

45:36

In this episode, the finale to season 3, we speak with Atreyee Sen, Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Our topic of discussion is a talk Atreyee gave at our department entitled, ‘No city for lovers: Urban poverty, public romance and violent moral policing of lower-class female youth in Mumbai’, wh…

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Municipal councils not safe workplace for women and gender minorities (encore) 17:22

20d ago17:22

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From sexual harassment to online bullying and threats of violence, women politicians face far more challenges in public life than their male counterparts. A new research project takes a close look at what women, gender minorities and racialized politicians face when they get elected to councils in BC and Alberta. We talk with Nadine Nakagawa, city …

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Episode 179 - Rebirth of the Labor Movement 29:00

26d ago29:00

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Organized labor might as well have been pronounced dead during the 1920s, and the Depression didn't seem like it'd be a big help in rejuvenating it. But thanks to a dramatic policy change from the Roosevelt administration, unions got a new lease on life. This would of course be challenged by the owner class, and the first couple years of worker res…

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Judge rules CRA audit of Muslim charity biased but fails to stop it (encore) 14:56

1M ago14:56

14:56

A recent ruling by the Ontario Superior Court marks an important acknowledgment in the ongoing battle against systemic Islamophobia. In September 2023, Justice Markus Koehnen recognized that the Muslim Association of Canada faced differential and biased treatment faced during a Canada Revenue Agency audit. However, the judge stopped short of interv…

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Episode 178 - Agriculture Adjustment 29:08

1M ago29:08

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By 1933 the bright golden haze on America's meadows had been dimmed down to a featureless beige. Twelve years of bad times, which included four years of outright Depression, had wrecked the nation's farms. It would take unprecedented levels of intervention and organization to bring the truly lean years to a conclusion, and the collateral damage wou…

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Rebecca Solnit on her new book - It's Not Too Late (encore) 25:56

1M ago25:56

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Whether you’ve been in the fight against climate change for decades, or are a newcomer, the struggle can feel overwhelming in so many ways. Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua have produced a new book to support and energize us – it’s called Not Too Late. Rebecca Solnit was in Vancouver for the Writers Fest in October 2023. We spoke with he…

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#14 Technoscience & the limits of life w/Martin Eggen Mogseth & Fartein Hauan Nilsen 1:03:03

1M ago1:03:03

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In this episode, we speak with Martin Eggen Mogseth and Fartein Hauan Nilsen about their first edited volume, Limits of Life: Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience (Berghahn Books, 2024). The book explores how fundamental concepts such as life, birth, selfhood, religion, death, and ancestry are being reshaped in an er…

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Shifting Perspectives of Wellbeing with Dr Erica Kreismann 26:45

2M ago26:45

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Dr Erica Kreismann, Executive Medical Director at Ambulance Tasmania. Erica tells us how she has learned to look after own wellbeing, and how that understanding has changed since she was an intern on 9/11. She talks about advocating for yourself and having the…

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Balance with Andy Boote 27:42

2M ago27:42

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast Wellbeing Series, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Andy Boote, Senior Project Manager at Health ICT. Andy talks about finding the right balance at different stages in his working life. He speaks about finding fulfilment, being a lifelong learner, and accessing support through our Employee Assistance Program. A…

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Wellbeing Plans with Jess Nunn and Zeph Lyne-Spink 40:08

2M ago40:08

40:08

In the second series of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall, Manager of Culture & Wellbeing, speaks with people from across the Department of Health about the things we can do as individuals and an organisation to improve our wellbeing. In this episode, Jess Nunn, Nurse Unit Manager of Paediatric Services at the RHH, and Zeph Lyne-Spink, Coord…

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Episode 177 - Making Work 31:16

2M ago31:16

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Possibly the most defining programs of the New Deal were the public works projects that created well-paying jobs for millions of Americans in the depths of the Depression. This shouldn't be a surprise, much of the nation's most iconic infrastructure, still in use in many cases to the modern day, was built through these programs. But they were not w…

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The Center for Heat Resilient Communities gets a NOAA Grant with Dr. Kelly Turner and Dr. Ladd Keith 33:56

1M ago33:56

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In episode 207 of America Adapts, Dr. Kelly Turner of UCLA and Dr. Ladd Keith at the University of Arizona join host Doug Parsons to discuss groundbreaking work in extreme heat governance and planning, specifically focusing on the recent NOAA grant awarded to launch the Center for Heat Resilient Communities. The grant aims to enhance heat resilienc…

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Unpacking the origins of the anti-trans movement in Canada (encore) 29:12

1M ago29:12

29:12

The 1 Million March 4 Children in September 2023 was part of a widespread and growing “parental rights” movement targeting inclusive public education. Calgary academics Corinne Mason and Leah Hamilton point out that this isn’t simply a group of united parents concerned about their children’s education. Mason and Hamilton offer a brief history of th…

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Episode 176 - Redefining Money 27:46

2M ago27:46

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The great economic straight-jacket of the 1920s and 30s was the Gold Standard, which created a global system that seemingly locked everybody into a stable system. I've talked about that enough already, so today I'm talking about how the Roosevelt administration began distancing itself from the old ways. Bibliography for this episode: Kennedy, David…

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Family stuck in Rafah as father shut out of temporary residency program (encore) 15:30

2M ago15:30

15:30

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Canada introduced a program to allow Ukrainians to temporarily come to Canada. Two years later, the government has introduced a new temporary residency program for people in Gaza. However, Palestinians in Canada are discovering there are major barriers to getting their family members out of the war zone. W…

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George Clarke 18:08

2M ago18:08

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall gets to know George Clarke, Chief Executive Public Health Services in a conversation recorded when George was Acting Deputy Secretary Community, Mental Health and Wellbeing. George talks about taking a non-linear career path and finding fulfilment by straying from our life plans. He speaks…

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Francine Douce 31:47

2M ago31:47

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Francine Douce, Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer in a conversation recorded in 2023. Francine speaks growing up and starting a career in West and North West Tasmania, and she explains the role of the Office of the Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer. She shares stories of her o…

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Andrew Hargrave 30:08

2M ago30:08

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In this episode of the One Health Podcast, Dorian Broomhall gets to know Andrew Hargrave, Deputy Secretary Infrastructure. Andrew speaks about his career has taken him from working on bridges in New South Wales to a heath infrastructure in Tasmania. He talks about being his genuine self and shares his thoughts on the importance of creating a safe e…

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Episode 175 - A Drunk and a Department 27:34

2M ago27:34

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The narrative of the New Deal really kicks off here, as I discuss the work of the National Recovery Administration. Okay, that's not totally accurate. I'm mostly talking about the public antics of its boss, former brigadier general Hugh Johnson. Who will easily win the award for most self-destructive character in this mini-series. Bibliography for …

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Waapake: Director Jules Koostachin's deeply personal look at intergenerational trauma (encore) 15:26

2M ago15:26

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For generations, the suffering of residential school Survivors has radiated outward, impacting Indigenous families and communities. In her new documentary Waapake (Tomorrow), filmmaker Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin examines the corrosive impact of residential schools on Survivors, and their children, siblings and parents.…

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ICR24: Innovations in Climate Resilience Conference hosted by Battelle 1:35:26

2M ago1:35:26

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In episode 206 of America Adapts, the podcast partnered with Battelle for their third annual Innovations in Climate Resilience Conference, ICR24. The conference took place April 22-24th in Washington, D.C. at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Keynote speakers and attendees join the pod to share their experiences in climate …

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Episode 174 - The First 100 Days, Part III 33:08

2M ago33:08

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Wherein the special session of Congress of 1933 concludes, and I can stop making blurbs about bills and government agencies. Bibliography for this episode: Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945 Oxford University Press 1999 Hiltzik, Michael The New Deal: A Modern History Simon and Schuster 2011 Schl…

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Commemorative art project honors victims of Komagata Maru tragedy 16:35

2M ago16:35

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In 2021, Vancouver City Council formally apologized for historical discrimination toward passengers travelling on board the Komagata Maru steamship from British India in 1914. Last month, the City unveiled special commemorative signs near the harbour honoring those impacted by the Komagata Maru tragedy. The street signs were designed by Jagandeep N…

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Leaked map raises concerns on BC ministry direction on saving old growth 15:32

2M ago15:32

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In March, Ben Parfitt wrote an article critiquing the BC government’s direction and lack of progress on protecting old growth forests. This was centered on a confidential map of logging deferrals that was leaked from the provincial ministry of forests. Since then, new information has come out blaming the delays in protecting old growth on consultat…

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On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America with Abrahm Lustgarten 40:09

2M ago40:09

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In episode 205 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons hosts Abrahm Lustgarten, an investigative climate reporter and author from Propublica. Abrahm discusses his work on climate change and migration and highlights his coverage of various climate-related issues such as water scarcity, sea level rise and wildfire. Abrahm’s book, "On the Move," explores clim…

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#13 Nuclear waste management & the anthropology of infrastructures w/Penny Harvey 1:01:08

2M ago1:01:08

1:01:08

In this episode of Anthropology on Air, we speak with Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester in the UK. Penny is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and the Academia Europaea. Penny is a highly influential thinker on the topic of infrastructures. She is well known…

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Episode 173 - The First 100 Days, Part II 27:56

3M ago27:56

27:56

The reforms in Washington, DC keep coming and this week we tackle public relief, housing, and farm management. Bibliography for this episode: Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945 Oxford University Press 1999 Hiltzik, Michael The New Deal: A Modern History Simon and Schuster 2011 Schlesinger Jr, Ar…

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Jewish Israeli scholar Maya Wind on her new book, Towers of Ivory and Steel 20:51

2M ago20:51

20:51

In 2004, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel called on international scholars to break ties with Israeli academic institutions. In response, Israeli academics claimed to be simply bystanders to the apartheid policies of the Israeli state. A new book reveals just how deeply Israeli universities are entangled with…

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Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story 21:34

2M ago21:34

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Jackie Shane was one of soul's first Black trans performers. She was born in 1940 in Nashville but her incredible voice took her across North America. She found a home in Toronto in the '60s, performing sold-out shows almost every night. In 1971, Shane disappeared from the spotlight. When she eventually reemerged in the 2010s, there were still many…

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