EP 241: Laurie Woolever on Addiction, Recovery - and Anthony Bourdain
This week on the Lean Out podcast we are shifting our focus from the political to the personal. Our guest on the program has written a remarkable memoir about her time in the food world, her story of ...
25 Mar 37min
EP 240: Jason Mangone: Inside Trump's America
As tensions mount within the United States — and between the United States and Canada — it has never been more important to understand each other. Our guest on the program this week is the head of a d...
18 Mar 30min
EP 239: Mark Oppenheimer on the Life and Times of Judy Blume
Many of us grew up reading classics from the great Judy Blume, from Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Blume, now in her eighties, is famous for writing about ch...
11 Mar 36min
EP 238: Eddie Sheppard on Canada's Precarity Mindset
In recent years, the world has become an increasingly unstable place. Our guest on the program this week says that Canadians have adopted a “precarity mindset.” And now, roughly nine out of ten Canadi...
4 Mar 25min
EP 237: Ryan Zickgraf on the Politicization of Charity
One of the problems with increased polarization is that everything gets politicized, including simple acts of charity. Our guest on the program this week is an American journalist who’s been tracking ...
25 Feb 24min
EP 236: Amanda Ripley on the Media's Trump Fixation
If you follow the news in this country, you know that Canada is currently grappling with a number of crises, from housing to mental health. And yet much of our attention is focused on the United State...
20 Feb 42min
EP 235: Richard Stursberg: Who Killed CanLit?
Canadians who write books, or cover books, or read books will know that something is wrong with our literary industry. But a new book documents just how far off the rails publishing has gone. Our gues...
11 Feb 36min
