Interviewing Canada's former MPs - Extended Conversation with Alison Loat (SE#2)
What's it like traveling across Canada to talk to former MPs about their life in politics? In last week's podcast, you heard from Alison Loat, one of the co-authors of the book "Tragedy in the Commons...
25 Nov 201629min
Former MPs speak out: Tragedy in the Commons - Michael MacMillan Keynote (SE #1)
What do former MPs have to say about the health of Canadian democracy? Not much good news, accoriding to Michael MacMillan. In last week's podcast, you heard from Michael MacMillan, one of the co-auth...
24 Nov 201625min
#1: Road Map: the journey of a Nova Scotia MLA
The first full episode of the Off Script podcast is here. It plots the path for where this podcast is taking you, and gives you a peak at some of the key findings from the MLA Exit Interviews. Hosted ...
18 Nov 201636min
For the brokenhearted (Parker J. Palmer)
Today, we were planning on releasing the first full episode of the podcast. But, our hearts and minds are somewhere else today, and we suspect yours are too. We’ll pick up where we left off this time ...
10 Nov 201619min
Off Script: How an MLA gets involved in 'those kinds of things' (Clarrie MacKinnon)
Clarrie MacKinnon recounts the kinds of things he would end up doing when government services fell short of his constituents needs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3 Nov 20168min
Off Script: "Where's the minister?" (Eleanor Norrie)
In this week’s story, former cabinet minister, and Truro-Bible Hill MLA, Eleanor Norrie, remembers what she describes as the all-too-frequent experience of showing up as a woman when the people she wa...
26 Okt 20167min
Off Script: "Three cheers for the lady" (Francene Cosman)
The Off Script Podcast will officially launch soon. Until then, here's our first 'prepisode' - short anecdotes and stories that kept us laughing, captivated, and in suspense during the interviews, mea...
19 Okt 20164min
Off Script: Podcast Promo
We’ve collected over 75 hours of recorded content, from interviews with more than forty former MLAs. This fall, we’ll begin releasing a weekly audio-documentary podcast. Each week we’ll unpack one sma...
2 Okt 20164min
