It’s Thanksgiving in Canada, and as always, I’m feeling grateful for many things—one of them being that we celebrate this holiday in October. How do Americans handle the pressure of Thanksgiving just four weeks before Christmas? No, thank you! I love this time of year when the air is crisp, the trees are ablaze with colour, and the festive stress… View Post
Are DEI programs going away? The truth is, they’ve been around for much longer and will continue to have a lasting impact far beyond what many realize. Take Catalyst, for example—they’ve been helping companies worldwide advance fairness and DEI initiatives for 62 years. Surprised? I was too. To read the headlines one might think DEI only emerged a few years… View Post
By Anne Brodie The Last of the Sea Women on AppleTV+ is a deeply inspiring doc about a group of elderly South Korean ocean warriors, real-life mermaids, known as “haenyeo” divers. These grandmother warriors share a deep love and respect for the ocean whose chosen job is to harvest food from the ocean. It starts at age 17 when they… View Post
A group of elderly South Korean women gather every day in wetsuits, carrying hooks to harvest food from the sea, on Jeju Island as they have done for hundreds of years. They’re known as haenyeo divers comprised mainly of women in their 60s 70s and 80s. They spend the day in fellowship and work, diving down to the ocean floor… View Post
As fall settles in and the festive season begins to peek around the corner, this week’s show brings a collection of stories that are all about resilience, adventure, and a little bit of magic. From overcoming personal challenges to exploring breathtaking landscapes and making triumphant returns to the stage, today’s guests each bring something extraordinary to the table. Let’s dive… View Post
By Anne Brodie Saoirse Ronan is nothing short of masterful in Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun. The four-time Oscar nominee is Rona, who with her Master’s degree in Biology has leaves London behind after ten years to help her father on their remote sheep farm in Papay, in the Scotland’s North Sea Orkneys. It’s a wind-whipped rock off an island off… View Post