Graydio Canada

Mar 21 2025 15 ep. 36 mins 3

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Episode 15: The Columnist- Catherine Ford

Mar 21 2025 37 mins

She’s acerbic, insightful, passionate, and blunt. She’s Catherine Ford. The former national newspaper columnist is 80 years old, and still has a lot to say about life, politics, the human condition, the current plight of the media, and her immunity to hangovers. What do two veteran journalists talk about when they wash up on the same beach? Tune in to find out.

Episode 14: The Astronaut Politician- Marc Garneau

Dec 06 2024 57 mins

Marc Garneau was the first Canadian in space and later served as Transport Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In this one-on-one conversation we talk about his "Most Extraordinary Ride", a phrase that both describes his life and is the name of his new memoir.

Episode 13: The Senator- Paula Simons

Oct 11 2024 44 mins

Are Canadians really as divided as our politicians would have us believe? What feeds this narrative of a binary political world? A walk with Senator Paula Simons, in search of some sober second thought.

Episode 12: The Whale Whisperer-Dr. Rachel Cartwright

Oct 08 2024 31 mins

Dr. Rachel Cartwright tackles some of the great mysteries of the giants of the deep. Why do whales breach? What is a whale birth like? And just what are they talking about down there?

Episode 11: The Air Farce Ace- Don Ferguson

Sep 19 2024 32 mins

For fifty years the Royal Canadian Air Farce ruled Canada's comedy airwaves. This is a walk and talk through one of Toronto's oldest neighbourhoods with founding member, Don Ferguson.

Episode 10: The Newfoundlander-Melanie Rideout

Aug 16 2024 34 mins

For 30 years Newfoundland has had a declining population, as young Newfoundlanders leave the island to find their fortunes elsewhere. But for some the call of the sea and the place they call home is so strong, they find ways to stay. This is the story of Melanie Rideout.

Episode 09: The Lighthouse Innkeeper- Ed English

Aug 03 2024 29 mins

Ed English, innkeeper, owner, and storyteller in chief of Quirpon Island tells tales of giant icebergs, French demons, endless pods of whales and the occasional lost Polar Bear.

Episode 08: The Elder in the Making- Cowboy Smithx

“The frequencies of the land have been unlocked, the wifi passwords have been figured out. We have them and we’ve been trying to share them.” A shoreline amble where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet with Cowboy Smithx, Blackfoot filmmaker and founder of the acclaimed International Indigenous speaker series REDx Talks.

Episode 07: The Bird Man- Don Enright

Jun 17 2024 27 mins

As you read this, migrating birds are following ancient flyways, along fault lines and mountain ranges, guided by gravity, polarity, and stars. Billions of creatures world wide, continuing a ritual that began eons before we crawled out of the mud. This plodcast is a walk through the Carolinian forests of Canada's southernmost tip, Point Pelee National Park, with birder extraordinai

Episode 06: The Phoenix- Dave Bidini

Jun 09 2024 30 mins

Why would anyone start a newspaper in this day and age? A wander through Toronto's West End with author and musician Dave Bidini.