Woodstein Media Podcast

Aug 10 2024 34 ep. 50 mins 3

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The Woodstein Media Podcast is compiled from interviews for articles on Wood-stein.ca. Woodstein Media creates journalism that validates and empowers people as it motivates people to action.

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Episode 34: Mish Waraksa draws on experience as a healthcare worker to discuss harm reduction and targeted misinformation surrounding it

Aug 10 2024 51 mins

Mish Waraksa, a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner with over four years of experience working in safer opioid supply programs in Toronto, discussed how contaminants in the illicit opioid supply chain complicate the job of healthcare workers and the life-threatening side effects that come with Benzodiazepines and other impurities getting mixed into the street supply.The conversation al

Episode 33: Katie Langille draws on healthcare experience to talk Safer Supply and its positive effects on Toronto community

Aug 02 2024 52 mins

Katie Langille is a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner in the SOS Program at the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre. This community-based health service organization in southwest Toronto offers a wide range of services, including primary health care, dental care, harm reduction, health promotion, counselling, and community development programming. The SOS program is a Sa

Episode 32: : Katie Upham and Emily Wadden talk about Harm Reduction in the Atlantic Region

Jun 17 2024 80 mins

This podcast features a discussion about the push to provide more effective harm reduction services, education, outreach and advocacy to enhance and save the lives of people most at risk from the toxic drug crisis in the Atlantic provinces of Canada.Katie Upham is the Harm Reduction Educator of the Substance User Network of the Atlantic Region (SUNAR) and a member of many other adv

Episode 31: Dick Lucas talks Subhumans, Culture Shock, Citizen Fish, and the balance of life

May 29 2024 59 mins

The Woodstein Media Podcast bounces back to music chatter with Dick Lucas, the voice fronting SUBHUMANS, Culture Shock, and Citizen Fish. For over 45 years he has been venting his thoughts on life and politics over the punk, ska, and reggae sounds of those bands and even in his 60s there does not seem to be any indication he’ll be hanging up his microphone. Balancing that m

Episode 30: Woodstein Media Podcast Episode 30: Ruth Fox discusses the loss of her son to drug poisoning, Moms Stop the Harm, and failures of Canada’s drug policy

May 05 2024 47 mins

As this podcast was being edited, Pierre Poilievre raved in Parliament about life-saving efforts to help drug users. He was reprimanded and ejected from the chamber, and eventually, the rest of the Conservative caucus walked out in protest. Speaker Greg Fergus cautioned Justin Trudeau and Poilievre during a feisty question period to avoid making direct accusations about the charact

Episode 29: Woodstein Media Podcast Episode 29: Leah den Bok on how her Humanizing the Homeless photography has affected her worldview

Apr 15 2024 53 mins

(All photos contributed by Leah den Bok and used by permission)In February, I explored the streets of Philadelphia, and the Mutter Museum was a must-see site.One of the exhibits, Unhoused: Personal Stories and Public Health, features photos by the guest on this podcast, Leah den Bok. She is a photographer from Ontario, whom I wrote about years ago when she spoke at a United Way eve

Episode 28: Woodstein Media Podcast Episode 28: Tarantula Tapes founders Casey and Core talk DIY labels, Bitch Fest 2024 and music they love

Feb 15 2024 76 mins

This episode features a conversation with Casey and Core, cofounders of Barrie, Ontario's independent music label Tarantula Tapes. They talk about releasing music they love and some of the problems they have overcome regarding quality control working at a DIY level. They recommend some of their favourite releases from the label's first three years and future releases they are hyped

Episode 27: Woodstein Media Podcast Episode 27: Pardon those MVLL CRIMES; let’s talk about Magic Mushrooms with Jillian Clair

Nov 26 2023 59 mins

This episode features a conversation with Jillian Clair about the movement to legalize magic mushrooms and her research into the benefits of Psilocybin, that ingredient some mushrooms have which adds that psychedelic touch to them that many of us have grown to love. The mood-stabilizing gift from nature that governments want to deny access to.As users, and not scientists studying P

Episode 26: Woodstein Media Podcast Episode 26: Earl Wyvern on arts, music with The Beards, Beaver Slap, Angry Spells and ‘horrendous progressive politics’

Oct 24 2023 42 mins

On this episode, Barrie Ontario musician Earl Wyvern discusses their history and involvement in the DIY Arts Collective, which progressed to a deep involvement in music, promoting shows through Gay Ass Productions and slamming eardrums on recording and stages for the past ten years. They are currently playing with Angry Spells and digging deeper into what they refer to as their “

Episode 25: Woodstein Media Podcast Episode 25: UK musician, poet, and activist Joe Solo on socialism, antifascism, and community building

Oct 03 2023 68 mins

On this episode, award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer Joe Solo speaks about spreading his message of social justice, anti-fascism, and socialism in his music and books from Scarborough. Not the Scarborough that will jump into the minds of people raised in southern Ontario, but the one across the Atlantic on England’s North Sea c