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North Bay, ON - Clean Drinking Water and Truck Culture (Ft. Water First) [Podcasthon 2025]
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Canardian is joined by Sarah Jayne Kendall, Director of Community Engagement at Water First, Canada’s leading charity dedicated to working in partnership with Indigenous communities to address local water challenges through education, training and meaningful collaboration. SJ joins the show not only highlight the important work that Water First is doing in Canada, but OF COURSE, to dish about her hometown of North Bay, Ontario; why people either love it or hate it, and it's unapologetic truck culture. PLUS a special announcement about season 2!
This special bonus episode is part of Podcasthon 2025, a global wave of podcasters using their platforms to highlight incredible non-profits around the world and in their communities. [https://podcasthon.org/]
Learn more about Water First here: https://waterfirst.ngo/
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VIDEO EDITOR & POD THE NORTH INTERN: Shivani Mullerpatan
ARTWORK: Brad Cousins
THEME SONG & MUSIC: Mark Allin and People Like Us.
Canardian is the flagship podcast of Pod the North, the newsletter for the Canadian podcasting ecosystem from Kattie Laur.
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CW: This podcast relies on internet research and word of mouth from a variety of places. It is not 100% reliably fact checked. If anything notable comes up for you as you’re listening, to jot it down and take it as your sign to get curious about Canada’s roots and the history of the land.
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