Host Aubrianna Snow speaks with Dr. Elaine Hyshka about the drug poisoning crisis in North America, reducing stigma surrounding substance use, and how governments can address the crisis through evidence-based policy. <ul><li>Dr. Elaine Hyshka is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Systems Innovation at the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health, and Scientific Director of the Inner City Health and Wellness Program. Her program of health systems and services research is focused on advancing a public health approach to substance use in Canada. She works closely with service providers, health authorities, people with lived experience of substance use, and all levels of government to identify, evaluate, and scale systems innovations for improving health outcomes and advancing health equity. Between 2019-2023 Dr. Hyshka co-Chaired Health Canada’s Expert Advisory group on Safer Supply and between 2017-2019 she served as Co-Chair of the Alberta Minister of Health’s Opioid Emergency Response Commission. Her research and leadership have been recognized with multiple awards, including a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, a Trailblazer Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Population and Public Health, and a President’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievements in Innovation from Alberta Health Services. </li></ul> More about harm reduction and drug policy: <ul><li><a href="https://drugpolicy.ca/issues/harm-reduction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Canadian Drug Policy Coalition</a> </li><li><a href="https://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Harm Reduction Coalition</a></li></ul> If you or someone you know is struggling with substance use, <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/get-help-with-substance-use.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reach out</a>.

Episode 35: Stigma, Policy, and the Drug Poisoning Crisis ft. Dr. Elaine Hyshka

<ul><li>Bains, C. (2024). More than 1 in 4 deaths among young people in Canada were opioid-related in 2021, study finds. CBC. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/opioid-young-people-1.7174098" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/opioid-young-people-1.7174098</a></li><li>Boynton, S. (2025). New Purdue opioid crisis settlement builds ‘momentum’ for Canada: B.C. AG. Global News. <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/11247593/opioid-crisis-lawsuits-purdue-mckinsey-canada-bc-us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/11247593/opioid-crisis-lawsuits-purdue-mckinsey-canada-bc-us/</a></li><li>CATIE. (2025). Reported drug toxicity deaths dropped in parts of Canada in 2024 – But what’s behind the numbers? <a href="https://www.catie.ca/prevention-in-focus/reported-drug-toxicity-deaths-dropped-in-parts-of-canada-in-2024-but-whats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.catie.ca/prevention-in-focus/reported-drug-toxicity-deaths-dropped-in-parts-of-canada-in-2024-but-whats</a></li><li>CBC News. (2025). Edmonton region hits all-time monthly peak in opioid-related deaths. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-drug-poisoning-opioid-1.7575814" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-drug-poisoning-opioid-1.7575814</a></li><li>Freeze, C. &amp; Woo, A. (2026). Opioid deaths are declining. Five factors help explain why. The Globe and Mail. <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-opioid-deaths-have-declined-sharply-in-canada-these-five-factors-help/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-opioid-deaths-have-declined-sharply-in-canada-these-five-factors-help/</a></li><li>Howlett, K. (2020). Canada’s Opioid Crisis. The Canadian Encyclopedia. <a href="https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadas-opioid-crisis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadas-opioid-crisis</a></li><li>Pugliese, K. (2025). Healing works, but First Nation opioid crisis isn’t stopping. APTN. <a href="https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/healing-works-but-first-nation-opioid-crisis-isnt-stopping/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/healing-works-but-first-nation-opioid-crisis-isnt-stopping/</a></li><li>Uguen-Csenge, E., Ayres, S., &amp; D’Souza, S. (2025). Health Canada ignored expert advice to expand access to safe drugs for opioid users, internal documents show. CBC. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/opioid-overdose-crisis-street-drug-government-funding-9.6976562" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/opioid-overdose-crisis-street-drug-government-funding-9.6976562</a></li><li>Van Santvoort, A., Wilson, C., &amp; Xiong, D. (2023). Adding up the billions of government dollars directed at Canada’s opioid crisis. Times Colonist. <a href="https://www.timescolonist.com/local-opioid-crisis-news/adding-up-the-billions-of-government-dollars-directed-at-canadas-opioid-crisis-7073142" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timescolonist.com/local-opioid-crisis-news/adding-up-the-billions-of-government-dollars-directed-at-canadas-opioid-crisis-7073142</a></li><li>Zafar, A. (2025). Opioid deaths in Canada fell 17% in 2024, but thousands are still dying. CBC. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/opioid-deaths-decline-canada-1.7615255" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/opioid-deaths-decline-canada-1.7615255</a></li></ul>

Episode 34: The Opioid Crisis in Canada

Host Aubrianna Snow speaks with Dr. Harvey Imani Whitfield about the history of slavery in early Canada, the lives of enslaved people during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the legacy of slavery in North America today. <ul><li>Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield is a professor and Centennial Carnegie Chair in the History of Slavery in Canada at the University of King’s College in Halifax. Prior to his current role, he taught for 17 years at the University of Vermont and four years at the University of Calgary. He grew up in Maryland and attended Colorado State University. His MA at Dalhousie focused on West African history. His area of research interest is Black migration, coerced and free, to the Maritimes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Dr. Whitfield is the author of several books including Blacks on the Border: The Black Refugees in British North America, 1815-1860; North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes; Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes; Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents; and The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810.</li></ul>

Episode 33: Unfreedom North of the Border ft. Dr. Harvey Imani Whitfield

<ul><li>Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. (n.d.). Slavery. <a href="https://bccns.com/our-history/slavery/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bccns.com/our-history/slavery/</a></li><li>Brown, K. G. (2019). Canada’s slavery secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement. CBC. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canada-s-slavery-secret-the-whitewashing-of-200-years-of-enslavement-1.4726313" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canada-s-slavery-secret-the-whitewashing-of-200-years-of-enslavement-1.4726313</a></li><li>Canadian Museum of History. (n.d.). Virtual Museum of New France. <a href="https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/population/slavery/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/population/slavery/</a></li><li>Cooper, A. (2022). The Enslavement of Africans in Canada. The Canadian Historical Association. <a href="https://cha-shc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/The-Enslavement-of-Africans-in-Canada.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cha-shc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/The-Enslavement-of-Africans-in-Canada.pdf</a></li><li>Forani, J. (2020). ‘Systemic silence’: Canada’s ignored history of slavery. CTV News. <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/systemic-silence-canadas-ignored-history-of-slavery/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/systemic-silence-canadas-ignored-history-of-slavery/</a></li><li>Henry-Dixon, N. (2022). 1793 Act to Limit Slavery in Upper Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia. <a href="https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/1793-act-to-limit-slavery-in-upper-canada" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/1793-act-to-limit-slavery-in-upper-canada</a></li><li>Henry-Dixon, N. (2021). Slavery Abolition Act, 1833. The Canadian Encyclopedia. <a href="https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-abolition-act-1833" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-abolition-act-1833</a></li><li>Hunter, A. (2022). Tainted Wealth: Canada Has Tried to Erase Its History of Slavery. The Walrus. <a href="https://thewalrus.ca/canada-slavery/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thewalrus.ca/canada-slavery/</a></li><li>Lawrence, B. (2020). Enslavement of Indigenous People in Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia. <a href="https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-of-indigenous-people-in-canada" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-of-indigenous-people-in-canada</a></li><li>McCullough, C. &amp; McRae, M. (2023). The story of Black slavery in Canadian history. Canadian Museum for Human Rights. <a href="https://humanrights.ca/story/story-black-slavery-canadian-history" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://humanrights.ca/story/story-black-slavery-canadian-history</a></li><li>Moore, F. (2024). The history of colonialism and slavery still impacts Black people in Canada. Policy Options. <a href="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2024/02/black-history-canada/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2024/02/black-history-canada/</a>&nbsp;</li><li>Ontario Heritage Trust. (n.d.). Slavery in Canada. <a href="https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/pages/our-stories/slavery-to-freedom/history/slavery-in-canada" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/pages/our-stories/slavery-to-freedom/history/slavery-in-canada</a></li><li>Shaw, M. N. (2022). Historical Legacies, Black Canadian Slavery, and Institutional Histories. Black Perspectives. <a href="https://www.aaihs.org/historical-legacies-black-canadian-slavery-institutional-histories/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.aaihs.org/historical-legacies-black-canadian-slavery-institutional-histories/</a></li><li>Walfall, P. D. (2025). Here’s why Canada has to apologize for slavery. Broadview. <a href="https://broadview.org/canada-slavery-compensation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://broadview.org/canada-slavery-compensation/</a> </li></ul>

Episode 32: Slavery in Canada

<ul><li>Adams, P. (2025). Canada needs to move toward a public health model of supporting grief. Policy Options. <a href="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/07/grief-support/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/07/grief-support/</a></li><li>Australian Museum. (2018). Mourning - Victorian Era. <a href="https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/mourning-victorian-era/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/mourning-victorian-era/</a></li><li>Cole, M. (n.d.). Mourning After: The Victorian Celebration of Death. Oshawa Community Museum. <a href="https://www.oshawamuseum.org/pdf/Mourning_After_The_Victorian_Celebration_of_Death.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.oshawamuseum.org/pdf/Mourning_After_The_Victorian_Celebration_of_Death.pdf</a></li><li>Crowther, H. (2024). Cost of dying: How the death-care industry is changing in Canada. CTV News. <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/cost-of-dying-how-the-death-care-industry-is-changing-in-canada/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/cost-of-dying-how-the-death-care-industry-is-changing-in-canada/</a></li><li>Evans, M. (2020). The Relentlessness of Black Grief. The Atlantic. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/relentlessness-black-grief/616511/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/relentlessness-black-grief/616511/</a></li><li>Goles, K. (2022). Evolution of American Funerary Customs and Laws. Library of Congress Blogs. <a href="https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/09/evolution-of-american-funerary-customs-and-laws/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/09/evolution-of-american-funerary-customs-and-laws/</a></li><li>Kodjak, A. (2016). Dying In A Hospital Means More Procedures, Tests And Costs. NPR. <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/15/481992191/dying-in-a-hospital-means-more-procedures-tests-and-costs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/15/481992191/dying-in-a-hospital-means-more-procedures-tests-and-costs</a></li><li>Mendoza, M. A. (2018). Death and Mourning Practices in the Victorian Age. Psychology Today. <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/understanding-grief/201812/death-and-mourning-practices-in-the-victorian-age" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/understanding-grief/201812/death-and-mourning-practices-in-the-victorian-age</a></li><li>Petch, A. (n.d.). English ethnographic objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum associated with funerals, mourning or memorials. England: The Other Within. <a href="https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/england/englishness-funeral-objects.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/england/englishness-funeral-objects.html</a></li><li>Takagi, A. (2024). The cost of dying in Canada is skyrocketing: Why funeral providers say Ottawa needs to step up. The Toronto Star. <a href="https://www.thestar.com/business/the-cost-of-dying-in-canada-is-skyrocketing-why-funeral-providers-say-ottawa-needs-to/article_f1ce28b8-eaba-11ee-84c9-370c6f545e04.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/business/the-cost-of-dying-in-canada-is-skyrocketing-why-funeral-providers-say-ottawa-needs-to/article_f1ce28b8-eaba-11ee-84c9-370c6f545e04.html</a></li><li>Von Aderkas, E. &amp; Levine, M. (2011). A brief history of death and dying. CBC. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/a-brief-history-of-death-and-dying-1.1115800" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/a-brief-history-of-death-and-dying-1.1115800</a>&nbsp;</li><li>Wilmot, C. (2016). The Space Between Mourning and Grief. The Atlantic. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/06/internet-grief/485864/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/06/internet-grief/485864/</a></li></ul>

Episode 31: Victorian Death and Modern Denial

Host Aubrianna Snow speaks with Francine Pelletier about the legacy of the École Polytechnique massacre and the progress of feminism and with Makenna Kuzyk about the Order of the White Rose Scholarship and building brighter futures for women in engineering. <ul><li>Francine Pelletier has had a long career as a journalist, both in print and for electronic media, in French as well as in English. Her career includes co-founding and acting as editor-in-chief of the women’s monthly magazine (La Vie en rose, 1980-87), social and political commentary in Montreal’s La Presse (1988-92) as well as Le Devoir (2013-2022) newspapers. She worked as a Quebec National Assembly correspondent for Radio-Canada’s Le Point (1993-1995). Then, as a reporter for CBC’s The National and, shortly after, as co-host of CBC’s flagship current affairs program, the fifth estate (1995-2000). In 2001, Francine Pelletier began writing, directing and producing independent documentary films. She has a dozen films to her name, including Public Enemy Number One (2003), on former Premier Jacques Parizeau, Sex, Truth and Videotape (2004), a 6-part series on women and sex and Battle for Quebec’s Soul (2022), on how Quebec nationalism has become more and more conservative. In 2015, she joined Concordia University’s Journalism Department as a lecturer. Francine Pelletier has won many awards, including the B’nai Brith Human Rights Award, the Judith-Jasmin award and three Gemini awards. She is the author of four other books: Second début: Cendres et renaissance du féminisme, Atelier 10 (2015), on her involvement in Quebec’s women’s movement; L’Art de se mouiller : Chroniques pour nourrir le débat. Écosociété (2022), a selection of her columns in Le Devoir; Au Québec, c’est comme ça qu’on vit : La montée du nationalisme identitaire, Lux Éditeur (2023), on the rise of conservative nationalism in Quebec; Dream Interrupted : The Rise and Fall of Quebec Nationalism, Sutherland House Books, (2025), an updated English version of the preceding book.</li><li>Makenna Kuzyk is currently completing her Master's Degree in Flight Test Engineering at the International Test Pilot School in London, Ontario, and is a recipient of the Order of the White Rose scholarship. She earned her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, where she founded Mission SpaceWalker— the first all-female team to participate in the Canadian Reduced Gravity Experiment Challenge, which continues to conduct space-related research. She has been involved in Students for the Exploration of Space (SEDs) Canada, participating in their stratospheric balloon and analog research projects. Her internships included working at Rocketlab as part of the inaugural class of the Zenith Fellowship, the Canadian Space Agency, National Research Council Flight Laboratory, and Zipline as a 2024 Brooke Owens Fellow. She enjoys writing music under the Spotify artist name Mak &lt;3, flying planes as a private pilot, and playing a variety of sports from snowboarding to Brazilian&nbsp;Jiu-Jitsu.</li></ul>

Episode 30: Misogynist Violence, Collective Memory, and Engineering Futures ft. Francine Pelletier & Makenna Kuzyk

If you're in need of support, dial 988 or text WELLNESS to 741741. <ul><li>Blais, M. &amp; Dupuis-Déri, F. (2019). The Montréal Massacre is finally recognized as an anti-feminist attack. The Conversation. <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-montreal-massacre-is-finally-recognized-as-an-anti-feminist-attack-128450" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/the-montreal-massacre-is-finally-recognized-as-an-anti-feminist-attack-128450</a></li><li>DiBranco, A. (2019). The First Anti-Feminist Massacre. Political Research Associates. <a href="https://politicalresearch.org/2019/12/06/first-anti-feminist-massacre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://politicalresearch.org/2019/12/06/first-anti-feminist-massacre</a></li><li>Diebel, L. Two women on Marc Lépine’s death list speak out. Toronto Star. <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/two-women-on-marc-l-pine-s-death-list-speak-out/article_5a2f6b99-e8f7-5506-8e56-765704555700.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/two-women-on-marc-l-pine-s-death-list-speak-out/article_5a2f6b99-e8f7-5506-8e56-765704555700.html</a></li><li>Gerster, J. (2019). Feminism met gunfire at École Polytechnique. It’s taken 30 years to call it what it was. Global News. <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6242996/ecole-polytechnique-violence/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/6242996/ecole-polytechnique-violence/</a></li><li>Global News. (2019). Remembering the women killed in the École Polytechnique massacre. <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6187845/montreal-massacre-victims/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/6187845/montreal-massacre-victims/</a></li><li>Lindeman, T. (2019). ‘Hate is infectious’: how the 1989 mass shooting of 14 women echoes today. The Guardian. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/mass-shooting-1989-montreal-14-women-killed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/mass-shooting-1989-montreal-14-women-killed</a></li><li>Monin, G. (2025). Monique Lépine lived a mother’s worst nightmare. The Sault Star. <a href="https://www.saultstar.com/opinion/gene-monin-monique-lepine-lived-a-mothers-worst-nightmare" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.saultstar.com/opinion/gene-monin-monique-lepine-lived-a-mothers-worst-nightmare</a></li><li>Scott, M. (2014). Polytechnique massacre: Lives forever changed. The Gazette. <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/polytechnique-massacre-lives-forever-changed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/polytechnique-massacre-lives-forever-changed</a></li><li>The Canadian Press. (2024). A timeline of the legacy of the Montreal massacre. CTV News. <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/a-timeline-of-the-legacy-of-the-montreal-massacre/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/a-timeline-of-the-legacy-of-the-montreal-massacre/</a></li><li>Wilson-Smith, A. (1999). Lépine Massacre Ten Years After. Maclean’s. <a href="https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/fr/article/lepine-massacre-ten-years-after-en-anglais-seulement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/fr/article/lepine-massacre-ten-years-after-en-anglais-seulement</a></li><li>Woloshyn, R. (2024). Polytechnique murderer Marc Lépine had her on his kill list. She never forgot the moment she found out. CBC News. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/fifthestate/francine-pelletier-montreal-massacre-1.7401282" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/fifthestate/francine-pelletier-montreal-massacre-1.7401282</a></li></ul>

Episode 29: The École Polytechnique Massacre

Host Aubrianna Snow speaks with Wayne Garnons-Williams about his experience as a Sixties Scoop survivor, the work of the National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada, and what's required to protect the rights of Indigenous children in Canada and globally. <ul><li>Wayne Garnons-Williams, BA (Windsor), LLB (Queen’s), MPA (Dalhousie), LLM (Oklahoma) is the CEO of the not-for-profit registered charity, the National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada. Wayne is a lecturer at the University of Waterloo, United College, bachelor of Indigenous entrepreneurialism program. He is also the Senior Lawyer and Principal Director of the law firm Garwill Law Professional Corporation. Further, he leads an international business entitled Indigenous Sovereign Trade Consultancy Ltd. and is the founding President of the International Inter-tribal Trade and Investment Organization (IITIO) a 501 (c)(3) educational charity incorporated in Oklahoma with international representation from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Canada. He is past board secretary of the Council of the Great Lakes Region, past Chair of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations Appeal Tribunal, past Chair of the National Council of Federal Aboriginal Employees and is currently on the board of directors of the International Law Association and is one of the founding members of the Working Group on Indigenous International Trade. Wayne was instrumental in advising on the development of Indigenous trade policy for Canada as well as being appointed lead Canadian Indigenous negotiator for the Indigenous Peoples Economic Trade and Cooperation Arrangement (IPETCA). Wayne is also a Research Fellow specializing in International Comparative Indigenous law at the University of Oklahoma, College of Law as well as a Senior Legal Fellow for the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law. He was appointed by Order in Council as a member to the NAFTA Chapter 19 Trade Remedies roster and then appointed in 2020 as a CUSMA Advisory Committee Member on Private Commercial Disputes, Article 31.22. He is the Council for Aboriginal Business 2019 award winner for Excellence in Aboriginal Relations, the 2020 Queen’s University Alumni Award winner, the recipient of the 2020 International Legal Specialist in Peace, Justice and Governance Award from the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, the 2024 United States-Canada Law Institute recipient of the Sidney J. Picker Award for contributing to the development of US-Canada relations, the 2024 H.R.S. Ryan Law Alumni Award of Distinction in recognition for outstanding contributions to the faculty, university, and legal profession, Queen’s University, Faculty of Law and the 2024 Oklahoma Supreme Court Sovereignty Symposium medallion for outstanding contributions in furthering Indigenous legal issues. Wayne is from the Moosomin First Nation, Treaty 6.</li></ul>

Episode 28: Sixties Scoop Survivorship, Healing, and the Work of Repair ft. Wayne Garnons-Williams

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Episode 27: The Sixties Scoop

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