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Clearing a New Path™

Clearing a New Path

Inspiring and building a more united, feminist, anti-racist rural Canada. Produced by Radar Media. Podcast art inspired by the graphic design of Katie Wilhelm. Music branding by The Hankering Studio. Subscribe to the Clearing a New Path™ weekly newsletter: https://substack.com/@clearinganewpath Contact us at: info@clearinganewpathpodcast.com clearinganewpath.substack.com

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Kendra Fry - Rural and Remote Churches - What's Next?

Clearing a New Path™ ·

2023/04/19

Kendra Fry - Rural and Remote Churches - What's Next?This episode came about when I was looking up how many churches are for sale or even abandoned in rural and remote Canada. I couldn’t find a current number but I did find a story about the selling off of Catholic churches in Newfoundland. In 1999, 39 men — former residents of Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. John’s — filed statements of claim at Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court claiming they were abused during the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s by

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42:03

Dr. Jaquie Newman - How Some Rural Municipalities Use...

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2023/04/12

Dr. Jacquie Newman - How Some Rural Municipalities Use Power to ExcludeThrough a chain of events, I found myself watching a previous recording of a municipal council meeting, a municipality in rural Alberta. It’s called Olds, Alberta. The CAO was briefing council (and a delegation that was there about another matter) on why the administration was recommending the municipality get out of the ‘proclamation business’. He facetiously said he advised council against proclamations because they might deny

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40:09

Kim English - The Rural and Remote Nursing Crisis

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2023/04/05

Kim English - Addressing a Rural Canadian Nursing CrisisProfessor Kim English first sent me an email, suggesting the topic of rural and remote nursing.Kim is a Doctoral candidate who has been teaching nurses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level since 2002.Kim draws from her clinical experiences in acute care and professional practice, and her lived experiences in rural health and working with Indigenous communities.Kim’s narrative-informed research explores the work of rural and remote

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39:27

Isaac Murdoch - Revolution of the Heart

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2023/03/29

Isaac Murdoch - Revolution of the HeartI first saw Isaac Murdoch telling his stories on Facebook, during the pandemic. A prolific and legendary Indigenous storyteller, he was so entertaining he left an indelible impression on me.Later, during my own training and healing about the real beginnings of Canada, Isaac’s stories turned up again, during a training session as someone all of us should listen to.Isaac is also a singer/songwriter, artist and maker.I had the honour and privilege of having a

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33:10

Emily McIntosh - Bill 5 - Women of Ontario Say No

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2023/03/22

Emily McIntosh - Bill 5 - Women of Ontario Say NoI first heard about the Women of Ontario Say No campaign on Instagram. One of the campaign’s posts was shared by a number of female municipal council members that I follow.It’s a growing grassroots advocacy effort to address the gap in a provincial accountability structure for municipally elected officials. Multiple Ontario municipalities have learned the hard way about the lack of tools in the Municipal Act for holding councillors accountable for

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1:02:22

Rural Women Councillors - 100 Days in Office

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2023/03/14

Rural Women Councillors in Ontario - 100 Days in OfficeThis episode is a conversation with four first-time rural women councilors, all serving in small communities across Ontario. They talk about what their experience has been both before the election, while they were campaigning and now 100 days into their term.They talk about challenging stereotypes that rural folks may have about women in governance, the importance of clear communication, they talk about the privilege they have and what a

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44:19

Gitanjali Aggarwal - PARO - Meeting Rural Women Where...

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2023/03/08

Gitanjali Aggarwal - Meeting Rural Women Where They AreThe PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise is an organization that supports women entrepreneurs across Ontario. The organization’s approach to supporting women is unique in that it meets women where they are. Whether it’s your geographic area, or where you are on your business journey, PARO’s programs and services are designed to support women wherever they areThis episode focuses on some of the unique programs PARO offers, like Lending Circles but

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38:52

Jean Bota - Community Crime Prevention in Rural Canada

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2023/03/01

Jean Bota - ‘Building Capacity in Rural Crime Prevention ProjectIn our last episode, we talked about just one element of crime in rural Canada, intimate partner violence, with Pamela Cross of Luke’s Place.She mentioned that in Ontario we have what’s called a Community Safety and Well-being plan. This is a framework for municipalities to utilize for their own communities. Four areas are highlighted as critical to success: social development, prevention, risk intervention, and incident response.Jean

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48:44

Pamela Cross - Luke's Place - A Rural Inquest

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2023/02/22

Pamela Cross - Luke’s Place - A Rural InquestPamela Cross is a feminist lawyer; a well respected expert on violence against women and the law. She is revered for her work as a researcher, writer, educator and trainer. She works with women’s equality and violence against women organizations across Ontario.Luke’s Place is an award-winning non-profit organization devoted to improving the safety and experience of women and their children as they proceed through the family law process after fleeing an

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37:29

Michelle Friesen - Municipal Government and...

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2023/02/15

Councillor Michelle Friesen - Whitehorse, Yukon TerritoryMichelle Friesen caught my eye, initially, with a post on Instagram. She was addressing her city’s council, as a sitting councillor herself, about the discovery of children’s remains at residential schools. She posted a video of her address and then also posted the comments she received from the public afterwards. I also noticed in the video that Michelle was holding her infant son, Theo at the council meeting, which is unusual.I connected

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33:47

Duane Kumala-Thomas - Highlander Studios - History...

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2023/02/08

Duane Kumala-Thomas: Highlander Studios - History and TruthDuane Kumala-Thomas recently invited me to his art studio called Highlander Studios in Woodstock, Ontario for a tour and a conversation about his studio, his work, his philosophy and his awe-inspiring art installation in downtown Ingersoll.Duane Kumala-Thomas explores the relationship between multiculturalism and perspective. With influences as diverse as Fela Kuti and Salvador Dali, compositions of both audio and visual nature are generated

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43:04

How Freebruary Helps Canada's Producers - Andrew...

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2023/02/01

How Freebruary Helps Canadian ProducersLast week, my good friend Stella Sehn, a family farm honey producer in the Prairies told me about Freebruary. She started to explain and then she said she’d just send me this one minute video and it would explain everything.Basically, it’s a low investment campaign for producers who may want to expand their reach and grow their customer base, without spending a fortune on a digital advertising campaign or hiring staff to do those campaigns for them.Stella was

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33:56

Rural Development Network - Filling the gaps in rural...

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2023/01/27

Filling the Gaps - Dee Ann Benard & Daniela Seiferling - Rural Development NetworkI first came across the Rural Development Network or RDN when I started the podcast in 2021 and I signed up for its newsletter, following its expansion from a mainly western Canadian focus to now serving all corners of rural and remote Canada.It was in one of those newsletters late last year that I heard about RDN’s Work Integrated Learning program for rural organizations and businesses. The program matches you

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40:44

Circles for Change in Rural Canada - Ame-Lia Tamburrini

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2023/01/18

Ame-Lia Tamburrini: Circles for Change in Rural CanadaRecently, I’ve been thinking deeply about the value of circles when it comes to community building and community engagement. It seems to me that the division we see in Canada’s rural communities often comes down to always hearing from the same voices and not hearing from voices who have something new to say; new or different ideas. When we live under systems that certainly benefit only some of us, few have agency to make change.Circles can also

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35:28

RURAL BOOKS: BELINDA CLEMMENSEN - Women, Leadership &...

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2023/01/11

Belinda Clemmensen - Women, Leadership and Saving the WorldOver the holidays this year, I took a connection break. That meant trying my best to unhinge from social media and work. I felt like I needed to rethink the podcast strategy and actually take a look at myself and what was holding me back, my own personal journey.I watched the documentary “Deconstructing Karen” with Saira Rao and Regina Jackson, two women of colour who host dinners with white women that they call Race2Dinners. To say watching

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45:33

WILL 2023 BRING CLEAN AND RESILIENT GROWTH FOR RURAL...

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2022/12/31

Will 2023 Bring Clean and Resilient Growth for Rural Canada? - John McNally - PLACE CentreWhat is clean and resilient growth and how does it fit into a rural perspective in Canada and will 2023 be the year we realize those in rural Canada?This week's episode is the first of what I hope will be many conversations with the folks at PLACE Centre, which is a new initiative of the Smart Prosperity Institute (SPI).My guest is John McNally the Program Director for the Growth program at PLACE where he leads

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22:34

RURAL BOOKS - AUTUMN ONGARO - FEAD: A Taste of Home...

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2022/12/22

Autumn Ongaro - FEAD: A Taste of Home in Norfolk CountyThis is the third in a series of rural-based authors. I love this book because it’s a combination of a recipe book and a storybook.Autumn Ongaro is the author of FEAD, a delightful reference on seasonal cooking that celebrates the bounty of fresh foods in Norfolk County. It will carry you through the four seasons as Autumn shares the stories and histories of many farms, and crafts their treasured ingredients into seasonal and approachable

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44:07

The Disconnection Between Health Authority and...

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2022/12/21

Grandview HealthCare Solutions is a grassroots, community driven organization that grew out of the need to better serve patients in Grandview, Manitoba and the immediate surrounding area. This is another case of a community coming together to create solutions for rural health care. You’ll hear clearly how the Regional Health Authority in the area is making decisions that don’t work for this rural community (and many others) and the frustration from the health care professionals and members of the

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33:42

RURAL BOOKS - CATHARINE A. WILSON - Being Neighbours

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2022/12/19

Catharine Wilson - Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830–1960I have a fascination with Canadian history and more specifically, rural Canadian history. I have a keen interest in what life was like in rural Canada many years ago but I have a passion for discovering the voices that we are missing.Consulting the oracle or Google, to dig up some rural Canadian history, I came across the Rural Diary Archive and its Founder and Director, Catharine Wilson.Catharine Wilson is the author

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32:20

Physician Assistants: Can Physicians Side-Step Ego to...

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2022/12/14

Physicians Assistants: Can Physicians Side-Step Ego to Health Rural Health Care? Eric Demers and Dr. Alex NatarosPhysicians Assistants or PAs are, in essence physician extenders, they extend the care of a primary physician. They are not nurses, nurses assistants nor are they practical nurses.PAs got their start in the US in the 60s to respond to a shortage and uneven geographical distribution of doctors (sound familiar)? The PA profession alleviated doctors from performing routine technical tasks in

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