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The Interdisciplinary Work of Lyss Warmland.

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Check out my conversation with Lyndsay Lazar!

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We talk about:
– Lyndsay’s history of business ownership
– Starting her new company, Bonbon Fashion
– Balancing sustainability and feminism in the fashion industry
– Our mutual love of vintage fashion
– Living with chronic pain and a traumatic brain injury
– Creative work as therapy
– How Lyndsay’s work keeps her well

and more!

Featured Tunes by:
Angel Haze
Tegan and Sara
Winona Wilde
Missy Elliot

 

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Check out my interview with Laurie Carr! We chat about:

  • Laurie‘s favourite things about Port Hope
  • What’s going on at Laurie’s businesses, The Social and Cats Media
  • Why Laurie is running for town council
  • Laurie’s mission
  • Working collaboratively
  • Sustainability
  • The waterfront clean up
  • Laurie’s vision for balanced economic growth
  • Accessibility
  • Laurie’s thoughts on the state of local media
  •  Laurie’s thoughts on affordable housing
  • Laurie’s experience as a woman in a male-dominated industry and how that experience can apply to being on council
  • Laurie’s thoughts on 65 Ward St.

and more!

Featured Tunes:
Yeah by Hiccup
Something to Believe in by Ramones
Smile by My Son the Hurricane
Since the Divorce by Gillian Shields

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Check out my interview with Nicole Beatty! We chat about:

  • Nicole‘s favourite things about living in Northumberland County
  • About Nicole’s career in community development and resource development management
  • What lead Nicole to run for council
  • Nicole’s experience with being a young women running for town council
  • Nicole’s vision for economic development in Cobourg
  • Nicole’s vision for culture and tourism in Cobourg
  • Nicole’s vision for sustainability in Cobourg (including the inflatable floating playground at Cobourg Beach)
  • Nicole’s vision for affordable housing
  • Nicole’s vision for engaging youth in the community (including all-ages show venues and a youth advisory council)
  • Nicole’s advocacy work
  • What community looks like to her
  • Nicole’s favourite Cultivate moment ever
  • Cannabis legalization, the role of municipal government in managing it, and looking to Indigenous communities to learn from them.
  • What song Nicole is learning on uke

 

Local Organizations Nicole is Associated With:

Featured Tunes:
Born to Love You by Ellen Torrie  (Click her name to check out her rad new website!)
I’ll Wait by Sweet Alibi 
Burn the Rapists, Not the Witches by Backyard Riot (From their brand new, locally written and recorded EP!)
Bro Hymn by Pennywise

 

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Check out my interview with Wendy Meadows! We chat about:
– Who Wendy is, what she does, and why she wants to run for council
– Her band, Wendy Meadows Trio
– The importance of transparency and communication in council
– What a young woman in the community can expect from women on council
– Wendy’s vision for sustainable social and economic growth
– Wendy’s thoughts on aging in Port Hope and the importance of longterm health care
– Her thoughts on West Beach and the waterfront
– Wendy’s vision for more affordable housing

Correction: At 27:18, Wendy refers to WWII when she meant to say WWI

Featured Tunes:

Running by Jully Black
Walking By Myself by Suzie Vinnick
Crystal Pistol by Chloe Watkinson
Paper Thin by RVIVR