In 2024/25 Kim Brown, Chantelle Cotton and their 13 year-old daughter Aidyn had a big adventure. They took a year off school and literally traveled around the world. This is a chat about that big adventure.

Trina Flett has a lot to talk about, including her dad - a mostly unsung Manitoba musician - her extraordinary travel adventures and more...

Carolyn and Viola are regularly called on to conduct Indigenous ceremonies, provide education, and bring an Indigenous lens to event openings.

In this episode Erika gets to satisfy her own curiosity with Carolyn and Viola by diving deeper on topics like ribbon skirts, the significance of tobacco, powwows, and much more.

There's a growing movement to forgo elaborate, expensive, environmentally-costly burial of human remains, in favour of 'Green Burials'. In this episode, Erika talks to Trish (who is looking for land to create a green cemetery), Rick (who builds green caskets) and Dave (who has been giving this issue a lot of thought since experiencing his brother's green burial).

Here's how to follow Trish's project; greencemeterywinnipeg.ca or Green Cemetery Project Winnipeg on Facebook

And Rick's business; thevillagecasketmaker.com

Not a lot of people get to hang out in the Chamber at the Manitoba Legislature besides elected officials, except if you are among the 'nerds' (their word) who participate in Youth Parliament Manitoba (YPM) which takes place for 5 days every year between Christmas and New Years.

We get two perspectives in this episode - one from first-time attendee, grade 11 student Loquin Warkentin, and the other from a YPM veteran Lien Huynh.

Bonus content: Loquin talks about his experience as lead in the school play.

In 1975 I was in first year at the University of Waterloo, living in residence on campus. My guest today, Salah Bachir, also lived there. We haven't been in touch since, but I have followed the trajectory of his life through various times when he has shown up in the Globe and Mail, most recently as the author of a book 'First to Leave the Party: My Life with Ordinary People ... who happen to be Famous'.

Just last Saturday, on January 27 one of the book chapters appeared in the Globe in tribute to the late Norman Jewison, one of Salah's ordinary but famous friends.

I'm grateful that first, Salah remembered me when I approached him about doing an interview, and second that he agreed to do it.

I realize that some of the references in this conversation won't be clear without reading the book. So read the book!

In the last episode we talked about Territorial (or Land) Acknowledgements. Two young people, Mabel McManus and Sarah Fontaine-Sinclair shared about the efforts they made in their schools to uplift Territorial Acknowledgements. And with Niigaan Sinclair we talked about the difference between preformative and meaningful Territorial Acknowledgements.

In this episode we go deeper into Treaty One with historian Jean Friesen. What was Treaty One all about, what was the context, what did Indigenous peoples and the Crown hope to gain from it etc...

In this episode two young people take the lead on promoting an understanding of land acknowledgements - one who leads a campaign in her school for students to stand up for the daily land acknowledgement and the other who, with her friends, wrote the land acknowledgement for her school. She, along with her father Niigaan Sinclair, share insights about the whys and hows of good land acknowledgements. 

Afterthought host Erika Wiebe talks to her brother Bernie (aka Buck) Wiebe, a retired hospice physician and a current cancer patient, about his thoughts on aging and mortality - with references to the book 'Being Mortal' by Atul Gawande. 

Jim Derksen was well known throughout Winnipeg. If you didn't know him personally, you would know him by his distinctive look as he wheeled his way around the community in his colourful caftans and ever-present beret. Jim died in July 2022. In this episode, Erika talks to Jim's sister Shauna and friend Harold about his early life, his quirky style, his parrots and his lifelong commitment to advancing human rights in Winnipeg.