Now or Never

"Am I turning into my parents?!" And other stories of untangling family legacy


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Our families pass on all kinds of things to us - values, quirks, and that particular expression your mom makes when she finds something hilarious. On this episode, hear stories of people embracing, breaking (or reinventing) the imprint of their families.


A reality check from ChatGPT sends Hamilton’s Shawney Cohen on a drastic health journey, as he grapples with a family history of disordered eating. 


When Doug Darling found out his dad had Alzheimer’s, he realized there were things about his dad's life he didn't know. So he started asking questions, carefully recording every last detail of his life - the childhood adventures, how he met his mom — as a way of keeping his dad's legacy alive, for both himself and the next generation.


Nick Yoshida lived through the horrors of the Japanese internment during the 1940s, and since being forced from the province of British Columbia has refused to go back. Nick and his granddaughter Nicole share their thoughts and feelings as she prepares to move to Vancouver, a place that holds so much pain for him and so much possibility for her.


"We want to be like Wakanda." Curtis Whiley is on a quest to return parts of Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia to the descendants of the African Nova Scotians who settled there two hundred years ago.


Metis twins Luc and Aidan Wrigley have been fiddling in a band with their dad Rob since they were kids, and it’s taken them around the country. But now, at 19, the twins have joined a new band with musicians their own age. What does their dad think?


And Ify heads to the mall to ask strangers a simple question: "What is something your parents used to do that really annoyed you as a kid, that you now find yourself doing?"

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