Auntie Up!

In this episode the Aunties welcome NDP MP Leah Gazan to discuss her private members' bill to end residential school denialism and why the history of residential schools is denied in the first place. This episode was recorded prior to the federal election. We also would like listeners to take care while listening as it does deal with difficult subjects. 

The Aunties sit down with Melissa Ridgen, a Managing Editor; and Chef Jennifer Sinclair to share best advice and war stories from the work trenches to help you navigate tricky situations, empower you to be bold, and follow your heart even if it means a complete switch of careers.

Join Kim Wheeler, Karyn Pugliese and Melissa Ridgen in a special episode where they discuss the 2025 Canadian Federal Election, the candidates and their platforms.

In this episode Aunties Rosanna Deerchild and Kim Wheeler speak with Dr. Alex Wilson, an Indigi-Queer professor who walks us through the importance of showing up and raising our voices as 2SLGBTQ+ in a time where erasure of the community is here and putting lives, especially trans lives, in danger.

Join Auntie Jolene Banning and guests Shannon Gustafson and Genevieve Desmoulin in a heartfelt conversation about grief.

When you lose someone you love the pain is intense, raw, devastating and you wonder how do I go on? When you’re not thinking about that, there can be all sorts of thoughts running through your head from guilt, to regret to calmness to confusion. Now all alone, what are you supposed to do? How does one go on with their life? Or find joy and love again? But there is hope. There are many who have walked this walk. While I walk with my grief, I’d like to share all the love, kindness, and knowledge Aunties have to offer. I hope to better understand grief and learn ways to move through it, and hopefully help the next person on this journey.

Aunties Karyn Pugliese and January Rogers are joined by acclaimed artist Christi Belcourt and art curator Jamie Isaac to talk art and politics and how the two intersect in the Indigenous world.

Aunties Kim Wheeler and Rosanna Deerchild chat wtih Tasha Spillet and Dawn Olivence, both who have welcomed their mothers into their homes to live with them. They dish on the challenges and rewards of this arrangement.

The climate crisis is just one reason women are choosing not to bring children into this world. But we are still making families on our own terms. We are there for our nieces and nephews as deadly aunties and helping the next generations to smash the patriarchy. There have always been child-free women, but in the last couple of decades, people choosing not to have children has become more common. Aunties January Rogers and Karyn Pugliese talk with Sonya Ballentyne and Adeline Bird to find out why they are child-free by choice.

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