Picking the brains of the feminist researcher Tracey Nicholls on policing of women from witch hunts to online misogyny. Plus, University of Southern California Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Peter Ekman on lasting lessons from a highly contentious American-designed Venezuelan town.

Peter Ekman's book Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America’s Postwar Urbanism is available via Cornell University Press

Hosted and produced by Sarah Hoyles
Theme music Quirky Jerk by Jason Shaw

Picking the brains of Canada's first and last Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby, on the prejudice, discrimination and hatred Muslims continue to face in Canada and how to address it, plus Alberta Gambling Research Institute senior research fellow, Fiona Nicoll, on the shifting ways Canadians play, regulate and talk about gambling.

Hosted and produced by Sarah Hoyles with editing by Ryan Hendren
Theme music Quirky Jerk by Jason Shaw

Picking the brains of Simon Fraser University Associate Professor of History, Tina Adcock on how exploration of “the North” exposes colonialism and Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University, Dr. Muhannad Ayyash imagines what comes next for protestors after encampments were quashed. 

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Theme music Quirky Jerk by Jason Shaw

Picking the brains of SOS Alberta's Heather Ganshorn on parental rights, Education prof Carla Peck on battle over Alberta schools plus Mathematics & Statistical Sciences researchers, Marie Betsy Varughese and Michael Li, on how to predict the flu like the weather.

Hosted and produced by Sarah Hoyles
Theme music Quirky Jerk by Jason Shaw