Cross Border Interviews

Reio Lance is back!

They are making an announcement about their political future. And we have the scoop here. Listen as we talk about their vision for the future and where they believe their voice can best be served.

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At age 15, Jonathan (who also goes by the name JP) watched Hotel Rwanda. He decided something had to be done to prevent genocide. This led him to advocate in schools and beyond for greater action by Canada to prevent human rights abuses and crimes against humanity. As ethnic cleansing raged in Sudan’s Darfur region, he decided that’s where he should be heading.

In 2015, JP was hired by Amnesty International to report on abuses in the Central African Republic. He had spent two years training local journalists there and in South Sudan, negotiating with rebels to build a new radio station in a war torn town and losing friends along the way. After 12 months with Amnesty, JP joined Human Rights Watch, with whom he reported on egregious abuses and war crimes in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and, most recently, Ukraine.

With war comes trauma. In 2014, JP lost two close friends. Camille Lepage, a young French photographer, was killed while they both worked in the Central African Republic. He traveled with her body to France and met with her family. Three months later, Jim Foley, another friend he had shared a hotel room with in Tripoli in 2011 was cowardly murdered by the Islamic State in Syria. JP tried to turn this pain into something productive and wrote a very non-PC novel about a French journalist and his son’s quest to find him through time and space. The book, Toi Aussi Mon Fils, was published in 2017.

He is currently running with his co-leadership candidate Elizabeth May to be the next Leader of the Green Party of Canada.

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Zak Abdi served as the Edmonton Regional Chair for the Alberta Liberal Party. More recently, Zak volunteered with the Black-Owned Market in Edmonton (BOM YEG) as finance lead.

He is now seeking the nomination for the Green Party of Alberta in the provincial riding of Edmonton City Centre.

Zak currently works in the financial services industry as an analyst. He also owns and operates a small transportation business. Zak obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting at the JR Shaw School of Business at NAIT and is pursuing his Certified Credit Professional (CCP) designation through the Credit Institute of Canada.

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Dr. Trevor Hancock was the first leader of the Green Party in both Canada and Ontario.

Hancock's main areas of interest are population health promotion, healthy cities and communities, public health, healthy public policy, environment and health, healthy and ‘green’ hospitals, health policy and planning, and health futurism.

He is one of the founders of the (now global) Healthy Cities and Communities movement, co-authoring with the late Len Duhl the original background paper for the European Regional Office of the World Health Organisation in 1986. Over the past 30 years he was worked as a consultant for local communities, municipal, provincial and national governments, health care organizations, NGOs and the World Health Organization.

In the past, he has co-founded both the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care.

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Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Swan was always interested in fear and horror. He grew up on a dose of tv shows like Night Gallery and Darkroom as well as The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. His favorite directors were (and still are) Hitchcock, DePalma, Carpenter, and William Castle.

Swan worked in broadcasting starting at the age of 16. Graduating High School he went to join the circus for one season, returning to broadcasting where he announced, wrote and produced commercials.

Swan has called himself the most famous person that no one has ever heard of with tongue in cheek. Dabbling in television, movies, and the stage, he claims to have fulfilled most of his childhood dreams.

He did not write his first novel until 2007 and it took four years to complete. Since then, he has written 18 and continues to write.

Winslow Swan currently lives in the North Georgia Mountains with his five dogs.

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Niall Ó Donnghaile is a Senator and former Belfast City Councillor. Elected as a Councillor for the first time in 2011, Niall made history when he was appointed the youngest ever Mayor of Belfast at the age of 25.

A resident of East Belfast all his life, Niall sits on a number of local boards and community organisations. He is well known for his grassroots lobbying and engagement.

A fluent Irish Language speaker Niall is committed to helping build an inclusive East Belfast which welcomes and embraces all of our enriching traditions and cultures in a spirit of equality and mutual respect.

Niall’s proven track record of delivery has seen tangible results on the ground, from new housing and environmental improvements to tourism initiatives, from job creation to giving voice to those most marginalized.

This Episode Was Recorded Live On Friday September 9th, 2022.

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Anna Keenan and Chad Walcott are members of the modern left, and are unapologetically progressive.

They are running as co-leaders of the Green Party of Canada.

At the same time, they welcome conversations with the many former conservatives who are looking for a new political home as the modern right slides deeper into a politics of anger, hate, and climate denial. We hold firm, nonviolent boundaries against hate, while refusing to be drawn into the hyper-partisanship that only intensifies a culture of polarization and conflict.

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Jennifer "Jenny" Yeremiy, is the Alberta Party for the riding in Calgary North West in the upcoming provincial election.

Yeremiy sits down with us to talk about her campaign and her vision for Calgary North West.

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The Alberta Teachers’ Alliance was created in 1917, at a meeting of the Alberta Educational Association. The Alliance’s inaugural annual meeting was held in First Presbyterian Church in Edmonton during Easter week of 1918. Among the members of the Alberta Educational Association were those of many walks of life interested in advancing education in the new province of Alberta, but it was not a professional organization equipped or mandated to address teachers’ salaries, classroom and working conditions, or the professional views of teachers. At the time, teachers were leaving the profession by the hundreds, either through enlistment in the armed forces or to other professions offering better salary and living conditions.

As a result, thousands of unqualified persons were granted the authority to teach. Teachers were disadvantaged socially and economically. Tenure did not exist; short-term contracts were the order of the day; and teachers had no appeal against dismissal. The Liberal government of Premier Charles Stewart (1917–1921) and the Honourable J R Boyle (1912–1918), minister of education, attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to remedy the situation. Their plan was to enact a statutory minimum teacher salary. That plan failed and it was with the establishment of the Alberta Teachers’ Alliance that teachers began to organize professionally and advocate for the improvement of the profession.

In todays episode we talk with current President Jason Schilling about the ATA, relations with the Provincial government, and what's next for the ATA.

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Wayne Rothe spent 26 years as a municipal councillor in Alberta, now hes helping Alberta councils overcome challenges and plan for the future of their communities.

We talk with Wayne about the challenges communities are under, and how strategic planning can save communities in the long run.

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