NOW Toronto

By NOW Magazine

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The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.

NOW Toronto episodes:

June 16, 2020 NOW What Ep27 - We're Not Ready to Reopen Child Care
Last week, with no warning, the Ontario government gave child care centres across the province the green light to reopen. Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care policy coordinator Carolyn Ferns joins Norm to explain why that’s a bad idea.
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22min
June 12, 2020 NOW What Ep26 - Meet the Toronto restaurateur who's taking on Uber Eats
Norm and music editor Richard Trapunski check in with Pizzeria Du co-owner Roger Yang, who’s organizing his fellow restaurateurs in a bid to reclaim delivery from third-party services like Uber Eats.
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25min
June 11, 2020 NOW What Ep25 - How an Evangelical Church Attracted a Millennial Congregation in Toronto
In the last of our interviews with Hot Docs filmmakers, Ali Weinstein discusses her documentary #Blessed, which examines the efforts of Australian church C3 to reach out to young Toronto hipsters
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20min
June 09, 2020 NOW What Ep24 - How to protest during a pandemic
As the Black Lives Matter protests continue in Toronto and around the world, NOW staff writer Sadaf Ahsan and Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder Pascale Diverlus join Norm to discuss the ways people can come together while still following social distancing guidelines.
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22min
June 07, 2020 NOW What Ep23 - The Walrus And The Whistleblower
In the latest in our series of interviews with Hot Docs filmmakers, Nathalie Bibeau talks about how Phil Demers went from Marineland trainer to animal-rights activist ... and what it cost him to do the right thing.
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17min
June 05, 2020 NOW What Ep22 - The Case for Defunding the Police, Explained
Norm is joined by NOW writers Radheyan Simonpillai and Sadaf Ahsan, filmmaker Charles Officer and Black Legal Action Centre vice-chair Sandra Hudson for a conversation about saving Black lives by defunding the police.
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46min
June 02, 2020 NOW What Ep21 - How the Trinity Bellwoods crowds expose Toronto's public space inequities
Over the long weekend, the crowds at Trinity Bellwoods got Toronto talking about public space -- specifically, how we use it and who has the privilege to abuse it. Award-winning author and placemaker Jay Pitter is here to talk to NOW political editor Enzo DiMatteo about those issues.
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26min
May 31, 2020 NOW What Ep20 - How the Honest Ed's development exposes the myth of affordable housing in Toronto
Lulu Wei's documentary There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace - now streaming in the Hot Docs Online Festival - considers the gentrification of Toronto through the demolition of Honest Ed's and Mirvish Village.
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21min
May 29, 2020 NOW What Ep19 - Meet The Filmmaker Who Ate Local In The Yukon For A Year
Suzanne Crocker discusses her Hot Docs entry First We Eat, which follows her family's attempt to eat local in Dawson City ... where nothing grows
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17min
May 26, 2020 NOW What Ep18 - Hot Docs At Home
With Hot Docs launching its first online edition this Thursday, director of programming Shane Smith is here to discuss the pivot to streaming, and how it could change the venerated documentary festival going forward.
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24min

FAQs about NOW Toronto:

How many episodes does NOW Toronto have?

The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.