Canadian Grit: North of Ordinary – Details, episodes & analysis

Real Stories. Real History. Real People. Shaping what I am calling the current Canadian Renaissance through the lens of our evolving national identity by presenting and thoughtfully considering novel, critical, and diverse perspectives about how we best move forward in these often difficult, fragmented, and dehumanized times. 

This podcast is a show for everyone who likes anything, and is interested in getting to learn more about our world in the ongoing, and exponentially growing digital-industrial revolution in the postmodern, globalized context. 

I offer honesty, humour, directness, authenticity, depth, breadth, and democratic voice to Canadians like you and me.  

I am a dealer of perspectives. Throwing spaghetti at the wall for fun just to see what sticks— often to agitate for exposure to shake what we call ‘normal’ and to ask why we’ve normalized it. 

What do you want to hear me talk about? I am a reasonable and conscientious objector to the status quo and systemic oppression. It is human connection, kindness, and asset-building as a Canadian community that makes this podcast unique.

Let’s discuss Canadian identity with curiosity, openness, and respect for all human beings, while doing our best to ensure both historical and modern discussions are to build something better. 

I seek to do what I do best: use my own voice and lived experiences as a 37-year-old, born-and-raised in Muskoka story, to meaningfully connect more Canadians together by amplifying how best to use our collective assets to reassert a more holistic and caring version of our country that we can optimistically look forward to as “Canada 2.0.” various  currently shaping the sociopolitical, socioeconomic, sociocultural Canada in 2025

I hope to share my own expertise on issues related to Canadian and European History in order to help educate more Canadians about how to functionally discuss democracy in a constructive fashion. I believe that amplifying our individually lived experiences and background stories as Canadians will show us all that we have way more in common than we may think.

It’s not too late to get the reshape and dig deeper into our understanding of what Canada was and is still up to, by revisiting  many events from our collective, national past, while presenting anchors to present moment in an original, new, and democratic way. 

I will delve into my own PhD (ABD) research theories and findings regarding sustainability educational and coping strategies for life in the current Western and Canadian context. Canada now has an  unprecedented chance to break free from the ‘American Dream,’ which has taken a quantum and undeniable leap to the stuff of nightmares.

I will bring different voices and perspectives to you and by you to bring more understanding and ways to find peace in our often unpredictable ‘hybrid reality,’ which is my new theory on the current zeitgeist, which I am constructing in real time in order to continue the invaluable mid-20th-century work of a most underappreciated Canadian: Dr. Marshall McLuhan.

My Hybrid Reality Theory is original, and I will contextualize our shared past to demonstrate that many of the tensions in Canada are not new— they have been exacerbated and exposed by COVID-19 and economic systems related to neoliberalism and rentier capitalism.