Podcast for Inquiry S01E02: Can Cultural Criticism Come Only from Within? - with Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson

The Centre for Inquiry Canada's Podcast for Inquiry has released its second episode, a conversation about culture and responsibility with Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson (@LloydHawkeye7), a retired Indigenous psychologist and scholar and president of the New Enlightenment Project. Lloyd and I discuss the NEP and what he hopes to accomplish with it. We also talk about the moral obligations one has to advocate for change from within one's culture, and whether such critiques should only come from within. Our conversation includes how he would like to improve aboriginal culture and broader Canadian society, as well as how to deal with the scourge of online misinformation. 

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Podcast for Inquiry S01E01: The State of Media and Journalism in Canada with Jonathan Kay

The Centre for Inquiry Canada has launched Podcast for Inquiry, a series of conversations about science, secularism, critical thinking, and humanism. I am honoured to be its host, and our first episode is a conversation with Quillette editor Jonathan Kay (@jonkay). We discuss the transformations Canadian media institutions have undergone over the past 20 years, the impact of the Internet, social media, increasing ownership concentration, legacy and current business models for the industry, and the future of journalism in Canada, especially in light of the seemingly endless cuts to newsrooms. 

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New episodes are released every two weeks.