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Jeff McCartney

This is my Toronto

A weekly Society, Culture and Business podcast
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This is my Toronto

Jeff McCartney

This is my Toronto

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This is my Toronto

Jeff McCartney

This is my Toronto

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Do you sometimes feel left out when friends are discussing the news? Do you wish you were more interested in the current events of the day? Would you like to be more fluent in world issues but simply don’t have the time to cozy up with a newspa
My guest today is Ewan Wardle. He’s a Program Development Officer at Fort York National Historical Site, where he has served in various roles for the last 17 years. As a young person, Ewan got involved with War of 1812 re-enactments, a passion
My guest today is the City Librarian at the Toronto Public Library, Vickery Bowles. The Toronto Public Library (or TPL) is a one hundred branch system intertwined to serve 2.8 million people in the City of Toronto. This makes it the largest and
My guest today is well-known Canadian portfolio manager, Kim Shannon. Kim is President and Co-Chief Investment Officer at Sionna Investment Managers, a Toronto based firm that she founded 2002. Prior to founding Sionna, she was Chief Investment
My guest today is lead singer and guitarist Casey Van from the band Turbo Street Funk. This New Orleans inspired Brass Rock Band started out here in Toronto busking at Queen and Spadina back in 2011. In 2014, a chance meeting with one of their
My guest today is Steve Thomas. Steve runs Stephen Thomas Ltd, a company that specializes in helping organizations develop and run effective fundraising campaigns. In fact, when it comes to fundraising, there’s few, if any that know the busines
My guest today is Toronto based production designer and director David Hackl. David is probably most well-known for his work on the SAW franchise of movies, but he has many other credits to his name as well. He started his career on the set of
My guests today are two award winning Toronto Theatre veterans, Sue Miner and Mark Brownell. They are the co-founders of the Pea Green Theatre Group, which they established in 1988. Their goal was to bring a wide variety of stories and characte
My guest today is renowned biographer & historian Charlotte Gray.  Charlotte is a master storyteller, who brings history to life in a way that makes it accessible to anybody. She’s written about people like Alexander Graham Bell, Nellie McClung
Today's guest painted Hockey Knights in Canada, the famous murals that are opposite each other at the College Street Subway station.  His name is Charles Pachter, and his work not only adorns subway halls in downtown Toronto, but also the Canad
If you listened to last week’s episode, you know that I had indigenous artist, activist, and educator, Eddy Robinson on the show. This is part 2 of that episode. Today, as a continuation of our discussion, Eddy and I are going to talk about lea
My guest today is indigenous artist, activist, and educator, Eddy Robinson. Eddy is an Anishinaabe/Muskegowuk Cree of the Missanabie Cree First Nation, raised in the city of Toronto. In our talk over the coming two episodes we'll discuss what i
My guest today is Julian Taylor, of the Julian Taylor Band. Julian has been a part of the Toronto music scene since the late 90s. In 2001, he enjoyed considerable success with his band Staggered Crossing, but unfortunately massive national and
My guest today is Jarka Crawford, a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and Certified Holistic Cancer Practitioner. Her story is like so many Torontonians and Canadians in general. She's a relatively new immigrant, who's raising a family and runni
My guest today is Alice Klein, co-founder and CEO of NOW Magazine. NOW is the number one alt-weekly publication in all of North America with a weekly readership of over 325,000. Alice is an amazing entrepreneur, publisher, writer, documentarian
Today we're "jumping the shark" by having Canadian film icon, Don McKellar on the show. His work includes such masterpieces as Roadkill, Highway 61, Twitch City, The Drowsy Chaperone, Blindness, The Grand Seduction, Sensitive Skin, and my perso
Welcome to This is my Toronto, the podcast that showcases our great city by focusing on the incredible and talented work of local entrepreneurs, entertainers and historians. Our guest today is Rory O'Shea, a well-known Toronto radio personality
Our guest today is local Toronto actor and musician, Joe Kelly.  The focus of our talk will centre around his band My Psycho Ex, and his relationship with a wonderful program called The Keys to the Studio.  We'll also talk about the high cost o
Our guest today is Mark Bowden, an expert on human behaviour and body language.  Today we'll talk to Mark about how he became interested in body language, when it's important to be inauthentic, and his company and methodology, TRUTHPLANE.  The
Our guest today is Jonathan Scotland from the University of Toronto, and we'll be talking with him about what war means to Canadians, our relationship with Vimy Ridge, and the conditions and challenges our veterans faced when they came home to
Welcome to This is my Toronto, the podcast that showcases our great city, by focusing on the incredible and talented work of local entrepreneurs, entertainers, and historians. Our guest today is Sebastian Major, a Toronto area teacher who hosts
Welcome to This is my Toronto, the podcast that will showcase our great city by focusing on the incredible and talented work of local entrepreneurs, entertainers, and historians. Have you ever wanted to play drums?  Our first guest Chris Lesso
Welcome to This is my Toronto, the podcast that will showcase our great city by focusing on the incredible and talented work of local entrepreneurs, entertainers, and historians. The music for the podcast has been graciously provided by Toronto
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