Conversations With Canadians Trailer

01/24/21 • 1 min

Welcome to the Conversations with Canadians podcast. I am your host, Mike Ryan.

So What is the conversations with Canadians podcast? This is first and foremost a podcast about Canadians.

For the last several years, an increasing concern of mine has been that the discussion in our country has been about politics and culture beyond our borders. We consume American media, follow American thought leaders, we are inspired by their entrepreneurs, scientists, academics, celebrities, and many Canadians know more about the history of the United States then they do their own country.

Our country needs to stop being influenced in such a significant way from the outside. We need to start thinking for ourselves.

To do this we need to shift the psychology of Canadians, to one that gets us to see ourselves as the brilliant, amazing, and inspiring people that we are. One that will get us to realize what all that we could be.

My aim of this podcast is to showcase Canadian people doing amazing things - from all different walks of life. I plan to interview people in Politics, Academia, Science, Media, Sports, Business, and everyday folks to highlight the amazing and interesting work they are up to and to uncover what it means to be Canadian.

I hope you enjoy these episodes as much as I love doing them. If you like what you hear, please subscribe and follow me wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Please feel free to provide me feedback and criticism at [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram at conversations_with_Canadians

Twitter @mike_ryang

I hope you enjoy the show.

Welcome to the Conversations with Canadians podcast. I am your host, Mike Ryan.

So What is the conversations with Canadians podcast? This is first and foremost a podcast about Canadians.

Our country needs to stop being influenced in such a significant way from the outside. We need to start thinking for ourselves.

I hope you enjoy these episodes as much as I love doing them. If you like what you hear, please subscribe and follow me wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Please feel free to provide me feedback and criticism at [email protected]

Follow me on Instagram at conversations_with_Canadians

Twitter @mike_ryang

I hope you enjoy the show.

Previous Episode

Dr. Irvin Studin: The Curse of Unthinking. Canada Needs to Think For Itself.

Irvin Studin is a Canadian academic, author, public intellectual, and former two-time all Canadian soccer player who is the editor-in chief of Global Brief Magazine and the President of the Institute of 21st Century Questions. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Schulich Busines School. He studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar earning a Master of Arts degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He studied International Relations at the London School of Economics and has a PHD in Constitutional Law from Osgood Hall Law School where he earned the Governor General’s Gold Metal.

We chat about Irvin’s professional soccer experience and how that influenced his academic pursuits. We discuss a number of topics such as the new strategic borders facing Canada in the 21st century and the importance of China. Why Canada needs a population of 100 million. The 6 major crises facing Canada in the post pandemic world with a particular focus on the disintegrating education system in Canada. We talk about the future of Canada in the 21st century, and Irvin discusses his thoughts on what being Canadian means to him.
Irvin Studin can be reached on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/irvin.studin, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/irvin-studin-28087b112/?originalSubdomain=ca.

Global Brief Magazine - https://globalbrief.ca/

Institute For 21st Century Questions - https://www.i21cq.com/

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Please feel free to reach out to me and provide feedback at [email protected]

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Next Episode

Francesco Sorbara: Life of an MP and Parliamentary Secretary

Francesco Sorbara is the Member of Parliament for Vaughan-Woodbridge. He currently serves as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue. On this episode of we chat about Francesco's small town roots and his dream of serving in the House of Commons. We discuss his time working on Wall Street, the life and duties of an MP and Parliamentary Secretary, and the pressure the job puts on family life. We also dive into what Canada and being Canadian means to him.
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Francesco Sorbara

Instagram - @sorbaraf
Twitter - @fsorbara
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