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Object Of SoundThe Contract (feat. Wesley Morris and Switched On Pop)Love it or hate it, every summer has a song you just can’t escape from. It’s playing out of every car window, at every bodega, in every club and in your head on repeat. “We are all unknowingly entering into a contract to declare one song as a song of the summer” says Hanif. But in a time when there’s less communal listening than ever before, will there be just one song that defines these months of 2021? This week on the show, we’re analyzing the song of the summer from all angles with writer Wesley Morris and t...
2021-07-2335 min
The Sarah ShowHow We Grieve Over Our Best Friend Part 2 feat. Sherina HarrisOn the third episode of The Sarah Show, Sarah speaks again with her best friend and Huffpost journalist Sherina Harris on the one-year anniversary of their mutual best friend's death. In the second part of this tragic and raw series, Sarah and Sherina talk about how grief manifested in their bodies, how their communities supported them during their darkest moments, and they suggest thoughtful ways people can respond when their loved ones go through loss. Yusra Javed was a light, a force as a journalist, and an amazing best friend. In the first episode of th...
2020-10-0130 min
The Sarah ShowHow We Grieve Over Our Best Friend Part 1 feat. Sherina HarrisOn the second episode of The Sarah Show, Sarah talks with her best friend and Huffpost journalist Sherina Harris on the anniversary of their mutual best friend's death.Yusra Javed was a light, a force as a journalist, and an amazing best friend. In the first episode of this two-part series, Sarah and Sherina talk about how they each met Yusra, and how they found out about her sudden passing. *WARNING: the subject matter of death, grief and loss may be triggering to some. Prepare yourselves as the two friends get real and honest about h...
2020-09-3028 min
COMMONSPANDEMIC 12 - The Most Dangerous StorySupport us at commonspodcast.com In the final episode in our series about the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis in long-term care, we’re going to tell you a different kind of story. A story of hope. About how the people we treat as disposable, can have lives of joy and dignity. And about one place where they were given exactly that. COMMONS: Pandemic is currently focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting long-term care in Canada. Featured in this episode: Moira Welsh (Toronto Star), Mary Connell To l...
2020-08-0547 min
COMMONSPANDEMIC 5 - Shirley and TracyHere's where you can support us: commonspodcast.com Tracy Rowley lost her surrogate mother to COVID-19 in a long-term care facility. But she’s determined that Shirley Egerdeen doesn’t become just another statistic. Tracy’s suing the company that runs the home. But one of the strangest things in this story is exactly who owns them. COMMONS: Pandemic is currently focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting long-term care in Canada. Featured in this episode: Tracy Rowley, Sherina Harris (HuffPost Canada), Emma Paling (HuffPost Canada), Zaid Noorsumar To learn more: “COVID-19 Has Killed...
2020-05-2022 min
Pomegranate HealthEp26: Dealing with Uncertainty – Part 2Uncertainty can be frightening for patients and doctors alike, but it's an unavoidable fact of medicine in every specialty. In this two-part story, we hear from a GP, a paediatrician, a surgeon and a rheumatologist about how they navigate the grey areas of diagnosis and treatment, and maintain a patient's faith throughout. In the first episode, we examine the culture within the profession and general public that expects nothing less that perfection in medicine—technology that appears to make everything soluble, and pressure on doctors to back their hunches or to be heroic in interventionIn this fi...
2017-06-2929 min
Pomegranate HealthEp25: Dealing with Uncertainty – Part 1Uncertainty can be frightening for patients and doctors alike, but it's an unavoidable fact of medicine in every specialty. In this two-part story, we hear from a GP, a paediatrician, a surgeon and a rheumatologist about how they navigate the grey areas of diagnosis and treatment, and maintain a patient's faith throughout.In this episode, we examine the culture within the profession and general public that expects nothing less that perfection in medicine—technology that appears to make everything soluble, and pressure on doctors to back their hunches or to be heroic in intervention. We also ask wh...
2017-06-2828 min