The activist, award-winning journalist, and podcaster Garth Mullins discusses his new memoir Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs (Doubleday Canada, 2025), with Joseph Planta.

The award-winning novelist Dietrich Kalteis about his latest book Dirty Little War: A Crime Novel (ECW Press, 2025), with Joseph Planta.

The award-winning journalist and lawyer Karin Wells discusses her new book Women Who Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases That Changed Women’s Rights in Canada (Second Story Press, 2025), with Joseph Planta.

The acclaimed author and journalist Omar El Akkad discusses his new book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (McClelland & Stewart, 2025), with Joseph Planta.

The academic and writer Ira Wells discusses his new book On Book Banning (Biblioasis, 2025), with Joseph Planta.

The dancer, actor, teacher and director James E. Hibbard discusses his new memoir Can’t Stop Dancing (BearManor Media, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

The author and historian Nancy Marguerite Anderson discusses her recent book The HBC Brigades: Culture, Conflict and Perilous Journeys of the Fur Trade (Ronsdale Press, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

The legendary musician Jay Douglas discusses his life and the new documentary that looks at his storied part in the Toronto music scene, Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul, with Joseph Planta.

The star of Lasa Ng Imperyo, playing at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (until Saturday, 08 February 2025) Carmela Sison talks to Joseph Planta about the adaptation of the Jovanni Sy play A Taste of Empire, preparing bangus on stage and more.

The writer and editor Stephen Osborne discusses his new collection of essays The Coincidence Problem: Selected Dispatches 1999-2022 (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2024), with Joseph Planta.