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 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 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 director John Murphy discusses the Western Canadian premiere of the Will Arbery play Heroes of the Fourth Turning, a Mitch and Murray Production running at Studio 16 (31 January-09 February 2025), with Joseph Planta.

The award-winning journalist and staff reporter at The Tyee Christopher Cheung discusses his new book Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism (Purich Books, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

Professor Adam Dodek (University of Ottawa Law), discusses his new book Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm (UBC Press, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

The former astronaut and cabinet minister the Honourable Marc Garneau discusses his memoir A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics, and the Pursuit of a Canadian Dream (Signal, 2024), with Joseph Planta.

The filmmaker Christopher Auchter discusses his new documentary The Stand, which debuts this week at the Vancouver International Film Festival, a feature-length film on the 1985 blockade by the Haida on Lyell Island, with Joseph Planta.