On June 20, 2018, International Refugee Day, CBC’s The Current aired So They Can Rest A Little. This is a moving documentary on the fate of Yazidi women tortured, persecuted and sold into slavery by their ISIS captors following a genocide in Iraq in August 2014. Following this … [Read more...]
My Interview with Joseph Planta at thecommentary.ca
Since 2004, Joseph Planta from Vancouver has been interviewing artists, writers, academics and professionals from a wide variety of fields on his online show, The Commentary. I was delighted to have had this interesting radio interview with him on various aspects of my new book, … [Read more...]
An interview with WGTD’s Greg Berg
In a recent interview on WGTD’s Morning Show, Greg Berg and I discussed a number of themes drawn from The Power of Names. Our discussion touched on the different meanings attributed to our first and last names, as well as the topic of name-changing as a way of assimilating to a … [Read more...]
How Does Your Name Shape You?
Shortly after the publication of my new book, I was contacted by Anne Strainchamps from To the Best of Our Knowledge, a nationally syndicated online radio broadcast, to participate in the segment of a larger program entitled What’s In A Name? In addition to the significance of … [Read more...]
A Recent Radio Interview on CBC’s Here and Now (Toronto)
A few weeks after The Power of Names was published, I had an opportunity to speak with Mary Wiens of Here and Now (CBC). We talked about the many ways in which names infiltrate our lives without any conscious awareness. I also discussed what it means to truly “inhabit your … [Read more...]