Pardon my Passion
By Peter Wen
IG @pardonmypassionpodcast
Pardon my PassionAug 15, 2021
Ep 13 Canadian Policies in Emergencies
Seth Klein is an author and storied political scientist. He is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy of the Climate Emergency Unit (a 5-year project of the David Suzuki Institute that Seth launched in early 2021). Prior to that, he served for 22 years (1996-2018) as the founding BC Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a public policy research institute committed to social, economic and environmental justice.
Seth wrote A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, a book that looks at how Canada responded to the emergency of WW2 and what we can apply today during the climate crisis.
Ep 12 A Year in Palestine
Peter catches up with his friend Jeremiah McCleary who recently worked for a year in Palestine. Jeremiah shares his stories and thoughts including the businesses that sell art made from tear gas canisters, his friends getting detained on their way to Tel Aviv, and the importance of open discourse on tough matters
Link to Jeremiah's travel blog: https://jeremiahonajourney.blogspot.com/?m=0
Cover photo credit: Bangishimo
Ep 11 Sustainable Product Design with Carl Tutton
PhD candidate, fellow nerd, and renaissance man Carl Tutton tells me the difference between an iPhone and a fridge, and we discuss what's in common between an obsession with material goods and a drug addiction
How to Save a Planet podcast referred to multiple times in this episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Dmp79iTEVqizinjOmjGpP?si=0a04c8ab632c40e8
Ep10 Hacksmith - Making it Real
I have a fun (and definitely sober) conversation with Charles Holtforster from Hacksmith Industries, a Youtube channel that pushes the limits of tinkering and hacking to make gadgets from movies and comic books in real life. We discuss intellectual inspirations, coil guns, and discuss how aspiring engineers and hackers can get started (hint - just start making)
Ep9 Private School Education for $400 a Year Part 2
Part 2 of my conversation with Michael McMaster, former curriculum leader of the TOPS enrichment program at Marc Garneau CI in Toronto, where we discuss private vs public schooling, TOPS as an experiment, and what happens when teachers are given agency to teach
Ep8 Private School Education for $400 a Year Part 1
I catch up remotely with my recently retired math teacher and former TOPS program head Mr McMaster (or Michael as he lets me call him now). In this part of the multi-part series we run through the history of TOPS before he took over headship 1987-97, the program under him 1997-2019, and we touch on present day TOPS which is navigating through uncharted waters. We talk about the admission process, the program's philosophy, and its struggles with the TDSB
Ep7 For the Love the Game
Goalkeeper extraordinaire and team Canada fanatic Ben Frey chats with me about our mutual love for soccer, its compelling power to bringing people together, and the importance of purposeful living
Ep6 Women in Medicine
Peter, Mel, and Jack chat with residents Dr Maylynn Ding and Dr Mag Au about their choice of career and the unique challenges they face as women
Ep5 Morality, MMA, and keeping hobbies hobbies
AJ (@visble_minority) and I brew beer and chat about his recent foray into MMA as a pacifist, whether it's right or wrong to use PEDs, and our shared passion for self improvement through hobbies
Ep4 Crypto Entrepreneur Daniel Que
Ep3 Analog Activities & Attention
Ep2 Travel. Eat. Repeat. A Culinary Nomad Journal
Ep1 Josh Brown Adventure 4 Change
A4C adventure4change.org/