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A Vancouver podcast — Season 06

Conversations that truly connect.

Rachel Thexton welcomes media voices, leading experts and diverse Canadians for conversations on mental health, substance use, culture and community.

Latest episodes — Season #06

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Chief Andrew George on Rachel Thexton Connects
Food, culture & reconciliation

Chief Andrew George

What does it mean when food isn't just fuel — it's governance, identity, and survival? Rachel sits down with Chief Andrew George — Hereditary Wing Chief of the Wet'suwet'en Bear Clan, BC's first Indigenous Red Seal certified chef, Apprentice Advisor at SkilledTradesBC, and Director at Dan's Legacy Foundation — for a conversation that will change the way you see food, culture, and reconciliation in Canada. From cooking over an open fire in the mountains to the 1992 World Culinary Olympics, Expo 86, the 2010 Winter Olympics, and now the FIFA World Cup — Chief Andrew shows us what real reconciliation looks like: not in a corporate boardroom, but sitting around a fire with a cup of tea.

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Street Doctor Jill — Dr. Jill Wiwcharuk
Substance use & public health

Street Doctor Jill

Street Doctor Jill (Dr. Jill Wiwcharuk) is an addiction medicine physician, emergency room doctor, and one of Canada's most important voices on the substance use public health crisis. In this episode, Dr. Jill breaks down evidence-based treatment, compassionate care, the contaminated street supply, stigma in healthcare, and why policy makers need more courage to act on the research.

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Rachel's soapbox moment — involuntary treatment in BC
Rachel's soapbox moment

Involuntary treatment in B.C.

My uneasy stomach, and what I know to be true about substance use and mental health, led me to talk about the BC Premier's recent announcement that beds are being allocated for involuntary treatment in BC. I feel that it's wrong for many reasons — but mostly, this has more to do with the public's discomfort with seeing people unwell and doing drugs on Vancouver streets, than truly supporting those who will be "helped" against their will.

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