YXE Underground
89 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn original podcast featuring interviews with people who are doing amazing things in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but are flying under the radar. Former CBC journalist is Eric Anderson is the creator, host and producer of the podcast.
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
Bonus Episode - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
April 27, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBIt has been a weird week. Last Thursday, I received an email in my YXE Underground inbox from a gentleman named Mohammad Hussain. He said he was the Lead Press Secretary for the Prime Minister of Canada and wondered if I would be interested in having Prime Minister Trudeau on my podcast to talk about the importance of community leaders and why celebrating their work is important in building community. He also said this was not a scam email and that I should call him back. I thought it was ...
Season Six - Episode Eight - Saskatoon Search and Rescue
April 11, 2024 11:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBIt’s a Thursday night in late March and I am surrounded by people in orange shirts and sweaters, as well as people who are working hard to earn the right to wear these orange shirts and sweaters, in an old Fire Hall near Aden Bowman Collegiate. Specifically, I’m in a meeting room where large maps are spread out on tables and new Saskatoon Search and Rescue trainees are learning how to read these maps. It’s training day for new recruits of Saskatoon Search and Rescue. It’s an intense proce...
Walking With Lisa - March 2024
March 28, 2024 11:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBHello, I'm Eric Anderson and welcome to YXE Underground. If you are a long time listener of the podcast, thank you! If this is your first time listening, welcome. YXE Underground is a local, independent podcast here in Saskatoon that shines a light on people who are doing incredible things but are flying under the radar. I am so excited that this season, we will have the wonderful Lisa Greig on every month for Walking With Lisa episodes. In the past few seasons, we've done several episo...
Season Six - Episode Seven - Candace Ukrainetz
March 14, 2024 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBMusic plays so many roles in our lives. It brings us together through live concerts… It can help us change our mood or amplify how we are feeling in a certain moment… And as you will hear in this episode, music has the power to form meaningful relationships and spark joy in people with physical and cognitive challenges. Candace Ukrainetz shares her passion for forming those relationships in this episode of YXE Underground. She is the music therapist at Sherbrooke Community Centre, a lo...
Season Six - Episode Six - Kinsmen Foundation and Telemiracle
February 15, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBFor the past 48 years, the Kinsmen Foundation and Telemiracle has been raising money to improve the quality of life and independence of Saskatchewan residents. Their generosity is huge and the province rallies every year to support the Telemiracle fundraising event on television, but you might not know about all the work that goes on behind the scenes, all year round, to connect the Kinsmen Foundation with people in need. We learn about this incredible work in this episode of YXE Undergrou...
Walking With Lisa - February 2024
February 01, 2024 11:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBHello, I'm Eric Anderson and welcome to YXE Underground. If you are a long time listener of the podcast, thank you! If this is your first time listening, welcome. YXE Underground is a local, independent podcast here in Saskatoon that shines a light on people who are doing incredible things but are flying under the radar. I am so excited that this season, we will have the wonderful Lisa Greig on every month for Walking with Lisa episodes. In the past few seasons, we've done several episo...
Season Six - Episode Five - The Hospice at Glengarda
January 25, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThe final days and moments of a person’s life can be uncomfortable subjects for people to think about, let alone discuss with others. But what I discovered by spending a morning at the Hospice at Glengarda, Saskatchewan’s first stand-alone hospice, is that there is so much room for light, laughter and gratitude when the end is near. What I also discovered is how much work it takes from very dedicated and caring staff to ensure those streams of light make their way into the hospice. You a...
Bonus Episode - Lecina Hicke
January 11, 2024 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBHello and welcome to a special bonus episode of YXE Underground. I’m your host, Eric Anderson. Happy New Year to all of you and I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I am really excited to begin 2024 with a bonus episode featuring a really kind and passionate person in our community. Her name is Lecina Hicke and she is the CEO of the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation. The reason I reached out to Lecina is I wanted to do an episode focusing on the Hospice at Glengarda. As you will hear in...
Season Six - Episode Four - Jody Lerat and The FAM Collective
December 14, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBFinding your voice as a young artist can be challenging, especially if you can't find the right space to express yourself creatively. Luckily for young people in Saskatoon, Jody Lerat and her team of students have created a safe and inviting space where young artists are free and encouraged to discover their voice. It's called Future Artistic Minds and you are about to visit this collective here on YXE Underground. I was able to spend a Tuesday night in late November at the Core Neighbourho...
Walking With Lisa - November 2023
November 23, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBHello, I'm Eric Anderson and welcome to YXE Underground. If you are a long time listener of the podcast, thank you! If this is your first time listening, welcome. YXE Underground is a local, independent podcast here in Saskatoon that shines a light on people who are doing incredible things but are flying under the radar. I am so excited that this season, we will have the wonderful Lisa Greig on every month for "Walking with Lisa" episodes. In the past few seasons, we've done several epi...
Season Six - Episode Three - Kim Fisher
November 09, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBFor more than 20 years, Kim Fisher has worked at the Saskatoon YWCA helping women and their families receive the supports they need and doing it with kindness and compassion. The YWCA is many things to many people in our community. There is an employment and learning centre that helps people learn the skills to reach their employment goals. The childhood development centre provides daycare to kids from across Saskatoon. And of course there is the gym that many years ago I frequented when I...
Walking With Lisa - October 2023
October 26, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBHello, I'm Eric Anderson and welcome to YXE Underground. If you are a long time listener of the podcast, thank you! If this is your first time listening, welcome! YXE Underground is local, independent podcast here in Saskatoon that shines a light on people who are doing incredible things but are flying under the radar. I am so excited that this season, we will have the wonderful Lisa Greig on every month for 'Walking with Lisa' episodes. In the past few seasons, we've done several episod...
Season Six - Episode Two - Charlene Siwak
October 12, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBLiteracy is something many of us take for granted, and yet one in three people in Saskatchewan struggle when it comes to things like reading, writing, comprehension numeracy skills. At Foundations Learning and Skills Saskatchewan, a dedicated group of staff and volunteers is helping adults who want to improve their literacy skills for free. Charlene Siwak is the Adult Literacy Coordinator at Foundations and sees the impact literacy has in our community. She takes listeners inside the Adult...
Bonus Episode - The Broadway Theatre Turns 30
October 03, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis month, the Broadway Theatre is celebrating 30 years as a community owned and operated theatre in Saskatoon which is an achievement worth celebrating. The Broadway is many things to many people. For music lovers, it’s a place where they can see their favourite artists and bands in an intimate setting and discover new and emerging talent from across the world. If you love live theatre, then you have no doubt seen the Saskatoon Soaps perform on stage or watched a theatre group perform ...
Walking with Lisa - September 2023
September 28, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBHello, I'm Eric Anderson and welcome to YXE Underground. If you are a long time listener of the podcast, thank you! If this is your first time listening, welcome! YXE Underground is local, independent podcast here in Saskatoon that shines a light on people who are doing incredible things but are flying under the radar. I am so excited that this season, we will have the wonderful Lisa Greig on every month for 'Walking with Lisa' episodes. In the past few seasons, we've done several episod...
Season Six - Episode One - The Animal Safekeeping Program
September 13, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBWelcome to Season Six of YXE Underground. Thank you so much for your continued support and I am thrilled to be back sharing stories of people who are making a difference in Saskatoon but are flying under the radar. This season's first episode focuses on the Animal Safekeeping Program. It is a partnership between New Hope Dog Rescue and the Saskatchewan SPCA and is helping people and animals who are leaving a domestic abuse or interpersonal violence situation. I was fortunate to speak wit...
Bonus Episode - Saskatoon Fringe Festival 2023 Preview
August 01, 2023 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBHello and welcome to a special summer bonus episode of YXE Underground. My name is Eric Anderson and I hope you are having a wonderful summer so far. I spent the first two weeks of July on a trip to Scandinavia with my Dad and had a really great time there. We spent time in Norway, specifically Oslo and a city called Narvik within the Arctic Circle, which was pretty crazy to experience as the sun just doesn't really go down at all. We would go to bed around 1 am and it was like 7pm here in...
Season Five - Episode Ten - Elaine Sutherland
June 15, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBEducating people of all ages and cultures is what drives Elaine Sutherland. For nearly 25 years, she taught in schools, mostly as a kindergarten teacher, and helped her peers incorporate Indigenous history and teachings education into their classrooms. Today, you can find Elaine at the Office of the Treaty Commissioner where she is the Director of Treaty Education. The history of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner is interesting. It was created in 1989 by the Federation of Sovereign ...
Season Five - Episode Nine - Haven Seto
May 11, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBIt’s a Thursday night and four people are sparring under the careful watch of Haven Seto. For years, Haven has worked with athletes of all ages to help them develop their boxing, kickboxing and wushu skills. Wushu is also known as kung-fu, and it’s played an important role in Haven’s life. I am so excited to introduce you to Haven Seto. He is the epitome of a community leader. He loves helping others, he is passionate about making his community a better place, and he understands the impor...
Season Five - Episode Eight - Welcoming Ukrainian Newcomers
April 13, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 66.6 MBIt has been just over a year since Ukrainians began arriving in Saskatoon, fleeing from war with Russia, and arriving with very little to start their new lives in our community. There have been many stories chronicling the efforts of people and organizations to help Ukrainians not only arrive safely but to set them up for success in Saskatoon and all are worth celebrating. For this episode, I wanted to highlight the efforts of people you may not know but their work is helping Ukrainian n...
Season Five - Episode Seven - The Child Life Zone
March 16, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBYou can’t help but be in awe when you walk into Child Life Zone at the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital. First of all, it’s really big. There’s plenty of space for kids to simply play which is a concept Dominique Rust touches on several times in our conversation. There are large windows that encompass the room and allow plenty of sunlight in, the ceiling is high and the space has one of the coolest music rooms I’ve ever seen. There’s even a beautiful kitchen and dining space for families t...
Season Five - Episode Six - Andrew Baenziger
February 09, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes - 46 MBAndrew Baenziger is in his dream job. As the Adaptive Technologist for SaskAbilities, he is helping people overcome barriers they are facing due to disability or injury through his passion for technology and empathy to help others in need. Andrew invited us to his workshop to show us how he uses technology, and perhaps a piece or two from his aquarium, to make a difference in lives of people here in Saskatoon. It was wonderful spending time in his workspace at SaskAbilities for this episo...
Bonus Episode - Dax and Sara Irons
January 27, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBWelcome to a special bonus episode of YXE Underground. This episode is a continuation of last week’s episode where we featured an incredible nonprofit organization called Empty Arms. It is a perinatal support group that provides supports to individuals and families who have experienced the loss of a child during pregnancy or up to the age of six. Jasmin Herchak and Briana Koop co-founded Empty Arms in 2015 and were the featured guests in last week’s episode. They were amazing to speak with ...
Season Five - Episode Five - Empty Arms
January 19, 2023 11:00 - 58 minutes - 54 MBJasmin Herchak and Briana Koop took traumatic and devastating experiences with loss and turned them into something that is helping so many people and families in Saskatoon. I think that deserves to be celebrated. In 2015, Jasmin and Bri created Empty Arms. It is a nonprofit organization that provides support to individuals and families that experience grief and bereavement due to the loss of a child during pregnancy or up to the age of six. As you will hear in this episode, Jasmin and Bri s...
Bonus Episode - Adrianne Vangool
December 20, 2022 11:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBIf you ever get a chance to talk with Adrianne Vangool, take it. Jump at the opportunity to talk with her because you will find yourself talking with someone who is wonderfully honest and I think truly wise about the world around her. She comes by her wisdom through hard work, curiosity and reflection and its reflected in her debut book, 'The Journey of Self-Care to We-Care.' Adrianne is a physiotherapist and owns her own business, Vangool Wellness. She is also a fantastic yoga instructor w...
Season Five - Episode Four - Danielle Hoffart
December 08, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBDanielle Hoffart's determination and compassion is ensuring kids at St. Mary's Wellness and Education Centre in Saskatoon are getting the supports they need when it comes to food security. She is St. Mary's Aboriginal Student Achievement Coordinator and is a true liaison between her school and the greater Pleasant Hill community. St. Mary's is home to 300 students with more than 90 percent being Indigenous. The school, which was built in 2012 and is part of the Greater Catholic School Divis...
Season Five - Episode Three - Alejandro Romero
November 10, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBTake a walk through downtown Saskatoon, River Landing, Riversdale or the University of Saskatchewan campus and you will see public works of art. These pieces reflect our community’s history, they tell important stories and some even become landmarks. Alejandro Romero is passionate about the many positive impacts public art brings to Saskatoon and he shares his convictions in this episode of YXE Underground. This past summer, my wife and I spent a few weeks in Tennessee visiting places like ...
Season Five - Episode Two - Charmaine Panko
October 13, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBSpend some time with Charmaine Panko and you will quickly realize how important meaningful and empathetic discussion is to her. Charmaine is a Saskatoon lawyer who takes a lot of pride in helping couples and families who are going through the divorce process. She worked in a corporate law firm for 10 years after graduating from the University of Saskatchewan's law program but was always intrigued by family law. She started a niche practice in our community focusing on conflict resolution ...
Season Five - Episode One - Phillip Harder
September 15, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBEvery superhero has an origin story. For hydrologist Phillip Harder, who I consider a water superhero, his origin story traces back to when he first saw a culvert sticking straight up in the air near his farm at the age of seven. Phillip wanted to know why there was fresh water at the bottom of that odd-looking culvert when there was an alkali body of water nearby. To a seven year-old kid growing up on a farm southeast of Saskatoon, this question needed an answer. The answer to this questi...
Bonus Episode -Saskatoon Fringe Festival Preview
July 25, 2022 11:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBAnita Smith is one of my favourite people and it was wonderful to have her back on the podcast for this special summer bonus episode. Anita is the Artistic and Executive Director of Saskatoon's 25th Street Theatre and a fierce advocate for the arts in our community. When she's not directing and acting in plays, Anita empowers local artists from all backgrounds to tell their stories on local stages. That's one of the many reasons why she is so excited for the Saskatoon Fringe Festival. 25t...
Season Four - Episode Ten - Science Trek Program
June 09, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBIt's easy to spot a Science Trek student in Saskatoon. Just look for their bright yellow backpack cover! To be a member of the Science Trek means you are a part of a family. This is one of the many things I learned about the program after spending a beautiful June day with the class as it prepared for an upcoming canoe trip. It makes a lot of sense. Students apply to be a part of this unique Saskatoon Public Schools program from across the city and then are chosen from a lottery. Most of ...
Season Four - Episode Nine - Charles and Megen Olfert
May 12, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBMegen Olfert smiles thinking about the backyard treehouse her father designed for her when she was a kid. It was wide enough for a motorised wheelchair to manoeuvre inside, and a cement path wound its way through the backyard up to the treehouse instead of stairs or a ladder. “I felt like I was on equal ground as a kid,” said Megen, “because sometimes when you’re disabled it means you have to do things differently even though you can do the same thing. It made me feel included.” Megen w...
Season Four - Episode Eight - The Friendship Inn
April 14, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBKnowing where your next hot meal is coming from is a luxury most of us take for granted, but there are people in our community from all backgrounds who struggle to find their next breakfast or lunch. The Friendship Inn has spent the past 50 years helping vulnerable people in our community struggling with food security get the supports they need. Every morning and lunch, 365 days a year, the Friendship Inn serves a free breakfast and lunch to people who need it. What's really amazing to me ...
Bonus Episode - Frances Sreedhar and Walking
March 28, 2022 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB"Everybody in the pandemic has seems more friendly and more open. I've seen so many more people during the pandemic actually engaging in eye-contact and actually stopping and saying hello." I love this statement from Frances Sreedhar! If anyone knows how people are acting on the Meewasin trails, it's Frances. Frances has walked more than one million steps on the Meewasin Valley trails since the pandemic started back in March of 2020 here in Saskatoon. She started walking for many differen...
Season Four - Episode Seven - Nursing During the Pandemic
March 10, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 81 MBTwo years ago, Saskatoon was preparing to host the Juno Awards. Covid-19 was definitely in the news, but it had not reached our community yet. All systems were ready to go celebrate the best in Canadian music. For myself, I was excited to release a pair of YXE Underground episodes highlighting the behind the scenes work it took to bring the Juno Awards to Saskatoon and to host the JunoFest concert series. All of that changed when the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in Saskatchewan. T...
Season Four - Episode Six - CARG
February 10, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBIt's 9:30 on a cold January morning at the Saskatoon Field House and 85 year-old George Parchomchuk is right where he wants to be. He is walking on the track! For the past 20 years, George has been a member of the Coronary Artery Rehabilitation Group. He suffered his first cardiac event in 2001 and is grateful for the education and support he has received in the group. I know this because George Parchomchuk is my uncle and he sparked the idea to do this episode. CARG is a non-profit, peer ...
Season Four - Episode Five - Jill Cowan
January 13, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MB“It’s the hardest thing for them to walk through the door because nobody wants to be in that position. It’s their reality now. They are a bereaved by suicide person. So when they rip off that first Band-Aid and they come in, they’re just met with such warmth, caring and a level of understanding. It sort of gives them a place where they now belong. That community of belonging is so special.” This is one of the many quotes from Jill Cowan that stuck with me after our conversation. She is comp...
Season Four - Episode Four - Yvonne Raymer and Morgan Hackl
December 09, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBWhen I think of a fire department, I think of red fire trucks with ladders reaching towards the sky and fire fighters who are willing to sacrifice themselves to save the lives of others. All that is true with the Saskatoon Fire Department, but there is another side to this department that is making a difference in our community through empathy, dignity and respect. This episode looks at the work of the Saskatoon Fire Department's Community Risk Reduction Team. This group is lead by Assis...
Season Four - Episode Three - Nahanni Olson
November 12, 2021 11:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBFor Nahanni Olson, the best way of reaching Indigenous youth in our community is through meaningful relationships, and that’s why I think she is the perfect person to lead this new University of Saskatchewan mentorship program called BIRM. She is all about relationships! BIRM stands for Building Intercultural Resilience Mentorship. The program is in the pilot stage and is partnering with two local high schools, Mount Royal Collegiate and Bedford Road Collegiate, to connect Indigenous high s...
Season Four - Episode Two - Katie Suek, Aaron Suek and Restoring 71
October 14, 2021 11:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB"In rural-speak: head out of the city on 22nd Street and stay on Highway 14 for about 10km." This is how Katie Suek started an email this summer when we were coordinating this podcast episode. Despite the fact that it's a short drive from Saskatoon to the Suek acreage, as soon as you step foot on Restoring 71, you do feel like you are light years away from the city. In 2015, the Suek family purchased an 80-acre acreage west of Saskatoon as a way to reconnect with nature and offer their chi...
Season Four - Episode One - Safe and Affordable Housing
September 09, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBWelcome to Season Four of YXE Underground. I am very grateful for your support of this local, independent podcast and I am excited to be sharing another season of stories with you. We begin Season Four with an in-depth look at safe and affordable housing in Saskatoon. This is an issue that has come up time and time again throughout the podcast. Whether it is looking at mental health issues in our community or focusing on addictions, the lack of safe and affordable housing in our community ...
Bonus Episode - Lisa Grieg
August 06, 2021 11:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBI’m very excited to share with you a conversation I had last month with a really insightful and caring person named Lisa Grieg. Lisa is a social worker by trade and has worked as a therapist in the past. Currently, she works as a Student Affairs Professional at the College of Dentistry at the University of Saskatchewan and is about to have her second child. Lisa also has a wonderful podcast called Highlighting Real as well as a great Instagram Page with the handle Lisa Grieg Wellness. Thro...
Bonus Episode - Saskatoon Police Officer and Author, John Langan
July 17, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBWelcome to a special summer bonus episode of YXE Underground. I hope you are having a great summer so far and are managing to stay cool in what has been a sweltering summer here in Saskatoon. I want to share with you a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a really amazing young man named John Langan. John is a member of the Canadian Military and the Saskatoon Police Service, and on July 21st, he will make his debut as an author. John has written a memoir entitled Iskoces Tipiskak. I...
Season Three - Episode Ten - Mindy Macdonald
June 10, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBWhen you walk into Saskatoon's Prince Philip School, a wave of hospitality and community hits you. It's a small elementary school tucked away in the city's south end and it holds a special place in Mindy's Macdonald's heart. Mindy attended Prince Philip as a child and now teaches kindergarten in a carefully classroom to ensure her students are kept safe during the pandemic. Seriously, I just stood in amazement at the amount of empathy and creativity Mindy put into her classroom this year. ...
Season Three - Episode Nine - Jordan Stovra
May 13, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBJordan Stovra's character cannot be contained behind a mask and a hairnet. For the past eight years, the 24 year-old former football player has worked pretty much every job you can imagine at the Varsity Common Sobeys on 8th Street and Cumberland in Saskatoon. Whether it's cutting halibut steaks in the seafood department, collecting carts in the parking lot, checking lottery tickets or even trying his hand in the produce section, there's nothing Jordan can't do in his store. He loves his j...
Bonus Episode - Andrea Schick - Ronald McDonald House
April 22, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBOn a December evening in 2017, Andrea Schick's life was thrown into chaos. The health of her four and a half year-old son, Sebastian, quickly took a turn for the worse. Doctors in Regina didn't know what was wrong and because Saskatchewan didn't have a children's hospital at the time, Andrea and her family were forced to travel to Edmonton so that Sebastian could receive care. It was in Edmonton that Andrea and her family relied on the Ronald McDonald House organization to provide the st...
Season Three - Episode Eight - Ronald McDonald House Saskatoon
April 08, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBSpend some time in the Ronald McDonald House here in Saskatoon and you will feel a lot of things. You will feel the kindness of staff as they work to serve the families that are calling the house home while going through extremely challenging times. You will feel creativity as you discover all the big and little things within the house designed to make a family's stay as pleasant as possible. And I think you will feel the strength of an organization that has people pulling in the same dir...
Bonus Episode - Walking on the First Day of Spring
March 21, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBMarch 20th was the first day of spring and it felt like a day to be outside. I woke up early to go for a haircut and run a few errands, including picking up lunch for my wife who was at home participating in an all day zoom conference. I think seeing her sitting in front of her laptop inspired me to make the most of the afternoon and headed out for a walk. I parked off of 14th Street close to Broadway and headed towards the Broadway Bridge. I knew I wanted to end at the Remai Modern and e...
Season Three - Episode Seven - Jen Rondeau
March 11, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB"If I allow praise to be why I do this job or get wrapped up in that life-saving mentality, I would worry about the job I'm doing. You have to keep some humility." Jen Rondeau is a very humble and wise woman. As a Critical Care Paramedic, her job is to help those who need immediate medical help. She works with Air Ambulance and Road Ambulance based at Medavie Health Services West in Saskatoon's Stonebridge area. She works with others to save lives. What I quickly learned, however, is that...
Season Three - Episode Six - Samantha Horswill and Colleen McBride
February 11, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBHow are you doing? It's a question I have asked my friends, my family, my colleagues and plenty of strangers during the last year. It's been a hard year for many in our community due to the pandemic. I think it's fair to say we've all had to deal with various mental health challenges. As we approach one year of the Covid-19 pandemic here in Saskatoon, it seemed like the right time to see how we are all doing in terms of our mental health. I am grateful that Samantha Horswill and Colleen M...