Appointed: A Canadian Senator Bringing Margins to the Centre
A podcast from the office of Kim Pate. Hosted by Kim Pate, an Independent Canadian Senator from Ontario, bringing issues affecting folks on the margins, to the centre.
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 56
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
How a Guaranteed Livable Income could Advance Indigenous Self-Determination and Self-Governance & Move us Closer to Substantive Equality for all: A Conversation with ITK President Natan Obed
On this next episode of our Guaranteed Livable Income series, Senator Pate speaks with Natan Obed, the President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), about how a Guaranteed Livable Income could advance …
Prisoners' Justice Day
On this episode of Appointed, we are taking a quick break from our Guaranteed Livable Income series to talk about Canada’s prison system. In recognition of Prisoners’ Justice Day, here’s an episode t…
Evidence points to Guaranteed Livable Income as a way to address the inequality of poverty: What are we waiting for?
On this episode of Appointed, we are talking about guaranteed livable income (GLI). We talk about what this program might look like in Canada; about how the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)…
Economic Marginalization of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: The Case for a Guaranteed Livable Income
On this first episode of our Guaranteed Livable Income series, we speak with Chief Commissioner Marion Buller and Commissioner Qajaq Robinson from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indig…
Best Interest of Who? The State or the Child?
On this episode of Appointed we’re talking about the child welfare system and how systemic discrimination plays a key role in determining who ends up in care. We speak with Natasha Reimer, the founde…
Transformative Justice: Healing in Place
On this episode of Appointed we're talking about challenging systemic marginalization by healing interpersonal harm. We ask what the role of transformative justice is in the work of decarceration an…
Coronavirus: Equalizer or Magnifier?
On this episode of Appointed we're discussing the novel Coronavirus pandemic and its varied effects on each of us. Far from The Great Equalizer, COVID-19 is instead magnifying existing societal inequ…
Don't Label Me!
On this episode, we're unpacking labels like "victim" and "criminal". We speak with Canada's Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, Margot Van Sluytman, a poet and writer whose father was murdered at his wo…
Dear Canada: Stop Detaining Migrants
On this episode of Appointed, we dig into the issue of immigration detention. We speak with a man named Olu and his wife Kimora. Olu was detained for 11 months, despite having no criminal charges lai…
Turning the Tides Against Solitary
On this shorter episode Kim and Reakash discuss the recent push in the Senate to overhaul the government's Bill to "end" solitary confinement, Bill C-83. (Spoiler: Bill C-83 doesn't end solitary conf…
Livable Incomes for All
All paths to income equality seem to point towards a National Guaranteed Livable Income -- find out why on the newest episode of Appointed. We speak with Sheila Regehr, the Executive Director of Basi…
Beyond Incarceration
On this episode of Appointed we're talking about decarceration and why Canada needs WAY more of it. We interview Yusuf Faqiri, the brother of Soleiman Faqiri, a man with mental illness who was kille…
Mandatory Minimums Aren't About Justice
Kim and Reakash discuss Bill S-251, legislation that, if passed, would give judges discretion to decide whether or not to apply mandatory minimum sentences. We speak with Pam Palmater, a Mi'kmaq lawy…
Segregation and Solitary Confinement in Canadian Prisons
On this episode of Appointed, we're talking about segregation and solitary confinement. What's the difference? Didn't the federal government's Bill C-83 end the use of segregation? What can average p…
Introducing... Appointed!
Welcome to Appointed, allow us to introduce ourselves. Kim Pate is an Independent Canadian Senator and Reakash Walters is a law student and community advocate. We do our best to bring issues affectin…