Something Different This Way Comes
Heather McLeod
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Sept 22 2025 - CILU radio show
Every Monday at 6 pm I broadcast a news show on CILU in Thunder Bay 102.7 FM. Truth be told, I record it on Sunday and send it to the staff to upload into the broadcast system. But this Monday they…
S4E5 4.3 Sufficiency with Lloyd Alter
Sufficiency: not too much, not too little but just right. A conversation with author, activist and educator Lloyd Alter before his visit to Thunder Bay to be the Keynote Speaker at the third annual…
S4E3 Sparking Community Gardens with Scott Pound
The John St. Extension Community Park and Gardens started guerrilla twenty years ago, one of the successful neighbourhood initiatives that informed Thunder Bay getting pro-active in supporting…
S4E4 Victoria Day 2025 Rooting for Post-Colonial Changes
This was pre-recorded to be broadcast on CILU Radio Victoria Day, Monday May 19 at 6 pm here in Thunder Bay. But I messed up, didn't get the tape in on time to be cued, and they replayed last week…
S4E2 Greening Provincial Policy - a conversation with Mike Schreiner, MPP Green Party Ontario
A conversation with Provincial Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner held on April 23 touches on care and community, expensive current provincial legislature discouraging renewable energy production, …
S4E1 17% wins Climate Action Here
Why I'm in love with 17% - that's all it takes to tip Impactful Climate Action in our community from outlier to mainstream. And why I hope to see Native Plant Gardening get trendy here this growing…
S5E10 5.10 The Money is Knocking, open the door with Richard Wong
The Season Finale features development lawyer Richard Wong with his thoughts after talking about engaging successfully with Corporations, and financing the big changes you want to see - at the…
S5E9 5.9 Biking Viking Ken Shields Travels Green
Ken is the worker bee behind Just Bike TBay, the Memorial Link and Thunder Bay’s E.V. shows. And he was right at the heart of the Northwest Climate Gathering. We talk about the power of positivity…
S4E7 4.7 Northwest Climate Gathering tour by song
A season wrap before the season’s done - and a teaser for the episodes to come. With many songs, and an insider’s tour of the Northwest Climate Gathering 2023: Hope & Action. Good company as…
S4E7 5.7 reprise Food Futures with Brendan Grant, organic farmer
A rebroadcast of an episode first shared May 17, 2022. What it would take to achieve food security in Thunder Bay, and what blows Brendan’s mind in every teaspoon of soil. Brendan Grant is leading…
S4E6 4.6 Lucie Lavoie’s peace & plenty
Talking gardening, city wilderness, the satisfaction of a well-stocked garage & peace with Lucie Lavoie. Lucie is a founding member of both Superior Seed Producers and EcoSuperior, where she was…
S4E5 4.5 Keira Essex Relates
Keira Essex is is an environmental studies student at Lakehead University, an activist, and a novice photographer of mixed settler-Anishinaabe heritage. She is one of the people pulling together the…
S4E4 4.4 Kevin Brooks Sparks Community Action
Kevin Brooks teaches and researches Social Justice as a Program Advisor at Lakehead University. He is one of the people shaping and leading the Northwest Climate Gathering November 25 & 26. Our…
S4E1 4.1 Shy-Anne Hovorka Connects
A visit and new song with award-winning singer-songwriter and humanitarian Shy-Anne Hovorka, from her home near Nipigon. A fitting kick-off to season four. Lyrics, links and more at…
S4E3 4.3 Dave Spies Protects Our Winter
Dave Spies is the Thunder Bay Chapter Lead of Protect Our Winters Canada and a third year law student at Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law. His research focus is on the intersection…
S4E2 4.2 Hope & Action Gathered In
From gathering a harvest, to gathering momentum and attention. Considering how fear hunts us, and hope needs to be reached for. Proposing the power of community. Hoping for utopia and savouring joy.…
S3E10 Songs for Courage & Clarity - seasons 2&3, music only
Just the songs composed and recorded for seasons two and three. No words, no theme, just the songs. Raw, unpolished and recorded the day they were composed. All but one by Heather McLeod - that one…
S3E9 3a Gathering: Framework & curing anxiety
Two dozen gather to toast the podcast so far and seed the coming seasons envisioning what change they most want to see happen. With a detour to explore humbleness and hard conversations, cows as a…
S3E8 3.8 Songs of the Kindness Economy
Summarizing Season three's seven episodes imagining the Kindness Economy with the songs each episode inspired, and a bit about how the rant or conversation fed the composition. By Heather McLeod in…
3.7 Breath with Curniss McGoldrick
City as home, where you can breath, slow down, connect, relax. The importance of difficult conversations. Many hands make for light work. Budget to support your priorities. Choices must be made. Set…
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Something Different This Way Comes has published 46 episodes since April 2022, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
Something Different This Way Comes is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 57m.
