And So, We are joined today by Jeff or Jeffrey Anslus who is... Which one? Both work.

Both work. So Jeff and Jeffrey.

Who is at the University of Toronto but I'll turn it over to you

Jeff if you want to just do a brief introduction.

Sure yeah well tans, it's a pleasure to be here. My name is Jeffrey Anslus. My family comes from Fisher River

Cree Nation. I grew up in Winnipeg and yeah, I work and live in Toronto now working at the University of

Toronto at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and yeah happy to be here.

Well thanks for joining us.

This is a pretty serious and heavy topic.

And before we get started, I just want, you know,

listeners to know that we're going to be talking about suicide in this podcast episode and Jeff was kind

enough to maybe do a little bit of background on some resources for listeners that they can access.

Jeff, do you have any recommendations or do you want to just give some context to

what we're going to be talking about in case folks have some questions.

Yeah, for sure.

So we definitely are going to be discussing some sensitive topics today that relate to death, suicide as a particular kind of death and other challenging

issues that intersect with that.

And these definitely, these topics are difficult ones.

They evoke a lot of deep pain and emotion in a lot of us as individuals and

certainly as of people.

At the same time, I know that like our love for our communities are partly why we have these conversations and might draw you to listen to an episode like this even though it can be painful.

A lot of us working in these areas and thinking about these issues also live with these issues in like the most intimate proximal parts of our lives.

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