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There's Something In The Water: Environmental Racism w/ Dr. Ingrid Waldron

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We spend most of our time talking about personal illness, but this week we dive into the world of Social illness with none other than the wise and poignant Dr. Ingrid Waldron. Dr. Waldron is the author of the book, There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities. The book was also the inspiration for the Netflix Documentary by the same name. It examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using Nova Scotia as a case study, and the grassroots resistance activities by Indigenous and Black communities against the pollution and poisoning of their communities. This conversation is an important one. Sit down, open up your ears and your hearts and enjoy!

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It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political

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playbook.

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And when it comes to what it all means for Canada, well, as they say, it's complicated.

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every week as we break down the headlines from Capitol Hill

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with a Canadian spin. Find and follow two blocks from the White House on your favorite podcast

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app, including YouTube. This is a CBC podcast. Hello everybody. I hope you are having a wonderful day. And this week, we are very pleased to bring you a conversation that we've been waiting to have for quite a while. This is Dr. Ingrid Waldron. Dr. Waldron is a Canadian social scientist. She is also the associate professor

0:57.4

in the School of Nursing here in Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia here. But more

1:04.7

importantly, she is the author of a book called There's Something in the Water, Environmental

1:09.9

Racism in Indigenous and Black

1:11.6

Communities, which was also optioned as a feature-length documentary that was hosted and

1:19.3

produced by Ellen Page, Halifax Native.

1:24.7

And the documentaries on Netflix right now.

1:27.5

I highly suggest checking the doc out.

1:31.2

It's, man, it is incredibly eye-opening.

1:34.5

And the work that Dr. Waldron is up to is really important.

1:40.1

It's a little bit different this week.

1:41.6

We're not talking about illness per se,

1:44.0

but we're more so talking about, like, social illness and how that affects communities who are more marginalized.

1:56.8

And for the three of us, this was a really, really wonderful conversation.

2:00.6

We feel, we feel so

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