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From the bestselling author of 21 Things™ You May Not Know About the Indian Act comes a powerful new book on dismantling the Indian Act and advancing Indigenous self-governance.

At 96 years old, Loie Reiner sat down with her grandson, Dylan, to reflect on love, family, faith, and a lifetime of activism. Across these intimate conversations, she shares stories of growing up in the 1930s, meeting and marrying Walt, standing arm-in-arm at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and choosing again and again to say 'yes' to justice and community. More than family history, these are timeless lessons in risk, resilience, and gratitude. As Loie put it herself: “Show up. Make change. Have fun.”

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the Canadian legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer. The Indian Act, after 141 years, continues to shape, control, and constrain the lives and opportunities of Indigenous peoples, and is at the root of many lasting stereotypes.

One of These Things First is a poignant reminiscence of a 15-year-old gay Jewish boy's unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother's Brooklyn bra-and-girdle store to Manhattan's infamous Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, whose alumni includes writers, poets, and madmen as well as Marilyn Monroe and best-selling author Steven Gaines.

One Strange Thing - Paranormal Stories & Unexplained Mysteries | True Crime History One Strange Thing uncovers authentic paranormal mysteries and unexplained phenomena buried in newspaper archives. We craft witty tales of ghost sightings, strange disappearances, and supernatural events from small town America and beyond through immersive storytelling and historical research. Each episode weaves surprising twists into real paranormal cases. We balance wonder with skepticism and investigate these mysteries with curiosity rather than blind belief. We search historical records for unexplainable ...

1000 Things You Should Know is a smart, fast-paced podcast that delivers essential, strange, and often-overlooked knowledge — one episode at a time. Hosted by Ezra Wade, a wry and curious guide with a knack for making complex ideas feel simple and alive, the show dives into the things we wish we learned in school (or paid more attention to if we did). Each episode explores three different topics — spanning practical skills, historical truths, scientific oddities, forgotten facts, and cultural insights. Whether it’s how to start a fire with no tools, why the Library of Alexandria really ...

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Welcome to the happy place of Mikael Colville-Andersen - urbanist, author and host of the TV series The Life-Sized City. With this podcast, he self-medicates himself against his lifelong anxiety about the numbing certainty of mortality by taking tiny, tasty pills of positivity. He presents the 100 things he'll miss when he's dead.