Month: June 2025
Richard Pope
This week we welcome Richard Pope. Richard was born in Toronto and lived and birded there until 2006. He is a retired professor of Russian literature and culture. Richard is a long-standing member of the Toronto Ornithological Club, The Ontario Field Ornithologists, and the Willow Beach Field Naturalists. He is the author of a number of books about birds and their relationship to humans. He and his wife, Felicity, live and bird in Cobourg, Ontario. in Cobourg, Ontario.
Brandon Hahn
This Sunday, June 15th we welcome Brandon Hahn to Word on the Hills. Brandon wears many hats. Mostly a poet, the author of a small pile of chapbooks and a self-help book called Trigger Happy, and a bit of a comedian, Brandon W Hahn has been a professional mental health advocate since 2002 and has written and spoken about mental health all over Ontario. Brandon’s most recent written effort, another self-help book, Trigger Happy Too! – Glimmer Edition is due out in late Spring of this year. His current endeavors centre on his website snackablementalhealth.ca Through this podcast and blog Brandon hopes to reach an international level, speaking and writing about mental health conditions from his personal experiences.
Karin Wells
Karin Wells is a journalist, lawyer and much acclaimed author of When Women Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women’s Rights in Canada released only weeks ago. Her previous books are The Abortion Caravan short listed for the Shaughnessy Cohen award for political writing and winner of the Alison Prentice Award for women’s history and More than a Footnote: Canadian Women You Should Know. She has been recognized as one of this country’s leading radio journalists. Over her career she worked in more than fifty countries for CBC Radio making radio documentaries about subjects as diverse as post conflict resolution in Sierra Leone; dementia treatment in Denmark and opera in the English countryside. Karin Wells is also a 3-time winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists documentary award for investigative journalism. Her work regularly won international awards and has been recognized by the United Nations. In 2011 she was inducted into the University of Ottawa’s Common Law Honor Society.
Mark Whitney
Mark Whitney grew up and attended high school in Kitchener and Milton Ontario. After earning a diploma from Sheridan College, he attended night school for an additional seven years, finally earning his accountancy credentials in 1994, solidifying his career in the financial services sector. After 30 odd year of office drudgery, he retired in 2019 and pursued an ambition that he had harboured for decades. He wanted to write. His wife of twenty-one years, Joanne Brooks, introduced him to Northumberland County twenty-five years ago. The scenery and the history of the region has been an inspiration for his writing, providing the backdrop for three of his four books.
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