Ontario

A cross-country adventure exploring the sights, sounds, and stories that make Canada interesting and unique.

In this episode, host Glen McInnis visits the province of Ontario.

Join Glen as he travels 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay to Big Trout Lake where the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (K.I.) have lived for thousands of years surrounded by the Boreal Forest. It is one of the last, great, undeveloped spaces on the planet and is one of the world's largest intact ecosystems. Glen talks with K.I. community leaders who were incarcerated after protesting the development of a mineral exploration site on their land without consultation. He also speaks with the Wildlands League, an environmental group that has been lobbying the Ontario Government to protect this valuable and essential ecosystem. We also learn more about the Ontario Government's plan to safeguard the forest by reforming and modernizing the Mining Act. Glen speaks with Anna Baggio (CPAWS Wildlands League), Donnie Morris (Chief, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug), Cecilia Begg (councillor, K.I.), Allan Hartley (elder, K.I.), Michael Gravelle (Minister of Northern Development and Mines).

Glen also visits the nation's capital to take you on a historical tour of Parliament Hill.