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Episode 004: Kevin Milligan
Prof. Kevin Milligan is an economist at the University of British Columbia. His work on public finance and labour economics speaks to many areas of everyday life. We talk about how rich men live eight years longer than poor men in Canada, and why that’s a problem for our public pension system.
Episode 003: Michelle Larue
Dr. Michelle Larue studies penguins from space. We talked about how she uses satellite imagery to model populations of species in the Antarctic, and about toxic masculinity in academia and on social media.
Episode 002: Heidi Matthews
Dr. Heidi Matthews is an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, at York University. She is a passionate teacher and an outspoken social critic, a legal mind to be reckoned with on subjects from international criminal justice to sexual politics.