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Canadian Grit: North of Ordinary

Canadian Grit: North of Ordinary

著者： Jamie Jackson
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Real Stories. Real History. Real People. Shaping what I am calling the current Canadian Renaissance through the lens of our evolving national identity by presenting and thoughtfully considering novel, critical, and diverse perspectives about how we best move forward in these often difficult, fragmented, and dehumanized times.


This podcast is a show for everyone who likes anything, and is interested in getting to learn more about our world in the ongoing, and exponentially growing digital-industrial revolution in the postmodern, globalized context.


I offer honesty, humour, directness, authenticity, depth, breadth, and democratic voice to Canadians like you and me.


I am a dealer of perspectives. Throwing spaghetti at the wall for fun just to see what sticks— often to agitate for exposure to shake what we call ‘normal’ and to ask why we’ve normalized it.


What do you want to hear me talk about? I am a reasonable and conscientious objector to the status quo and systemic oppression. It is human connection, kindness, and asset-building as a Canadian community that makes this podcast unique.


Let’s discuss Canadian identity with curiosity, openness, and respect for all human beings, while doing our best to ensure both historical and modern discussions are to build something better.


I seek to do what I do best: use my own voice and lived experiences as a 37-year-old, born-and-raised in Muskoka story, to meaningfully connect more Canadians together by amplifying how best to use our collective assets to reassert a more holistic and caring version of our country that we can optimistically look forward to as “Canada 2.0.” You will hear numerous and varied perspectives on various trends and big ideas—and myths— currently shaping the sociopolitical, socioeconomic, sociocultural here in Canada in 2025.


I hope to share my own expertise on issues related to Canadian, European, and global history to perhaps make learning fun and engaging for more Canadians, including how to functionally discuss democracy in a constructive, meaningful, and *local* fashion. Amplifying our individually lived experiences and background stories as Canadians will demonstrate that we ALL as HUMANS have WAY more in common than we may think. :)


It’s not too late to get the reshape and dig deeper into our understanding of what Canada was, and is still, up to. Let’s revisit events from our collective, national past, while presenting anchors to present moment in an original, new, and democratic way.


I will delve into my own PhD (ABD) research theories and findings regarding sustainability educational and coping strategies for life in the current Western and Canadian context. Canada now has an unprecedented chance to break free from the ‘American Dream,’ which has taken a quantum and undeniable leap to the stuff of nightmares.


I will bring different voices and perspectives to you and by you to bring more understanding and ways to find peace in our often unpredictable ‘hybrid reality,’ which is my new theory on the current zeitgeist, which I am constructing in real time in order to continue the invaluable mid-20th-century work of a most underappreciated Canadian: Dr. Marshall McLuhan.


My Hybrid Reality Theory is original, and I will contextualize our shared past to demonstrate that many of the tensions in Canada are not new— they have been exacerbated and exposed by COVID-19 and economic systems related to neoliberalism and rentier capitalism.


Thank you for joining me! Please like, subscribe, follow and share with a friend! Reach out!

© 2025 Canadian Grit: North of Ordinary 世界 心理学 心理学・心の健康 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • Episode 3.1: Turtle Island, Interrupted (Redux): Director Champlain's Cut

    Episode 3.1: Turtle Island, Interrupted (Redux): Director Champlain's Cut
    2025/06/07

    Episode 3.1 – Turtle Island, Interrupted (Redux): Director Champlain’s Cut
    🔥 The Dawn of Modern Canada

    Before there was Canada, there was Turtle Island — a name, a memory, a map of stories passed from one generation to the next. But what happens when those stories are interrupted?

    In this cinematic redux of Episode 3.1, host Jamie Jackson pulls back the curtain on the director’s cut of Canada’s founding — with no colonial filter. From the origin stories of Sky Woman and the Haudenosaunee to Samuel de Champlain’s dream of something more than empire, we voyage deep into the human spirit behind our nation’s founding myths.

    This isn’t just history. It’s a confrontation. A reckoning.

    A remix.

    From Adam Shoalts’ wild solitude—including passages from his brand new book, Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Journey from my Doorstep to the Arctic, to daredevils launching off Niagara Falls — this episode explores what drives explorers, rebels, and revolutionaries to risk everything for something unseen. Featuring reflections on Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle, the erasure of Indigenous languages, and the tension between old world ambition and new world connection, this is an episode that doesn’t just teach — it challenges.

    If Episode 1 was the spark, and Episode 2 was the tinder, this is the moment the fire catches. Grab a log, and have a seat.

    You'll be happy you did.

    🚨 Listener Prompt:
    When was the last time you believed in something so much… you were willing to leap into the unknown?


    Keywords: Indigenous Ways of Knowing; Colonialism; Immersive; History; Continuity and Change; Challenge; Popular History; Culture; Community; Leadership; Martin Luther King Jr.; Reality TV; Hybrid Reality Theory (Jackson, 2025).

    Support the show

    I am so incredibly grateful that you stopped by. Thanks for listening to the show.

    I hope you loved it. If you're interested, check me out on socials

    INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/canadiangritmedia/
    OR: @canadiangritmedia

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573998726741

    Facebook Discussion and Community Page:
    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573998726741

    Remember, my friends: We're in this thing together. It means more than you know. We're just getting started!

    If you know of anyone-- or if YOU have an amazing story of grit, or even something to share with the world, why not reach out and let me know?

    I'd love to give voice to your stories.

    All the very best.

    Your good pal,

    -Jamie
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    1 時間
  • Episode 2.2- Before Canada Had a Name: From First Maps to First Moon Landing: Leif Erickson, the Avro Arrow, and the Space Race

    Episode 2.2- Before Canada Had a Name: From First Maps to First Moon Landing: Leif Erickson, the Avro Arrow, and the Space Race
    2025/05/31

    What if history wasn’t just a series of dates, but a map of the human soul?

    In this epic, cinematic journey through time and space, we trace the arc of exploration, ambition, and identity—spanning from Leif Erikson and the Vikings to JFK, the Space Race, the Avro Arrow, and Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. We hop from Étienne Brûlé to the Cold War to today, and all the way back to the traces and roots of our modern and ongoing reckoning with Canada’s evolving story.

    We are living at an unbelievable point in human history. This “bridge” episode connects past and present through the powerful currents of continuity and change, progress and peril.

    As we sail the whitecaps of time toward the life of Samuel de Champlain in the next episode, we confront the earliest (known) colonial encounters, the scars and sparks of contact, and evolving forces within Dr. Marshal McLuhan's 'global village'.

    These historical and human forces directly shape us and our communities.

    Important figures like Dr. Gabor Maté are also examined to better understand implications of our modern obsession with perfection and (un)originality, and how the anxieties of Western culture have disconnected us from a deeper, more rooted way of being. We explore how reunification of the bodymind through wonder, story, and personal connection can offer us a path forward.

    Whether through Adam Shoalts-inspired wilderness trails, or Soviet rocket launches, this episode asks: What does it mean to belong to a land, a legacy, and a people still in formation?

    This discussion is north of ordinary.

    🧭 Topics Covered

    Canadian History, early European exploration, Adam Shoalts, colonial contact with indigenous peoples, Chief Donnacona, indigenous ways of seeing and knowing, mapping and cartography, humanity, the human spirit, technology through time, critical perspectives, Cartier, Cabot, Brûlé, Champlain, JFK, Reagan, Iron Curtain, Berlin Wall, Cold War, Canada, USSR, Russia, United States, politics, Indigenous stories, ways of knowing, space race, Gabor Maté, mental health, resilience, perfectionism, colonial contact

    Support the show

    I am so incredibly grateful that you stopped by. Thanks for listening to the show.

    I hope you loved it. If you're interested, check me out on socials

    INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/canadiangritmedia/
    OR: @canadiangritmedia

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573998726741

    Facebook Discussion and Community Page:
    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573998726741

    Remember, my friends: We're in this thing together. It means more than you know. We're just getting started!

    If you know of anyone-- or if YOU have an amazing story of grit, or even something to share with the world, why not reach out and let me know?

    I'd love to give voice to your stories.

    All the very best.

    Your good pal,

    -Jamie
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    1 時間 7 分
  • Before Canada Had a Name, Part 1- Courage (for Gord Downie): Discovery, Maps, and the Tragically Hip

    Before Canada Had a Name, Part 1- Courage (for Gord Downie): Discovery, Maps, and the Tragically Hip
    2025/05/22

    Canadian Grit: North of Ordinary

    Before Canada had a name, there was only wilderness—vast, unknown, and full of risk. In this powerful two-part episode, host Jamie Jackson takes us on a sweeping journey through time and psyche: from uncharted oceans to the inner maps we carry as human beings navigating uncertainty.

    Part history, part myth, part reflection—this episode explores the raw courage it takes to sail into the unknown, whether in the 10th century or today’s hybrid digital world. We reflect on early explorers, the Halifax Explosion, and the enduring legacy of Canadian author Hugh MacLennan, whose words inspired Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip's iconic song Courage.

    We unpack identity, regret, resilience, and the universal need to belong—drawing parallels between the age of discovery and our own 21st-century crisis of disconnection. With ambient soundscapes, poetic narration, and real talk about demoralization, burnout, mental health, and the cost of not acting with courage, this episode calls on all of us to remember: we are not machines. We are human. We are Canadians. Together.

    And our story isn’t finished.

    It's just getting started!

    Featuring: Hugh MacLennan, The Tragically Hip, Gabor Maté, Peter Levine, Jackson's "Hybrid Reality Theory" (2025), Canadian history, public education, and the enduring power of grit.

    Support the show

    I am so incredibly grateful that you stopped by. Thanks for listening to the show.

    I hope you loved it. If you're interested, check me out on socials

    INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/canadiangritmedia/
    OR: @canadiangritmedia

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573998726741

    Facebook Discussion and Community Page:
    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573998726741

    Remember, my friends: We're in this thing together. It means more than you know. We're just getting started!

    If you know of anyone-- or if YOU have an amazing story of grit, or even something to share with the world, why not reach out and let me know?

    I'd love to give voice to your stories.

    All the very best.

    Your good pal,

    -Jamie
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    24 分

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