Wade Grant's guest appearances

Wade Grant

Cambie Report

Viewpoint Vancouver

PERSIST

Gordon Price

Ken Sim

Lon LaClaire

Shauna Sylvester

Michael Wiebe

Adrian Crook

Rob McDowell

Pete Fry

Christy Clark

Jennifer Bradshaw

Kevin Desmond

Melissa De Genova

Hector Bremner

Sam Sullivan

Tom Davidoff

OwlTail

Wade Grant is a former councillor of the Musqueam Indian Band, former British Columbia advisor to  Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo, Indigenous advisor to former BC Premier Christy Clark, and is a former city council candidate in Vancouver. Wade joins Emile and Dale to discuss the recent Kamloops residential school tragedy and the legacy and trauma of residential schools; mental health in Indigenous politics; the barriers to increased Indigenous representation in politics including mental health pressures and unrealistic expectations from Indigenous constituents; his own powerful and emotional story managing panic attacks and mental health; and a lot more. (Conversation with Wade begins at 7:35). Register to attend "Does Politics Have a Mental Health Problem?" on June 23, where Emile will be a panelist. Want to share your mental health in politics/public life story? Contact PERSIST and start the conversation.Follow PERSIST for free: SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS | STITCHER | YOUTUBEPERSIST is supported by CheckingIn.co, a Canada-based mental wellness app. Click here to get 50% off the CheckingIn 30-day Reset Program.PERSIST is produced by 306 Media Productions.About the hosts: Emile Scheffel was previously the Executive Director of the BC Liberal Party and a communications aide in the BC Premier's Office. Dale Richardson was the Director of Digital Operations to Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe, and Director of Communications for the Saskatchewan Party.---Important Notice: PERSIST is intended to share the personal stories of individuals who have experienced mental health challenges, and the measures they have taken to address those challenges. PERSIST is not a mental health service provider. Neither PERSIST nor the individuals profiled by PERSIST make any claim to providing medical advice, and you should not rely on their advice for your own mental or physical health. What has worked for other individuals may not work for you. If you are experiencing mental health challenges, you should seek medical attention.If you are in crisis, one of your options is to contact the Canada Suicide Prevention Service, available 24/7/365:Canada outside Quebec: 1-833-456-4566Quebec: 1-866-277-3553The Peak Daily  is the #1 Business News podcast in Canada. Get up-to-speed quick with a fun and smart breakdown of the three biggest Canadian and global business stories in less than 10 minutes. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app. 

Wade Grant is a former councillor of the Musqueam Indian Band, former British Columbia advisor to  Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo, Indigenous advisor to former BC Premier Christy Clark, and is a former city council candidate in Vancouver. Wade joins Emile and Dale to discuss the recent Kamloops residential school tragedy and the legacy and trauma of residential schools; mental health in Indigenous politics; the barriers to increased Indigenous representation in politics including mental health pressures and unrealistic expectations from Indigenous constituents; his own powerful and emotional story managing panic attacks and mental health; and a lot more. (Conversation with Wade begins at 7:35). <a href="https://www.publicaffairs.ca/events/paac-ab-and-bc-present-does-politics-have-a-mental-health-problem" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Register to attend "Does Politics Have a Mental Health Problem?" on June 23,</a> where Emile will be a panelist. Want to share your mental health in politics/public life story?<a href="https://www.wepersist.ca/share-your-story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Contact PERSIST and start the conversation.</a> Follow PERSIST for free: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/55s2LfBvTNYpifXznHR8y8?si=KVZmtRfCRYCh8SIcwy2e8g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SPOTIFY</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1559821831" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">APPLE PODCASTS </a>| <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/persist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">STITCHER</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf39s-wfRi58vqkCyHDLwPg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YOUTUBE</a> PERSIST is supported by <a href="https://www.checkingin.co/persist/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CheckingIn.co,</a> a Canada-based mental wellness app. <a href="https://www.checkingin.co/persist/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to get 50% off</a> the CheckingIn 30-day Reset Program. PERSIST is produced by <a href="https://www.306mediaproductions.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">306 Media Productions. </a> About the hosts: Emile Scheffel was previously the Executive Director of the BC Liberal Party and a communications aide in the BC Premier's Office. Dale Richardson was the Director of Digital Operations to Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe, and Director of Communications for the Saskatchewan Party. --- Important Notice: PERSIST is intended to share the personal stories of individuals who have experienced mental health challenges, and the measures they have taken to address those challenges. PERSIST is not a mental health service provider. Neither PERSIST nor the individuals profiled by PERSIST make any claim to providing medical advice, and you should not rely on their advice for your own mental or physical health. What has worked for other individuals may not work for you. If you are experiencing mental health challenges, you should seek medical attention. If you are in crisis, one of your options is to contact the Canada Suicide Prevention Service, available 24/7/365: Canada outside Quebec: 1-833-456-4566 Quebec: 1-866-277-3553<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1539018378?id=1539018378" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Peak Daily</a>  is the #1 Business News podcast in Canada. Get up-to-speed quick with a fun and smart breakdown of the three biggest Canadian and global business stories in less than 10 minutes. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.

Wade Grant on mental health in Indigenous politics, the Kamloops residential school tragedy, and coping with panic attacks

What does it mean to change a street name? What does it mean to be able to fish? What does it mean to have title over the land upon which you, and your people, were born?This line of questioning may not immediately resonate with the majority of Canadians going to the polls today, intent on electing (or re-electing) the next Prime Minister. But it matters a hell of a lot to Indigenous people, to the Musqueam Indian Band, and specifically to Wade Grant.In this long-awaited discussion with the UBC alumnus, former Musqueam council member, 2018 Vancouver city council candidate, and current Chief of Staff to Musqueam band Chief and Council, Grant entertains some direct questions from the settlers in the room (Gord and Rob) on issues we’re still only beginning to understand in mainstream Canadian society.Beginning with some essential background — that, first of all, First Nations peoples didn’t even gain the right to vote until 1960, they couldn’t go to university unless they gave up their status as Indian, and the residential school system which has been the source of unimaginable cruelty and injustice was alive and desperately unwell until the 1990s — Grant steps us through some of the key factors that have led Canada, and BC, to this time of reconciliation. Whatever that means.It’s actually meant different things at different times. Perhaps it started in 1982 with Section 35 in the Constitution. There’s no question the R v Sparrow decision is part of reconciliation. In fact, any measure that has specifically supported the health and welfare of people like the Musqueam — now numbering close to 1,400 people, after the smallpox epidemic of the 1860s reduced their population from 30,000 to just 100 people — could be considered a form of reconciliation.Or…does love belong in the process? It’s a meaningful consideration and holds some currency to Grant, in that it allows him to consider himself Canadian, even while working to forgive those who have historically ground down the rights and resolve of First Nations peoples. Love, in fact, could be one of the key factors tempering the natural inability to forget the atrocities settlers committed, or simply endorsed (either way, we’re looking at you, Joseph Trutch).Land, of course, is the other essential factor. Grant speaks about MST Development Corporation, a partnership between the Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation and Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and which fully or partially owns many valuable parcels of land in the Lower Mainland: Jericho Lands, Heather Street Lands, and the former Liquor Distribution Branch site on East Broadway in Vancouver, Marine Drive Lands in West Vancouver, and Willingdon Lands in Burnaby.There’s the promise that all this land might make something greater than the sum of their parts, just as Grant himself represents as a product of many ethnic backgrounds. Such fabric comprises the blanket that is Confederation today.It’s a conversation that might have promised, as Gord suggests, some quicksand and a land mine or two. Yet, perhaps thanks to Grant’s deft approach to defining and discussing reconciliation, it’s all very Canadian. Have a listen.

What does it mean to change a street name? What does it mean to be able to fish? What does it mean to have title over the land upon which you, and your people, were born?This line of questioning may not immediately resonate with the majority of Canadians going to the polls today, intent on electing (or re-electing) the next Prime Minister. But it matters a hell of a lot to Indigenous people, to the <a href="https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Musqueam Indian Band</a>, and specifically to Wade Grant.In this long-awaited discussion with the UBC alumnus, former Musqueam council member, 2018 Vancouver city council candidate, and current Chief of Staff to Musqueam band Chief and Council, Grant entertains some direct questions from the settlers in the room (Gord and Rob) on issues we’re still only beginning to understand in mainstream Canadian society.Beginning with some essential background — that, first of all, First Nations peoples didn’t even <a href="https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&amp;dir=rec/part/APRC/vot_rights&amp;document=p4&amp;lang=e" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">gain the right to vote until 1960</a>, they couldn’t go to university unless they gave up their status as Indian, and the residential school system which has been the source of unimaginable cruelty and injustice was alive and desperately unwell until the 1990s — Grant steps us through some of the key factors that have led Canada, and BC, to this time of reconciliation. Whatever that means.It’s actually meant different things at different times. Perhaps it started in 1982 with <a href="https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/constitution_act_1982_section_35/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Section 35 in the Constitution</a>. There’s no question the <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/sparrow+among+decidated+trio+prestigious+national+aboriginal+achievement+awards/4298034/story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">R v Sparrow decision</a> is part of reconciliation. In fact, any measure that has specifically supported the health and welfare of people like the Musqueam — now numbering close to 1,400 people, after the smallpox epidemic of the 1860s reduced their population from 30,000 to just 100 people — could be considered a form of reconciliation.Or…does love belong in the process? It’s a meaningful consideration and holds some currency to Grant, in that it allows him to consider himself Canadian, even while working to forgive those who have historically ground down the rights and resolve of First Nations peoples. Love, in fact, could be one of the key factors tempering the natural inability to forget the atrocities settlers committed, or simply endorsed (either way, we’re looking at you, Joseph Trutch).Land, of course, is the other essential factor. Grant speaks about <a href="http://mstdevelopment.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">MST Development Corporation</a>, a partnership between the Musqueam Indian Band, Squamish Nation and Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and which fully or partially owns many valuable parcels of land in the Lower Mainland: Jericho Lands, Heather Street Lands, and the former Liquor Distribution Branch site on East Broadway in Vancouver, Marine Drive Lands in West Vancouver, and Willingdon Lands in Burnaby.There’s the promise that all this land might make something greater than the sum of their parts, just as Grant himself represents as a product of many ethnic backgrounds. Such fabric comprises the blanket that is Confederation today.It’s a conversation that might have promised, as Gord suggests, some quicksand and a land mine or two. Yet, perhaps thanks to Grant’s deft approach to defining and discussing reconciliation, it’s all very Canadian. Have a listen.

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Member Wade Grant, on What Canada is Today

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Wade Grant – 2018 Council Interview Series