The JCR: A Massey Podcast

The JCR: A Massey Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ukrainian Female Soldiers Confronting War and Gender Stereotypes
November 29, 2024

In todays episode, Shree Paradkar, social and racial justice columnist at the Toronto Star and Southam Fellow at Massey College, speaks with Nataliya Machalina, Massey College alumna, Scholar at Risk

The Narrative Battlefield: Russian Disinformation in the War in Ukraine
November 15, 2024

In this episode, Junior Fellow Robbie Steele speaks with Haley Forgacs, a recent Massey alumna and a graduate of the Masters in European and Russian Affairs at the Munk School ...

Glad Day Bookshop: intersections of Queerness and Economic Democracy
November 01, 2024

Junior Fellow Noah Khan along with graduate students Tuaha Mubarak and Isaac Giles take a deep dive into the unique ownership structure and rich history of the worlds oldest queer ...

Drowsy Drivers
October 18, 2024

Suzan Ayas, a PhD student in Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto has spent the past six years in a lab trying to get drivers to fall asleep behind ...

All Policy is Climate Policy
October 04, 2024

In a rare interview, Dr. Fiona Miller historian turned health policy professor turned climate champion offers no simple answers to simple questions. She shares her extraordinarily difficult jour

Challenging False Divides in Arts, Humanities and Sciences
May 10, 2024

In this wide-ranging conversation, Julia Caron, a Southam Journalism Fellow and host of CBC Quebec City AM, and Jane Zhao, a Health Policy PhD at UofT and Junior Fellow at ...

Global connection faster than ever
April 26, 2024

With our ever expanding demand for information, we need to move to methods that allow for faster communication. Fiber optic cables offer a solution, but there are still challenges to ...

Perspectives on the pivotal role of pharmacists in global health
April 12, 2024

In this episode of JCR, Setayesh Yazdani, a Massey Junior Fellow and a Doctor of Pharmacy Student at the University of Toronto, interviews two clinical pharmacists. Dr. Linda Dresser and ...

Happy cities?
March 29, 2024

Massey College Junior Fellows, Delaram Farzanfar, PhD student in Psychology at the University of Toronto, graduate fellow at the School of Cities, and Ben Pulver, Art History PhD Student, join ...

Training new doctors through a community, diversity and inclusion lens
March 15, 2024

Theres a lot of buzz in the science and medical communities about the creation of a new medical school in Brampton, Ontario. Its a collaboration between Toronto Metropolitan University and the Will