Citizen Minutes

Citizen Minutes The Gift

A lesson in compassion and generosity results in a lifelong gift; set in a small Northwestern Ontario town, a father takes the opportunity to pass on important teachings to his daughter.

6:51 PM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes Militant Mother

Children from a social housing project were forced to jump shunting train cars that stood in their path; after months of petitioning for a safe crossing, a group of mothers made their voices heard by blockading CN Rail from delivering goods.

7:52 PM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes Ride Fair

Three fearless community organizers with a history of standing up against big tech corporations, embark on an uphill political fight to regulate Uber and Lyft in Toronto so that these companies operate in the public interest.

10:51 PM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes Ancestral Threads

Joleen Mitton has a mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver's Indigenous community; from humble beginnings to a modeling career in Asia, her journey to community leader is woven into the unfolding of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week.

12:45 AM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes Excluded by Design

Writer and community organizer Dave Meslin thinks that bad public notices are hurting democracy, and he's calling on graphic designers to show what's missing.

4:53 PM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes Sisterhood Softball

Depicting a league that empowers women through sports in a community where women traditionally don't participate and are seen as disempowered outside their communities; on the first all-female Muslim softball league in North America.

6:50 PM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes Jean Swanson: We Need a New Map

A profile of veteran activist and first-term Vancouver city councillor Jean Swanson as she works alongside the next generation of anti-poverty activists fighting systemic inequality.

9:49 PM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes Hommes-Relais

Amid migration grief and integration challenges, Juan Manuel, a doctor turned community leader, guides immigrant men through a life-changing program, forging resilience, belonging, solidarity and hope.

12:48 AM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes Mending a Crack in the Sky

Shamso Mohamoud and Shamso Elmi lost their sons to violence and watched their alleged killers walk free; the two Somali-Canadian mothers organized a group to collectively combat gun violence and hardship while facing cultural and racial barriers.

1:50 AM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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Citizen Minutes La Femme Equi-Libre

In Prince Edward Island, Josée Gallant Gordon is reinventing mental health care through her bilingual equine therapy centre; proving that with ideas, one person can transform their community.

6:49 PM on TVO (TV Ontario)

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