People First Radio
People First Radio is an education and awareness program broadcast on traditional radio and in online podcasts.
Aug 20, 2026 • 00:57:00 Members of PEERS Victoria Resource Society speak about the orgnaization’s pilot supporting sex workers in the capital region who are not proficient in English. Chandni Sondagar, a senior knowledge broker with the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction speaks about the organization’s Playbook For Action meant to help small… Aug 10, 2026 • 00:57:00 Revisiting conversations around mental health and working in the Canadian music industry, as well as a conversation on retired judge Philip Seagram’s cross-Canada busking tour. Aug 5, 2026 • 00:57:00 The program revisits a conversation with Dr. Jill Wiwcharuk, AKA Street Dr. Jill, who talks social media influencing on topics related to health and homelessness. Also featuring a portion of a segment on the history of the Weyburn Mental Hospital, featuring author and University of Saskatchewan history professor Erika Dyck,… Jul 31, 2026 • 00:33:22 A team at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction is working on a framework for a standardized unit of THC in Canada. “The concentration of THC found in cannabis has really increased over time,” said Shea Wood, a senior knowledge broker at the Canadian Centre on Substance Use… Jul 30, 2026 • 00:57:00 Tim Richter, President and CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, speaks about his organization’s call for a Canada Housing Benefit designed using the Homelessness Income Cut-Off(HICO) measure developed at the University of Calgary. Martha Paynter of the University of New Brunswick speaks about the issue of children with… Jul 27, 2026 • 00:23:38 A project from UBC’s Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) team has identified public land across the province and scored it for housing potential. HART Associate Director Craig Jones spoke with People First Radio about the map. “Anybody in B.C, I don’t care if you are a community member, in government,… Jul 23, 2026 • 00:57:00 Craig Jones, associate director of UBC’s Housing Assessment Resource Tools (HART) project, speaks about a new, interactive B.C. Public Land Map that identifies publicly owned land parcels across the province and scores them based on potential suitability for housing. Shea Wood, senior knowledge broker with the Canadian Centre on Substance… Jul 21, 2026 • 00:57:00 A team in the Comox Valley has been working to understand and address the barriers faced by people when they visit the hospital. Sharon Karsten, a professor at Vancouver Island University, and Christohper Hauschild, a Mitacs research fellow employed by VIU, are involved with Walk With Me, a community engaged… Jul 16, 2026 • 00:57:00 Sharon Karsten, Christopher Hauschildt and Cory Cliffe have been helping with various aspects of a community engaged research project in the Comox Valley called Walk With Me. One initiative has seen the program look to understand and address stigma that people who use substances can face when they visit the… Jul 14, 2026 • 00:38:42 During the outbreak of a new and potentially fatal disease in Toronto in 2003, it fell to psychiatrists Bob Maunder and Jon Hunter to help people in the SARS ward cope. The two have been focusing on coping in their professional lives ever since, and have recently co-authored a book…
People First Radio - August 20, 2026
People First Radio - August 13, 2026
People First Radio - August 06, 2026
The road to a standard unit of THC in Canadian cannabis
People First Radio - July 30, 2026
Interactive map scores public land across B.C. for housing potential
People First Radio - July 23, 2026
Vancouver Island group looking to understand and address stigma in the hospital
People First Radio - July 16, 2026
Psychiatrists provide evidence-backed insights on coping
People First Radio is a weekly one-hour radio broadcast to educate and raise awareness about issues related to health and wellness — with a particular emphasis on topics related to mental illness and mental health, homelessness and housing, and addiction, harm reduction and recovery.
It’s currently broadcast weekly from Nanaimo, B.C. on CHLY 101.7 FM, Victoria, B.C. on CFUV 101.9FM, and Saint John, New Brunswick on CFMH 107.3 FM. People First Radio is produced and presented by Joe Pugh.
The program is also available as a podcast, click below to listen and subscribe to People First Radio on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify.
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