This podcast, Table Talk with Dee Lysak, invites you to the eastern shores of Lake of the Woods with miles and miles of shoreline, ancient rock, and 14,522 islands. This is the Laurentian Plateau. Imagine yourself here, sitting with friends and family, around a kitchen table: listening. The stories are mine, to write and to tell. And, the tales - mostly fact, some fiction are centred around all that it means to be Canadian in an ever-changing, globalized environment.  The past will help us know where we came from, the present will ground us in our shared reality, and I trust the words, all knitted together, will illustrate the world we live in. And, if we choose to act - individually and collectively: we can imagine and build an even better one. Life moves so quickly. I thank you for spending some unhurried minutes, with me - Dee Lysak.