Inside the Village - A weekly podcast featuring newsmakers in Ontario
Where all news is local, and no topic is off-limits. Join us every week for a unique podcast that explores the most important stories of all: the ones right in your neighbourhood. A rundown of the best local journalism—big and small—from Village Media newsrooms across Ontario.
Inside the Village - A weekly podcast featuring newsmakers in Ontario
Naomi Sayers: From sex worker to lawyer to political candidate
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Erika Engel, Ashley Morrison, Bronwyn Kirby, Naomi Sayers, Katrina Blagdon, Scott Sexsmith, Michael Friscolanti
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Season 1
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Episode 5
In the latest episode of Inside the Village, Scott and Frisco dig into a political controversy in Sault Ste. Marie, where the provincial Liberals rejected a prominent Indigenous lawyer, Naomi Sayers, as a candidate for the provincial election—in favour of an 18-year-old who doesn’t even live in the city. We hear from Sayers, who has chosen to run as an independent. Also on the show, the war against microfibres. Tiny plastic particles are filling the Great Lakes—and our mouths—but scientists in small-town Ontario are working on a solution. Finally, we remember Katrina Blagdon, a missing Canadian army veteran from St. Catharines whose body was finally discovered after a massive search effort that united thousands of people.