No Knives Allowed

To celebrate spring, Matt visits Toronto's brand new billion dollar park.  Biidaasige Park is beautiful, it's got birds, but it also solves a lot of long-standing problems.

Diverting flooding?  Providing housing?  Surfacing Indigenous histories?  We'll be talking about all those things in this episode about an absurdly well-designed public park.  Oh, and we'll also be time-travelling.  And books.

Books in this Episode:

Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley

Kayanerenkó:wa -- The Great Law of Peace

Indigenous Toronto: Stories that Carry this Place 

Toronto in 1810

Other Sources: 

https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/parks-recreation/places-spaces/beaches-gardens-attractions/biidaasige-park/history-biidaasige-park/

https://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/news/what-jelly-blob-tells-us-about-water-quality

Lytwyn, Victor P. (1997). "A Dish with One Spoon: The Shared Hunting Grounds Agreement in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Valley Region". Papers of the Twenty-eighth Algonquian Conference. 28: 210–227.

Plus the great and glorious Wikipedia.

Music Credits:

'Epilogue' and 'Lights' by The Slow Motions. Used with permission of the artist.

‘Opening’ by Phillip Glass. Arr. by Karl Michelson.  Performed by The Union Guitar Trio.  Used with permission of the artists.

Union Guitar Trio on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/2E0NidLjIzBAO7t0BBPFUD

Union Guitar Trio on Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/artist/the-union-guitar-trio/1592543833

'In Time Like This' by DJ Kensei and DJ Quietstorm. (The full set is amazing!)

Sounds and Samples:

Naming the Island and Park in the Port Lands: Ookwemin Minising and Biidaasige Park.  City of Toronto.

Pigeons taking off.wav by Glaneur de sons -- https://freesound.org/s/104954/ 

DVP Traffic Under Bridge.WAV by jakobthiesen -- https://freesound.org/s/97933/ 

Plus the same samples from our birds episode 'Swoop There it is"