We invited Eric Aderneck to join us for a Conversation That Matters about our need to think in innovative ways about the region’s industrial lands.

We invited Dr Dugald Seely to join us for a Conversation That Matters about empowered health through a holistic approach to wellness.

We invited Dr Rosalin Miles to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the healing power of a community in motion in the cradle of Mother Nature.

We invited the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Vice President for Salmon, Jason Hwang, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the state of salmon.

Dr. Claire Fraser joined us for a Conversation That Matters about you, the organisms you are host to and your relationship with them.

We invited Tony McAleer, one of the founders of Life After Hate, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about his mission to help people leave hate groups.

We invited Mark Selman, the founding director of the Executive MBA program in Indigenous Business and Leadership, Beedie School of Business, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the wealth of potential in doing business as or with indigenous organizations and individuals.

We invited Shauna Sylvester of the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the state of democracy in Canada.

We invited Jonathan Manthorpe to join us for a Conversation That Matters about our distorted view of our relationship with China and how we might get it on track to accurately reflect its true nature – that being, we are a pawn in China’s North American strategy and we own natural resources their overheated economy requires.

We reached out to Professor of Mathematics Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University, one of the first people to raise awareness of the decrease in solar activity, for a Conversation That Matters about the sun, its reduced activity and her reading of the impact it will have on temperatures on earth.

We invited Mario Canseco to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the myriad issues in play for the federal election in Canada and why picking a winner is becoming harder and harder.

We invited Ryan Beedie to join us for a Conversation That Matters about ensuring promising young women and men can reach their full potential and why that is important to all of us.

We invited Jody Wilson-Raybould to join us for a Conversation That Matters about her reasons for seeking a second term in Vancouver-Granville, why adherence to the rule of law is fundamentally important in our democracy.

We invited Dominic Vogel and Christian Redshaw, hosts of the new podcast Cyber Security Matters, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about keeping your cyber secure.

We invited Rob Germain of CHEK News to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the all-out effort by the team at the station to keep it on the air.

We invited Justice Wally Oppal, the man who is heading up the review on education and training of police officers in BC to join us for a Conversation That Matters about preparing law enforcement officers for their role over the next few decades.

We invited volcanologist Glyn Williams-Jones of SFU’s Earth Sciences Department to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the program he and a complex web of other scientists are putting in place that will be an early warning system when Mount Meager decides to change its shape again.

We invited Ian Tostenson of RideSharing Now to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the myriad and confusing reasons why British Columbia is dragging its feet and standing in the way of ridesharing.

We invited Raymond Greenwood, the man who got the whole thing started, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about major city events, why they’re good for the community and how to make them happen.

We invited John MacLachlan Gray to join us for a Conversation That Matters about how the cold case of the Scottish nanny epitomizes Vancouver in its 1924 opium-hazed, smoke-choked and rain soaked uglier days.