Canadians Away!: Recent Episodes
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Canada exports a lot of worthy things. Universal human rights, the idea of a UN peacekeeping force, poutine. But one of the country’s greatest exports, at least in our opinion, is its people. This show explores the lives of Canadians living outside of Canada.
Kelsey Wilson allowed a stranger into her house in Sylvan Lake. That same stranger also got to drive her car. But it’s totally normal, because Kelsey is doing the same thing to this stranger, on...
Lauren Gillespie had a goal: visit 30 different countries before she turned 30 years old. She managed to achieve that goal thanks in part to living in Europe. But before Europe, she lived in Wellington,...
Carolyn Dickson always knew she’d live abroad one day. And after a trip to the UK with her husband in 2013, she knew she wanted to live in the UK. But it took her and...
Rihanna Flaherty got into travelling after university. Though her degree wasn’t something she used to travel. She actually fell in love twice. Once with the country of New Zealand itself—she eventually convinced a friend to...
The first time I spoke to Emily Mattinglsey was almost exactly four years ago (you can listen to our chat on Episode 26). She’d basically just arrived in Morocco looking for a little bit of...
Cora Lea and her family had the opportunity to leave Canada just about four years ago. Their destination: Doha, Qatar. Cora Lea shares her point of view on the folks she’s met over the past...
Robyn Larsen talks to host Adam Rozenhart about her experience living in Singapore, from how she gets around, to the differences from other cities and towns she’s lived in. This episode was recorded during the...
Matthew Rix wasn’t finding what he wanted out of his job in Canada. Fortunately, there were opportunities just south of the border. So he made his way to Denver, Colorado. Matthew talks to us about...
Andrew Taylor lived on the Canadian prairies, at least for part of his life. But he was no stranger to travel. After he graduated from university he did his post-graduate studies in marine biology in...
Lauren Spicer and her husband are seasoned travellers. Nine years ago, they decided after teaching English for a year in South Korea that travelling the world for work, at least for a while, was the...
Two years ago, this podcast took an indefinite hiatus. We’d done over 57 episodes where we learned about the lives of Canadians who lived abroad. The show ended, but we kept hearing from people who...
Cadence Konopaki fell in love with Ireland when she lived there back in 2000. Fifteen years later, it called her name again. In this final episode of the Expats, we talk about Cadence’s Ireland experience,...
Before the Expats goes off the air, host Adam Rozenhart looks back at some of his favourite interview moments. Sure, it’s another one of those annoying clip shows, but when it’s clips about travelling, you...
Carl Conradi fell in love with Sada’a almost the moment he saw it. He knew after a brief stay in the Yemeni capital that he’s wind up staying longer. He recounts his experiences there, learning...
Melissa MacKay earned her law degree and got a job as a human rights lawyer. This provided her the opportunity to visit Africa, and spend time in a few different countries there — some for...
Stephanie Rahbek Simonsen agreed to move to Denmark with her husband, thinking she’d have a few months to get used to the idea. Her husband found a job in Copenhagen inside of a month. Months...
Emma originally moved to London for work. She started out at an HMV, when those existed. Then she got a job in publishing, met her husband, and they’ve firmly established themselves in the world city,...
Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana was lured to Helsinki by a startup called Supermetrics. And while Helsinki’s climate might not be much different from Dups’ home of Edmonton, there are definitely certain things he’s needed to adjust...
When the economy started to crater, Catherine and her husband, who had been living in Calgary, took it as a sign to try out an expat adventure. Their search for a new experience led them...
A French-Canadian women met her love on the internet, and wouldn’t allow an ocean to separate them. Now she’s in Lincoln, in the process of renewing her Visa, and living through the bureaucracy of Brexit,...
Heather Morrow lost her job in oil & gas when Alberta’s economy tanked. But she didn’t take it lying down: she decided it was exactly what she needed to begin an expat adventure that’s taken...
Jevon Larocque hadn’t intended to spend more than one year teaching in Japan. He’s now been there for over 14 years. Though he still considers Canada to be home, he knows that Osaka is where...
When a Montreal woman decided she wanted to feel what it was like to truly live as a foreigner, she heard London calling. The Expats is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered...
I so enjoyed talking with one Canadian couple about the “gap” six months they took off with their two children, that I was eager to talk to Ted Buracas about the year he, his wife,...
In the last episode, Jocelyn and Mike talked about all the planning that went into the 6-month sojourn in Central and South America. This episode, we get into some of the nitty-gritty of their travels:...
Welcome to a new season of the Expats! This is Part One of Two in my conversation with Canadians Mike and Jocelyn. At the start of 2017, they rented out their house, enrolled their two...
You heard it here first: the Expats is taking the next few months off to enjoy the summer, and bank some more interviews. If you know any expats we should be speaking with, have them...
Berlin is one of the world’s great capitals, with a storied history — not all of it good. And it’s there that Canadian expat Andrea Babic is writing her own story: one of cross-continental love....
A few weeks ago, host Adam Rozenhart led a panel discussion about technology in podcasting. We were given the audio recording of that session, which also included Samantha Power and Lauren Albrecht. The panel talked...
Around 60 AD, the Romans built Bath in what is now the United Kingdom. Ancient Bath was a Roman spa. Now it’s a small town of about 80,000 living just west of London. It’s also...
It took me a long time to go from the idea of this podcast to the first episode. I’m glad that when I finally did decide to pull the trigger on the Expats, I had...
Jane Morrison’s seen many parts of the world. But in pursuit of her PhD, and partly because her partner was pursuing his education in Barcelona, Spain, she decided to do the same. Learn about her...
Arlo Matisz made a quick decision: he planned to live abroad. Not a week later, he was on a plane to South Korea. When he arrived, he made his way to the nearest bar, bought...
Chris Mitchell is no stranger to the expat lifestyle. He’s an experienced traveler, and lately he’s hanging his hat in Istanbul, Turkey. In this episode, Chris shared his experiences around culture, food and the amazing...
Pierre and Deborah Boileau were bit by the travel bug early on. From casual adventure travel, to now living the expat life in Africa, they’ve seen and experienced quite a bit. And they’ve been able...
Owen Murray is a world-travelling photographer who’s spent a lot of his adult life travelling. We caught up with him in Luxor, Egypt and spoke to him about the value of travel, what it means...
Sometimes, you’re messing around on the internet, and you start chatting with a random stranger. Before you know it, you’ve fallen in love. That’s more or less what happened to Jaimee Bell. And when the long distance...
Ana Alcantara was my second ever guest, and she was very generous with her time, and the stories she shared about her life in Japan. I know there are quite a few new listeners out there,...
Lisa Stadnyk-Webb left Canada as a trailing spouse, giving up a job she enjoyed to begin an expat adventure in France. It’s taken her to many interesting places — most recently The Congo. Find out...
Ali Ahmad’s parents immigrated to Canada from Pakistan. He was born and raised in Canada, and after finishing his education at home, Ali’s now living the Expat life with his wife and their children in Doha, Qatar. Find...
Maria Tran’s been living the Expat life for almost her whole career. As the principal at an international school in Beijing — which the former Edmontonian arrived at by way of New Brunswick, of all...
Kevin Bracken, the creator of What’s Different in Canada, knows quite a bit about the differences between the Great White North and the Home of the Brave. He’s been a passionate student of Canada, and...
Imagine living on an island the foundations of which are millions of living and dead organisms. That’s a little hint of what it’s like to live in the Maldives. Learn about Lara Hill’s experiences on...
They say to really know someone you should walk a mile in their shoes. But Scott Kosman says you should walk a kilometer in their Adidas. I mean, he doesn’t say that, but he should....
Norway conjures romantic visions of winter, at least for me. Fjords, dramatic coastlines and winter. And a hearty people. All those things and more as we connect with Hahn Vincent, spending her summer back in Canada,...
Until I met Emily Mattingsley, I never thought of Morocco as a surf destination. But that’s one of the things that lured this Canadian teacher to the North African Country. Emily tells me about her...
Last week, citizens of the UK voted to get the eff out of the European Union. Many Canadians looked on with great interest and horror as the results poured in. Leah Trueblood was one of...
Ashley Tinker, an anglophone Montrealer, found love in Western Europe. But though she met her partner in Italy, the region of Provence would be where they settled down together. Find out about the differences between...
Leah Cavanaugh’s academic pursuits took her to a place you’ve likely seen depicted and sometimes exaggerated on film and television. Home to warrior poets and engineering feats: Scotland. Leah’s studying at the University of Edinburgh. And though she’s...
Ben Wheelwright’s journey to the stage on Broadway moved in a path eastward, beyond the atlantic, and back to New York City. We spoke with Ben about his experiences as an expat Broadway actor. You...
Sometimes, you have a shitty day at work, so you sell all your belongings and move to Switzerland. That’s a somewhat accurate description of Tatiana Warkentin’s expat experience… sort of. Tatiana shares her four and a half...
Doug Hoyer is a Canadian musician from Alberta. When his wife found an opportunity to continue her studies in urban wildlife, they pulled up the stakes and made their way south, to the great state...
Lillian Small and her husband are committed to the expat life. They knew at some point, her husband’s work would take them away from Canada. So for the past few years, they’ve called Paris home. You can...
Jana Makar and her husband decided to leave their lives in Calgary, Alberta to experience life as Expats. They landed in New Zealand, and after a bit of a bumpy start got settled. It’s been...
Milan is the global centre of fashion. You don’t walk into a grocery store in Milan wearing sweatpants, unless you want to invite dirty looks. Marissa Janzen learned some of those lessons the hard way. She and her...
Los Angeles IS what’s happening. At least, that’s what I’d assume. In speaking with former Calgarian Levi MacDougall this week, it’s clear that LA has its pros and its cons. Join me as I chat...
Umeå, Sweden is a university city in the country’s north. For eight months, it’s been home to Canadian expat Morgan Fawcett, who moved there to live with her partner. I spoke with Morgan a few...
Taiwan is tiny, but its population is huge, for its size — certainly from a Canadian’s perspective. And given its population, maybe it shouldn’t be so surprising that it’s home to the greatest density of 7-11s anywhere...
When Sarah Parsons was given the choice to relocate to Calgary for her job or to try out an expat assignment, she chose the latter. No offense to Calgary, of course, but it just isn’t...
Gail Aguiar is one of the more seasoned travellers I’ve ever spoken to on the show. So where in other shows, we tend to talk a lot about place and people, It was very interesting...
In many of my conversations with expats since the summer, the question of voting rights has come up frequently. So I decided to enlist the help of my colleague and journalist Samantha Power to explore the...
Erica and Brian Shuchuk gave it all up to move to Haarlem in North Holland. They put their stuff in storage, filled out the endless paperwork to bring their cat Nougat with them, and landed...
Graeme Smith’s schooling took him to South America. His family and the opportunities that were available to him in Ecuador have kept him there. Now, with a wife and three children, and a successful business,...
Two months or so ago, when his work world shifted dramatically, Graeme Kishiuchi and his family found themselves with some decisions to make: continue on in Canada, or make a go of it down Mexico Way....
There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. — Nelson Mandela In this episode, I speak with Anna Grimsrud,...
Rob Taillefer has seen quite a bit of Europe. And Canada for that matter. He spent time living in both Edmonton and Ottawa before jumping across the pond to go to school in the Netherlands....
Colm Heaney spent much of his childhood bouncing between Canada and Northern Ireland — where his father is from. When it came to making the leap to living in Belfast some 14 years ago, a plethora...
Australia — a Commonwealth like Canada… in that it’s a Commonwealth Nation. This episode, I spoke with Phil Paschke and Wade Kelly about their experience since moving to Wagga Wagga NSW in Fall 2014 (Canada’s Fall —...
After a one-year exchange in Japan during university, Ana Alcantara knew she’d be moving back there to live permanently. She now lives in a place just a few hours’ train ride from Tokyo. Find out...
In late 2012, Iris Dias decided to pick up her life from Vancouver, BC and relocate to Dubai. In January 2013, she got on a plane and left Canada. Find out more about Iris’ journey and what...
I’ve had this idea for awhile, and I’m excited that it’s finally taking shape. Find out what I’m up to by listening to the [very short] first episode.