Podcasts

Listen to health experts, advocates and our partners discuss healthy living projects, research and policy on our podcast, The Balance.

EverybodyMoves: Newcomers
What barriers do newcomers face to being physically active? What can we do to overcome those barriers at a program and policy level and personally? Lizeth Escobedo, Manager of Adult Learning & Immigrant Services for the YMCA of Greater Vancouver, answers those questions while sharing her personal experiences immigrating to Canada.
EverybodyMoves: Race
“Racism looks different for different communities.” In this Episode, we talked to the Sume Ndumbe-Eyoh, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist at the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH), where she discusses intersectional racial barriers within physical activity and health.
EverybodyMoves: Young People
In this Episode, we talked to Shawna Lawson, Director, Research & Social Innovation at viaSport. This episode was recorded through Zoom during the second phase of the COVID19 pandemic.In this conversation, we mention BC’s Physical Activity Strategy, Active People, Active Places which you can read more about here: https://www.bchealthyliving.ca/what-we-do/active-people-active-places/ and more specifically we talk about…
EverybodyMoves: People with Disabilities
Sian Blyth, the Executive Director of the BC Wheelchair Basketball Society, explores how physical activity can be more accessible and inclusive for people living with disabilities.The Balance is recorded and produced by BCAHL’s Communications Manager on the traditional, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.Thank you so much for listening.Episode…
Food Insecurity
We dive deep into food insecurity within the province with Valerie Tarasuk, and how COVID-19 has accentuated the issue.Valerie Tarasuk is a professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, and leads PROOF, a research program launched with funding from CIHR to investigate policy interventions to reduce food insecurity in Canada.
Vaping
This episode of the Balance was recorded in a beautiful heritage building which serves as the headquarters of the BC Lung Association before the COVID19 pandemic began and over zoom during the second phase of the COVID19 pandemic.
Move Commute Connect
Welcome to first episode of The Balance, a public health podcast brought to you by the BC Alliance for Healthy Living.