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  • Housing and Health: Building Integrated Solutions with Intention with Alex Cheng

    Housing and Health: Building Integrated Solutions with Intention with Alex Cheng
    2025/09/18
    Alex Cheng, VP of Programs and Services at Blue Door, joins On the Way Home to share his powerful journey from frontline staff to system builder. With more than a decade of experience, Alex has led Blue Door’s shift toward holistic, health-integrated housing solutions breaking down barriers between emergency shelter, healthcare, and long-term housing. We talk about transitional programs like Abode and INNclusion, the critical role of partnerships, and what it takes to support individuals and families from crisis to stability. Alex’s leadership is thoughtful, grounded, and always in service of intentional, lasting impact.

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    35 分
  • Blueprints for Change: Vicky’s Path from Construct to Community Leader

    Blueprints for Change: Vicky’s Path from Construct to Community Leader
    2025/09/11
    In this episode of On the Way Home, we’re joined by Vicky Saygnasith, a proud graduate of Blue Door’s Construct program and a second-term carpentry apprentice with Local 27. Vicky shares her journey from discovering the trades to becoming a strong advocate for equity and inclusion in construction, while raising four children and mastering formwork, welding, and more along the way. With honesty and determination, Vicky shows us what happens when opportunity meets resilience.

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    29 分
  • Bold Ideas for a Dignified Future + Leadership, Trust, and Ending Poverty with Neil

    Bold Ideas for a Dignified Future + Leadership, Trust, and Ending Poverty with Neil
    2025/09/04
    In this episode of On the Way Home, we sit down with Neil Hetherington, CEO of Daily Bread Food Bank, to explore what it takes to lead through complexity, crisis, and systemic challenge. From texting his board chair while nearly sinking in the Atlantic to testifying before Parliament for income security reform, Neil shares the stories, strategies, and beliefs that fuel his work. We dive into the explosive rise in food bank demand, the deep links between housing and hunger, and why long-term solutions like the Canada Disability Benefit are critical. Neil also reflects on the most challenging leadership moment he’s faced, and what keeps him motivated as a lifelong learner and bold advocate for change.

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    35 分
  • Seizing the Moment: Housing’s Historic Shift with John Fox

    Seizing the Moment: Housing’s Historic Shift with John Fox
    2025/08/28
    This week, John Fox, Partner at Robins Appleby LLP, housing advocate, and member of Blue Door’s Champions Circle joins On the Way Home to unpack a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Canada’s affordable housing sector. John explores the impending transfer of thousands of rental units from private to non-profit hands, new federal and provincial initiatives, and the partnerships needed to make it work. With candor and urgency, he challenges housing providers to rise to the moment with both private-sector discipline and community-rooted compassion. Listen to the pod and read his full post here; https://bluedoor.ca/john-fox-delivers-visionary-keynote-at-blue-doors-agm/

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    32 分
  • Reimagining Housing: with Purpose and Partnership with Scott

    Reimagining Housing: with Purpose and Partnership with Scott
    2025/08/21
    This episode of On the Way Home, welcomes Scott Dutchak, President of Catalyst Community Developments Society, a BC-based non-profit delivering innovative, community-rooted affordable housing. Scott shares how Catalyst’s unique model blends public funding, private partnerships, and social impact investment to make long-term affordability possible, even amid rising costs and complex policy barriers. Drawing on experience across the corporate, public, and non-profit sectors, he offers grounded insight into what it takes to build housing that lasts, reflects local needs, and drives systemic change.

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    32 分
  • Home & Healing: Integrated Mental Health & Housing with Nicole Jones

    Home & Healing: Integrated Mental Health & Housing with Nicole Jones
    2025/08/14

    Join us on On the Way Home as we talk with Nicole Jones, Quality & Operations Manager at Eden Health Care Services. Nicole digs into Eden’s innovative tiered-housing model in rural Manitoba, ranging from 24/7 group homes to independent apartments, aligned with the province’s five-tier mental health framework. Nicole explores how in-home ACT/FACT-style teams, strong partnerships with Manitoba Housing and Southern Health-Santé Sud, and this model have reduced hospitalizations and tenancy instability in communities like Winkler and Steinbach. She also tackles stigma, collaboration across sectors, Eden’s expansion plans, and offers a simple suggestion for how anyone can support mental health and housing stability in their own community.


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    25 分
  • Green Homes and Healthier Living: Michael Quast on Passive House Canada’s Vision for Sustainable Housing

    Green Homes and Healthier Living: Michael Quast on Passive House Canada’s Vision for Sustainable Housing
    2025/08/07


    Michael Quast, CEO of Passive House Canada, brings contagious lifelong passion to his new role as he shares how the Passive House standard outperforms minimum building code homes, cutting heating and cooling energy use by approximately 80–90%, and reducing total energy consumption by 60% or more. He illustrates how airtight construction, super‑insulation, and heat‑recovery ventilation not only slash carbon emissions and living costs but also dramatically improve indoor air quality, comfort, and overall community well‑being.

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    37 分
  • Diving into the Canadian “Homefront”: Housing Affordability & Innovation on Daniel Foch

    Diving into the Canadian “Homefront”: Housing Affordability & Innovation on Daniel Foch
    2025/07/31
    On On the Way Home, we welcome Daniel Foch, Chief Real Estate Officer at Valery.ca, co‑founder of The Habistat, and co-host of The Canadian Real Estate Investor podcast, consistently ranked among Canada’s top real estate shows. Daniel breaks down the realities behind the rental market, interest rates, debunks common market myths, and outlines practical solutions from zoning reform and multiplexes to modular builds, co‑living, and purpose‑built rentals. He explains how Habistat’s real-time data supports smarter policymaking and enables meaningful collaboration across nonprofits, government, and developers. With a forward-looking vision for housing accessibility across Canada, Daniel offers one clear step every listener can take to be part of the solution: work as a team.

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    55 分