Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. June 26th, 2025
June 26, 2025
Some Canadians are looking to make some extra cash, but would you be willing to rent out your clothes to random strangers? What about your camping equipment, or perhaps the car that you drive? Heck, if you have a backyard pool, maybe you rent it out just to make a few extra twenties. Guest host Andrew Pinsent chats with sharing economy expert Chris Gibbs in Hour 1. He is the Chair for the School of Creative Industries at Toronto Metropolitan University. Plus, we continue our ‘Proudly Canadian’ series with an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer. Michelle Valberg’s career spans 4 decades and includes an induction to the Order of Canada. And if there’s a corner of this country with breathtaking scenes, she has probably seen it with her own two eyes.
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Efficiency is Nana Guenther’s love language. It is also her profession. The thirty-seven-year-old Torontonian spent a decade in corporate accounting before realizing that her true calling was process automation: streamlining her clients’ existing systems and separating the tasks that need person power from those that might just as well be managed by a computerized solution. When Guenther and her husband, Phillip, became the parents of one boy in 2019 and a second three years later, she saw that her domestic life was in need of her professional expertise.
“Two demanding careers, two boys...
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