From Far and Wide
Tod Maffin is a former national CBC Radio host, and today writes, makes videos, and gives keynote speeches about Canadian identity and culture. About two million people follow his social media accounts.Jocelyn Maffin is associate director of a provincial non-profit helping people with spinal cord injury.In their spare time, they make non-profit projects about Canada. They live on Vancouver Island on the traditional territories of the Snuneymuxw nation.
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Tod's free newsletter, From Far and Wide, covers all the Canadian news you didn’t hear this week, but should have. It comes out every Saturday morning. Subscribing to it is the best way to support our work. [read a sample issue]
All our Canada projects
From promoting Canadian businesses (Main Street Canada, and Unplug America) to encouraging American healthcare workers to move to Canadian communities, Tod and Jocelyn's work always aims to lift up Canada. All of it ad-free, non-profit.
Daily videos about Canada
Tod makes videos about Canadian identity, history, politics, and culture. Think of it as a national group chat, but with sources.
Tod's original podcast series
The small island town with decent people, complicated pasts, and a mystery hiding in plain sight. "It's like the Vinyl Café, but with a spy thriller running through it." — listener review
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