Now or Never: How an old photo led me to apologize to my former best friend

Sifting through a box of old photographs in his Winnipeg basement, singer-songwriter JP Hoe discovered exactly what he needed during isolation of the pandemic.

"When I saw the old faces, it was hitting me that life has been much more than this past year," said JP. "There are relationships that exist outside of what we're going through...And they helped shape who I was….That meant a lot to me."

So JP started calling up old friends, and recording the conversations for a podcast he's working on.  One of those phone calls was to Andrew Kushnir, who had been JP's best friend during his formative teenage years. 

Back then, the two were inseparable, but it had been more than 20 years since they had spoken. JP couldn't wait to reconnect, and during the course of their conversation, JP recalled a moment from their past he regretted. He now had the chance to talk to Andrew about it and ask how he felt.  

New Podcast: Telling Our Twisted Histories

Telling Our Twisted Histories is an 11-episode podcast series that reclaims Indigenous history by exploring 11 words whose meanings have been twisted by centuries of colonization.

Host Kaniehti:io Horn (Letterkenny, The Man in the High Castle) guides listeners through conversations with more than 70 people from 15 Indigenous communities whose lands now make up Quebec, New Brunswick and Labrador.