Season 2 Episode 4: Role models for social change (with Court Larabee)

 In this episode of the Whistler Podcast, Mayor Jack Crompton and Cole Stefiuk meet with Court Larabee, Executive Director of the Indigenous Life Sports Academy. The ILSA provides indigenous youth with unstructured sports, striving to create social change and development within Indigenous communities in the Sea to Sky Corridor.  

Court begins the episode by educating the listener on the proper terminologies for Indigenous groups in Canada, and encourages people to follow the ILSA motto, which is “if you are not falling, you are not learning not learning.”  

He reveals his personal experiences growing up in Thunder Bay as an Anishinaabe, and shares what inspired him to follow his current path.  He discusses what it means to be BIPOC in Whistler, and lastly invites the listener to help with the ILSA mission.  

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