Naomi Sayers: From sex worker to lawyer to political candidate

Inside the Village - A weekly podcast featuring newsmakers in Ontario

In the latest episode of Inside the Village, Scott and Frisco dig into a political controversy in Sault Ste. Marie, where the provincial Liberals rejected a prominent Indigenous lawyer, Naomi Sayers, as a candidate for the provincial election—in favour of an 18-year-old who doesn’t even live in the city. We hear from Sayers, who has chosen to run as an independent. Also on the show, the war against microfibres. Tiny plastic particles are filling the Great Lakes—and our mouths—but scientists in small-town Ontario are working on a solution. Finally, we remember Katrina Blagdon, a missing Canadian army veteran from St. Catharines whose body was finally discovered after a massive search effort that united thousands of people.