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    Episode 8

    By myPOLcastMay 28, 2016Updated:January 14, 2017No Comments1 Min Read
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    In this episode you will hear:

    • How the Polka dance is not what it seems to be
    • Why some Canadians invest so much time and effort to learn Polish?
    • How a photographer sees her work in our image obsessed world
    • How a famous Polish immigrant helped to change Canada

    Interviews:

    • Iwona Malinowski, President of the Polish Teachers Association in Canada, talks about the Polish language School she runs and which we visited to interview her students

    • Maggie Habieda, a photographer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, talks about her work at her Fotografia Boutique studio in Oakville, Ontario, and her ideas about images

    Also in this episode:

    • Polka is a very popular dance, also in the US, but it’s not Polish

    • Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski was a renowned Canadian engineer and a truly Renaissance man with major contributions to Canada

    • The skylark – a very popular Polish bird, unknown in North America

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    POLcast is an English language podcast, a colourful audio magazine delivered directly to your smartphone, computer or tablet. POLcast is created for everybody interested in Poland. If you have a Polish customer, colleague, girlfriend or grandmother - you will hear something helping you to enrich these relations. Each episode brings you interesting interviews, historical facts, trivia and more.

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