Tom Jokinen

Tom Jokinen

Biography:

Tom Jokinen is a radio producer and video-journalist who has worked on Morningside, Counterspin with Avi Lewis and Definitely Not the Opera as well as many other CBC shows. In 2006 he took a job as an apprentice undertaker at a Winnipeg funeral home. He has also worked as a railroad operator, an editorial cartoonist and spent two years in medical school at the University of Toronto. He dropped out, but not before dissecting two human cadavers.

Book(s):

Past Shows:

  • Adventures of an Undertaker

    Ian Punnett was joined by journalist Tom Jokinen (book link), who revealed what he learned about the funeral industry and our changing death rituals while working as an undertaker-in-training.More »

Last Night

Space Updates / Overmedicated Children
Space Updates / Overmedicated Children
Space historian Rod Pyle discussed the renewed U.S. lunar ambitions under NASA’s Artemis program. Followed by herbalist Sara Chana on the growing concern over the widespread use of psychotropic medications in U.S. children.

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