Work: Loving it, hating it, and getting through the shift

Aaron Williams has worked in fisheries, as a forest fighter and is currently an airport ramp agent. When he's not working, he's writing about work: the hard kind, requiring bodily energy and mental endurance. Physical labour has always been a part of his life. He grew up in a logging family. In this podcast, Williams talks about the challenges, rewards and changing realities of hard work. Aaron William's memoir is called The Last Logging Show: A Forest Family at the End of an Era (Harbour Publishing) . The book received the 2025 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. His public talk was recorded at the awards ceremony at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Work: Loving it, hating it, and getting through the shift is an episode from Ideas by CBC.

This episode is 00:54:08 long.

This episode was published on Apr 14, 2026.

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