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 working as an undertaker-in-training.More »

Last Night

Aliens & Time Travel / Hollywood & the Mob
Aliens & Time Travel / Hollywood & the Mob
First Half: A distinguished professor of history at Citrus College, Bruce Solheim has experienced angels, demons, ghosts, cryptids, telepathy, psychokinesis, mediumship, and alien contact. He'll discuss the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe, time travel,...
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