Ryan McMahon is an Anishinaabe comedian, podcaster, and writer from the Couchiching First Nation.
[3] In May 2010, his live performance of Welcome To Turtle Island Too was filmed in St. Albert, Alberta for a CBC television comedy special [4] and he was included in the New Faces of the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.
[5] In February 2015, CBC Radio 1 national aired an hour-long comedy special of Red Man Laughing .
[8] On May 26, 2017, McMahon hosted "12 Steps to Decolonizing Canada" on CBC Radio's Day 6 program.
The series was largely informed by Toronto Star reporter Tanya Talaga's award-winning book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City, which investigated the deaths of seven Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay, Ontario and news reports by APTN [14][15][16] McMahon has occasionally freelanced op-eds to Vice News[17] The Globe and Mail.