At 14 years old she was making headlines as one of Canada’s best chess players — on track to become Canada’s first female grandmaster. Then, something changed. No more headlines, no more competitions. In this episode, We Met U When host Abby Hughes explores the chess career of a child prodigy and finds out what happened along that path to grandmaster status.
Gwen McDonald opened a roller skate shop in 2012, with money from her late father. The business was described as “the only one of its kind” in Toronto. So when We Met U When host Jasmine Al-Kholani discovered the shop no longer exists, she wondered how Gwen coped with so much loss. Jasmine didn’t expect Gwen’s story to become part of her own journey, but it did.
A 12-year-old is interviewed about her school’s new focus on wellness. She’s surrounded by three trusted adults: her mother, her teacher and her principal. What could go wrong? Ten years later that child, now an adult, shares exactly why that news story bothers her so much today. We Met U When host Kendra Seguin sets out to learn what happened in a 2012 story …that’s still unfolding.