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IDEAS is a place for people who like to think. If you value deep conversation and unexpected reveals, this show is for you. From the roots and rise of authoritarianism to near-death experiences to the history of toilets, no topic is off-limits. Hosted by Nahlah Ayed, we’re home to immersiv...
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Pt 2 | What the River Wants to Be
For thousands of years, estuaries were central to Indigenous agriculture on the West Coast. Then, when colonists arrived, they diked many of these eco...
Can abolishing all political parties topple fascism?
Simone Weil had a radical solution to end fascism that surged through Europe in the aftermath of the First World War: abolish political parties. She a...
How to measure 'prosperity'
It's safe to say right now the majority of us are feeling the pinch. Grocery and fuel prices are on the rise and the income gap between the wealthy, a...
What intellectual influencers teach us, one video at a time
A young generation of thinkers is trading in the bread and butter of social media branding — lifestyle, beauty, and consumption — for intellectual con...
Could the Dust Bowl of the 30s happen again?
The Dirty Thirties might seem like the distant past but according to IDEAS contributor and professor Evan Fraser now is the time to heed the lessons a...
Why the world feels like a shipwreck
What does an IDEAS producer do when he notices that shipwreck stories keep appearing in his life? He embarks on a journey to try and figure out what’s...
Why the world feels like a shipwreck
What does an IDEAS producer do when he notices that shipwreck stories keep appearing in his life? He embarks on a journey to try and figure out what’s...
Your tomatoes have a backstory and it’s not always pretty
In fact, author and journalist Marcello Di Cintio argues Canadians are complicit. After four years investigating the lives of migrant workers, he foun...
The 'shocking betrayal' of widespread antisemitism
Marsha Lederman is a child of Holocaust survivors. She lives with the fear that one day someone will take her and her son like the Nazis did with her...
How this 19th-century Indian feminist defied colonial customs
In the 19th-century Pandita Ramabai travelled America delivering lectures on how the caste system and patriarchy shaped the trajectory of women’s live...
The Billionaire Age Pt 2 | Disney heiress on the dangers of extreme wealth
If you inherited $120 million dollars, could you give away 75 per cent of your wealth? Abigail Disney did. She's an heiress to the Disney fortune. The...
The line between reasonable and unacceptable bias
This podcast is about testing the limits of fairness. It's about taking to heart the meaning behind "Beyond the Pale" — a phrase referring to ideas th...
What you should do when accused of being biased
All of us are biased. We have individual biases, momentary biases, morning biases and evening biases. Our institutions are biased. Our constitutions a...
Defying haunting colonial history with literary imagination
Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt's favourite place in the world is his mother's house. It's marked with a horrible, dark past — built for nuns w...
Pt 1 | What the river wants to be
Estuaries are a meeting of two worlds: the river and the sea. They’re incredibly fertile ecosystems that sustain 80 per cent of coastal fish and wildl...
Will AI save us or damn us?
There are no two letters more disruptive in our time than AI. We’re told it will create employment yet take jobs away; invent life-saving medicines ye...
Are we 'born obsolete'? How technology makes us feel ashamed
Günther Anders predicted the exact technological crises we’re facing today... but 70 years ago. In his research he pointed to humans as suffering from...
Weekend Listen | Changing Minds: Psilocybin, Medicine, and the Limits of the Law (via White Coat, Black Art)
On White Coat, Black Art, trusted ER doctor Brian Goldman brings you honest and surprising stories that can change your health and your life. Expect d...
How to harness your own biases
It’s easy to admit to having biases, but much harder to pin down what they are, let alone figure out what to do about them. Nevertheless, IDEAS produc...
Is the two-state solution dead?
As a former negotiator of the Oslo Accords for Israel, British-Israeli author and analyst, Daniel Levy, has both a diagnosis and a prescription for th...
Science fiction isn't fact, no matter what Big Tech tells you
Some of the biggest minds behind AI may have you thinking a Terminator-like robot is coming for us. But literature professor Teresa Heffernan says tec...
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: th...
Confronting the escalating attacks on universities
The Trump administration has been targeting higher education for some time now — freezing grants and filing lawsuits against leading universities. But...
A machine that could save us from war — and global warming
How? Some scientists believe in the power of nuclear fusion. Environmentally, these machines would have the potential to meet our energy needs with ze...
The complex legacy of the first European 'slave castle'
Elmina is a place in Ghana that poet Sarpong Osei Asamoah describes as a "two-sided wonder." A bustling, lively fishing town in contrast to the painfu...
Worst marriage ever! The story of Jason and Medea
The ancient Greek story of Jason and Medea starts as a love story and ends as a horror show — just the way the Greeks liked it. The met, fell in love,...
How Stephen Lewis helped changed the world's mind about AIDS
"AIDS exacerbates and accentuates inequality," Stephen Lewis said in his final CBC Massey Lectures he delivered in 2005. Back then the willingness of...
Legends and facts of the shapeshifting Queen of Sheba
The Queen of Sheba is a holy figure to some; a demon in disguise to others. Her indelible presence has haunted religious scholars and fuelled national...
The ultimate to-do list for living a good life
The guided principles on this list are based on Jesuit Bernard Lonergan's philosophy. His thought will likely shape the world for centuries to come, a...
The final days of Jesus as 'heard' by J.S. Bach
St. John Passion — the complex masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach tells the story of Jesus during his final days. It's a work that speaks to the hea...
How Hitchcock's 'The Birds' speaks to 21st-century anxieties
The face we give to our monsters says much about our anxieties as a culture. But birds? Two classic works of 20th-century horror featured a violent av...
The Billionaire Age Pt 1 | How did we get here?
There are 19 centibillionaires and a growing list of 3,000 billionaires worldwide. So it might not surprise you that the richest one per cent possesse...
Why everything you thought about earthworms is wrong
Earthworms are supposed to be a sign of healthy soil. But they're actually an invasive species that can even damage forests. So have we been sold a li...
Why is bombing civilians still a military tactic?
The bombing of civilians has been called one of the "great scandals" of modern warfare. So why, despite nearly a century of drafting laws and signing...
Why we should 'fight like hell' against Big AI
"Our democracy is what’s at stake," says Karen Hao, an engineer who used to work in Silicon Valley. Now she’s an outspoken critic of its AI giants. Th...
The common ground of fact and fiction can be powerful
Fact and fiction may seem poles apart but writers Esi Edugyan and Tiya Miles find the two intertwine perfectly in their award-winning storytelling. Bo...
When a poem changes your life
Poetry can find you when you need it most. It can be life-altering to read that poem just at the right moment. It was for six IDEAS producers who join...
Massey Lecture 4 | How people power makes human rights real
Eleanor Roosevelt once said that universal human rights begin in “small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any...
Secularism on trial
A case before the Supreme Court of Canada is challenging Quebec’s law on secularism. Legal scholar Benjamin Berger is a prominent voice in the study o...
'There's no such thing as clean energy'
If journalist Vince Beiser had his way the term 'clean energy' wouldn't exist — it's a misnomer. He argues green energy comes with cost. Sure, solar p...