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Ideas
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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How IDEAS saved a listener from sending a regrettable email
"IDEAS is often a surprise" says Cathy Pike. It's why she's been a longtime listener. To our delight, IDEAS was there for her just at the right time....
CBC Massey Lecturers reveal how the talks changed them
This podcast features an all-star, and bestselling, lineup of CBC Massey Lecturers from the past decade:
Payam Akhavan (2017) and...
Harvard historian tells IDEAS host "I love you!"
That's not something you expect to hear in an interview. But the Harvard historian and author of All That She Carried, Tiya Miles did not hesitate to...
How an IDEAS episode on traffic changed a doctor's practice
Not many people like to think about traffic but Joanna Oda says this very topic on IDEAS in 2005 permanently changed the way she views medical care as...
The most important numbers in the universe
Numbers get their due credit in this podcast. Even if we're not aware of them, numbers are essential to how we experience the world. IDEAS explores th...
Can we have new pipelines and curb climate change, too?
For the past decade, Canadians have been split 50/50 on new pipelines — that's changed. Two recent opinion polls found roughly three quarters of eligi...
How port cities like Alexandria shaped the world
Alexandria has been the source of invention, innovation, and beauty for millennia — capturing the imagination of Napoleon, the Prophet Muhammad and, o...
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 real reasons why more young women freeze their eggs
Egg freezing is considered a kind of "fertility insurance" for the future — a way to buy more time to make a decision about having a family. However,...
Why there's no place like Oz
Even if you aren't a fan of Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, you know about the Tin man, the ruby red shoes and that the dog is named Toto....
Escaped slaves, pirates and 'free love' in ancient history?
Ancient history just got an upgrade. Forget the ruins, empires and great thinkers of the Classical period and make way for escaped slaves, subversive...
Why yellow traffic lights were invented to be ambiguous
The yellow traffic light is a perfect example of imperfection — with intention. While driving you have to think fast. Do you speed up or stop, whether...
What North Korea’s personality cult has to do with Jesus
North Korea is no place for evangelical Christians today. But when journalist Jonathan Cheng peeled back decades he found out Christianity is at the h...
Why laughter is so contagious
If you want to hear what a laughing rat sounds like this podcast is for you. From why the sound of laughter triggers us to join in, to how a laughing...
He championed a radical dream — a 'United States of Africa'
Africa is a centre of world history — a fact that's been deliberately obscured, says journalist Howard W. French. In this talk based on his book, The...
The origins of celebrity, from medieval divas to Kris Jenner
From Joan of Arc to Kim Kardashian, and Davy Crockett to Donald Trump, celebrity culture has deep and wide roots. Famous people who elicited Kardashia...
Believe it or not, romance novels are more popular than ever
Heated Rivalry, Love is Blind or Boyfriend on Demand all underline the global appetite for passionate swooning. But let’s not forget the source for al...
How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system
In the days before her medically-assisted death, journalist Elaine Dewar made it her mission to finish writing her book revealing ignored history. For...
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 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...