Ideas
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Louis
May 23, 2025
Wonderful. Just wonderful.
May 15, 2025
Sep 25, 2024
Apr 2, 2019
Thinking person's radio. Thanks Paul
James Dyer
Jan 26, 2019
Great variety but always quality. Talented contributors
Alex
Oct 8, 2018
thought provoking and exceptional content
Description
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 immersive documentaries and fascinating interviews with some of the most consequential thinkers of our time.
With an award-winning team, our podcast has proud roots in its 60-year history with CBC Radio, exploring the IDEAS that make us who we are.
New episodes drop Monday through Friday at 5pm ET.
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The 'dangerous' promise of a techno-utopian future
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Open your gift: a podcast of nonfiction recommendations
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Your tomatoes have a backstory and it’s not always pretty
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Bringing a farm — and its philosophy — back to life
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Pt 2 | Architect Frank Gehry on how to exit life
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Pt 1 | The architecture that brought Frank Gehry to tears
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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The best — and worst — ideas of the last six decades
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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How IDEAS saved a listener from sending a regrettable email
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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CBC Massey Lecturers reveal how the talks changed them
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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The time when a guest said, "I love you!"
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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How an IDEAS episode on traffic changed a doctor's practice
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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How music transports the Afghan diaspora to their homeland
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Why cities are targeted in wartime (updated)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Why hospitals stopped being hospitable
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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How guest-host power dynamics shape migration
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Can you ever truly return home again?
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Massey Lecture Part 5 | A human rights agenda for Canada
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Massey Lecture Part 4 | How people power makes human rights real
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Massey Lecture Part 3 | Human rights don’t have to be earned
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Massey Lecture Part 2 | The six years that remade human rights
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Massey Lecture Part 1 | Renewing the promise of human rights
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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The people who inspire Alex Neve to fight for human rights
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Buttons give the illusion of power but hide the consequences
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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How overlooked veterans make history in their own words
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Why Canadian veterans are conflicted about Remembrance Day
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Not a war story. This is about what comes after for veterans
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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What it takes to become a ruthless tyrant
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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First historian Herodotus knew the power of story
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Hope lies in knowing that "we've changed the world before”
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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How mind-bending theories could solve mysteries in physics
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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To fix America's caste system, acknowledge it exists: author
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Mexican fiction turns drug kingpins into vicious vampires
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Can democracies survive the attacks on the rule of law?
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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This lawyer turns real legal cases into page-turners
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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How Indigenous Americans discovered Europe
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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33 years of the campus free speech controversy
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Can you have compassion for someone you never agree with?
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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George Eliot's invaluable life lessons on confronting reality
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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The real reasons why more young women freeze their eggs
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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New details on Canada's first documented 'demon possession'
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Can abolishing all political parties topple fascism?
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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This Italian painter was a feminist before the word existed
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Why practicing empathy is far from simple
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Why 'follow your heart' spirituality is actually religion
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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How 60s Scoop 'warriors' reclaimed their Indigenous roots
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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An homage to chickens, a dinosaur, dinner and backyard pet
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Imprisoned Syrian wrote poetry imagining the fall of the regime. Now it's come true
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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How absurdist theatre is an act of resistance
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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How a translation movement made Western philosophers famous
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Can we have new pipelines and curb climate change, too?
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Why progressives may not be as 'woke' as they think
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Why a proposed 'new capitalism' is contested
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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How a German philosopher predicted our digital age
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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What life was like for Luke Galati in a psychiatric ward
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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How Inuk activist Aaju Peter learned to 'decolonize' her mind
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Can the fierce wars of today end in peace?
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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How rhythm helps us walk, talk — and even love
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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The natural — and unnatural — history of air on Earth
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Why the world feels like a shipwreck
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Can a conference change our troubled world?
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Was justice served by South Africa's peace accord?
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Can a trucker's life entice young people to take the wheel?
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Listen to the sound of metal in musical form by 8 composers
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Without justice, can unbearable grief subside?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Why smell — our invisible superpower — deserves more acclaim
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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How leaders in the former Yugoslavia forged peace in 1995
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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How our education system is far from its original ideals
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Meet Alex Neve, the 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Public education was built on this key concept — now it's gone
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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How this 19th-century Indian feminist defied colonial customs
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Why there's no place like Oz
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Lessons from last century’s failed Mideast peace deal
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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How the principles of St. Augustine guide the Catholic Church
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Are we 'born obsolete'? How technology makes us feel ashamed
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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What does it mean for a river to be ‘alive’?
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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What Chinese Science Fiction Has to Tell Us
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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# 1: What it took to end a 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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The threat next door: How NATO’s newest members are preparing to defend against Russia (via The House)
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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How Brutalist architecture goes beyond aesthetics
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Libraries are fighting for their freedom — and our democracy
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Why PEI cares more than any other province about voting
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Has the housing crisis shaken your trust in democracy?
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Attacking our biggest fear — political polarization
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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#5: What makes a great conversation?
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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# 4: What it means to truly listen
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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#3: How a dispute can lead to unity
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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#2: What we can learn from our conversations with strangers
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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#1: Why we need to have a conversation about conversations
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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What a cultural genocide took from Indigenous people in Canada
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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How inequality is undermining liberal democracy
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Why the power of technology relies on an adaptive mindset
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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How to think for ourselves — is it even possible?
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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A better world needs to be built on empathy: human rights scholar
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Making space for moments of joy in dark times
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Why is it so hard to embrace leisure time?
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Why music — even sad music — is 'inherently joyful'
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Why philosophy needs to ditch class, and go to a pub
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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How to flourish in a broken world
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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A lesson in hope and why we need to slow down
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Who owns Outer Space?
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Making the case for what a university could and should be
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Why are women still outsiders in the trades?
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Why doesn't our healthcare include the well-being of doctors?
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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How poetry offers insight into the meaning of life
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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How a novel saved the Inuktitut language from disappearing
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Decades on, David Suzuki sees the same problem: human-first mindset (via Front Burner)
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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We have a moral responsibility to this planet: David Suzuki
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Championing the quiet power of listening
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Autonomy is vital to MAID law and the right to die: ethicist
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Will the real Martin Luther please stand up?
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Meet the original 'Father of Economics' — it's not Adam Smith
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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How anxiety over today's democracy is political
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Is human intelligence overrated?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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A lesson on why NOT to engage in polarized discussions
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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What rights do we need for our future?
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Is our right to freedom of expression limitless?
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Why are refugee rights not protected equally?
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Is our right to privacy meaningless in this tech age?
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Who has a ‘right to life’?
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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How did the Taj Mahal turn into a bouncy castle?
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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What you may have missed in this famous painter's artwork
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The mysterious death of a great Canadian painter
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Why Canadian patriotism right now isn't blind nationalism
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The heart of Canadian pride shines through Joyce Wieland's art
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Voices of a silenced history: inside Bulgaria's Gulag
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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We’re drawn to the beauty of the ocean. An artist reveals why
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Why do people hate?
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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The most famous French-Canadian novel you've never heard of
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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How Jaws made us believe white sharks are real villains
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Journalist Connie Walker on uncovering her family's dark history
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Inside our loneliness epidemic
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Perdita Felicien on how to navigate life’s biggest hurdles
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The making of an ‘authoritarian personality’
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Canadian universities as safe havens for scholars-in-exile
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Black history, vividly told through the colour blue
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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How Indigenous ecology is reviving land destroyed by wildfires
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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How brutal wildfires are 'killing' Indigenous ways of life
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The movement that unlocked a new masculinity – Dandyism
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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How Canadian nationalism died
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The famously polarizing father of capitalism
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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What it’s like to discover you have ADHD after 50
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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What it means to fully embrace neurodiversity
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Do books have the power to heal us?
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Hallelujah! The transformative power of Black gospel music
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May 30, 2025 |
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Why we can’t live without the universal feeling of disgust
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May 29, 2025 |
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The philosophy behind why humans are so self-conscious
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May 28, 2025 |
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How the fear of fire is taking control of us
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May 27, 2025 |
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The unforgivable crime of being queer in Africa
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May 26, 2025 |
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Bringing child sex abusers out of the shadows
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May 23, 2025 |
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Why our long term relationship with the U.S. is done
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May 22, 2025 |
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Where did modern news culture come from? Think Shakespeare
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May 21, 2025 |
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Champions of cormorants argue the water bird is unfairly vilified
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May 20, 2025 |
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The three ingredients in an autocrat's recipe for power
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May 16, 2025 |
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A pig was shot dead in 1859. It sparked a British-U.S. war
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May 15, 2025 |
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The trailblazing all-Black baseball team that made history
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May 14, 2025 |
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Russia’s constant craving for U.S. recognition
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May 13, 2025 |
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Her job is to find buried children at residential schools
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May 12, 2025 |
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The power of white evangelical Christians in MAGA politics
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May 09, 2025 |
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There's no potential danger of AI discrimination — 'it's here'
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May 08, 2025 |
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The one exception that makes killing civilians legal in war
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May 07, 2025 |
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The 2,000-year-old travel list to complete before you die
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May 06, 2025 |
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Canadian troops who freed the Netherlands from Nazis
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May 05, 2025 |
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What it means to call your loved one a ‘corpse’
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May 02, 2025 |
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The limitless mind and body of an 83-year-old super-athlete
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May 01, 2025 |
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How the American cowboy ignited the Republican movement
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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How horses shaped humankind, from wearing pants to vaccines
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Elections results are in. IDEAS recommends World Report
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Reality TV might be making you smarter
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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In the face of violence, do you radically 'turn the other cheek'?
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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New to IDEAS? Start here
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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How Hitler's 'favourite' reptile became a geopolitical symbol
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Love or hate Elon Musk, 'we empowered him'
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Spyware abusers can easily hack your phone and surveil you
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Do you truly live in a ‘free’ society? It’s complicated
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Why world maps illustrate an artificial reality
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Need some Stompin' Tom right now to celebrate being Canadian? We thought so.
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Democracies 'stay true to your values' tackling borders, says U.S. expert
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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How a network of journalists uncovered billions and toppled world leaders
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Can you return home? This author says revision offers radical possibilities
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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How a conspiracy theory becomes 'real'
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Three)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Walk with us through a rare old-growth forest in peril
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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How Galileo revolutionized science to make way for modernity
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Montreal's Confederate past revealed, from sympathizers to raids
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Protecting childhood innocence is a disservice to kids, argues expert
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Why a small town newspaper is thriving in a declining industry
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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A School that Feels like Home: Revitalizing Mi’kmaq Language in Cape Breton
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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How Iqaluit's learning institute gave a generation of Inuit adults a path back to Inuktut
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Why Massey Lecturer Ian Williams Stays Open to All Perspectives
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Wine with lunch? What's a reasonable amount of luxury?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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A rallying cry to extend human rights to our data-generating digital selves
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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How To Build An Empire: The Aeneid Guide to Understanding U.S. Politics
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Believe in ghosts? Why people see spirits and sense visitations
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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How Inuit Storytelling and Modern Horror Fiction Come Together
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Be Reasonable: Scholars Define Who Is and Who Is Not
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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How Christian ethics can inform a peaceful resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Puro Cubano: The Meaning of Tobacco in Cuba
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Our Bodies, Our Cells: An Audio Exploration of Life's Building Blocks
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The UN at 80: Successes, Hopes, Failures, and Challenges
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Remember the Last Time Canada Feared the U.S. Would Swallow It Up?
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Why learn improv? Your unscripted mind can surprise even you
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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How the Outdoors Inspired Women to Become Trailblazers
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Passion of Émile Nelligan: Canada's Saddest Poet
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Naming Life: The Race to Classify Millions of Unidentified Species
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Writer Adam Gopnik on the Evolution of Antisemitism Into Anti-urbanism
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Swinging and Singing: The Violin
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Marriage and the Modern Woman: What It Takes To Say "I Do"
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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IDEAS Introduces On Drugs | A Troubled Relationship With Alcohol
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Rights vs Deservingness: How We Decide Who Belongs
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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North on North: Stories from the Only Independent Publisher in the Canadian Arctic
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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From Grit to Glory: Canada’s First Black Woman Publisher
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Indigenous Journalist Calls for a Revolution of Genuine Action
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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'Here lived Chava Rosenfarb' : A Profile of the Canadian Yiddish writer
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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The Amazing Henry Box Brown: From Fugitive Slave to Ingenious Entertainer
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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The Value of Group Therapy
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Two)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Becoming Aaju Peter: A Guardian of Inuk Language and Culture
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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PT 2: What Lies Beneath the Surface: Anthropologist Wade Davis
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Inuit Approaches to Conversation and Conflict Resolution
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Reith Lectures #4: Can we change violent minds?
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Reith Lectures #3: Does trauma cause violence?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Searching for Truth: The Honourable Louise Arbour
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Reith Lectures #2: Is there such a thing as evil?
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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The Never-Ending Fall of Rome
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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A Minor Revolution: Prioritizing Kids' Rights Benefits Us All
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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ARC Ensemble: The Forgotten Music of Exiled Composers
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Woke Racism and the Language Police | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & John McWhorter
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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What Lies Beneath the Surface: Anthropologist Wade Davis
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Nine: A Number of Synchronicity
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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We Give You Five: Odd in More Ways Than One
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Story and Magic of Three
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Join IDEAS for our annual New Year's Levee
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Echoes of an Empty Sound: The Story of Zero
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Fireside & Icicles — Poems for Winter
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Musical Genius of Jerry Granelli
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Christmas Philosophy 101
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Apocalypse for Christmas: Thomas Merton and the Inn
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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What the Next 50 Years of Investigative Journalism Might Look Like
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Manuscript Used to Eradicate Andean Thought is Now Key to Revitalizing it
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The 2024 Killam Prize Honours Canada’s University Researchers (Part 2)
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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There's No Place Like Home: Humanity and the Housing Crisis
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Dec 16, 2024 |