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...
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IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it's for people who like to think.
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20 of 247 episodesWhy 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...
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...
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 worker...
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...
How a feminist flipped the colonial travelogue on its head
In the 19th-century Pandita Ramabai travelled America delivering lectures on how the caste system and patriarchy shaped the trajectory of wo...
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 fo...
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 t...
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 const...
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...
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...
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 me...
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 suff...
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...
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, ID...
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 prescript...
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 Hefferna...
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 abou...
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 univers...
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 nee...
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