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Ideas is all about ideas \x96 programs that explore everything from culture and the arts to science and technology to social issues.
Simone Weil had a radical solution to end fascism that surged through Europe in the aftermath of the First World War: abolish political part...
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...
A young generation of thinkers is trading in the bread and butter of social media branding — lifestyle, beauty, and consumption — for intell...
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...
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...
In fact, author and journalist Marcello Di Cintio argues Canadians are complicit. After four years investigating the lives of migrant worker...
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...
In the 19th-century Pandita Ramabai travelled America delivering lectures on how the caste system and patriarchy shaped the trajectory of wo...
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...
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...
All of us are biased. We have individual biases, momentary biases, morning biases and evening biases. Our institutions are biased. Our const...
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...
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...
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...
Günther Anders predicted the exact technological crises we’re facing today... but 70 years ago. In his research he pointed to humans as suff...
On White Coat, Black Art, trusted ER doctor Brian Goldman brings you honest and surprising stories that can change your health and your life...
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...
As a former negotiator of the Oslo Accords for Israel, British-Israeli author and analyst, Daniel Levy, has both a diagnosis and a prescript...
Some of the biggest minds behind AI may have you thinking a Terminator-like robot is coming for us. But literature professor Teresa Hefferna...
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...
The Trump administration has been targeting higher education for some time now — freezing grants and filing lawsuits against leading univers...
How? Some scientists believe in the power of nuclear fusion. Environmentally, these machines would have the potential to meet our energy nee...
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 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, fel...
"AIDS exacerbates and accentuates inequality," Stephen Lewis said in his final CBC Massey Lectures he delivered in 2005. Back then the willi...
The Queen of Sheba is a holy figure to some; a demon in disguise to others. Her indelible presence has haunted religious scholars and fuelle...
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...
The guided principles on this list are based on Jesuit Bernard Lonergan's philosophy. His thought will likely shape the world for centuries...
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...
There are 19 centibillionaires and a growing list of 3,000 billionaires worldwide. So it might not surprise you that the richest one per cen...
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...
In more than 40 years on the front lines of international human rights Alex Neve has heard Canada described as ‘the land of human rights’ —...
The bombing of civilians has been called one of the "great scandals" of modern warfare. So why, despite nearly a century of drafting laws an...
"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...
Fact and fiction may seem poles apart but writers Esi Edugyan and Tiya Miles find the two intertwine perfectly in their award-winning storyt...
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 producer...
Eleanor Roosevelt once said that universal human rights begin in “small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be se...
A case before the Supreme Court of Canada is challenging Quebec’s law on secularism. Legal scholar Benjamin Berger is a prominent voice in t...
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. Sur...
Port cities are where worlds collide. They are a place of cultural, economic, political and religious contact. They've existed for millennia...
“One of your tribe is enough.” That’s what Margaret Rossiter was told when she said she wanted to study female scientists. Nevertheless, Ros...
Our inherent human rights belong to us from the moment we are born. There is nothing we need to do to earn them, and they are supposed to ap...
One of the strongest ties between the diaspora and home is music. In Iran, music can be politically contentious. In Canada, it connects a co...
Anxiety is an inescapable, fundamental human reaction to an unpredictable future. This is the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, a curmudgeon of t...
Mathematics is everywhere: a common refrain from high school math teachers. But did you ever think math could be linked to literature? And n...
It is possible. Flavours have been lost to the past, as culinary physicist Lenore Newman explains. She points to the extinction of the passe...
The ideals behind the concept of human rights — such as the sacredness of life, reciprocity, justice and fairness — have millennia-old histo...
At a time when the future of Iran is uncertain, we revisit an IDEAS documentary about the history of women’s resistance in Iran — women who...
Accusations of a stolen election, laws targeting NGOs and media, violent treatment of protestors — sometimes live on TV. What’s happening in...
That’s what Hanna Pickard argues. After analyzing the scientific research, and working with those who’ve stopped self-destructive drug and a...