Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThis lawyer turns real legal cases into page-turners
War criminals, Nazi fugitives, and a viable threat to American democracy — sounds like a classic page-turner but author and lawyer Philippe Sands isn…
8 months, 1 week ago
How Indigenous Americans discovered Europe
Indigenous Americans on European soil can be found throughout historical records, but historian Caroline Dodds Pennock says they have largely been ig…
8 months, 1 week ago
33 years of the campus free speech controversy
In the early 1990s, “woke” was "politically correct," "DEI" was known as "affirmative action,” and the term “cancel culture” had yet to be coined. Th…
8 months, 1 week ago
Can you have compassion for someone you never agree with?
Ask yourself: can you? It is a question that George Eliot asks over and over through her characters in Middlemarch, a 19th-century novel that speaks …
8 months, 1 week ago
George Eliot's invaluable life lessons on confronting reality
Virginia Woolf called George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch “one of the few English books written for grownups.” It’s a book full of characters asking: i…
8 months, 1 week ago
This Italian painter was a feminist before the word existed
*Please note that this episode features descriptions of a sexual assault that some listeners may find disturbing.* Seventeen century artist Artemisia…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Why practicing empathy is far from simple
In today's fractured world, the many threats facing humanity seems to be an empathy deficit. Writer and journalist Leslie Jamison discusses the compl…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Why 'follow your heart' spirituality is actually religion
Traditional religious institutions have been in decline since the '60s. As congregations dwindle, more Canadians are identifying as 'spiritual.' Soci…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
How 60s Scoop 'warriors' reclaimed their Indigenous roots
Leticia Racine calls herself a “Returning Warrior” of the Sixties Scoop. As a child, she was at the centre of a landmark Supreme Court case that pave…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
An homage to chickens, a dinosaur, dinner and backyard pet
Chickens are the stars of this podcast today. Our relationship with this living creature, allegedly the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus …
8 months, 3 weeks ago