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Our homes hold our memories and hopes for the future. But today, our homes have become commodities. Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, considers what happens whe…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Hawkeye's Army: The War Metaphor in Medicine
We think nothing today of calling healthcare workers “front line workers,” engaged in a “battle” against disease. But the roots of the war metaphor in medicine go way back — entrenched by pop cultur…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
What Should Cities of the Future Look Like?
Right now, more than 55% of the world's population live in cities. In a few decades, that percentage will rise to 70%. But with rising sea levels and mass migration, not to mention the state of geopo…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Fighting for Climate Justice in The Hague: Payam Akhavan
It's the world's most prominent climate case in history. Iranian-Canadian human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses the legal arguments he made before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on be…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Non-Aligned News: The Future of Non-Western Media, Part Two
In part two of our series about the 1970s journalistic experiment known as the Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool, IDEAS turns to journalists who continue to grapple with the challenges that were first h…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Non-Aligned News: A Journalistic Experiment to Decolonize Global News
In the 1970s, countries in what became known as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) embarked on an ambitious journalistic experiment to create a new kind of journalism — decolonizing the flow of informati…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Fate Is the Hunter: Ernest K. Gann's Great Fortune
IDEAS takes a deep dive into Fate Is the Hunter, Ernest K. Gann's celebrated memoir of flying and the capricious hand of fortune. The book is a nail-biting account of his early days in aviation. Gann…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
School Cars: How Trains Brought Classrooms to Children in Remote Communities
They were known as school cars and schools on wheels. Trains that brought the classroom to children in the most isolated communities of Northern Ontario. It was a novel six-month experiment that last…
Published on 1 year ago
What It Means To Belong In The World: Writer M.G. Vassanji
The celebrated writer M.G. Vassanji argues that there’s a more fundamental and even slipperier endeavour than establishing one’s identity, and that’s how — if ever — can we establish a sense of belon…
Published on 1 year ago