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The Billionaire Age Pt 3 | How oligarchs are taking over the world
Right now Elon Musk's wealth is currently around $825 billion US — more than double what it was a year earlier. Only 22 countries currently boast eco…
4 weeks ago
Confronting 'Housing Inc.' | Meet the 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer
Our homes have been stripped of their essential humanity, says Leilani Farha, this year's CBC Massey Lecturer. Today housing has become a commodity —…
4 weeks ago
Weekend Listen: Artificial Intimacy from CBC’s Understood
What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots or who grieve their loved ones with the h…
1 month ago
The best — and worst — ideas of the last six decades
Sometimes the universe hands us a gift. Over the past year, our podcast listeners spent a total of 526,915 hours listening to our program. That's 21,…
1 month ago
How IDEAS saved a listener from sending a regrettable email
"IDEAS is often a surprise" says Cathy Pike. It's why she's been a longtime listener. To our delight, IDEAS was there for her just at the right time.…
1 month ago
CBC Massey Lecturers reveal how the talks changed them
This podcast features an all-star, and bestselling, lineup of CBC Massey Lecturers from the past decade:
Payam Akhavan (2017) and the police officer w…
1 month ago
The time when a guest said, "I love you!"
That's not something you expect to hear in an interview. But the Harvard historian and author of All That She Carried, Tiya Miles did not hesitate to…
1 month ago
How an IDEAS episode on traffic changed a doctor's practice
Not many people like to think about traffic but Joanna Oda says this very topic on IDEAS in 2005 permanently changed the way she views medical care a…
1 month ago
The most important numbers in the universe
Numbers get their due credit in this podcast. Even if we're not aware of them, numbers are essential to how we experience the world. IDEAS explores t…
1 month, 1 week ago
So... who wants a pipeline?
For the past decade, Canadians have been split 50/50 on new pipelines — that's changed. Two recent opinion polls found roughly three quarters of elig…
1 month, 1 week ago