Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy 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 out what’…
2 months ago
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 workers, he fou…
2 months ago
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 with her…
2 months ago
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 women’s liv…
2 months, 1 week ago
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 to ideas t…
2 months, 1 week ago
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 constitutions …
2 months, 1 week ago
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 for nuns …
2 months, 1 week ago
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 and wild…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
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 medicines y…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
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 suffering fro…
2 months, 2 weeks ago