Ideas
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Apr 2, 2019
Thinking person's radio. Thanks Paul
James Dyer
Jan 26, 2019
Great variety but always quality. Talented contributors
Alex
Oct 8, 2018
thought provoking and exceptional content
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IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it's for people who like to think.
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Massey at 60: Ron Deibert on how spyware is changing the nature of authority today
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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The Making and Unmaking of Violent Men | Miglena Todorova
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Wilkie Collins: A true detective of the human mind
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Salmon depletion in Yukon River puts First Nations community at risk
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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“Sometimes I think this city is trying to kill me…”
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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The "Reconciliation" Generation: Indigenous Youth and the Future for Indigenous People
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The history of bombing civilians — and why it’s still a military tactic
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 2: The meaning of education
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 1: Origins of our 200 year-old public education system
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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The 2000 CBC Massey Lectures: The Rights Revolution by Michael Ignatieff
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Massey at 60: Michael Ignatieff on how human rights language has shaped Canadian politics
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Bonus | 2024 Massey lecturer Ian Williams on courageous conversations and taking risks
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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How the outdoors has inspired women to become trailblazers
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Authoritarian study makes a comeback to understand lure of far-right movements
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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The Value of Group Therapy
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Montreal's hidden Confederate history
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Living in legal limbo: How states create 'ghost citizens'
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Betrayal of Faith: The Story of Pastedechouan
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Ross Gay on the Necessity of Joy and Delight
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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What Good Is Philosophy?
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Nine Minutes that Changed the World
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Putin Critic Garry Kasparov: Winter is Here
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Conflicted: a Ukrainian journalist covers her nation at war
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Kate Beaton: What's lost when working-class voices are not heard
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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CBC Massey Lectures: Audience Q&A with Astra Taylor
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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CBC Massey Lectures | #5: Escaping the Burrow
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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CBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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CBC Massey Lectures | #2: Barons or Commoners?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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CBC Massey Lectures | #3: Consumed by Curiosity
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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CBC Massey Lectures | #4: Beyond Human Security
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Astra Taylor: The Hidden Truth of the World
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Massey at 60: Reflecting on Jean Bethke Elshtain's CBC Massey Lectures, Democracy on Trial
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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The Hague: City of Peace and Justice
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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The Poetry of Why: Chimwemwe Undi
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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The Endless Procession of Days | Ian Williams
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Alanis Obomsawin: The Art of Listening
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Swinging and Singing: The Violin
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Massey at 60: Tanya Talaga on what Canada can learn from the stories of Indigenous peoples
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Papyrus: Exploring the Invention of the Book
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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The Way of the Trucker
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Herodotus: The Power and Peril of Story
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Christina Sharpe on Ordinary Notes — Blackness in Canada
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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A Life-giving Chord: The Power of Gospel Music
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Healing the Land, Part Two: From Eden Ecology to Indigenous Ecology
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Healing the Land, Part One: After the Fire
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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How to Flourish in a Broken World
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Singing in Dark Times | Sandeep Banerjee
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Marriage and the Modern Woman
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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From Page to Stage: Exploring sex and gender in Shakespeare's work
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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What’s Up with The Birds?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Obtaining Justice Without Demonizing Your Enemies: Martha Minow
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Seduced by Story: The Dangers of Narrative
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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5 Canadian Writers on Subverting Identity
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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The Dark Side of Charisma: Molly Worthen
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Hands Up Who Loves Timmins
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Queer Diplomacy: Negotiating 2SLGBTQ+ Rights in a Fraught World
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Be Reasonable: Scholars Define Who Is and Who Is Not
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Puro Cubano: The Meaning of Tobacco in Cuba
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Ulysses and the Art of Everyday Living
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Platforms, Power and Democracy: Understanding the Influence of Social Media
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Our Bodies, Our Cells
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The Meaning of Ice: Arctic research embracing traditional knowledge
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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The Tree of Life Revisited: Chava Rosenfarb
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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The Year 1989: Uprisings and Downfalls
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The Year 1973: The Dictators
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The Year 1963: Social Revolutions
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The Year 1938: The Winds of War
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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The Year 1919: Dividing the Spoils
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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IDEAS in the Hague: A Question of Genocide
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Healing and the Healer: Dr. Jillian Horton
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The Emancipation of Ahmet Altan
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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A Political Prisoner’s Odyssey: Writer Ahmet Altan, Pt 1
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Lisa LaFlamme: In Defence of Democracy
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Philosophy from the Pub, with Lewis Gordon
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The Never-Ending Fall of Rome
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Arctic/Amazon Art Exhibition: Secrets and Visions, Part Two
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The Passion of Émile Nelligan: Canada's Saddest Poet
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Nine: A Number of Synchronicity
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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We Give You Five
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Magic of Three
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Echoes of an Empty Sound: The Story of Zero
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Join IDEAS for our annual New Year's Levee
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Entre Chien et Loup: How Dogs Began
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Fireside & Icicles — Poems for Winter
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Why the 1976 novel Bear is still controversial — and relevant
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Christmas Philosophy 101
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Horn of Plenty: The Saxophone and the Spirit
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Ordinary Magic: The Musical Genius of Jerry Granelli
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Exploring Inner City Winnipeg
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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ARC Ensemble: The Forgotten Music of Exiled Composers
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Return to North: The Soundscapes of Glenn Gould
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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How to do Diplomacy with Autocrats
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Enemies and Angels: Opposing Soldiers Who Saved Each Other
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Disgust: The Good and Evil
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Inventing Peace
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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The Rise of H.P. Lovecraft
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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From Grit to Glory: Canada’s first Black woman publisher
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Bring Back Grumpy George: The Forgotten Message of George Grant
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Passaggio
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Is artificial intelligence intended to serve human welfare or Big Tech?
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Mercury’s In Retrograde: The Rise of Astrology
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Song of Zong!: M. NourbeSe Philip's epic poem gives voice to slave ship victims
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Food Security: Root Causes and Pathways to Change
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Atlantis and the Apocalypse: The World of Fringe Archaeology
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Dehumanization and War
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: The Physics of Jazz | Dark Matter Night
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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A Guide to Hope, Learning and Shakespeare: Scholar Shannon Murray
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Man Up! The Masculinity Crisis, Part Three
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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A Walk of Remembrance: Honouring Canadian soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Trust Talks: The Future of Journalism in a Digital World
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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13 Ways of Looking at a Cormorant
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Man Up! The Masculinity Crisis, Part Two
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Shakespeare in Translation
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Mexico's Gothic Turn
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Haunted: Imagining Ghosts Out of Loss
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Is Human Intelligence Overrated?
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Man Up! The Masculinity Crisis, Part One
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Mystified by Money
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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The Nature of Nonfiction: Robert Macfarlane
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Beauty of Chance: Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, Part Two
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Arctic Amazon Art Project: The Mural, Part One
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Camera Lucida | How photographs help us understand our place in the world
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Widowhood, Wisdom and Words: The Irrepressible Donna Morrissey
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Boyer Lectures, Pt 2: Australia's struggle with its past
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Origins of Us: Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves, Part One
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Honouring a radio revolutionary, Chris Brookes
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Notes on an Invasion: Masha Gessen and Andrey Kurkov on Russia’s war in Ukraine
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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The Boyer Lectures, Pt 1: The story behind Australia’s Voice referendum
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Injustice For All, Part Two
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Injustice For All, Part One
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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A Tale of Two Metlakatlas: My Matriarchs, the Missionaries and Me
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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The Chile Experiment
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Shape: Hidden Geometry
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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The Great Reset
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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The Bird Man: Adventures with Bill Montevecchi
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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The Many Afterlives of the Queen of Sheba
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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War and Medicine: Hawkeye's Army
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Astra Taylor: The Hidden Truth of the World
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Canada's School Trains
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The Enslaved Teen Who Cracked Vanilla’s Secret
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Ghost Particles
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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What are universities for?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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World on Fire
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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BBC Reith Lecture # 4: Fiona Hill
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Eugenic thinking has never gone away
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Nowhere Left to Run: Climate Reparations
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Suzuki's Survival Guide | Air and Atmosphere
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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The Librarian Who Won’t Stay Quiet
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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BBC Reith Lecture #3: Darren McGarvey
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Muhammad Iqbal: one of the greatest South Asian thinkers of the 20th century
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Suzuki's Survival Guide | Life and Death
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Left Is Not Woke: Susan Neiman
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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BBC Reith Lecture #2: Rowan Williams
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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In Defence of Democracy: Naheed Nenshi
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Killam Prize Winner: Carl E. James
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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David Suzuki's Survival Guide | Wonders of Water
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Exploring Indigenous Sexuality and Gender
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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BBC Reith Lectures #1: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Getting Past Polarization: Anand Giridharadas
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Suzuki's Survival Guide | The 'Love' Economy
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 5: On Death
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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The New World Disorder | The Rise of the Strongman
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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The Shock of the New | The Year 1947: Fractures and Tectonic Shifts
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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The Odyssey of Saturn the Alligator: Hitler's 'Favourite'
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Suzuki's Survival Guide | Naked Ape to Superspecies
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 4: On Sex and Gender
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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The New World Disorder | The End of America
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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The Shock of the New | The Year 1913: The World on the Brink
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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George McCullagh — Canada's first media mogul you've never heard of
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Suzuki's Survival Guide | Eco-nomics
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 3: On Humour
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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The New World Disorder | The Nature of Nationalism
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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The Shock of the New | The Year 1833: Evolution and Entrenchment
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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The New Masters: 2022 Sobey Art Award
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Suzuki's Survival Guide | How we got to this point
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 2: On Creation
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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French Evolution: The History of France in 9 Songs
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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The Shock of the New | The Year 1789: More Than One Revolution
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Inherited Memories of Partition: Aanchal Malhotra
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Suzuki’s Survival Guide | A Warning
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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2022 CBC Massey Lectures | # 1: On Language
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The New World Disorder | The Future of Democracy
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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The Shock of the New | The Year 1600: The Birth of the Modern?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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IDEAS recommends Scene on Radio's The Land That Never Has Been Yet, Part Two
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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IDEAS recommends Scene on Radio's The Land That Never Has Been Yet, Part One
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Andean Philosophy: The Huarochirí Manuscript
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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O Canada: Joyce Wieland and the Art of Nationhood
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Another Country: The Film
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk: What We Do With Words
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Sanaaq: The First Novel Written in Inuktitut
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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The People of Puvirnituq, Working Together for Themselves
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Bonus | Introducing the 2023 CBC Massey Lecturer: Astra Taylor
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Meet the 2023 Killam Prize Winners
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Old Stone Age in the Western Hemisphere
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Cundill History Prize Winner, Tiya Miles: All That She Carried
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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When We Kill History
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Pot, Policy and Pandemics: André Picard’s reflections on 40 years of Health Journalism
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel: Jeannie Marshall
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Is Overpopulation Killing the Planet?
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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A Demon Attack in Old Quebec
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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David Suzuki Has Something To Say
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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In a Liminal Space
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Fate Is the Hunter: Ernest K. Gann
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Jay Pitter: The Future of Culture Is ...
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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If Science is to Save Us: Sir Martin Rees
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May 31, 2023 |
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Extracting Justice: The Human Rights Impact of Canadian Mining
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May 30, 2023 |
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Cymbeline in the Anthropocene
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May 25, 2023 |
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Transhumance: An ancient practice at risk
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May 24, 2023 |
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Worst Marriage Ever: The Story of Jason and Medea
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May 22, 2023 |
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English: Friend or Frenemy?
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May 19, 2023 |
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Judge Rosie
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May 17, 2023 |
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Voices of Internment
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May 16, 2023 |
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A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized Machine
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May 15, 2023 |
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IDEAS recommends Let's Not Be Kidding with Gavin Crawford
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May 13, 2023 |
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The Marrow of Nature: A Case for Wetlands
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May 12, 2023 |
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Exposing the Truth: Connie Walker on Journalism's Role in Reconciliation
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May 11, 2023 |
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Disinformation and Democracy: A Conversation with Maria Ressa and Ron Deibert
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May 10, 2023 |
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Dinner on Mars: How to grow food when humans colonize the red planet
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May 08, 2023 |
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Reclaiming Shame
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May 05, 2023 |
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The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time: The Enduring Wisdom of Walter Borden
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May 03, 2023 |
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Citizenship: A Right or a Privilege?
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May 02, 2023 |
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Resurrection? Jordan Bitove's Toronto Star
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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IDEAS from the Trenches: The Conspiracy Practice
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Apr 27, 2023 |