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Champions of cormorants argue the water bird is unfairly vilified
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May 20, 2025 |
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Why music — even sad music — is 'inherently joyful'
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May 19, 2025 |
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The three ingredients in an autocrat's recipe for power
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May 16, 2025 |
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A pig was shot dead in 1859. It sparked a British-U.S. war
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May 15, 2025 |
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The trailblazing all-Black baseball team that made history
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May 14, 2025 |
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Russia’s constant craving for U.S. recognition
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May 13, 2025 |
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Her job is to find buried children at residential schools
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May 12, 2025 |
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The power of white evangelical Christians in MAGA politics
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May 09, 2025 |
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There's no potential danger of AI discrimination — 'it's here'
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May 08, 2025 |
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The one exception that makes killing civilians legal in war
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May 07, 2025 |
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The 2,000-year-old travel list to complete before you die
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May 06, 2025 |
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Canadian troops who freed the Netherlands from Nazis
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May 05, 2025 |
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What it means to call your loved one a ‘corpse’
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May 02, 2025 |
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The limitless mind and body of an 83-year-old super-athlete
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May 01, 2025 |
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How the American cowboy ignited the Republican movement
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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How horses shaped humankind, from wearing pants to vaccines
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Elections results are in. IDEAS recommends World Report
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Reality TV might be making you smarter
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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What it takes to become a ruthless tyrant
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Attacking our biggest fear — political polarization
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Why PEI cares more than any other province about voting
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Has the housing crisis shaken your trust in democracy?
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Libraries are fighting for their freedom — and our democracy
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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In the face of violence, do you radically 'turn the other cheek'?
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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New to IDEAS? Start here
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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How Hitler's 'favourite' reptile became a geopolitical symbol
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Love or hate Elon Musk, 'we empowered him'
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Spyware abusers can easily hack your phone and surveil you
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Do you truly live in a ‘free’ society? It’s complicated
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Why world maps illustrate an artificial reality
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Need some Stompin' Tom right now to celebrate being Canadian? We thought so.
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Democracies 'stay true to your values' tackling borders, says U.S. expert
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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How a network of journalists uncovered billions and toppled world leaders
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Can you return home? This author says revision offers radical possibilities
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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How a conspiracy theory becomes 'real'
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Three)
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Walk with us through a rare old-growth forest in peril
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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How Galileo revolutionized science to make way for modernity
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Joyce Wieland's art of nationhood embodied Canadian pride
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Montreal's Confederate past revealed, from sympathizers to raids
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Protecting childhood innocence is a disservice to kids, argues expert
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Why a small town newspaper is thriving in a declining industry
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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A School that Feels like Home: Revitalizing Mi’kmaq Language in Cape Breton
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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How Iqaluit's learning institute gave a generation of Inuit adults a path back to Inuktut
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 1: Why we need to have a conversation about conversations
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 2: Public conversations
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 3: Personal conversations
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 5: Good conversations
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Why Massey Lecturer Ian Williams Stays Open to All Perspectives
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Wine with lunch? What's a reasonable amount of luxury?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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A rallying cry to extend human rights to our data-generating digital selves
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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How To Build An Empire: The Aeneid Guide to Understanding U.S. Politics
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Believe in ghosts? Why people see spirits and sense visitations
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Smell: Why This Invisible Superpower Deserves More Attention
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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How Inuit Storytelling and Modern Horror Fiction Come Together
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Be Reasonable: Scholars Define Who Is and Who Is Not
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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How Christian ethics can inform a peaceful resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Puro Cubano: The Meaning of Tobacco in Cuba
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Our Bodies, Our Cells: An Audio Exploration of Life's Building Blocks
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The UN at 80: Successes, Hopes, Failures, and Challenges
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Remember the Last Time Canada Feared the U.S. Would Swallow It Up?
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Why learn improv? Your unscripted mind can surprise even you
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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How the Outdoors Inspired Women to Become Trailblazers
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Passion of Émile Nelligan: Canada's Saddest Poet
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Naming Life: The Race to Classify Millions of Unidentified Species
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Writer Adam Gopnik on the Evolution of Antisemitism Into Anti-urbanism
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Swinging and Singing: The Violin
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Marriage and the Modern Woman: What It Takes To Say "I Do"
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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IDEAS Introduces On Drugs | A Troubled Relationship With Alcohol
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Rights vs Deservingness: How We Decide Who Belongs
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Dreaming of Better: Living With Bipolar Disorder
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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North on North: Stories from the Only Independent Publisher in the Canadian Arctic
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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From Grit to Glory: Canada’s First Black Woman Publisher
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Indigenous Journalist Calls for a Revolution of Genuine Action
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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'Here lived Chava Rosenfarb' : A Profile of the Canadian Yiddish writer
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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The Many Lives of Maria Chapdelaine
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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The Amazing Henry Box Brown: From Fugitive Slave to Ingenious Entertainer
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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The Value of Group Therapy
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Two)
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Becoming Aaju Peter: A Guardian of Inuk Language and Culture
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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PT 2: What Lies Beneath the Surface: Anthropologist Wade Davis
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Inuit Approaches to Conversation and Conflict Resolution
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Reith Lectures #4: Can we change violent minds?
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Reith Lectures #3: Does trauma cause violence?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Techno-Utopia or The Billionaires’ Wet Dream
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Who Owns Outer Space?
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Polarizing Times Call for Nietzsche’s Practice of 'Passing By'
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Searching for Truth: The Honourable Louise Arbour
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Reith Lectures #2: Is there such a thing as evil?
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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The Never-Ending Fall of Rome
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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A Minor Revolution: Prioritizing Kids' Rights Benefits Us All
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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What 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes would say about American democracy today
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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ARC Ensemble: The Forgotten Music of Exiled Composers
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Woke Racism and the Language Police | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & John McWhorter
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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This Way to Re-Enchantment, with Philosopher Charles Taylor
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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What Lies Beneath the Surface: Anthropologist Wade Davis
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Nine: A Number of Synchronicity
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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We Give You Five: Odd in More Ways Than One
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Story and Magic of Three
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Join IDEAS for our annual New Year's Levee
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Echoes of an Empty Sound: The Story of Zero
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Fireside & Icicles — Poems for Winter
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Musical Genius of Jerry Granelli
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Christmas Philosophy 101
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Apocalypse for Christmas: Thomas Merton and the Inn
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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What the Next 50 Years of Investigative Journalism Might Look Like
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Imprisoned Syrian Wrote Poetry Imagining the Fall of the Regime. Now it's Come True
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Manuscript Used to Eradicate Andean Thought is Now Key to Revitalizing it
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The 2024 Killam Prize Honours Canada’s University Researchers (Part 2)
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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There's No Place Like Home: Humanity and the Housing Crisis
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Hawkeye's Army: The War Metaphor in Medicine
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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What Should Cities of the Future Look Like?
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Fighting for Climate Justice in The Hague: Payam Akhavan
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Non-Aligned News: The Future of Non-Western Media, Part Two
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Non-Aligned News: A Journalistic Experiment to Decolonize Global News
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Fate Is the Hunter: Ernest K. Gann's Great Fortune
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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The Theatre of News: Lessons from Elizabethan England
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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School Cars: How Trains Brought Classrooms to Children in Remote Communities
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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What It Means To Belong In The World: Writer M.G. Vassanji
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Acclaimed Journalist Connie Walker on the Importance of Storytelling
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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The 2024 Killam Prize Honours Canada’s University Researchers (Part 1)
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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The 2024 Beatty Lecture Pairs Two Great Minds That Don’t Think Alike
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Disgust: The Good and Evil
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Otherworld: Astonishing Tales of Romance in Medieval Ireland
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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The 2024 CBC Massey Lectures | # 4: Who can speak for whom to whom about what?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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A Harem of Computers: The History of the Feminized Machine
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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How Canadians Can Help Lead the Global Fight for Health Equity
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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How to Flourish in a Broken World
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Pt 2: Acts of Remembrance: Canadian Veterans Share Postwar Experiences
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Pt 1: What Came After: Canadian Veterans Share Postwar Experiences
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Massey at 60: The Legacy of Doris Lessing and the 'Prisons We Choose to Live Inside'
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Do Dogs Feel Guilt? Animal Cognition Discoveries
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Experts Say American Democracy is at a Precipice, and Time is Ticking
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Can a New Conservatism Offer Solutions to Modern Social Problems?
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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The Role of Nonfiction in a World of Contested Truths: Writer Pankaj Mishra
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Is Fascism Coming Back?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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PT 2: How Journalism is Fighting Against Polarization
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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PT 1: How Journalism is Fighting Against Polarization
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Indigenous Archaeologist Reclaims Pleistocene Epoch Story from Colonial Scholars
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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The History and Mystery of Left-Handers
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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The Marrow of Nature: A Case for Wetlands
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Arts Icon Joan Jonas on Her Great Muse, Cape Breton
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Living Dead: Art and Human Remains
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Turning the Climate Crisis into Motivation, and Hope into Action
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Dinner on Mars: How to Grow Food When Humans Colonize the Red Planet
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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The Invisible Shoes of Stutthof Concentration Camp
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step One)
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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How the Anthropocene is Changing the Elements — and Us
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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October 8,1970: The FLQ Manifesto
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Civil Discourse or Civil War? Ideas and Realities of the Contemporary University
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Massey at 60: How Physicist Ursula Franklin's Prescient Ideas on Technology Persist
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Making Justice Imaginable: Lawyer Lex Gill
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Left Is Not Woke: Susan Neiman
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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How Indigenous survival offers a blueprint for everyone’s future: Jesse Wente
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Slowing Down in Urgent Times: A Lesson in Hope
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Deliberation in a Time of Anger: Making Space for Collective Decision-Making
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space: A Place to Dream
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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The Heavy Metal Suite: Music and the Future of Mining
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Child Sex Abuse Prevention: How Best to Protect Kids
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 2: The Meaning of Education
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 1: Origins of our 200 year-old public education system
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Bureaumania: A 'Granular' Look at Corporate Red Tape
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Death and the Artist: Four Stories
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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New Yorker Writer Calvin Trillin: A Warm Weather Nova Scotian
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Pursuing the Mysteries of Gravity with a Radical New Theory
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Brutalist Architecture, Beyond Aesthetics
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Brave New Worlds: Rights for the Future, Part Five
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Brave New Worlds: The Rights to Free Thought and Free Expression, Part Four
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Brave New Worlds: The Right to Leave, Return and Seek Asylum, Part Three
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Brave New Worlds: The Right to Privacy, Part Two
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Brave New Worlds: The Right to Security, Part One
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Transhumance: An Ancient Practice at Risk
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Author Robert Macfarlane on the relationship between landscape and the human heart
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Arctic Amazon Art Project: The Mural, Part One
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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An Outsider Inside the Trades: Hilary Peach
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Perimeter Institute Public Lectures: The Physics of Jazz | Dark Matter Night
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Feline Philosophy: What We Can Learn From Cats
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Platforms, Power and Democracy: Understanding the Influence of Social Media
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Healing the Land, Part Two: From Eden Ecology to Indigenous Ecology
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Healing the Land, Part One: After the Fire
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Kate Beaton: What's lost when working-class voices are not heard
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Of Dogs and Derrida: Understanding the dogs’ point of view
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Healing and the Healer: Dr. Jillian Horton on compassion in health care
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Life and Times of Salman Rushdie
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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The Hinge Years: 1989 | Uprisings and Downfalls
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Rats: Facing Our Fears, Part Two
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Rats: Haunting Humanity’s Footsteps
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Historian uses Canadian prize money to buy drones for Ukraine
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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For the Sake of the Common Good: Honouring Lois Wilson
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #5: Escaping the Burrow
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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The Hinge Years: 1973 | The Dictators
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Entre Chien et Loup: How Dogs Began
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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A Guide to Hope, Learning and Shakespeare: Scholar Shannon Murray
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #4: Beyond Human Security
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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The Hinge Years: 1963 | Social Revolutions
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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English: Friend or Frenemy?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Négritude: The Birth of Black Humanism
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Historian Tiya Miles on how a mother's love outlasted slavery
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #3: Consumed by Curiosity
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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The Hinge Years: 1938 | The Winds of War
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Ideas Introduces: Tested
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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The Endless Procession of Days | Ian Williams
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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The Emancipation of Turkish Writer Ahmet Altan, Pt 2
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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A Political Prisoner’s Odyssey: Writer Ahmet Altan, Pt 1
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #2: Barons or Commoners?
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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The Hinge Years: 1919 | Dividing the Spoils
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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How philosophy plays a vital role in Canada's biggest ethical debates
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life: Christina Sharpe
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Astra Taylor's CBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Poet Ross Gay on the necessity of joy and delight
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Jul 05, 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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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Flop Sweat: Why We Choke When It Matters Most
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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International laws against genocide exist: so why don’t they work?
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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How the death of a friend inspired a fight for human rights and justice
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Massey at 60: Payam Akhavan on his unwavering advocacy for human rights
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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5 Canadian Writers on Subverting Identity
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Cultivating Community, Citizenship and Belonging | Jamie Chai Yun Liew
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Political tribalism is an existential threat to humanity: evolutionary anthropologist
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Taken In: Exploring Credulity
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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BBC Reith Lectures: Artificial Prosperity
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Queer Diplomacy: Negotiating 2SLGBTQ+ Rights in a Fraught World
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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(Land) Back to the Future | Riley Yesno
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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BBC Reith Lectures: Artificial Democracy
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Bring Back Grumpy George: The Forgotten Message of George Grant
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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On Culture Wars in Christianity
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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China's Cultural Revolution: a history that remains widely unknown
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Papyrus: Exploring the Invention of the Book
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May 30, 2024 |
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The Making of a Beast: Entering a New World of Fire
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May 29, 2024 |
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The extreme in America’s mainstream
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May 27, 2024 |
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Wade Davis' CBC Massey Lecture # 5 | The Wayfinders: Century of the Wind
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May 24, 2024 |
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Massey at 60: Wade Davis on looking to Indigenous cultures for answers to world crises
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May 23, 2024 |
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Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel: Jeannie Marshall
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May 22, 2024 |
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How global liberation efforts helped shape the Dene fight for self-determination
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May 21, 2024 |