December 2011
A thrilling episode, in which the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, and IDEAS producer Dave Redel investigate the juvenile pulp fiction factory that...
Listen to At The Feet of The MasterIdeas host Paul Kennedy, who was himself a graduate student of Marshall McLuhan, convenes a radio reunion to...
Listen to The Art of IdeasShe has spent a lifetime asking questions. Her body of work was never satisfied with the answers. Poet, anarchist, intellectual,...
Monday, December 26, 2011 | Categories: Coming Up |
Monday, December 26 CHINESE LAUNDRY KIDS Chinese hand laundries used to be a fixture in every town and city. They were so common place that...
Listen to WihtigoThe class of beings Cree people call Wihtigo, may be humans who've been transformed into something horrifying and dangerous. Maureen Matthews journeys...
These evocative stories from the Ahtahkakoop, a Plains Cree nation in central Saskatchewan, create a world where the buffalo once reigned supreme, animals protected...
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Listen to the interview or Download the podcastPhotographer and filmmaker Wim Wenders talks to Eleanor Wachtel, host of Writers & Company, about his career and...
In 1905, George MacMartin, Treaty Commissioner for Ontario, accompanied by federal commissioners and native guides, journeyed through rapids and hiked through the wilds to meet...
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Monday, December 19, 2011 | Categories: Coming Up |
Monday, December 19 GEORGE MACMARTIN'S BIG CANOE TRIP In 1905, George MacMartin, Treaty Commissioner for Ontario, accompanied by federal commissioners and native guides, journeyed through...
Listen to Untangling Complexity The world feels like a kind of Rube Goldberg device - an intricate and complicated system delivering very modest results. People...
Listen to Wild Journey: The Anne Innis Story At the age of 23, Anne Innis was the first person to study African wildlife in its...
Listen to Koestler Arthur Koestler was a controversial journalist and thinker. He witnessed many of the 20th century's great upheavals, wars and revolutions. His...
Listen to All in the Family Alcoholism. Respiratory disease. Cancer. Obesity. We're told that these can be the results of genetics, stress and poor...
Listen to The Enright Files Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation about two of the more intriguing fathers of confederation. Biographer Richard...
Monday, December 12, 2011 | Categories: Coming Up |
Monday, December 12 THE ENRIGHT FILES Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation about two of the more intriguing fathers of confederation. Biographer Richard...
Listen to Cute Cats and The Arab Spring: The 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture In the 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture, Ethan Zuckerman, director...
Listen to Mr. Justice Berger Judge Thomas Berger talking to Chief Jim Antoine in 1975. In 1977, a Royal Commission looking into proposals to construct...
Listen to Silver and ExactThat is how the poet Sylvia Plath referred to the mirror, an important artifact in science and art, literature and...
Monday, December 5, 2011 | Categories: Coming Up |
Monday, December 5THE POWER OF COLOUR, Part 3Red is passion and lust, courage and sacrifice. Blue is happy, or sad, or - in German -...
Listen to The Last Commandment: Thou Shall Not BeguileThe print newspaper is down, but not out. It remains a close friend to hundreds of...
Listen to Say No To HappinessLife is about being happy, right? Just ask the Dalai Lama...or any of the best-selling authors on the subject...or...
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