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The Comeback
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Idle No More protesters gather in front of the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que., on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)
In the wake of the Idle No More protest movement, John Ralston Saul decided to write a book about Canada's difficult relationship with the First Nations. In it, he argues that they are now poised to reclaim a central place in Canadian affairs. Paul Kennedy explores the thesis with Saul and Hayden King of Ryerson University....
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Chris Hedges: War is a drug
Monday, February 9, 2015
As a correspondent for The New York Times - and other publications - activist and ordained Presbyterian Minister Christopher Hedges has covered wars all over the world. In 2002, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for his work on global terrorism. The author of 14 books, he's no stranger to controversy, having once been escorted off stage while delivering a commencement address. In the fall of 2014, Christopher Hedges gave a lecture at Ryerson University in Toronto, and later joined Paul...
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Ideas from the Trenches - Force of Habit
Friday, February 6, 2015
There are 50,000 PhD candidates in Canada, toiling away on things their friends and families often don't understand. As part of our continuing series turning young scholars' work into radio, Tom Howell and Nicola Luksic meet Kristin Rodier, a newly minted Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Alberta. She studied the way people try to change themselves, and concludes that the force of habit is both more mysterious and more useful than commonly thought. As a philosopher, she weaves...
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Death Becomes Us, Part 3
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Burying the dead can be hazardous to our health. Every year, across North America, enough embalming fluid is used to fill a swimming pool, and enough metal to build another Golden Gate Bridge. Cremation can be toxic too, creating vapours from mercury fillings and hip implants. Against this backdrop, IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell concludes her three-part series with a look at the burgeoning green burial movement and its message of de-corporatizing death....
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The Trouble with Tolerance, Part 2
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
We rant, we debate, and we're full of opinions: Is Canada too tolerant for its own good? Should we tolerate intolerant people? What are the limits to tolerance? In this three-part IDEAS Classic from 2007, philosopher Michael Blake, mediator Genevieve Chornenki, filmmaker Sunny Yi and IDEAS Producer Sara Wolch, tackle the nature and meaning of tolerance in our diverse and seemingly tolerant society. Part 3 airs Wednesday, February 11....
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Dark Powers: Camille Paglia
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Cultural historian Camille Paglia explores some of Shakespeare's hard-to-like women characters, from King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. A grand tour through ideas about art, education and myth -- and how art teaches us how to live....
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Week of Feb 2
Monday, February 2, 2015
Monday, February 2THE ENRIGHT FILES - James Baldwin & Ralph EllisonMichael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, talks with Bill T. Jones and Timothy Parrish about two of the past century's greatest African-American writers, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. Their writing is as resonant now as when it inspired civil rights activists five decades ago. Tuesday, February 3DARK POWERS: Camille PagliaCultural historian Camille Paglia explores some of Shakespeare's hard-to-like women characters, from King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Antony and...
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The Enright Files - American writers James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison
Monday, February 2, 2015
Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, talks with Bill T. Jones and Timothy Parrish about two of the past century's greatest African-American writers, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison. Their writing is as resonant now as when it inspired civil rights activists five decades ago....
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I'm Sorry: The Art and Artifice of the Apology
Friday, January 30, 2015
Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes to residential school survivors. Bill Clinton says he's sorry for sexual transgressions. Whether apologies come from the political elite or your next door neighbour, we are awash in a sea of "I'm sorry". Josh Bloch examines when an apology is effective and whose interests it serves....
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Death Becomes Us, Part 2
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Death is called the greatest of equalizers -- the greatest of mysteries. At one time we tended to our dead with home funerals and mourning rituals. But, over the last century death has been outsourced to mortuary professionals. Now multinational chains are buying up mom-and-pop operations, offering package deals on funerals. However, the corporatization of death is being challenged: death midwives are returning care of the dead to families by helping us face death and aiding families in arranging...
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The Trouble with Tolerance, Part 1
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
We rant, we debate, and we're full of opinions: Is Canada too tolerant for its own good? Should we tolerate intolerant people? What are the limits to tolerance? In this three-part IDEAS Classic from 2007, philosopher Michael Blake, mediator Genevieve Chornenki, filmmaker Sunny Yi and IDEAS Producer Sara Wolch, tackle the nature and meaning of tolerance in our diverse and seemingly tolerant society. Part 2 airs Wednesday, February 4; Part 3 airs Wednesday, February 11....
