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The Art of Reasoning Updated: 2011-11-07 05:00:00 Description: A bronze bust of Pierre Bédard was recently unveiled in the Quebec National Assembly. Bédard was a journalist, politician, judge and nationalist leader of Lower Canada, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was an early advocate...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Boot Camp Moms - Part Two Updated: 2011-10-31 04:00:00 Description: Twelve single mothers. Poor and uneducated. Their mission: to complete a one-year boot camp designed to lift them out of poverty. Their tools: citizenship, literature, and education. IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell charts the progress of these mothers ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Boot Camp Moms - Part One Updated: 2011-10-24 04:00:00 Description: Twelve single mothers. Poor and uneducated. Their mission: to complete a one-year boot camp designed to lift them out of poverty. Their tools: citizenship, literature, and education. IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell charts the progress of these mothers ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The New Revolutionaries - Part Two Updated: 2011-10-17 04:00:00 Description: Women have been identified by economists, social scientists, politicians and pundits as key to moving forward on issues like poverty, violence and conflict. Sally Armstrong takes us around the globe, where localized acts of female emancipation are li...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The New Revolutionaries - Part One Updated: 2011-10-10 04:00:00 Description: Women have been identified by economists, social scientists, politicians and pundits as key to moving forward on issues like poverty, violence and conflict. Sally Armstrong takes us around the globe, where localized acts of female emancipation are li...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In the Valley of the Shadow Updated: 2011-10-03 04:00:00 Description: Harvard professor James Kugel is one of the world's leading biblical scholars. Ten years ago he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. His illness forced him to further reflect on themes he's been studying for decades - the nature of human spiritua...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Synthetic Life Updated: 2011-09-26 04:00:00 Description: Craig Venter was the first person to have his genome sequenced. Recently he and his colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute created a synthetic organism that could be a key to the foods and fuels of the future. Dr. Venter speaks about synthetic ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Salt - Part Two Updated: 2011-09-19 04:00:00 Description: Something insignificant is sometimes said to be worth "a pinch of salt." On the other hand, people of impeccable integrity are often called, "the salt of the earth." Salt is now among the most common substances on earth, although once it was rarer an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Salt - Part One Updated: 2011-09-12 04:00:00 Description: Something insignificant is sometimes said to be worth "a pinch of salt." On the other hand, people of impeccable integrity are often called, "the salt of the earth." Salt is now among the most common substances on earth, although once it was rarer an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD An Evening With Irshad Manji Updated: 2011-09-05 04:00:00 Description: IDEAS host Paul Kennedy moderates a discussion with Irshad Manji, the critically acclaimed author of The Trouble With Islam, on the impact of individual rights on social integration and Canadian society. How do responsibilities play into the process ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Leading Under Fire Updated: 2011-08-29 04:00:00 Description: What are the components of military leadership? That's the question Dr. Joe MacInnis asks soldiers, sailors, and airmen on a Canadian warship and at the Canadian Forces base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In the cockpits of their aircraft, the front seats...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Thucydides: The First Journalist Updated: 2011-08-22 04:00:00 Description: About 2,500 years ago, Thucydides travelled ancient Greece, gathering stories about a brutal war that plunged the ancient world into chaos. He set high standards for accuracy, objectivity and thoroughness in his reporting. IDEAS producer Nicola Luksi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Citizen Mel - Part Two Updated: 2011-08-15 04:00:00 Description: His name is synonymous with the words "Canadian nationalist". Mel Hurtig's voice has been prominent in discussions about the country for almost fifty years. He is a bookseller, a publisher and a catalyst for debate on subjects ranging from child pove...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Citizen Mel - Part One Updated: 2011-08-08 04:00:00 Description: His name is synonymous with the words "Canadian nationalist". Mel Hurtig's voice has been prominent in discussions about the country for almost fifty years. He is a bookseller, a publisher and a catalyst for debate on subjects ranging from child pove...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Say No To Happiness Updated: 2011-08-01 04:00:00 Description: Life is about being happy, right? Just ask the Dalai Lama...or any of the best-selling authors on the subject...or the scientists who study the benefits of being happy. But are we losing something else along the way: the need for meaning in our lives...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Burqas and Bans: Freedom or Oppression? Updated: 2011-07-25 04:00:00 Description: The outspoken and controversial women's rights activist Farzana Hassan explores whether the niqab, the face-covering veil traditionally worn by Islamic women, is a symbol of religious expression or a tool of oppression. IDEAS recorded her delivering ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Hurried Child Updated: 2011-07-18 04:00:00 Description: Buying achievement. Rigid regimens. As a society, we are keeping children busy with the business of childhood. Tutoring and computer centers for children are a booming business, and have become America's top franchise of the decade. A new age of anxi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Munk Debates - China Updated: 2011-07-11 04:00:00 Description: Be it resolved that the 21st century will belong to China. Renowned historian and lecturer Niall Ferguson, and the celebrated Chinese economist David D. Li argue for the motion. Speaking against it are CNN foreign affairs commentator and TIME magazin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD On Being a Muslim in the West - Part Two Updated: 2011-07-04 04:00:00 Description: It is said that there is a struggle for the soul of Islam; a jihad for the hearts and minds of the 1.6 billion people who profess Islam as their faith. Hassan Ghedi Santur explores the intersection between religion, spirituality, and politics in the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD On Being a Muslim in the West - Part One Updated: 2011-06-27 04:00:00 Description: Amid continuing tension between Muslim and non-Muslim populations in many western countries, the question keeps coming back: Is Islam compatible with western values? Hassan Ghedi Santur asks if someone can embrace the secular, pluralist democratic va...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wachtel On The Arts - John Baldessari Updated: 2011-06-21 04:00:00 Description: Eleanor Wachtel, the host of Writers & Company, talks with the American artist John Baldessari. From photo-collages to movie stills with faces painted over to paintings of isolated body parts to paintings with no images at all, Baldessari challenges ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fur, Fortune and Empire Updated: 2011-06-20 04:00:00 Description: Nowadays, wearing fashionable furs seems somewhat politically incorrect. But pelts and hides from beavers, raccoons and buffalo, and other animals, helped carve out the European settlement of North America. Eric Jay Dolin tells us how the fur trade s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Talking Philosophy: Freedom of Expression Part Two Updated: 2011-06-13 04:00:00 Description: Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of a democratic society. Our liberty depends on free and open debate. How then are we to think about nasty, hurtful and offensive speech? Does it need to be heard and discussed? Join IDEAS host Paul Kennedy an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Talking Philosophy: Freedom of Expression Part One Updated: 2011-06-06 04:00:00 Description: Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of a democratic society. Our liberty depends on free and open debate. How then are we to think about nasty, hurtful and offensive speech? Does it need to be heard and discussed? Join IDEAS host Paul Kennedy an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Untangling Complexity Updated: 2011-05-30 04:00:00 Description: The world feels like a kind of Rube Goldberg device - an intricate and complicated system delivering very modest results. People despair of social systems ever working properly, but maybe complexity is a good thing. A Calgary Institute for the Humani...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Art of Ideas Updated: 2011-05-23 04:00:00 Description: She has spent a lifetime asking questions. Her body of work was never satisfied with the answers. Poet, anarchist, intellectual, former radio producer, and co-creator of the program IDEAS, we honour Phyllis Webb in this documentary by Robert McTavish...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Enright Files: The Letter Updated: 2011-05-16 04:00:00 Description: Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in a conversation about that most old-fashioned of communications technologies, the letter. Michael talks with Victoria Glendinning, the British Biographer about her book, Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wild Journey: The Anne Innis Story Updated: 2011-05-09 04:00:00 Description: At the age of 23, Anne Innis was the first person to study African wildlife in its natural habitat. She blazed a trail that was distinctly Canadian, like her father, the political economist, Harold Innis. Sandy Bourque's documentary, told through Ann...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chinese Laundry Kids Updated: 2011-05-02 04:00:00 Description: Chinese hand laundries used to be a fixture in every town and city. They were so common place that the occupation of "laundryman" became synonymous with the Chinese. They were socially isolated, and endured a life of drudgery and racial hostility. CB...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dogs Themselves - Part Three Updated: 2011-04-13 04:00:00 Description: New evidence reveals what dogs understand, about their world and about people, what they say and how they say it - to each other and to us - and what they know that people don't. The hidden lives of dogs themselves are uncovered by dog observers Jon ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dogs Themselves - Part One Updated: 2011-04-13 04:00:00 Description: New evidence reveals what dogs understand, about their world and about people, what they say and how they say it - to each other and to us - and what they know that people don't. The hidden lives of dogs themselves are uncovered by dog observers Jon ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dogs Themselves - Part Two Updated: 2011-04-13 04:00:00 Description: New evidence reveals what dogs understand, about their world and about people, what they say and how they say it - to each other and to us - and what they know that people don't. The hidden lives of dogs themselves are uncovered by dog observers Jon ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saving Salmon Updated: 2011-04-13 04:00:00 Description: For almost forty years, Alexandra Morton studied orcas near the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Those whales eat sockeye salmon. When Morton learned that these fish were endangered, she decided to save the salmon, in order to protect her whales....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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