 | IDEAS airs Monday to Friday on CBC Radio One
at 8 p.m. (8:30 p.m. NT) and 4 a.m. (4:30 a.m. NT) | |  | Monday, December 16, 2024 | | | |  | What happens when home loses its poetry? When homes become assets, who lives and who dies? Former UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha searches for a better way home on IDEAS. (Shutterstock) | | | * Please note this schedule is subject to change. | | | MONDAY, DECEMBER 16 | | | There's No Place Like Home: IDEAS at Crow's Theatre | | Our homes are repositories of our memories — and they hold our hopes for the future. But today, our homes have become something else: commodities. Leilani Farha, the global director of The Shift and the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, considers what happens when the humanity is stripped out of housing — and what it means for us to collectively 'return home.' Her talk is the second installment in the 2024-2025 season of IDEAS at Crow's, recorded at Crow's Theatre in Toronto. | | | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17 | | | The 2024 Killiam Prize Honours Canadian University Researchers, Part Two | | Each year, a cohort of scholars with research careers of "sustained excellence" are honoured with the Killam Prize — seen by some as Canada's version of the Nobel. This is the second episode featuring Nahlah Ayed talking to the 2024 laureates. Engineering winner Clement Gosselin has developed an innovative robotic arm. Natural Sciences laureate Sylvain Moineau is making breakthroughs using basic science research. Medical Sciences winner Gerard Wright fights the growing global threat posed by antibiotic resistance. (2 of 2) | | | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18 | | | Andean Philosophy: The Huarochiri Manuscript | | The Huarochirí Manuscript is one of the few surviving records of Indigenous Andean philosophy and Quechua worldviews in the early modern era. Compiled in the late 16th century, it was once used by the Catholic Church to identify "idolatries." But today, the manuscript is an important tool for recovering and reconstructing metaphysical concepts the Catholic Church tried to eradicate. Jorge Sanchez-Perez, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta, speaks with Nahlah Ayed about what the manuscript reveals about Andean metaphysics, including ideas about animal-human relations and the nature of time. *This episode originally aired on Feb. 6, 2023. | | | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19 | | | Beneath the Surface of Things: Wade Davis | | Anthropologist Wade Davis has smoked toad, tried ayahuasca, and figured out the actual zombie cocktail in Haiti. He's spent a lifetime travelling the world and writing books about the wonders of our planet, how we need to take care of all things both great and small, and what we have to learn from our many cultures. Wade Davis goes for a walk in the woods with producer Philip Coulter to talk about the ideas in his latest book of essays. | | | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 | | | Fifth Estate: The Next 50 Years of Investigative Journalism | The CBC's flagship investigative TV program, The Fifth Estate, turned 50 this year. To commemorate this golden anniversary, a panel of distinguished journalists take us behind the stories and to the current threats facing their profession. As the media landscape continues to shrink, who will hold the powerful to account? | | |  | Listen whenever you want.
Get the latest or catch up on past episodes of Ideas, CBC Radio's program of contemporary thought. Subscribe to the podcast | | | |  | During the Great Depression, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars were the pride of Chatham’s East End. Most of the players hailed from the neighbourhood and played a fast, aggressive, exciting brand of baseball. (Courtesy of University of Windsor, Archives and Special Collections) | | | IDEAS IN THE AFTERNOON | MONDAY, DECEMBER 16 at 2 p.m. | | | | | Ninety years ago, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars became the first all-Black team to win the Ontario baseball championship. Now the story of their historic 1934 season, including the racist treatment they endured and their exploits on the field has resurfaced, and they’re getting their due as trailblazing Black Canadian athletes. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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