Ideas

Frank Zappa redefined what it was to be a composer in our time. But what was his impact on those who worked most closely with him? In this three part-documentary series about the legendary musician, hear from family members, musicians and others who worked with him, as well as excerpts from a CBC interview with Zappa, recorded the year before his death.

IDEAS revisits the 1989 Massey Lectures of physicist and humanitarian Ursula Franklin. Influencing a whole generation of tech thinkers, The Real World of Technology analyzes technology in the broadest sense: as a human system, rooted in power and responsibility.

Any talk of post-conflict reconciliation quickly turns to Rwanda. Post-genocide, Rwandans have moved forward but arriving at a collective truth has meant accepting the relationship between truth and fact is not always clear and straightforward.

Frank Zappa redefined what it was to be a composer in our time. But what was his impact on those who worked most closely with him? In this three part-documentary series about the legendary musician, hear from family members, musicians and others who worked with him, as well as excerpts from a CBC interview with Zappa, recorded the year before his death.

IDEAS revisits the 1989 Massey Lectures of physicist and humanitarian Ursula Franklin. Influencing a whole generation of tech thinkers, The Real World of Technology analyzes technology in the broadest sense: as a human system, rooted in power and responsibility.

IDEAS revisits the 1989 Massey Lectures of physicist and humanitarian Ursula Franklin. Influencing a whole generation of tech thinkers, The Real World of Technology analyzes technology in the broadest sense: as a human system, rooted in power and responsibility.

Frank Zappa redefined what it was to be a composer in our time. But what was his impact on those who worked most closely with him? In this three part-documentary series about the legendary musician, hear from family members, musicians and others who worked with him, as well as excerpts from a CBC interview with Zappa, recorded the year before his death.

Revisiting the 1989 Massey Lectures of physicist and humanitarian Ursula Franklin. Influencing a whole generation of tech thinkers, The Real World of Technology analyzes technology in the broadest sense: as a human system, rooted in power and responsibility. Episode 1: technology as practice.

Vaccine nationalism. Isolationism. Rising poverty and unequal access to health care. The divides marking the experience of living through this pandemic are so stark you can trace them on the world map. To discuss how to address growing global inequality, Nahlah Ayed is in conversation with African Development Bank Group president Akinwumi Adesina, former minister of environment in Morocco Hakima El Haité and Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell.

*Warning: Examples discussed in this episode is disturbing | In order to identify and hunt them down during the Holocaust, Nazi authorities declared that all Jews must only bear names selected from a sanctioned list. University of Cologne professor Iman Nick has spent years studying these naming tactics — and their frightening similarities to the world we live in today.