Highlights include: honouring Lois Wilson minister, Senator, human rights advocate —and inspiration; the complicated story of our fight to the death with rats; hinge moments in Salman Rushdie’s life; cartoonist Kate Beaton on what is collectively lost when working-class voices are shut out of opportunities; and writer and MD Jillian Horton on creating a more compassionate medical system.

Highlights include: what we can do to avoid the dreaded choke whether it be sports, music or everyday life; Astra Taylor's 2023 Massey Lectures, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together As Things Fall Apart; once imprisoned in Turkey, writer Ahmet Altan reflects on the meaning of freedom; and how a movement in West Africa prompted a rethink about what being educated means for people born into a colonial legacy.

Highlights include: the invisible superpower of smell; why Christian communities are just as polarized as secular society; BBC Reith Lectures on the role AI plays in distorting the integrity of democracy; the endangered reality of an Old Growth forest in Nova Scotia; and Anishinaabe arts leader Jesse Wente's talk called “Remembering the Future."

Highlights include: a reality check on reality TV; exploring the role of solidarity in confronting political and social problems; a deep dive into why the powerful sense of smell is underestimated; examining how humans are changing fire; and when it comes to decisive action, do we have a moral duty to revolt?

Highlights include: why joy and delight are essential to living a good life; how states create “ghost citizens” and keep them in limbo; professor Miglena Todorova on the making and potential unmaking of violent men; and the remarkable life and work of Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Highlights include: The art of driving trucks across northern Ontario in winter; why joy and delight are essential to a meaningful life; an ongoing series of interviews marking the 60th anniversary of Massey College; and the 2023 Massey Lectures by Astra Taylor on the "defining feature of our time": insecurity.

Highlights include: why cigars and the Cuban way of life is under severe threat; Canadian thinkers try to define “reasonableness” and what it is to behave reasonably; a look inside the delicate world of queer diplomacy; and asking the question: Is marriage working for women?

Highlights include: the work of Canada’s saddest poet, Quebec’s Émile Nelligan; how the fall of Rome lives on as a modern myth; longtime news anchor Lisa LaFlamme on the prospects of journalism and democracy in these unsettling times; and an audio journey through the complexity of the human body.

Highlights include: why we need to reckon with disgust; the first Black woman publisher in Canada; the history of bombing; the forgotten music of exiled composers; the philosophy of Christmas; and the theories and the evolution of the relationship between dogs and humans.

Highlights include: Filmmaker and writer Astra Taylor's 2023 Massey Lectures entitled The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart; Abenaki artist and filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin on the quiet power of listening; and defending the cormorant — a gangly dark bird, with a bad reputation.

Highlights include: lessons from the Ancient Greek writer Herodotus on understanding the human causes of conflict; to how the Socialist government of Chile tried to create an early intranet to monitor its economy; to author Donna Morrissey on widowhood; and questioning whether notions of beauty can offer hope.

Highlights include: a conversation with the 2023 Massey Lecturer Astra Taylor; lessons from the Ancient Greek writer Herodotus; examining whether smart city technologies make for smart living; and a special series called The Greatest Numbers of All Time.

Highlights include: More episodes from David Suzuki’s radio archive from 1989, 1999 and 2010; Naheed Nenshi on renewing civic purpose in Canada; The BBC Reith Lectures on the theme: The Four Freedoms; and philosopher Susan Neiman on why 'wokeism' is foundationally wrong.

Highlights include: episodes from David Suzuki’s radio archive from 1989, 1999 and 2010; Tomson Highway's 2022 Massey Lectures exploring language, creation, sex and gender, humour, and death; and a reprise of our series called The New World Disorder.

Highlights include: the continuation of the three-part series, Man Up! The Masculinity Crisis exploring the state of manhood; examining the consequences of over population; André Picard on 40 years of health journalism; and a special series on Nunavik’s artistic and political history.

Highlights include: music that reveals tensions and myths of France through the 20th and 21st centuries; exploring the many afterlives of the Queen of Sheba; the hidden history of interned in labour camps during World War One; and what exactly is The Great Reset?

Highlights include: philosopher Susan Neiman on how “wokeism” short-circuits what it means to be on the left; human rights lawyer Hina Jilani on her quest to help make a better world; and IDEAS explores our capacity for credulity to understand why so many people get “taken in” by scams and conspiracies.

Highlights include: Literary scholar Peter Brooks points to the dangers of seeing everything as a story; Cree writer Tomson Highway's 2022 Massey Lectures, and Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on why the greatest threats to free speech today are not legal or political, but social.

Highlights include: the weird world of pseudo-archaeology; a deep-dive into the uncertain future of money; Alexander Bell’s fraught legacy with the deaf community; the rich and complex world of Newfoundland’s Indigenous literature; and how geometry can be used to corrupt democracy.

Highlights include: the history of school trains bringing education to children in isolated communities of Northern Ontario; how a colonialist approach to Arctic research by academia has neglected traditional knowledge; and the chaotic history and uncertain future of money.

Highlights include: how coyotes inform our storytelling and myth; a demon attack in Quebec in 1660; historian Aanchal Malhotra on inheritance and unlearning after the 1947 Partition of India; and IDEAS ponders deep philosophical questions about Christmas like: is it ethical to lie to children?