The Sunday Edition — July 22, 2018
On this week's episode with guest host Nahlah Ayed:
People fleeing from climate change should have refugee status, says Tongan MP
"When you wake up and the tide is coming into your living room, then that's no joke anymore."
Can we rewrite the 1951 Refugee Convention for the 21st century?
Alexander Betts, professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs at the University of Oxford, discusses whether it's possible to rewrite the 1951 UN Refugee Convention for the 21st century to include those fleeing climate change, failed states and generalised violence.
The "great divide" in women's friendships
Emelia Symington Fedy and her feminist friends used to call each other "Wives for Life". Then having children got in the way. In an essay, Emelia describes how how a powerful sisterhood of women friends fell apart... and then came back together.
"Life is a whole lot more than a PhD."
They've come a long way from geochemistry and anthropology. A florist, an instrument maker, a carpenter and a bike shop guy on why they, like so many others, said goodbye to academia, and how they built their "post-ac" lives. Donya Ziaee's documentary is called, So You Want to Work With Your Hands?
One man's quest to spread cribbage around the world
In the age of fast-paced video games, the quiet, low-tech card game of cribbage is in danger of fading away. Not on Peter Worden's watch. Peter has a passion for cribbage, and he spreads the gospel of the game everywhere he goes. His documentary is called, The Cribsionary.
Canadians are not as open to immigration as we like to think
Canada has a global reputation for embracing diversity, immigration and refugees, exemplified by the national effort to resettle 35,000 Syrian refugees within our borders. But the rhetoric around those borders — and the people who cross them at unofficial points — has become harsher and more divisive of late. Concordia University professor Yasmin Jiwani will talk about a dark side to Canadian attitudes towards newcomers and asylum-seekers.
Novelist Sarah Perry on faith, fear and our fascination with monsters
In British writer Sarah Perry's novel The Essex Serpent, a mythic beast terrorizes a village and science and superstition hold equal sway.