Bina Venkataraman, author of The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, studies the art of looking ahead for solutions during dangerous times. It's a skill she honed while working on the Ebola Task Force for former U.S. president Barack Obama.

Monsignor John Armitage talks about Christians in England rededicating their country to Mary; and whenever Talia Lavin sees U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, she sees a zaydie, the Yiddish word for grandfather.

Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy and gardener Marjorie Harris offer guidance on finding the sublime in the smallest of things.

The Edinburgh-born art critic and biographer spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about investigating the real story behind her mother’s disappearance as a child in 1929.

The award-winning British author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about amplifying the voices of marginalized people through literature.

The New Orleans-born author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about generational love and the power of place.

Eleanor Wachtel revisits her 1995 conversation with the American literary critic and writer about the power of human speech. He died on Feb. 3, 2020.

In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, Matar talks about the ways that place, art, loss and grief can intersect.

The American cartoonist spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about how his childhood shaped his distinctive art style and outlook on life.

The Russian-born choreographer spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about training as a young dancer in St. Petersburg and getting his start at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

In conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, the Ethiopian-American writer spoke about writing historical fiction that looks at the real-life pride and power of an African nation.

The American author and translator's memoir is a poignant exploration of language, sisterhood and overcoming personal tragedy.

Seniors living in Ontario’s long-term care homes where some residents have been infected with COVID-19 say they are scared and lonely as many facilities enforce physical isolation to curb the virus, but they also praise staff and speak about resilience.

We’ve heard a lot of talk about coronavirus tests. But what do the results of a test for such a new virus really tell you? Will there be tests to help determine potential immunity? Infectious disease expert Dr. Jeffrey Pernica joins host Dr. Brian Goldman on this week's episode of The Dose.

Doctors and other health-care professionals are grappling with the difficult job of caring for patients who won’t survive, tough decisions about who will get a ventilator when equipment runs short and whether they’d want one themselves in the event they become severely ill from novel coronavirus.

Robert Boast, a homeless 60-year-old Toronto man with incurable prostate and colon cancer, told White Coat, Black Art that he is more frightened of catching COVID-19 than dying from cancer.

We want to hear your stories about how the pandemic has impacted your mental health.

A personal support worker (PSW), who has worked for a decade in long-term care homes, told White Coat, Black Art the COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis on top of an already existing crisis for PSWs.

We’re all in this together, suffering equally, as the planet struggles through the Anthropocene age — an era created by human activity. It’s why the author of The Democracy of Suffering, Todd Dufresne, calling on philosophy — and all of us — to revolutionize what it means to be human.

Renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar and artist, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson talks about the philosophy and ethics that undergird Anishnaabe worlds in her 2020 Kreisel Lecture entitled, A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin.

When we first meet Adam and Eve in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, they live in a perfect world. But by the end, they're expelled into one that is marked by exile, war, illness and death. IDEAS explores what the poem says to us about how to grapple with an uncertain future — and if we can find our collective way back home.

American legal scholar Brett Frischmann says we have to wake up to the risk of losing our humanity to 21st techno-social engineering. He warns humans are heading down an ill-advised path that is making us behave like ‘perfectly predictable’ simple machines.

The songs and stories of prehistoric humans are gone. All that remains of their culture is their art. IDEAS contributor Neil Sandell introduces us to the French archaeologist Jean Clottes, a man who’s devoted his lifetime trying to decipher the rich, enigmatic world of cave art.

We’re dazzled, and sometimes frazzled, by our encounters with contemporary art. Marc Mayer, former director of the National Gallery of Canada, draws back the curtain to show what’s behind the art that can be so fascinating and yet so confusing.

Leading in the time of COVID-19 is to lead when a virus is calling the shots. In 1892, Hamburg had its own devastating cholera outbreak. According to historian Sir Richard Evans, how authorities navigated the pandemic offers surprisingly relevant lessons for leaders today.

Co-founder of Partners in Health Dr. Paul Farmer says the COVID-19 pandemic offers many lessons and opportunities for the world, including a chance to reorient how we think about who deserves access to a high standard of health care.

Seventeen years before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, another mysterious, virulent respiratory illness suddenly appeared — SARS. On the Enright Files, conversations with public health experts from those unnerving times, as they were assessing what we learned from the SARS and Ebola outbreaks.

Justice is not blind in Canada’s legal system, argues Métis lawyer Jean Teillet. She says it needs to view Indigenous people fully to render justice fairly.

Last year, in Toronto, 40 pedestrians were struck by a moving vehicle and killed. But in Oslo, Norway, zero pedestrians died from car-related incidents last year.

Long-term care homes are in crisis and reeling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Are the seniors in your life adequately protected?

Nearly half of Canada's COVID-19 deaths are linked to long-term care homes. Do you have family members or loved ones at risk?

New York in crisis; Feeding hungry Canadians; Tracking cell phone data to curb COVID-19; Stranded Canadians; China easing restrictions; Poetry in the pandemic; Michael Bublé; Sports historian Johnny Smith.

Today on The Current: COVID-19 testing; Kids’ questions about the virus; Victory Gardens; Pandemic leaves charities in crisis

Today on The Current: COVID-19's impact on elder care homes; Coping with isolation; Immunity questions; Rent strike

In the latest episode of The Next Chapter, Shelagh Rogers speaks with Carol Rose GoldenEagle, Megan Gail Coles, Victor Dwyer and more.

In the latest episode of The Next Chapter, Shelagh Rogers speaks with Peter Robinson, Dionne Brand, Helen Knott and more.

In the latest episode of The Next Chapter, Shelagh Rogers speaks with Emily St. John Mandel, Amanda Leduc, Ernie Louttit and more.

Shelagh Rogers speaks with Marjorie Celona, Wayne Arthurson, Steve Burrows — and William Gibson answers our version of the Proust Questionnaire.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Dane Kirby and FBI Agent Roselita Velasquez probe a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida hotel room in Panowich's searing follow-up to Like Lions (2019). Arnie Blackwell's murder is only the beginning. Someone is leaving a bloody trail through the Southeast looking for Arnie's younger brother, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who possesses an unusual skill with numbers that could make a lot of money and that has already gotten a lot of people killed. As Dane and Roselita hunt for the boy, it swiftly becomes a race against the clock that has them entangled in a web of secrets. A masterful tale of Southern Noir.

(ABM FN-Dow Jones) Moody's Investors Service heeft de kredietrating van ArcelorMittal verlaagd van Baa3 naar Ba1, wat gelijk staat aan een zogeheten junk status. Dit bleek vrijdagavond.

For months now France has been trialling a new form of democracy - bringing citizens together to think about ways forward on climate change policy. Could citizen councils be the future?

Caiway en DELTA, twee regionale internet, telefonie en tv-providers, werken sinds 2018 al intensief samen. Vanaf nu kunt u via Breedbandwinkel ook buiten Zeeland voor een DELTA glasvezel abonnement kiezen. Voorwaarde is wel dat het adres van het abonnement binnen het verzorgingsgebied van Caiway ligt.

Het aantal Nederlandse consumenten dat een vaste telefoonlijn belangrijk vindt, blijft dalen. Een trend die al in 2014 ingezet is. De meest voorkomende reden waarom consumenten nog een vaste telefoonlijn in huis hebben? Omdat de vaste telefoniedienst onderdeel uitmaakt van het internet en bellen abonnement of alles-in-1 pakket. Dat zegt ruim een kwart (26%) van de consumenten in het meest recente telefoniemarkt onderzoek van Telecompaper.

KPN en XS4ALL hebben zojuist bekendgemaakt de tarieven voor bestaande klanten per 1 juli te verhogen. Beide providers geven als reden voor de tariefsverhoging de inflatie, met daarbij investeringen in netwerken en diensten. Klanten die wegens de prijsverhoging kosteloos het abonnement willen opzeggen kunnen dit doen voor 1 juli 2020.

De ACM publiceerde onlangs de meest recente Telecommonitor, een open halfjaarlijkse rapportage, over de status van de telecommarkt in de tweede helft van 2019. Daarin worden naast informatie over marktaandelen en abonnementen in de mobiele- en breedbandmarkt ook de jaaromzetten gepubliceerd die de vaste en mobiele netwerken genereren.

Any meaningful recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will require imagination, risk, solidarity and vulnerability; it will mean refusing to ‘free-ride’ and a willingness to sacrifice. How can we cultivate this capacity for social solidarity in our time of social fragmentation and mutual distancing?

Can pride be ‘redeemed’, and form the basis of human dignity, or is pride as such a form of moral corruption, a debased form of moral vision?