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While Canada’s forced labour laws have the potential to be effective, the laws aren’t being enforced, according to Ottawa lawyer William Pellerin.

Sand makes up most of the physical world around us. But thanks to climate change and our insatiable demand for sand, we’re now quickly running out of it. Toronto-based journalist Nehal El-Hadi talks to Nahlah Ayed about our complicated relationship to sand, and how that relationship may be leading us toward an environmental crisis.

Nineteen children and two teachers have been killed in a shooting at a Texas elementary school, prompting anguished calls for action on gun control. Guest host Nahlah Ayed speaks with Matt Houston, a reporter at KENS 5 in San Antonio; and Taylor Pettaway, a reporter at the San Antonio Express-News.

Could video games and apps equipped with artificial intelligence help diagnose mental health issues like depression? Some experts think so — but patient privacy should be at the forefront of the movement.

In his latest book, Shape, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg reveals the geometry lurking beneath history, democracy, biology, and everything else. He argues geometry is a way of thinking, a method of reasoning and argument, and a system for making sense of the world.

Minnesota-based Father Columba Stewart has spent nearly two decades working with religious leaders, government authorities, and archivists around the globe to preserve religious manuscripts. He tells IDEAS about where this all started, and why it matters so much.

When Edward Burtynsky was honoured for his contribution photography on Tuesday, he decided to share the spotlight with Ukrainians documenting the war with their cameras.

University of Toronto Professor Dan Breznitz says Canada has an innovation problem, and it’s time we did something about it. In 2021 Breznitz won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s inaugural Balsillie Prize for Public Policy for his book, Innovation in Real Places. In this episode of Ideas Nahalah Ayed speaks with Breznitz and the three other finalists for the prize.

For Ukrainians, the war's legacy will last generations no matter the outcome

Poet Lyuba Yakimchuk grew up in the contested Donbas region of Ukraine. After pro-Russian separatists took control of the area in 2014, her family had to flee. And now, the whole country has been invaded. Lyuba Yakimchuk reflects on poetry, war, and the burden of a motherland.