Michael's essay: The silent spring of COVID-19 — 0:37 Public health policy expert Colleen Flood on COVID-19 response — 3:40 Yossi Klein Halevi on Israeli politics — 48:54 Listener mail — 1:18:10 Think again: Drinking water — 1:26:27 Anton Chekhov (We must go on living) — 1:36:51

The Sunday Edition from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Silent spring of COVID-19; Civil liberties and a public health emergency; Israel's stalled politics; How much water do you really need to drink; Anton Chekhov for the 21st century

Listen to this week's episode with guest host Peter Armstrong: Do the Delhi riots spell the end of India's secular identity? 0:36 The social and environmental costs of mining for green energy: 24:28 Fifty years later, Monique Bégin reflects on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women: 40:37 Exile, addiction and racism: what it means to be a gay, Muslim immigrant: 1:04:03 Alberta's orphan oil well problem: 1:31:30 A study in contrasts: how two grandparents responded to young climate change activists: 1:53:42 Teaching a code of ethics to tech workers before they write computer code: 2:01:20

India riots, costs of mining for green energy, Monique Bégin, an angry, queer Somali boy, Alberta's orphan oil well problem, grandparents and climate change, and ethics in tech

Michael’s essay on mind-boggling wealth: 0:37 Reconciling the good and evil embodied in Jean Vanier (and the rest of us): 4:52 A daycare in the forest: 42:44 The surprising, untold stories of the victims of Jack the Ripper: 1:01:03

Billionaire presidential candidates, Jean Vanier, a daycare in the forest and untold stories of the Ripper's victims

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: Canada's prisons are not supposed to be nursing homes, hospices or general hospitals — Michael's essay: 0:37 Can Canada find a housing solution for its homeless — these advocates think so: 5:27 The rude awakening: is this what a mid-life crisis feels like? 35:17 Is AI overhyped? Researchers weigh in on technology's promise and problems: 42:46 Sunday School: The Great Vowel Shift (Reprise): 1:14:34 How standardized patients are helping a new generation of doctors by acting out ailments: 1:24:44

Canada's prisons, housing solutions, a rude awakening, the hype around AI, the Great Vowel Shift and standardized patients

Michael’s Essay — Why I’m Breaking Up With Baseball: 0:37 Banker Mark Carney’s next file — carbon budgets: 6:40 A New Brunswick knitting juggernaut: 38:44 How urban design affects mental health: 57:40 Pipelines, protests, the law and who speaks for Indigenous people in Canada: 01:25:27 An English major is not destined to be a barista: 01:45:34

Turning away from baseball, Mark Carney and carbon budgets, a New Brunswick knitting juggernaut, urban design and mental health, the Wet’suwet’en stand-off and English majors

Michael’s essay - Recalling the ancient art of flushing a toilet or turning on a tap: 0:37 Democrats, not Republicans, are now strangers in their own land: 5:39 Sometimes, it’s good to be a nuisance: 36:24 We all want to vent, these people want to listen: 44:10 Not just diseases but ideas can plague us, says this political scientist: 54:48 Artists grapple with the complicated relationship between addiction and art: 1:25:54 Reprise - Bill T. Jones on the life and legacy of James Baldwin: 1:43:11

Ancient art of flushing a toilet, strangers in their own land, to be a nuisance, vent over tea, plague and politics, art and addiction, Bill T. Jones on James Baldwin

Michael’s Essay: 0:37 Brexit: 5:06 Brexit Satire: 30:07 Essay: A Flickering Path: 33:47 Doc: The Guardians: 39:41 Lochlann Jain: 1:01:43 Ted Gioia: Bach & Beethoven: 1:26:34

Panic and the new coronavirus, Brexit and Northern Ireland, from whitewater to dishwater, pets and the homeless, challenging categories and the bad boys of classical music

Michael’s Essay — Canadians and the weather(s): 0:37 How Finland is eradicating homelessness: 6:30 The Riddle Is One’s Life: 35:45 This obesity expert says we have far less control over our weight than we think: 01:03:45 Uncomfortable conversations about sexual misconduct: 01:22:00 An ode to the “queen of colours”: 01:53:48

Canadians and the weather(s), Finland tackles homelessness, the Riddle Is One’s Life, challenges to weight-loss, Hannah Moscovitch, an ode to the “queen of colours”

Michael's Essay: 0:37 Linda McQuaig: 5:36 Doc: We Are All Sputniks: 48:28 Daniel MacIvor: 1:02:55 Roger Scruton: 1:32:31 Yanar Mohammed on Iraq: 1:59:01

War on pedestrians, privatization vs public sector, bonding over Leonard Cohen, a "professional human," Iraqis fed up with U.S.-Iran conflict and remembering Roger Scruton

Lawyer Amanda Ghahremani on the Canadian government’s responsibility to victims’ families — 0:38 Historian Ervand Abrahamian on the history and future of U.S.-Iran relations — 10:08 Political scientist Nader Hashemi on Iran's domestic crisis of legitimacy — 30:10 Ira Basen’s documentary on gene editing and the food industry — 44:20 Listener mail on walking — 1:20:57 Audio books — 1:28:41 John Crosbie obit — 2:02:20

The Canadian government's responsibility to the families of plane tragedy victims; History and future of U.S.-Iran relations; Iran's crisis of political legitimacy; Gene editing and the food industry; Audio books; John Crosbie obit

Michael's essay on crying and being human — 0:40 Paul Rogers on escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran — 5:55 Listener Mail — 42:10 Shut Up! I'm Thinking, the game of lexical hilarity — 50:55 Walking: A Pedestrian Pursuit — 1:43:22

Crying and being human; U.S. and Iran; Shut Up! I'm Thinking, Walking: a pedestrian pursuit

Where we have been in the last decade, where we are going in the next — Michael's essay: 0:39 A pendulum of political currents has shaped the past decade: 5:16 The backlash against migration in the 2010s and bold ideas for the future: 41:21 The last decade was the hottest in history, both in temperature and in our sense of urgency: 01:10:48 In the 2010s the internet went from being 'elsewhere' to ruling our lives: 01:41:14 Rebecca Solnit on the power of changing the narrative and writing our own stories: 02:03:49

The decade in review: polarization, migration, climate change, the internet and the power of writing our own stories

The joy and wonder of Christmas windows: 0:39 How community mediators help keep the peace between feuding neighbours: 5:39 The Regina Music Box and the heavenly music of the gears: 36:59 The Christmas music of black America: 47:41 At the outset of winter, a poet for all seasons: 1:19:05

Christmas windows; community mediators; Regina Music Box; Christmas music of black America; a poet for all seasons

The mental health crisis among young Canadians: 0:39 The Paper Bag Princess at 40: 44:04 Where we sit on a bus and how we behave on it says a lot about us: 1:15:53 Canadian bishop speaks out about sexual abuse committed by priests: 1:27:20 Social contract between panhandlers and donor: 2:07:45

Canadian youth and mental health crisis; the Paper Bag Princess at 40; public transit; Montreal bishop Thomas Dowd; panhandlers and donors

David Frum on Trump impeachment: 0:38 Doc: How students are helping ICUs: 42:23 George Monbiot on capitalism and the environment: 56:07 Essay on being a mystery writer: 1:23:10 Bob Rae on Myanmar trial at the Hague: 1:34:13 Doc: In praise of the theremin: 2:01:33

David Frum; George Monbiot; Bob Rae; ICUs; Being a mystery writer; The theremin

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