How IDEAS saved a listener from sending a regrettable email

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This is a CBC podcast. Ideas has been a companion of mine for quite a number of years now. And then I said, you know, I think I owe it to ideas to do something for the program. Welcome. To ideas, I'm Nala Ayed.

It is really hard to believe, but we are now 60 years old. Before we marked the occasion in October 2025, we asked our listeners to let us know about any life altering experiences you have had listening to the show. Your response was both heartening and humbling. Dear Team CBC Ideas, it is with sincere appreciation that I write to thank you for another season of programming that keeps challenging, opening up, and nudging us to rethink what we think we know. Dear Ideas, my mother listened to Ideas when Mr.

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