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Ideas · 2026-03-18 · 55 min · 9,739 words

'There's no such thing as clean energy'

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Phelan Johnson here, and I host a podcast about the legal cases that changed Canada. It's called See You in Court. And we've been working on a story about residential school survivor Willie Blackwater. At just thirteen, Willie held a knife to his rapist's throat. It was the first time he stood up to his abusers at residential school.

But it wasn't the last. And it leads Willie on a years-long quest to hold the church and government to account. The story of Willie's fight for justice is in your feeds this week wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Ideas.

I'm Nala Ayed. The list of things to worry about is much too long and full of nasty surprises. But the one that never seems to go away is climate change, and the toll that our way of life and use of fossil fuels is taking on the planet. Such a vast problem on a planetary scale can feel overwhelming. But there is hope.

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