Meet Alex Neve, the 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer

This is a CBC Podcast. Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nala Ayed, and I'm here to introduce you to our twenty twenty five Masi lecturer, Alex Neave. Alex is a longtime human rights lawyer and advocate, and for twenty years he was the secretary general of Amnesty International Canada. And in that capacity he traveled the world bearing witness to its misfortunes. His lectures are titled Universal Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured

World. Welcome to you, Alex, and a huge congratulations. Well, thank you very much uh for the congratulations and it's and it's such a delight. I'm really looking forward to having this conversation with you, Nella. Me too. Um but before I do that, I wanna know what it's like for you to um To join the ranks of Massy lectures, so many big names uh in Canadian history who have addressed our audiences both here in Canada and abroad um for more than half a century.

So probably my my first mistake was to actually look at that list and realize Amongst other things that I was on a list that included Martin Luther King. That was the first one that jumped out at me. uh but obviously incredible uh thinkers and you know artistic uh Canadians, creative Canadians, you know, uh leading edge political thinkers in the country and

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