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Introducing IDEAS | How Canada forgot it once had a segregated health system

July 20, 2026 · 55 min

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IDEAS, hosted by Nahlah Ayed is a daily podcast that explores how ideas over place and time shape our world.


In the days before her medically-assisted death, journalist Elaine Dewar made it her mission to finish writing her book revealing ignored Canadian history. For more than three years, the author investigated how Canada's health care system cruelly mistreated Indigenous people — including forcing them to use segregated hospitals. Dewar's extensive research uncovers not only a shameful past. It also reveals that our collective obliviousness to it was deliberately manufactured.


You can find more episodes of IDEAS wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/IDEASxWCBA

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