Nahlah Ayed

Canadian citizens and permanent residents in the #MiddleEast needing emergency assistance can contact: me-mo.sos@international.gc.ca

Canadians in #Iran: Our ability to provide consular services in Iran is extremely limited, especially during an active conflict. If you’re there, have contingency plans that do not rely on Canada’s support to leave. Updated advice: travel.gc.ca/destinations/i…

SRI Strategic Advisor @geoffreyhinton and host @NahlahAyed discuss the long-term possibilities of #AI on the latest episode of @CBC Radio's Ideas. Episode: bit.ly/40jfMKU

Such a precious gift, humbling honour and urgently, timely opportunity it has been to crisscross Canada over the past two months while delivering this year's Massey Lectures. What stays with me above all is the concern, engagement and passion for human rights I heard everywhere - in the rich q&a sessions, the thoughtful conversations in listening circles & public libraries, and the beautiful moments in the book-signing lines. These are indeed fractured times, and the universal human rights promise very much needs renewal. But I can see it and feel it: change is in our hands. The five lectures will be broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas, at 8 pm, every day this week, starting tonight, and thereafter will be available online and as a podcast: cbc.ca/radio/ideas/cb… And the book is available at your nearest independent bookstore! Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World.

What a gift to sit down and talk with @NahlahAyed for this episode of CBC Radio's Ideas, in the lead up to the broadcast of the Massey Lectures next week. cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Wonderful evening with Rebecca Solnit and Rachel Maddow last week, with excellent Nalah Ayed as moderator — very timely! cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

Thank you to @CBCLabrador's @johngaudicbc for this engaging conversation with @NahlahAyed and me. Coming to Happy Valley / Goose Bay for Massey Lecture #4, on October 15th, to talk about human rights, is such a wonderful opportunity.

Can a conference change our troubled world? Tim Murithi speaks to @NahlahAyed on @CBCNews As the United Nations turns 80, calls for reform are louder than ever. #UNGA #UNGA80 ➡️Scroll to 13mins on podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/can… @tmurithi12 @UrbanLo

Such a gift and opportunity, certainly an immensely humbling honour, and a considerable (admittedly daunting) responsibility. I still don't quite believe that I will be delivering the 2025 #MasseyLectures this fall, but the announcement is out today, so that makes it real: cbc.ca/radio/ideas/ma… I've been asked to explore the many challenges and perils in our world - the climate crisis; genocide and mass atrocities; hate and disinformation; mass displacement; economic injustice; and more. These are troubling and unsettling times, and we feel uncertainty and fear, not only about the future but about the present. But this is not just a survey of global angst and doom, I've also been asked to answer a key question: does a true embrace of human rights offer a way forward? "Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World" will explore that question, with inescapable urgency, but also conviction and hope. Spoiler alert, the answer is yes. The proviso though is that it is up to us: to claim rights, defend rights, understand rights and above all, to live rights. As we have never truly done. And to do so recognizing that until we uphold human rights universally - for all, everywhere and always - then our world, and our lives will be riven by inequality and precarity. The promise of human rights is a universal one for a very good reason, anything less leaves us all vulnerable. The book will be out in early September, and can already be pre-ordered from House of Anansi Press (not to worry, I have actually written it): houseofanansi.com/products/unive… The five lectures will be in Toronto (September 19), Vancouver (September 25), Edmonton (October 1), Happy Valley/Goose Bay, Labrador (October 15) and Ottawa (October 30). Hope to see some of you along the way. Tickets will go on sale in August. The lectures will then be aired on CBC Radio's Ideas later in November. This book and the lectures are grounded in the wisdom, insights, example, courage, audacity and inspiration of the thousands of fellow human rights travelers I've followed, schemed with, grown alongside and learned from over the decades. Through all of you, universality does and will soar.

On my new @ricochet_en podcast “In Bed with the Elephant” economist @ArmineYalnizyan breaks down the costed platforms of the federal political parties and provides her take on the state of the Canadian economy. podbean.com/ew/pb-qwg2f-18… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/in-… #Election2025

LISTEN: @ArmineYalnizyan - Canada's Economic Future, Recession and Evaluating Federal Party Platforms @ricochet_en “In Bed with the Elephant” podbean.com/ew/pb-qwg2f-18… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/in-… open.spotify.com/episode/4vlo7j…

LISTEN: @JohnVaillant - 21st Century Climate Reality and -#FortMcMurray's Community & Solidarity after the Cataclysmic Fire in 2016 #ClimateChange @ricochet_en “In Bed with the Elephant” podbean.com/ew/pb-zthv4-18… podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/in-… open.spotify.com/episode/5MmrtO…

The first episode of my new podcast “In Bed with the Elephant” on @ricochet_en features a conversation with political journalist @stphnmaher about the 2025 Federal Election in Canada. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/in-…

.@NahlahAyed, @cbcideas host, spoke with ICIJ executive director @RyleGerard onstage at St. Thomas University for the annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism. Hear Ryle speak about the disk that changed investigative journalism: buff.ly/SztcWPn

On March 20, top Canadian journalists take the stage at @HotDocsCinema to discuss disinformation, polarization, and what’s at stake in the 2025 election. 🎟️ $10 (free for students). Presented by CJFE & @westernuFIMS. hotdocs.ca/whats-on/films…

📣 Charlottetown! 🇨🇦✨ Join @cbcradio IDEAS, host @NahlahAyed & @TheSamaraCentre at the Charlottetown Library Learning Centre for a convo about where democracy could go next - in the place where Confederation began! 🗳️🚀 🎟️ March 26! More info 👉 cbc.ca/bettercanada

📚✨ Your Library is OPEN (and is a key player in our democracy)! 🇨🇦🗳️ Join @cbcradio IDEAS, host @NahlahAyed & @TheSamaraCentre at @BurlOnLibrary on March 20 for a conversation on local ideas for a stronger Canada! More info 👉 cbc.ca/bettercanada

Freedom and democracy. Woke and truth. Taxes and choices. What do they mean? Can we agree? Delighted to engage the veteran @CBC journalist @CarolOff_, the latest @OTFLOD podcast. To listen and subscribe: bit.ly/3C9FDwq Producers: @radiolovely & @chlosooyun Partners: @JournalismTMU & @arts_tmu

.@NahlahAyed: Philosopher #CharlesTaylor offers routes back to an enchanted existence cbc.ca/radio/ideas/ch…