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Christmas concert; State of democracy; Love-hate Christmas; Sleep therapy; Bill Richardson's candles doc

A Christmas Concert - Michael's essay: A funny, tender description of the school concert when Michael's son was a proud member of the Grade Three Recorder Ensemble. It's our tradition to re-broadcast this delightful piece each year at this time. (Note - Michael's son is now a handsome young man in his third year of university.) The failure of the elites gave us Brexit and Trump: Michael Sandel, one of the world's best-known political philosophers, believes liberal democracies and the elites who run them, are failing. He says democracies have lost their moral purpose, and their ability to inspire working people. How to survive Christmas when one spouse loves it and the other emphatically does not: Kimberly Noble explains why creating a family is the hardest thing any of us will ever do, and why it's especially challenging at Christmas. How to conquer insomnia with cognitive behavioural therapy: 60% of Canadians aren't getting enough sleep, but an approach called "CBT-I" - cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia - is showing results. Michael talks to Dr. Colleen Carney, Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University in Toronto. The great human "whirligig" Bill Richardson returns to the radio: "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." Bill brings us a quirky, beautiful documentary inspired by candles, light and those old-fashioned twirling angel chimes. It's called "Four Small Candles." Listener mail on diversity, multiculturalism, tolerance and racism Music this week by: Oliver Jones, Claude Debussy, the Toronto Children's Chorus, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the jazz ensemble Cold Front. (Ensemble members are Icelander Björn Thoroddsen, Canadian trumpeter Richard Gillis and American double bass player Steve Kirby. Their album called "Cold Front" was awarded the Icelandic Music Award for the Best Jazz Composition in 2005.)
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A Christmas Concert - Michael's essay: A funny, tender description of the school concert when Michael's son was a proud member of the Grade Three Recorder Ensemble. It's our tradition to re-broadcast this delightful piece each year at this time. (Note - Michael's son is now a handsome young man in his third year of university.)

The failure of the elites gave us Brexit and Trump: Michael Sandel, one of the world's best-known political philosophers, believes liberal democracies and the elites who run them, are failing. He says democracies have lost their moral purpose, and their ability to inspire working people.

How to survive Christmas when one spouse loves it and the other emphatically does not: Kimberly Noble explains why creating a family is the hardest thing any of us will ever do, and why it's especially challenging at Christmas.

How to conquer insomnia with cognitive behavioural therapy: 60% of Canadians aren't getting enough sleep, but an approach called  "CBT-I" - cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia - is showing results. Michael talks to  Dr. Colleen Carney, Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University in Toronto.

The great human "whirligig" Bill Richardson returns to the radio: "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." Bill brings us a quirky, beautiful documentary inspired by candles, light and those old-fashioned twirling angel chimes. It's called "Four Small Candles."

Listener mail on diversity, multiculturalism, tolerance and racism

Music this week by: Oliver Jones, Claude Debussy, the Toronto Children's Chorus, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the jazz ensemble Cold Front. (Ensemble members are Icelander Björn Thoroddsen, Canadian trumpeter Richard Gillis and American double bass player Steve Kirby. Their album called "Cold Front" was awarded the Icelandic Music Award for the Best Jazz Composition in 2005.)

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