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Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city might proceed from here.

The symbol of the Jewish State was the noble pioneer draining the swamps and making the deserts bloom: the legendary kibbutznik. So what ever happened to the pioneers’ dream of founding a socialist utopia in the land called Palestine? Chasing Utopia: The Future of the Kibbutz in a Divided Israel draws listeners into the quest for answers to the defining political conflict of our era. Acclaimed author David Leach revisits his raucous memories of life as a kibbutz volunteer and returns to meet a new generation of Jewish and Arab citizens struggling to forge a better future together.

Are backwoods curses real?Does the elusive "Woodbooger" roam the mountains of Southwest Virginia?Is the old abandoned orphanage with satanic graffiti a chill place for ghosts and/or demons to hang out?Yeah probably.Join Will and Jared (with the occasional guest or two) as they discuss folklore, conspiracy theories, and anything under the realm of odd and strange in Southern Appalachia as they ask themselves: What's Your Theory?