He is a veteran broadcaster and award-winning documentarist, and is best known for being the host of the program Ideas on CBC Radio One from 1999 to his retirement in 2019.
[2] This was featured in an Ideas series entitled Red Man, White World.
While hosting Ideas, Kennedy continued to do documentary work.
Born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario,[3] Kennedy has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and a Master of Letters degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
He has also done postgraduate work at the University of Toronto, where he studied with the media theoretician Marshall McLuhan.