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The Agenda with Steve Paikin is TVO's flagship current affairs program - devoted to exploring the social, political, cultural and economic issues that are changing our world, at home and abroad. The Agenda airs weeknights at 8:00 PM EST on TVO - Canada's largest educational broadcaster.
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In Ontario there is, sort of, another level of government for 1.3 million people that is not federal, provincial or municipal. But for those who live in ... condos. They have elections. They, kind of, pay taxes in their maintenance fees. And their boards are like the cabinet, with significant responsibilities, even if not all members have the skills to manage those multi-million-dollar corporations. What's working, what's not, and what degree of corruption are we seeing within condo boards?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Cheltenham Badlands are an alien landscape in Caledon, Ontario, once home of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Chief Ajetance was forced to sign Treaty 19 which ceded much of their traditional territory to the Crown and opened it to settlement. Colonists accidentally created this unique wasteland through tree clearing and bad farming practices. There was only a thin layer of soil over the Queenston Shale formation, a soft sedimentary rock that runs through Peel and Halton Regions. As news of this alien landscape spread, the footsteps of thousands of visitors hastened the erosion. The Ontario Heritage Trust is now preserving this reminder of how human actions can profoundly change the planet.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Visits to the food bank have risen in Ontario, indicating that the cost of living has affected food security. At the same time, there's a lot of food waste along the food value chain. Food waste is not only an environmental challenge, but one that falls on the shoulders of our provincial municipalities. Find out what community organizations, local businesses, and municipalities are doing to combat food waste and, at the same time, potentially improve food insecurity. Kate Parizeau, from the University of Guelph; Tom Armitage and Logan Pollock from The SEED; Bradley Crepeau from Food Cycle Science; and Cameron Walsh from the City of Guelph, offer their insights into the issue that affects Ontarians.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Agenda's week in review looked at why property taxes are going up across municipalities, an exit interview with NDP MP Charlie Angus, a check-in on MAID (medical assistance in dying) and the loss experienced by Canadian trumpet player Jens Lindemann from the Los Angeles wildfires.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The fires in Los Angeles have captured the empathy and attention of people all over the world. Canada has sent water bombers to help extinguish the fires. And, of course, many Canadians live in southern California. Jens Lindemann is a world-renowned trumpet player. He was a member of the Canadian Brass, has an honorary degree from Hamilton's McMaster University, is an honorary fellow at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, has the Order of Canada, and tonight finds himself homeless. His house in Pacific Palisades is gone. Jens Lindemann joins Steve Paikin to share his story about the devastation wrought by the inferno.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What options are available to people who need fertility assistance in Ontario? And what barriers do queer and trans people face in their journeys to parenthood? Laine Halpern Zisman explains more in her new book "Conceivable: A Guide to Making 2SLGBTQ+ Family."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Health Canada's 5th annual report on medical assistance in dying was released in December, reflecting numbers and demographics from 2023. For the first time, race and Indigenous identity, and disability were measured. For a discussion on who is requesting and receiving MAID, and for what illnesses, we welcome James Downar, Clinical Research Chair in Palliative and End of Life Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Rebecca Vachon, Program Director of Health at Cardus Canada; zSonu Gaind, a psychiatrist and professor at University of Toronto; and Sandy Buchman, a palliative care doctor working out of North York General Hospital.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
After two decades of raging against the machine, The NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay, Charlie Angus, is leaving Canadian politics at the end of this parliament's life. He is also the author of a new book called "Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed." He joins Steve Paikin in studio for a wide-ranging discussion on his political career, and a tumultuous period in Ottawa. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The cost of housing, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area, is one of our most persistent problems. Governments have employed a lot of strategies to get the prices down, and yet, they remain stubbornly high. The city of Vaughan in York Region recently announced a new approach, and the city's mayor, Steven Del Duca, joins The Agenda to explain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Municipal budget season in Ontario is coming to a close, and if there's one major takeaway from all of these proposals and deliberations, it's that property taxes everywhere are going up in 2025. But the rate of the increase is much more steep in some places than in others. Why is that? And what, exactly, are these billions of dollars collected by cities and towns being spent on?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In recent years, Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, has become a contentious subject. Statues have been taken down, his name has been removed from schools and his face has been removed from the $10 bill. However, one author is pushing back against the noise. The Agenda invites author Patrice Dutil to speak on his latest book, "Sir John A. Macdonald & the Apocalyptic Year 1885."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is going on with the scientific research? How do product labels manipulate us? Can we trust online reviews? Timothy Caulfield dives into all of these issues in his new book: "The Certainty Illusion: What You Don't Know and Why it Matters." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For decades in Ontario's capital city, the words Regent Park brought up images of drugs, crime, and decay. But over the past decade and a half, Regent Park has been transformed. Mitchell Cohen is president and CEO of the Daniels Corporation, which led much of the regeneration of Regent Park. He chronicles that journey in a new book called: "Rhythms of Change, Reflections on the Regent Park Revitalization".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1The Ford government has been criticized recently for fast-tracking legislation and skipping the committee stage that usually includes public consultation. But is it sometimes necessary to skip steps in order to "Get It Done?" When should the public be consulted? And what does the public hearing process actually look like in this province?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump likely has at least some Canadians wondering, what if we did become the 51st state? How would our lives be different? Could we maintain our distinctive and different customs? For insight into this hypothetical, we welcome Laura Dawson, executive director of the Future Borders Coalition, a self-described bi-national organization promoting a cohesive vision of the U.S.-Canada border based on the principles of efficiency, safety, and security; Jeffrey Simpson, for more than three decades, the national affairs columnist at the Globe and Mail, and author of eight books; and Kathleen Wynne, 25th premier of Ontario, now teaching public policy at the University of Toronto's Victoria and Trinity Colleges.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Justin Trudeau has acknowledged it was the burgeoning calls from his caucus that ultimately convinced him it was time to step down. What is his legacy as prime minister? And does his departure give the Liberals a chance to refresh the brand before the next election? We ask: Tonda MacCharles, parliamentary bureau reporter for the Toronto Star; Jeffrey Simpson, for more than three decades, a national affairs columnist with the Globe and Mail; and Ontario's 25th premier Kathleen Wynne, who now teaches public policy at Victoria University and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Canada's bail system is once again being questioned following the shooting of a police officer in Ontario's capital city last fall where the accused was out on bail at the time. The Ontario government has called on the feds to get tougher on repeat offenders, while advocacy groups have raised concerns over overcrowding in provincial jails. The Agenda invites with experts from across the board to discuss whether our bail system is failing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In his latest book: "The Jesuit Disruptor: a Personal Portrait of Pope Francis" Michael W. Higgins offers a nuanced look at a complex pope with a simple agenda: radically reforming the Catholic Church. He is the Basilian Distinguished Fellow of Contemporary Catholic Thought at the University of Toronto's St. Michael's College. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
With the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria, the story of a daring diplomatic mission undertaken more than a decade-and-a-half ago can now be told. Syria and Israel have been implacable foes for more than three-quarters of a century. But in 2007, a resident of Thornhill, Ontario met secretly with Assad for two-and-a-half hours in hopes of beginning a peace process with Israel. That man was Moshe Ronen, who has never previously publicly discussed his peace mission, and he joins Steve Paikin to talk about this experience and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Many Ontarians likely took lessons from the Royal Conservatory of Music as children. Alexander Brose is the new president and CEO of the Royal Conservatory, which has headquarters in Toronto. He joins us in studio to share his vision for Canada's most prominent music education institution. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Technology that enables better prevention and better contact tracing is essential to combat spread. More funding and more attention brought to industry that are addressing these issues.
Great discussion. I’d like to see school boards invest more in research that focuses on how students learn, and less on what they should be learning. In other words, students would do well to know how to they learn best. And the curriculums themselves should have empirical research to support there adoption into school boards.
Interesting to see how agendas were brought to the table. No mention of innovation in energy storage to offset down-time or off-peak.
The fact that we have children in lockdown for weeks while large businesses stay open and precarious workers cannot afford to take sick leave is disgusting.
She’s contradicting herself. Also arguing that we cant manage migratory birds really is laughable considering the successful history of north american waterfowl cooperation.
Excellent collegial debate!
I wonder if the people who don't want windfarms forced on rural communities feel the same way about running pipelines through Native land. But it's awfully telling that the interviewee who thinks student activists can't think for themselves also concluded his argument by saying "I don't know and I don't care."
Given the amount of controversy around this subject it seems appropriate that at least one panel member should have offered the other side of the debate. This was not an objective exploration of the subject matter.
come on guys. I've gotten away from listening to stuff like this long enough that it just sounds like racist pandering
This sounds like sour grapes male voter blaming. Kathleen Win had more chances than most because of the party she represented. I was behind her when she started, even thought I am a fiscal conservative. She followed the same path as her mentor Dalton and she lasted longer than she should have. Her spending was driving our credit rating into the ground. If anything I was the fool for thinking you can trust someone on the left side of the isle for curbing spending and paying down debt. This had nothing to do with male voters, and I find it offensive that seems the slant this is taking.
Nobody's gonna mention that their party leader is an ethnonationalist terrorist sympathizer? Okay then.
On the point of Canadian movies and screen time; I would recommend getting them picked up by CBC go and Netflix as I would only really go to the movie theatre for a movie I was really excited about. The cost of movies is too high now.
This was painful. Running universities like businesses is what allows top administrators to splurge on useless vanity projects while academic offerings decline and work is shifted to underpaid contract faculty. The Ford government wants to reduce education (a human right) to a money-making project, with no value placed on scholarship or a well-informed population. On top of that, they don't want businesses to have to pay employees a living wage for the very work that companies profit from. All of these changes (except the free speech bit) are going to cripple Ontario.