The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)
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The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)
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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Steve Paikin Signs Off The Agenda
After 19 seasons as anchor of TVO's flagship current affairs program The Agenda, Steve Paikin signs off with a final goodnight. As well, a brief highl...
Who is The Agenda's last guest?
The Agenda is coming to an end after 19 seasons. We present the show's final guest: Steve's dad.
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What Will Future Generations Look Back On in Horror?
Smoking in elevators, movie theatres, or airplanes. Goaltenders playing hockey in the NHL without a mask. Burning tons of coal to generate electricity...
This is Not Your Grandparents' Retirement
After a long, successful career in journalism, Cathrin Bradbury was at loose ends, post-retirement. How should she spend her time and still-abundant e...
What is Thermal Comfort?
Toronto is adapting to climate change with new Thermal Comfort Guidelines, developed after a city-wide study by DIALOG and Buro Happold. With the numb...
How Has Medicine Advanced Since 2006?
Since its launch 19 years ago, The Agenda With Steve Paikin has highlighted scientific discoveries and new insights into health. So what's changed ove...
Surviving the Michipicoten
Now retired, Kent Knechtel, a former second engineer aboard the freighter Michipicoten, recounts the day a 13-foot hull crack changed everything. Than...
Is the World Falling Backwards?
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and then the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, many thought the world was going to be a much better place goi...
How Much Has the World Change in 20 Years?
What has Canada learned from its participation in the war in Afghanistan? Is a two-state solution the only way forward for Israel and Palestine? And w...
A Canadian Picture Book at the U.S. Supreme Court
How did a Canadian author's alphabet book end up at the United States Supreme Court? And what does this mean for 2SLGBTQ+ books for kids in Canada? We...
What Went Wrong with the Carbon Tax in Canada?
Preston Manning. Bob Rae. Jean Charest. Paul Martin. Former NDP premier of BC, Michael Harcourt. What do they all have in common? Well, they were all...
If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again?
In 2004 Facebook was created. Two years later in 2006 Twitter was founded AND the very first episode of the Agenda aired here on TVO. Fast forward to...
Holding on to Bilingualism in Sturgeon Falls
The TVO series "Crossroads: Beyond Boom and Bust" focuses on Ontario communities that have moved away from their own origin stories. Sturgeon Falls is...
Can Ontario Get Energy Planning Right?
Ontario minister of energy and mines Stephen Lecce oversees portfolios the government says will drive economic growth in the province in the years ahe...
Is Pride Still a Protest?
With Pride month underway, The Agenda looks back at how conversations around 2SLGBTQIA issues have changed since the show first began in 2006. Has Can...
When Richard Nixon Came to Prince Edward County
In 1957, Richard Nixon ventured to Prince Edward County for a "boys weekend" of fishing and golfing. Steve Paikin catches up with author Thomas Harris...
How the Liberals Ended the Tory Dynasty 40 Years Ago
40 years ago, something quite extraordinary happened at Queen's Park. The opposition parties combined forces to defeat the Progressive Conservative go...
Why are Wildfires Getting Worse?
Wildfires are increasing in number and intensity around the world. Why is that? And how can Canadians better prepare for wildfire season? We discuss w...
Have Canadians Cared Enough about Climate Change?
19 years after The Agenda began, the conversation around climate change has shifted dramatically. What has gone well in terms of Canadian efforts to f...
What's on the Table at the G7 Summit?
With global trade being the focus of this month's G7 summit, can Canada reach an agreement with the U.S. to resolve their trade dispute? For more abou...
How Much Progress Has Canada Made on Indigenous Relations?
Relations between Canada and Indigenous Peoples have certainly evolved since The Agenda first began covering these issues in 2006. There was Stephen H...
Can Better Data Improve Policing in Ontario?
As part of the Community Safety and Policing Act, Ontario appointed Ryan Teschner as the first Inspector General of Policing. A year into his role, he...
Inequality, Populism and the Great Recession
The Agenda's week in review looks at whether inequality has gotten worse since the Great Recession; and what the future of populism might look like in...
How Can Canada Deliver On Its Renewed Natural Resources Ambition
The world may be changing rapidly, but one thing is not – its demand for natural resources, many of which Canada has supplied for generations. Oil, na...
Did The Great Financial Crisis Ever Really End?
Housing affordability and lagging productivity in Canada. The economic rise of China and the global south. The surge of the tech economy in the U.S. A...
The Hunt for Tradition
The annual deer harvest at Short Hills Provincial Park is a traditional Haudenosaunee practice that manages the overpopulation of deer, protects the e...
Do Politicians at Queen's Park Really Hate Each other?
Has the level of toxicity in Ontario politics today gotten out of hand? Does Premier Doug Ford ever come across the floor and talk to the opposition m...
Is the U.K. the Key Ally Canada Needs?
Canada's relationship with the U.S. may go back a long way, but our relationship with the United Kingdom goes back even further. And, with Canada-U.S....
What's the Future of Populism in Canada?
In 2022, the Freedom Convoy brought the nation's capital to standstill. In 2025, so-called technocrat Mark Carney and the Liberals triumphed in the fe...
Should Canadian Millionaires Pay More?
Members of the Canadian chapter of Patriotic Millionaires believe the wealthy should contribute more in taxes - and they're hoping they can help chang...
Has Inequality Grown Since the Great Recession?
The first episode of The Agenda aired in September of 2006. Two years later we were in the midst of the Great Financial Crisis. From there, the Occupy...
Bill Browder: Why Putin Will Not End the War
After more than three years, is there an end in sight to Russia's war on Ukraine? Is Vladimir Putin serious about peace negotiations? And how has Dona...
Are Tariffs a Wake-Up Call for Ontario's Growers?
Over recent months, unpredictable U.S. tariffs have thrown Canada's food supply chain into disarray, sparking vital debates on diversifying trade part...
Can Canada Stay United?
The Agenda's week in review looks at how Canada can stay united amidst regional tensions, and why Indigenous leaders oppose the Ontario government's B...
Canada Geese Takeover
The Canadian Wildlife Service reports that there are approximately seven million Canada geese across North America, making their presence more noticea...
Whatever Happened to Transit City?
One of the most widely debated issues in Toronto in the last two decades has been transit. A plan called Transit City launched 18 years ago. In the in...
The Woman Behind a Legendary Timmins Mining Scandal
Viola MacMillan, owner of Windfall Oils and Mines, was a rare woman in the Canadian mining industry. In 1964, after three decades in the business, she...
Does Bill 5 Miss the Mark for Indigenous Communities?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford launched his most controversial piece of legislation this session, Bill 5, the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act...
Conrad Black: Canada, the U.S. and the Baron of Crossharbour
In 2006, TVO launched a new nightly current affairs program called "The Agenda." Its first ever guest was none other than Conrad Black, newspaper prop...
Does the RCMP Need an Overhaul?
Two-thirds of the RCMP's resources go to contract policing in 11 provinces and territories. Does that leave enough resources for federal policing? Pri...