The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Video)

After a two-year battle with cancer, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died this past week at the age of 58. In The Agenda's Story of the Week, we examine his divided legacy.

A week that asked why some sports figures self-destruct. A week that examined changing leadership styles. And a week that looked to the teachers of the future. The Agenda's Week in Review.

Political and business worlds see more and more women in prominent leadership positions. The Agenda examines if this development is changing our perception of what makes a leader.

Tiger Woods. Lance Armstrong. Oscar Pistorius. Elite athletes who have fallen from grace. The Agenda examines why we idolize sports figures, and the role the public plays in contributing to their downfall.

Former Harper advisor, conservative pundit and University of Calgary professor Tom Flanagan recently offered a libertarian view of individuals who look at child pornography. As a result, he's been fired from his job as a CBC political commentator, dis-invited from a talk at a conservative think tank, and is facing condemnation from his former political allies. He explains his position to Steve Paikin.

2030 sees a very different classroom and different students. As part of The Agenda's special Learning 2030 series, we ask: Are Ontario teachers ready for the digital future? From Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak says the selection of a new premier hasn't righted the direction of the Liberal government. He sits down with Steve Paikin to discuss the throne speech, Ontario's mounting debt and the ever-present gas plants controversy.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath says she'll let the throne speech go, but expects more of the upcoming budget. She sits down with Steve Paikin to discuss her next moves, and what her party wants to see in the budget.

Liz Sandals has been given a tough job as Ontario's new Minister of Education. She inherits the fallout of Bill 115, angry teachers, angry parents, and a whole lot of uncertainty. She sits down with Steve Paikin to talk about taking on this tough job.

World Vision Canada president and CEO Dave Toycen visited Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in December. While there, he spoke with Syrian refugee children, who shared their stories of what they saw in war-torn Syria, and how they escaped the violence. The stories of fear and uncertainty are part of a new World Vision report called "Running from War."

Its goal was to prevent crimes like genocide and ethnic cleansing. Eight years since the initiative was launched, how has the Responsibility to Protect doctrine worked around the world? Naomi Kikoler from the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect gives us an update on the doctrine, the challenge in enforcing it, and criticisms of its efficacy.

The Obama Administration's drone strikes program has come under heavy criticism following a leaked U.S. Justice Department memo defending the targeted killing of Americans. TVO's foreign affairs analyst Janice Stein explains the legal and diplomatic dilemma posed by drone strikes.

There has been a long-time anti-science current in right wing ideology, which sees evolutionary theory as a threat to religion and morality and climate change science as a threat to economic prosperity. But flip the coin over and you'll see an equally distressing mistrust of science by the left of anything that is unnatural: in food and food additives, of pharmaceutical drugs or vaccination, and of energy choices from nuclear options to fossil fuels, hydroelectric and wind power. Does your political ideology colour the kinds of science biases and suspicions you may hold? Is the current anti-science streak in our society a symptom of corresponding political extremism? Or are we all just afraid of the future?

There is a movement to make complementary alternative medicine a regulated field. While some patients have found results and improvements in their health and well-being, critics like Timothy Caulfield say alternative medicine isn't science-based. Will new regulations legitimize questionable practices or protect patient choice?

Trouble for teeth? After more than 50 years, the City of Windsor has voted to remove fluoride from its water supply. City Councillor Bill Marra tells The Agenda why Windsor has gone fluoride-free.