The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Video)

Seven candidates, one leader: Steve Paikin asks the seven Ontario Liberal Party leadership candidates how they would balance the province's books and reinvigorate the Liberals' sagging popularity?

After more than a decade of scandals and inquiries at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, corruption allegations keep on coming. The Agenda asks: does Canada have a bigger corruption problem than we think?

Every four years, taxpayers in Ontario get that dreaded envelope from MPAC, often a harbinger of the tax bill to come. MPAC President Antoni Wisniowski tells Steve Paikin about MPAC's mandate and how it assesses the province's property values.

The cancelled "Slots at Racetracks" program cost Ontario taxpayers $345 million a year. The three former Ontario cabinet ministers responsible for a report on the future of the province's horse racing industry back the government's decision to cut the program. They sit down with Steve Paikin to tell him their vision for a sustainable horse racing industry.

Gambling with public health: A report from Toronto Public Health says that greater access to gaming would be detrimental to Torontonians. Toronto's Medical Officer of Health David McKeown tells Steve Paikin more about his concerns.

Author and journalist Chrystia Freeland tells Steve Paikin about her new book "Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else", and what it means to the growing income divide.

Teetering on the edge: BMO Financial Group strategy advisor Don Coxe walks Steve Paikin through the five Ws of the pending fiscal cliff in the United States.

Canada and China have negotiated an investment agreement that has some China watchers nervous. Privy Council member Stockwell Day explains why we have nothing to be afraid of.

As part of the series "Why Poverty?", The Agenda spoke to charitable organizations and people struggling with a low income in Grey and Bruce counties about the challenges involved in helping those in need in a large, rural community.

The UN General Assembly has voted to grant Palestine "non-member observer state" status. TVO Foreign Affairs Analyst Janice Stein explains the significance and how this might affect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

From fighting for human rights to answering Canada's energy woes, The Agenda brings you the Week in Review.

By many accounts, Canada is a leader when it comes to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights. But in many parts of the world, being gay is a crime. Gays and lesbians find themselves confronted by human rights abuses and constant threats. And in some countries, being gay is punishable by death. Boris Dittrich of Human Rights Watch sits down with Steve Paikin to talk about the fight to have LGBT rights recognized on a global stage.

For 20 years, Consuelo Morales has been anything but silent amid the drug violence and threats of intimidation in her native Mexico. She tells Steve Paikin why she continues the fight against human rights violations in Mexico.

17 years ago, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton said women's rights cannot be separated from human rights. Liesl Gerntholtz from Human Rights Watch sits down with Steve Paikin to offer an optimistic and realistic look at the state of women's rights today.

The Agenda hears criticism that there aren't enough female guests on our programs. We've blogged about it. Producers have spoken about it online. Now, The Agenda asks: If women are half of Ontario's population, why are they underrepresented in the media?