The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Video)
Summary: 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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From Ford Nation to the rise of ethnic hatred in the West, The Agenda brings you the Week in Review.
Charles Catto, honourary chief of the Wasauksing Ojibwa First Nation, talks about home building projects across the country that the Frontiers Foundation is doing.
Drones are increasingly used as a method of warfare, valued for their accuracy and limited troop casualties. The Agenda asks: Are these modern war machines a legitimate and moral form of warfare?
Ontario's Progressive Conservatives have a plan to reform labour laws in the province. The Agenda looks at the merits of the Tories' proposals.
With the American presidential election just over a month away, voters seem divided and angry. The Agenda takes the temperature of the US electorate.
A court case. Public blunders. An angry electorate. A supportive electorate. As Toronto Mayor Rob Ford enters his third year at the helm, The Agenda examines the state of Ford Nation.
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak tells Steve Paikin about his party's latest policy discussion paper on the reform of Ontario's healthcare system.
Author and journalist Doug Saunders says that despite what many believe, Muslim immigrants don't pose a risk to Western values. He sits down with Steve Paikin.
How is it that Anders Breivik, mass murderer of 69 young people could exist in a seemingly tolerant Scandinavian country like Norway? Or that anti-Semitism can be alive, well and expressed through violence in Germany and France? Or that a Sikh temple service in Wisconsin could be so violently disrupted on a quiet Sunday morning by a white supremacist with a semiautomatic handgun? What drives ethnic hatred and why do history's lessons not seem to resonate?
An anti-Islamic film is inciting mass protests against American interests in parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Is this reigniting old grievances against the United States or the beginning of a new form of anti-Americanism? The Agenda examines what the growing unrest means.
From the environment to gun violence to youth and mental health, what were people talking about on The Agenda this week? Find out on our Week in Review.
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair tells Steve Paikin what the Toronto Anti-Violence Strategy is, and how the new infusion of money from Queen's Park will help Toronto police combat gun violence in the city.
It's time for some new thinking on solving gun violence in Toronto. Should Canada's largest city emulate anti-violence models from other urban centres, or develop its own approach?
The city of Chicago, Illinois sees violence as a disease. Gary Slutkin hopes to change that with the CeaseFire campaign. He tells Steve Paikin how combining science and street outreach is cooling violent crime in his city.
From wind farms to waste-to-energy projects, how can Ontario's green initiatives flourish if concerned citizens don't want them in their communities?