The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)

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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 A... more

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February 28, 2024 An Unvarnished Account of a 45-Year Political Career
Bob Runciman spent almost three decades in the Ontario legislature as an MPP and two-time interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He then became a senator in the Stephen Harper federal government. Steve Paikin meets with Bob runciman at Queen's Park to talk about his political life as documented in his memoir, "From Mad Dog to Senator."
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21min
February 28, 2024 Can Ontario Fix the Shortage of Personal Support Workers?
The Ontario government earmarked almost $5 billion in funding over four years to help long-term care homes hire and retain care staff. It's since added additional millions in incentives to attract thousands to become personal support workers over the next few years. For insight on whether those efforts can overcome the PSW shortages still projected by the province's fiscal watchdog, we welcome: Sharleen Stewart, president of SEIU Healthcare, a union representing more than 60 thousand frontline health-care workers; Dr. Samir Sinha, director of geriatrics, at Sinai Health; and Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of sociology at York University.
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29min
February 28, 2024 Sculpting the Legacy of Lincoln Alexander
Former lieutenant-governor of Ontario Lincoln Alexander saw something profound in the young, troubled Quentin VerCetty before anyone else did. Twenty years later that's who's been commissioned to create a sculpture of the late, great man.
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17min
February 26, 2024 What Post-War Letters Reveal About Racism in Canada?
Sheila White's parents met in Nova Scotia just after the Second World War. As she describes in her biographical novel, "The Letters: Postmark Prejudice in Black and White," it was a love story for the ages. With one caveat: Vivien was white, Billy was Black. How they forged their relationship against family and societal disapproval provides a snapshot into the fraught race relations of the time, and how two individuals worked to dispel narrow thoughts about who they were and what their life together would be based on their differences. She talks to Jeyan Jeganathan about hers and her parents' anti-racism advocacy and what she learned by delving into their story.
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24min
February 26, 2024 How an Ontario Couple Turned Tires into Their Off-Grid Oasis
Connie and Craig Cook have been living in their Earthship in southwestern Ontario for more than a decade. An Earthship is a type of sustainable home designed to be completely off the grid and in harmony with nature. Host Jeyan Jeganathan visits their home and explores the viability and interest in these terrestrial structures.
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11min
February 23, 2024 Elizabeth Dowdeswell: Representing the Crown Across Ontario
Elizabeth Dowdeswell stepped down last year as the longest-serving Lieutenant-Governor in Ontario history. Steve Paikin talks to her about being the Queen's (and for a short time, the King's) representative in Ontario during a once-in-a-century pandemic, and dealing with a very different premier, at least for his first year.
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24min
February 22, 2024 Afrofuturism: Reimaging a Career in Dance with Esie Mensah
Dancer turned choreographer Esie Mensah didn't think Afrofuturism applied to her. Questioning shade-ism helped change that.
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14min
February 22, 2024 Is Fiction an Antidote to Grief in Young People?
What's the likelihood of winning a Governor General's Literary Award for young people's literature? That might just be the kind of thing that the main character of Sarah Everett's book, "The Probability of Everything," would try to figure out. It's the story of a girl obsessed with odds, and the chances of things occurring, including the end of the world. As it turns out, the book DID win that prestigious award in 2023. And we're pleased it brings Sarah Everett to our studio.
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21min
February 22, 2024 Learning Black History as Canadian History
As the province celebrates Black History Month, the Ontario government has announced that the exceptional contributions of Black Canadians who helped shape Canada will now be a mandatory part of the Canadian history curriculum for grades 7, 8 and 10. We welcome high school educator and president of The Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators, Deborah Buchanan-Walford.
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13min
February 21, 2024 Grief Phones: Calling Into the Beyond
Inspired by the original wind phone in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, Keith Lamont has installed a disconnected vintage phone on his farm in Acton, Ontario. He hopes visitors experiencing grief will find it a useful tool for processing loss. Catherine Manning (music therapist, Hospice Wellington) and Linda E. Clarke (writer, performer) talk about their experiences with the wind phone and its surprising affects.
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11min

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The podcast currently has 3,515 episodes available.