The Rundown

Epidemiologist Raywat Deonandan provides an update on where we're at with COVID-19 as the colder weather approaches and we spend more time indoors. What variants should we know about, what's the status on vaccines, and how should we approach masking?

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Five Toronto mayoral candidates - Gil Penalosa, Stephen Punwasi, Sarah Climenhaga, Chloe Brown and John Tory - debate and share their plans around transit, housing, business growth and eliminating red tape. Moderated by The Agenda's Steve Paikin.

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The idea that young people are the most liberal and progressive people you'll ever meet is being challenged as new studies show youth are detaching from democracy across the Anglosphere. Instead, they are finding forms of authoritarianism appealing. Fed up with the challenging generational hand they've been dealt, some are denouncing democratic institutions and looking towards strong leaders to quickly fix their problems. Is Canada immune to this trend?

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In the last five years, studies have shown a greater than 4 per cent decline in the number of Indigenous people able to hold a conversation in their own languages. Many of the 70 Indigenous languages found in Canada are under threat, in favour of the country's official English and French languages. We welcome Ryan DeCaire, associate professor at the University of Toronto's Centre for Indigenous Studies and Department of Linguistics, and a Mohawk language teacher, to help us better understand what's been lost, and to discuss innovative ideas for revival.

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Seventy-five years since the partition of India and Pakistan, tensions between the two countries remain high despite their linguistic, cultural, geographic, and economic links. To help assess what the future might hold, and the prospects for dialogue between the two nuclear-armed neighbours we welcome, Husein Haqqani, director for South & Central Asia at the Hudson Institute and Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States; Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History and director, Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University; Ajay Biseria, former High Commissioner of India to both Canada and Pakistan; and Rohan Mukherkee; assistant professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Why is the world's second largest economy struggling? And what are the prospects for an economic turnaround in the coming months? And if it doesn't come to pass, what will a slowing economy spell for the Community Party's longer-term ambitions? For insight, we welcome Joanna Chiu, a Toronto Star senior reporter and author of "China Unbound: A New World Disorder;" and Mary Lovely, economist and Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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George McCullagh once owned three of the most important newspapers in Toronto, part of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Argonauts, and rubbed shoulders with the country's elite - all despite coming from very modest beginnings. Mark Bourrie has documented McCullagh's life in his new book, "Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada's Most Powerful Media Mogul."

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New research shows that news coverage of word events is not captivating audiences the way it once did. But why do people seem to be increasingly tuning out the news? For insights we welcome: Adam Mastroianni, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Columbia School of Business; investigative journalist Amanda Ripley; and Colette Brin, director of the Center for Media Studies at Laval University.

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Grief is a natural response to loss, but how much space do we grant one another to process it? How do factors such as class and race play a role in the grieving process? What does it mean to heal and recover from grief - is it even possible? Our guests delve into how grief is perceived in our society.

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Mental-health content has been on the rise on social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. From childhood trauma to toxic relationships, we are always one click away from someone else's personal story. To what extend does this phenomenon help empower people and destigmatize trauma? And when does it become too much? Psychotherapists and content creators discuss the impulse to disclose trauma experiences online.

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