The Rundown

Stephane Friday talks about how Indigenous players on NHL winning teams are giving young people in the community hope and much needed mentorship. Friday is the co-founder of Hockey Indigenous, a non-profit organization aiming to empower and promote Indigenous youth across Canada. Friday created Hockey Indigenous six years ago and has seen an explosion of Indigenous participation in hockey professionally and at the amateur level.

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The fastest growing area of tourism in Canada is Indigenous focused. One third of visitors to Canada want an Indigenous experience. For insight on this tourism sector, that's sharing with non-Indigenous people across Ontario the food, culture, history, and traditions that have been practised on these lands for thousands of years, we welcome Kevin Eshkawkoga, president and CEO, Indigenous Tourism Ontario, from M'Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island; and Neil Debassige, a producer on Sportsman Channel Canada's hunting and fishing program, "Fuel the Fire TV."

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Lawyer Marcus McCann, author of "Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path," talks to Jeyan Jeganathan about Canada's long history of park cruising and the "unbroken line" of police crackdowns that date back at least a hundred years. McCann explains the intersections of park cruising with the justice system, health epidemics, cultural norms, sexual consent, urban planning and why the subject continues to divide both heterosexual and queer communities. Is finding intimacy in parks still necessary given the prevalence of dating apps and queer bars?

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Hit with skyrocketing housing costs and above-guideline rent increases, tenants across Toronto have launched a collective rent strike which has now entered its second month. Nearly 200 residents at 33 King Street in downtown Toronto, as well as hundreds of tenants in Thorncliffe Park and Parkdale are withholding payments in response to corporate landlords hiking rent for repairs and renovations. Rent strikes have become more common in the last few years, but are they effective? Are landlords acting in predatory ways, or are the rent increases justified? We hear from both sides about the best course of action.

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This CFL season marks a major milestone for the Argos. The team was founded in 1873. That makes it the oldest professional sports team anywhere in North America still using its original name. The Double Blue are 150 years old this year. Who better to discuss this than the most valuable player of last year's Grey Cup Championship, linebacker Henoc Muamba.

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The Agenda this week assessed the housing platforms of the leading candidates for mayor of Toronto, and heard from some less often profiled candidates about how they'd do the job.

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In the depths of the Depression, nearly 100 years ago, a remarkable thing happened in Chatham, Ontario. A baseball team, comprised solely of Black players, won the provincial championship. In the process - more than a decade before Jackie Robinson broke the colour barrier in Major League Baseball - they did what might have once seemed impossible. Heidi LM Jacobs documents that story in her new book, "1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars' Barrier-Breaking Year." Jacobs, along with Deirdre McCorkindale. board member of the Chatham Kent Black Historical Society and an assistant professor of History at the University of Guelph, discuss this momentous event.

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When there are 102 candidates running for mayor of Toronto, it presents a significant obstacle to hearing all the voices that need to be heard. We aim to help by inviting three candidates for mayor who have earned the right to be part of the mix. Chloe Brown placed third in the mayor's race last October. She is currently project coordinator at Future Skills Centre; Anthony Perruzza, the current Toronto City Councillor for Humber River-Black Creek and a former member of the Ontario legislature;
and Rob Davis, a consultant who was the first ever Black councillor in the old city of York and the newly amalgamated city of Toronto.

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Assessing plans mayoral candidates have for housing in Toronto. With guests: Eric Lombardi of More Neighbours Toronto; Jay Pitter, principal at Jay Pitter Placemaking and planner in residence at the University of Waterloo;
Sean Galbraith, urban planner with Galbraith & Associates; and Asquith Allen, director of policy and regulatory affairs at the Federation for Rental-housing Providers of Ontario.

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In February 2020, there was a happy-go-lucky little girl named Keira, who suffered a terrible fate. She was killed, and the murderer was her father, who did it as an act of revenge. Keira's mother and stepfather, palliative care physician, Dr. Jennifer Kagan and family lawyer, Philip Viater, join us to discuss the legal reforms they have pursued around domestic violence, in hopes that no other family will have to experience the anguish they have.

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