The Rundown

Provincial data shows that Black or racialized students graduate less often and don't achieve the same educational outcomes as white students. At the Windsor Essex Catholic School Board and other across the province, education coaches support Black, African, and Caribbean students to ensure they meet their academic goals. A coach and student join us to discuss what more can be done to increase equity in education delivery.

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Just like many other cities in Ontario, Hamilton is gripped with a housing crisis. Hamilton's leaders have been called on to support low-income and unhoused residents by addressing issues such as encampments, warming centres, and the cost of living - and that's just in the past month. Hamilton-Niagara Hub journalist digs into the numbers and the people behind them.

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It seems like technology and artificial intelligence are making more headlines with chat bots and algorithms making new discoveries almost daily. What's next? And are we prepared for a world that uses artificial intelligence? Sinead Bovell, futurist, and founder of WAYE, a tech education company, joins us to discuss what the future will look like, the potential challenges and how we can get ahead of them.

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The Agenda's week in review begins with the bombshell story of Toronto's mayor declaring his intent to resign. Then, debating sports betting in the province; is artificial intelligence on the verge of becoming conscious. And, assessing the track record of international human rights enforcement.

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"The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!" traces the story of the secret route of safe houses into Canada and offers new insights into the rich heritage of the Black people who made Toronto their home before the Civil War. For insights, we welcome the book's co-author Afua Cooper, Killam Research Chair at Dalhousie University.

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Seventy-five years ago, in the shadow of the Second World War, countries put their collective heads together to write a common international moral language. What resulted was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - fundamental moral principles each and every human being was entitled to. Since then, enforcement and guaranteeing rights has sometimes been difficult, and consensus has often been hard to find. Critics wonder if human rights complaints too often come from Western mouths, and if the definition "human right" has been expanded to its detriment. Supporters of the movement say there have been major victories and that change is incremental. The Agenda debates whether the international human rights movement has become ineffective.

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Ontario is all in on sports betting. And with billions in wagers and millions in revenue already, the advertising battle for your money is fierce. But is it already undermining the love of the game? We'll debate that tonight with Brian Masse, NDP MP for Windsor-West; Chelsea Rodrigues, problem gambling counsellor at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare; Paul Burns, president and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association; and Deirdre Querney, registered social worker with the City of Hamilton's Alcohol, Drug & Gambling Services, and co-creator of Brain Connections, a project to share information about gambling and the brain.

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As you can imagine, Toronto was a very different place in 1894. But if you think it was staid, or homogenous and bland, Carolyn Whitzman's new book tells a tale that might challenge that assumption. It is a real whodunnit. She talks to Steve Paikin about "Clara at the Door with a Revolver: The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto."

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Twenty years into teaching happiness, Dacher Keltner has now found his answer: find awe. He discusses his book, "Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life" and explains why we need it and how we can find more of it.

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Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist at OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, has said today's technology might be "slightly conscious." Google engineer Blake Lemoine claimed that Google's AI LaMDA was "sentient." Is it? Could AI become conscious in our lifetime? And beyond if we can create AI sentience, should we? MIT's Max Tegmark, author of "Life 3.0," and others, debate the future of AI.

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