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.
252 episodes transcribedIn his latest book: "The Jesuit Disruptor: a Personal Portrait of Pope Francis" Michael W. Higgins offers a nuanced look at a complex pope with a simp...
With the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria, the story of a daring diplomatic mission undertaken more than a decade-and-a-half ago can now be...
Many Ontarians likely took lessons from the Royal Conservatory of Music as children. Alexander Brose is the new president and CEO of the Royal Conserv...
Coming off a five-week national tour, country rocker Devin Cuddy joins us in studio to talk about his inspirations, his upbringing, and how he lost hi...
How many 16-year-olds these days love Ella Fitzgerald? Young musician Ellie Maxwell sure does. After being adopted from South Africa, Ellie now lives...
Howie Mooney does have a day job that has nothing to do with reporting on football and hockey, podcasting, or writing books. But the day job doesn't f...
How did Pan-African thought spread through North America in the twentieth century? The proliferation of Black liberation movements is explored in a ne...
The longest-serving prime minister in the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth is Canada's very own, William Lyon Mackenzie King. This year,...
Christmas is just around the corner. In preparation, The Agenda invites veteran Bayview Village Santa Claus, Ken Jones to discuss how parents all over...
There are a few reasons why the Canadian dollar is lower against its U.S. counterpart. One is a widening gap in interest rates. Another is economic pe...
Over a period of 8 months, Ronnie Shuker set out to play hockey in every province and territory in Canada. The resulting book is called "The Country...
"The Master Plan" is a play about the failure to build a city of the future along Toronto's historic waterfront. This satire of the messy drama betwee...
Project Humanity started as a theatre company, and grew into an organization with a larger community purpose. Priscilla Williams and Melissa Bleecker...
There are plenty of very vulnerable people living in Ontario, and tonight, we're going to look at some of the people who are possibly at the very bott...
Journalist John Lorinc's new memoir, "No Jews Live Here," is a documentation of four generations of his Hungarian Jewish family's journey through the...
Should you have kids? It's a question most of us will ask ourselves at some point in our lives. Antinatalists have an easy and categories answer for y...
China's population is now shrinking. India's could follow within a generation. South Korea has the world's lowest birth rate. Italy has the fastest sh...
Canada-Mexico relations hit a rough patch earlier this year following the Canadian ambassador's criticism of Mexico's judicial reforms. Hopes for a ra...
Once a year, Ontario's Auditor General takes a deep dive into several aspects of provincial spending. The highlight of this year's report: how the For...
In his latest book, author Daniel Macfarlane argues that Lake Ontario has been neglected both environmentally and in spirit. The book is called "The L...
