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.
472 episodes transcribedStatistics show youth violence is on the rise in Ontario. The Agenda looks at what's causing the spike in youth crime, the severity of the offenses, a...
How should we remember Sir John A Macdonald? At the newly resdesigned Bellevue House in Kingston, visitors can see that Macdonald had many accomplishm...
With many provincial youth detention centres being closed, what happens to the young offenders behind their walls? And where will the money saved from...
Yale historian Timothy Snyder talks to Steve Paikin about his latest book "On Freedom" - what it is, how it's misunderstood, and why it's our only cha...
One year after Hamas's attack on Israel, the war in Gaza shows no signs of stopping. Now following Israel's incursion into Lebanon, and Iran's ballist...
What do the following Toronto sports teams have in common: the hockey Leafs, the basketball Raptors, baseball's Blue Jays, soccer's Toronto FC, hockey...
Until Jackie Robinson's arrival in 1947, baseball banned players of colour. But something extraordinary happened this season: A new attempt to right t...
For the first time, more than 1 million Ontarians visited a food bank in the last year. And that's the eighth year in a row that that number has incre...
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that First Nations communities were owed billions of dollars from the Canadian and Ontario government as part of the...
The Agenda's week in review featured a conversation with one of the commissioners of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the current state of cov...
Getting around Ontario's capital city is a nightmare. How can Toronto dig itself out of this mess? And why does it matter for the rest of the province...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying to do something that's never been done before in Canadian history. He says he will fight for a fourth consecut...
Half of all water tests in at least 44 Ottawa-area high schools over five years showed traces of lead that exceeded federal standards, according to an...
Water infrastructure – that is, water mains, sewer systems and treatment plants – are usually out of sight and out of mind. That is, until something g...
The Ontario city that's not letting what you flush go to waste. How the world's largest wastewater energy transfer project will lead the way to heatin...
It was more than four years ago when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the world shut down. Now, things have largely retu...
Ontario's municipalities are experiencing a lot of growth and have ambitious housing targets to match. Are the old ways of funding infrastructure stil...
Nine years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission handed down their 94 calls to action, commissioner Marie Wilson reflects on the Commission an...
Residential school survivor, Phyllis Webstad is the founder of Orange Shirt Day and author of a new children's book: "Today is Orange Shirt Day." She...
History and art have major influences on fashion, but when does it go too far? Indigenous multidisciplinary artist Brit Ellis and Indigenous Fashion A...
