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.
165 episodes transcribedFor 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...
History and art have major influences on fashion, but when does it go too far? Indigenous multidisciplinary artist Brit Ellis and Indigenous Fashion A...
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...
The Agenda this week looked at the fast fading fortunes of the Liberal Party of Canada, the Meta news ban one year later, the state of the child welfa...
Author Karen Cumming was poised to be an astronaut. Turns out, she didn't go to Mars, but the potential of leaving Earth forced her to take a better l...
A lot of former students claim that they can't speak a minimum of French even after years of French immersion. The Agenda discusses what are the gaps...
Jeyan Jeganathan visits wetland ecologist Janice Gilbert on the frontline lines of the battle against invasive phragmites. Considered one of Ontario's...
Although much more awareness is given to postpartum depression, Dawn Kingston's research shows that just as many, if not more women struggle with thei...
Why are some Ontario agencies placing foster kids in hotels? This is one of many stories of concern in the child welfare space right now. We invite ag...
Just over a year ago, news disappeared from Facebook and Instagram in Canada. The Agenda looks at the impact Meta's ban on news has had on Canadians.S...
