The Agenda with Steve Paikin
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 - Ontario's Public Media ...
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 - Ontario's Public Media Broadcaster.
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Charged for Change
When Elon Musk recently announced his newest innovation - a ...
When Elon Musk recently announced his newest innovation - a battery to power homes with or without access to the grid - some proclaimed the energy revolution had begun. Long the great hope for renewable energy, is storage technology finally poised to change the energy sector? The Agenda talks to Energy Storage Ontario's Rob Harvey to find out what this could mean for Ontario.
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Eyewitness to VE Day
On May 8, 1945 people around the world celebrated Victory ...
On May 8, 1945 people around the world celebrated Victory in Europe (VE) Day. After years of sacrifice, the Second World War was over in Europe. Steve Paikin asks people who saw VE Day in person in various countries what it was like to be alive at that moment?
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Ian Mosby: Food in Canada During World War II
On the eve of World War Two, new research methods ...
On the eve of World War Two, new research methods were finding that most Canadians were malnourished. When Canada entered the war, the federal government took unprecedented steps to influence what Canadians ate, so the country would have strong soldiers abroad and reliable workers at home. Ian Mosby, author of "Food Will Win the War," tells Steve Paikin why food was considered so important to Canadians during the Second World War.
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Our Worst Health Care Crisis
In the 1940s, this country's blood system was essentially in ...
In the 1940s, this country's blood system was essentially in the hands of the Canadian Red Cross. It took blood donations from volunteers, and supplied the blood to hospitals. But a few decades ago, it became apparent that thousands of Canadians were infected with HIV or hepatitis C, because the blood they were getting was tainted. The Agenda discusses how this happened, and whether Canada's blood system is any safer today.
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Kat Lanteigne: Tainted
Kat Lanteigne's play, "Tainted" was inspired by true stories of ...
Kat Lanteigne's play, "Tainted" was inspired by true stories of families affected by the tainted blood crisis of a few decades ago in Canada. She talks with Steve Paikin about what interested her about the crisis and her process of creating the play, over twenty years.
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Talking 'Bout the Body
Last week, thousands of parents across the province pulled their ...
Last week, thousands of parents across the province pulled their kids out of school to protest the province's new Health and Physical Education curriculum, which revamps what and when kids are taught about sex and sexual identity. The Agenda considers the criticisms and evaluates the province's plan for sex-education.
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Bob Rae: Advice to Premier Notley
Former Ontario Premier Bob Rae reflects on the lessons he ...
Former Ontario Premier Bob Rae reflects on the lessons he learned when faced with similar circumstances to Alberta Premier-Elect Rachel Notley, and what the Alberta win means for the NDP's federal fortunes
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Schools on Strike
The Agenda examines the issues that have led to the ...
The Agenda examines the issues that have led to the labour disputes in Ontario public schools.
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Whither Psychiatry?
With more individuals suffering from mental illness and fewer medical ...
With more individuals suffering from mental illness and fewer medical students choosing psychiatry as their specialization, the pressing question is: who is going to treat patients in need? At the same time psychiatry has been going through a wholesale revolution of understanding about the nature of mental illness, moving away from the psychoanalytic model to a more strictly scientific view of the mind. How might the profession change in the next 25 years and how will that affect patients?
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Mindfulness and Mental Health
Meditation and Eastern contemplative practices associated with Buddhism or Hinduism ...
Meditation and Eastern contemplative practices associated with Buddhism or Hinduism have long been outside the purview of science. In the past decade, however, there has been a tremendous growth of empirical research into the effects of "mindfulness" on mental health, and its lasting impacts on the brain. The Agenda convenes a panel to discuss the rise of mindfulness in the mental health field, and the "continental drift" of science and the Western mind towards Eastern philosophy.
