TVO The Agenda with Steve Paikin

National security reporter Colin Freeze on the case for and against beefing up Canada's spy services.

Wednesday February 27 2008

Fact or fiction? Writer Barrie Zwicker on the real story behind 9/11.

Wednesday February 13 2008

An extraordinary mind, an unusual life: Dr. Norman Doidge joins Daniel Tammet to help him explain what it's like to be one of the world's few autistic savants.

Friday January 16 2009

Supercapitalism: Robert Reich on how the unending quest for more power and profits is threatening our democracy.

Monday February 4 2008

John Adams of the Canadian Organization of Rare Disorders on the need for better prenatal and newborn genetic testing.

Friday February 29 2008

Is it work? family? faith? Syracuse University's Arthur Brooks on what makes us happy.

Thursday February 14 2008

Social geographer Joseph Darden on how Toronto's poor neighbourhoods could lead to a rise in white supremacist culture.

Monday February 11 2008

Car versus bike: Eleanor McMahon's personal battle to improve road safety.

Thursday January 8 2009

Dr. Roman Jovey on the rise in chronic pain and what can be done about it.

Monday February 25 2008

Iranian-Canadian philosophy professor Ramin Jahanbegloo on his imprisonment in Iran's notorious Evin Prison ... and his hopes for a peaceful future in one of the Mideast's most important countries.

Wednesday February 27 2008

Your brain and you: Baycrest vice president of research Dr. Donald Stuss discusses which part of the brain is responsible for what.

Monday January 12 2009

At home in a globalizing world: Ontario Minister of Economic Development and Trade Sandra Pupatello on the province's efforts to promote itself abroad.

Friday February 15 2008

Still the Right PC Leader?: Ontario Progressive Conservative leader John Tory on why the party should vote to keep him as leader at this month's general meeting.

Tuesday February 12 2008

The coming boom in neurological diseases: Brandeis University biochemist Gregory Pletsko on the aging brain.

Wednesday January 14 2009

Beyond business: Ananya Mukerjhee Reed on how globalization is changing India's religious traditions and centuries-old caste system.

Thursday February 7 2008

When using your head just isn't enough: The Hospital for Sick Children's Dr. Rahul Saxena on the adolescent brain.

Tuesday January 13 2009

The evil empire takes on Goliath: technology blogger Mark Evans on Microsoft's takeover of Yahoo! and what that means for Google, online innovation and 1.5 billion Internet users.

Friday February 8 2008

The last Westerner: Lt. Commander William Kuebler of the United States Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps on his client, Omar Khadr, and the Canadian government's refusal to seek his repatriation.

Wednesday February 27 2008

A land with plenty to offer, except a job: labour market analyst Nan Weiner and a new report on immigrant unemployment.

Wednesday January 28 2009

From tax cuts to transit, from bailouts to bathroom renovations: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on his government's big-spending stimulus budget.

Tuesday January 27 2009

Understanding the word of God: Shabir Ally, president of the Islamic Information and Dawah Centre, on who may interpret the Koran.

Thursday January 22 2009

Cocaine, cartels, conflict: Carlo Dade, executive director of the Canadian Foundation for the Americas, on Mexico's drug war.

Tuesday February 3 2009

Spell check: Joe Clark, author of Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English, on the uniqueness of our language.

Friday January 30 2009

The king and his courtiers: Donald Savoie, Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at the Université de Moncton, on the dangers of concentrating power in the prime minister's office.

Friday January 23 2009

When war is deliberately fought in the midst of civilians: TVO foreign analyst Janice Stein on the dangerous trend of war in the Mideast.

Monday January 26 2009

Is Ontario's food supply safe? Brian Evans of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency on the lessons of last summer's deadly listeriosis outbreak.

Wednesday January 21 2009

The courts, the bureaucracy and the internet: David Smith on the forces sapping Parliament's strength and prerogatives.

Friday January 23 2009

The University of Chicago's Jean Bethke Elshtain talks about what has--and what hasn't--changed in America following Barack Obama's historic victory.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Game designer Jane McGonigal explains why online gaming may be the future of work.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Foreclosures, credit crises ... it's bad out there, but it could get a heck of a lot worse. Meet the man they call Dr. Doom: New York University's Nouriel Roubini, chairman of the Roubini Global EconoMonitor.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Too busy? Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, tells you how to simplify your life and remain productive.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Eric Margolis, author of American Raj, discusses how the United States and the Muslim world can prevent a clash of civilizations.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Former finance minister Greg Sorbara talks about the hits the province's tourism industry has taken and his study on how to put Ontario back on the traveller's map of destinations.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Prepared for adulthood? Robert Epstein, former editor in chief of Psychology Today, makes the case against adolescence.

Friday, April 11, 2008

A shock to the system: Steve Mahoney, chair of Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, talks about his efforts to raise awareness of workplace injury and death.

\Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Too much of that and not enough of this: renowned reproductive scientist Malcolm Potts comments on the too-large and inefficient spending on AIDS research.

Friday April 4

Bush lied and people died? Not so, says prominent social scientist Robert Jervis. And what's more, the U.S. intelligence service remains the best in the world.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer discusses native/non-native relationships and the debate over bloodlines and identity on reserves.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Homo economicus: MIT's Andrew Lo discusses reason, emotion and behavioural economics.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Ontario's minister of economic development talks about the government plan for the auto sector.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

What we pay for the privilege of having a water system: civil engineer Bryan Karney comments on the state of Ontario's water infrastructure and our attitude toward this basic resource.

Friday, April 11, 2008

A 40-year, $40-billion war that has yet to be won: Dr. Devra Davis reveals the secret history of the war on cancer.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Why where you live is as important as who you live with: superstar academic Richard Florida talks about urban centres, the creative economy and what he likes about Toronto, his newly adopted city.

Friday, April 21, 2008

Former U.S. ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci discusses what an Obama victory means for relations along the 49th parallel.

Friday, November 7, 2008

TVO foreign analyst Janice Stein explains why some Europeans think the American century is coming to a close.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Chris Wattie, author of Contact Charlie, talks of the journalists who patrol the front lines in Afghanistan.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

International analyst Kamran Bokhari discusses the Mumbai attacks, the Asian subcontinent's rising tensions and what the U.S. is doing to calm them.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Retraining for a reeling and retooling economy: John Milloy, Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, talks about his government's promise to upgrade skills for the unemployed.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Rising might: the New America Foundation's Parag Khanna talks about the United States' new global competitors.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Carl Isenburg, president of Ontario's Municipal Property Assessment Corporation, discusses property values, accurate assessments and the appeals process.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Being Canadian on--and off--the ice: author Bruce Dowbiggin describes what hockey tells us about where we've come from and where we're going.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Passchendaele: actor and director Paul Gross discusses his film about the epic Canadian World War I battle.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Have and have-not: David MacKinnon of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy comments on Ontario's bellying up to the equalization bar.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty explains what his government is prepared to do to help Canada weather a gathering economic storm.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Green, local and fresh: Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, talks about his eater's manifesto.

Wednesday, April, 30, 2008

Foreign analyst Janice Stein discusses the re-emergence of great power politics in the 21st century. Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson looks at political culture north and south of the border. Thursday, September 4, 2008

Playing politics with the law? Patrick Monahan comments on the government's decision to override its own legislation on the timing of federal elections. Friday, September 5, 2008

Are good leaders born or bred? Harvard University's Joseph Nye talks about that elusive quality called leadership. Monday, September 8, 2008

Layton's gamble: focus on Harper and ignore Dion. New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton explains his risky "Prime Minister in Waiting" election strategy. Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The architecture of memory: Christopher Hume discusses memorial art and architecture and the controversy around 9/11. Thursday, September 11, 2008

Ready for prime time? Green Party leader Elizabeth May talks about the environment, the leaders' debate, and some controversial past statements. Friday, September 12, 2008

Two million minutes: the amount of time between grade 8 and high school graduation. Documentary filmmaker Robert Compton is concerned about how American adolescents are wasting that time. Tuesday, September 16 2008

Starting over: New York Times Magazine editor Paul Tough describes the bottom-up rebuilding of New Orleans' inner city classrooms. Are there lessons here for anyone else? Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The self-styled underdog: Stéphane Dion discusses his first election as Liberal leader, the polls and the issues. Thursday, September 18, 2008

Dr. Leonard Sax, author of Boys Adrift, talks about the benefits of single-sex schooling. Friday, September 19, 2008

Journalist Henny Sender discusses whether the unprecedented Wall Street lifeline will finally stabilize the U.S. housing market. Monday, September 22, 2008

Anishinabek Nation grand council chief John Beaucage discusses outstanding land claims, relations with the OPP, and self-policing in native communities. Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Erstwhile allies and the widening war: strategic analyst Kamran Bokhari looks at the worsening relationship between Pakistan and the United States. Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Cultural critic John McWhorter talks about rap music's limiting horizons and Barack Obama's world of possibilities. Friday, September 26, 2008

Historian Niall Ferguson looks back at past financial emergencies and considers whether the current crisis in American credit markets will result in power flowing from West to East. Monday, September 29, 2008

Psychologist Jordan Peterson discusses the credit crisis and the social virtue known as trust. Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch discusses the sentiment that got him expelled from Ontario's PC caucus. Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Migration Policy Institute president Demetrios Papademetriou looks at the economic underpinnings of worldwide migration patterns. Monday, October 6, 2008

Quebec minister for Canadian intergovernmental affairs Benoit Pelletier discusses his province's role on the federal stage. Tuesday, October 7 2008

Former finance minister Janet Ecker looks at how Bay Street and Queen's Park are responding to the credit crisis. Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Making every vote count: Peter Cleary talks about his online federal election vote-swapping site. Friday, October 10, 2008

TTC chair and Metrolinx board member Adam Giambrone discusses a big 50-year regional transit plan for the greater Toronto area. Friday, October 10, 2008

Toronto school trustee Bruce Davis talks about his campaign to stop schools from having to pay the GST. Friday, October 10, 2008

Former prime minister Paul Martin discusses our broken financial institutions and how to fix them. Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Incoming Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza talks about taking over the country's largest private sector union amid a manufacturing slowdown and pending recession. Friday, October 17, 2008

Imagining Canada as rooted in the encounter with North America's native people: in his recent book, A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada, John Ralston Saul considers Canada as a Métis nation. Friday, October 17, 2008

Treasury Department consultant Annamaria Lusardi talks about how greater individual financial literacy might have reduced the severity of the credit crisis. Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan discusses his government's fall economic statement -- and the decision to allow Ontario to fall into a budget deficit. Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Ontario Securities Commission chair David Wilson discusses the credit crisis and the capital market he oversees. Friday, October 24, 2008

Business columnist Brian Milner explains how aggressive banking put Iceland into financial hot water. Monday, October 27, 2008

Health policy analyst Steven Lewis talks about the promise of e-health. Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Independent journalist Philip Smucker talks about Afghan infrastructure and the promise of that country's new ring road. Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Bill Bishop discusses the self-segregation he describes in his book The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. Friday, October 31, 2008

America's racial paranoia: anthropologist John L. Jackson Jr. describes how America has moved from overt racism to something much more subtle.

Removing the stigma of mental illness: former senator Michael Kirby talks about his new job as chairman of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

The geopolitical consequences of an aging planet: Duquesne University's Mark Haas discusses how global aging trends may help the U.S. maintain its position as the world's most powerful nation.

Eurabia: author and conservative columnist Mark Steyn talks about Europe's demographics and whether the United States remains "the last best hope of earth."

Extra-judicial killings in the Philippines: Philippines House of Representatives deputy leader Satur Ocampo considers his government's human rights violations and what Canada can do about them.

Sixty years old and not sure what it wants to be when it grows up: Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas comments on the Jewish state's difficult birthday.

The myth of Canada as a trading nation: author Andrea Mandel-Campbell discusses Canada's timidity and insularity on trade.

Damaged goods: former ambassador Allan Gotlieb describes how Canadian political meddling in the U.S. Democratic primary campaign discredited Canada's diplomatic corps.

The forgotten Father of Confederation: historian David Wilson talks about Thomas D'Arcy McGee and the role the assassinated politician played in forming the country.

Gairdner Award winner Dr. Sam Weiss explains his discovery that the adult brain produces stem cells to fix itself.

Hezbollahstan?: Janice Stein discusses Lebanon's tripartite divisions and the ripples they are causing across the Middle East.

Food for thought: Harvard University School of Public Health research fellow Jorge Chavarro describes how diet can boost fertility.

Banking on faith: Islamic legal historian Mohammad Fadel talks about the growing worldwide use of Islamic finance.

How are your LHINs? Veteran health policy analyst Steven Lewis discusses Local Health Integration Networks.

From science fiction to hard science: theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains why the "physics of the impossible" may not be.

Canada's forgotten veterans: author Michael Petrou ("Renegades") talks about Canada's Spanish Civil War volunteers, their sacrifices, and the country they faced when they got home.

The hijacking of a faith: author Tarek Fatah ("Chasing a Mirage") calls for a Muslim reformation.

A feature interview with North America's first-ever politician from the Iranian community elected to any legislature in Canada or the U.S.: Ontario MPP Reza Moridi.

Not part of the solution, but the source of the problem: author Gerald Caplan ("Betrayal of Africa") talks about the West's continued complicity in Africa's acute problems.

The most wretched of the earth: author Paul Collier ("The Bottom Billion") discusses how to prevent the world's poorest from falling even further behind.

Fuelling Armageddon: National Business Book Award winner William Marsden discusses Alberta's self-destructive road to growth.

Fuelling our friends: Petroleum industry expert Edward Morse talks about the importance of Alberta's oil to America's energy security.

Fuelling the future: energy consultant Steve Aplin discusses Ontario's billion-plus dollar nuclear choice.

Canada's finance minister Jim Flaherty on his 3rd federal budget.

Tuesday February 26 2008