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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Patti LaBoucane-Benson: The Outside Circle
Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Director of Research, Training and Communication at Native ...
Patti LaBoucane-Benson, Director of Research, Training and Communication at Native Counselling Services of Alberta, joins Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss her graphic novel "The Outside Circle." The story focuses on an Aboriginal man wrapped up in gang violence who seeks a path towards rehabilitation through Aboriginal healing circles and ceremonies, an experience informed by LaBoucane-Benson's work with Aboriginal men over the last 20 years.
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Kate Lines: Behind the Yellow Tape
Kate Lines joins The Agenda in the Summer for a ...
Kate Lines joins The Agenda in the Summer for a feature interview on her 30 plus years in law enforcement. Lines joined the OPP in 1977, and was the first woman to go undercover. She later became the second Canadian to graduate from the FBI's Criminal Profiling program in Quantico, Virginia. She recounts the triumphs and tragedies in her decades-long career, including investigating the abduction and murder of Kristen French, and lobbying for a centralized criminal database that would revolutionize police investigations in Canada.
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Marc Goodman: A Manhattan Project for Cyberspace
Marc Goodman, author of "Future Crimes," returns to The Agenda ...
Marc Goodman, author of "Future Crimes," returns to The Agenda to discuss the need for broad-based approach to cyber-security. With ever increasing threats to individual privacy, infrastructure, financial security and public safety, Goodman explains why we need a "Manhattan Project for the 21st century" in cyberspace.
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Marc Goodman: Crime Inc.
"The Internet has lost its innocence," writes author Marc Goodman ...
"The Internet has lost its innocence," writes author Marc Goodman in his new book "Future Crimes." We're connected online more than ever before, leaving us more dependent and vulnerable. Organized criminal groups, or Crime, Inc., are exploiting this digital age to commit everything from hacking to identity theft to murder. Goodman discusses the exponential growth of crime online.
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George Elliott Clarke: The Colour of Policing
A series of highly publicized police killings of unarmed black ...
A series of highly publicized police killings of unarmed black men in the U.S. over the last year has sparked a debate over police tactics and the criminal justice system, and how they affect the lives of African-Americans. Protests in cities from Ferguson, Missouri to Baltimore, Maryland have seen the hashtag #blacklivesmatter thrust into the spotlight. In Canada, black communities haven't been immune to tensions with the police either. It's a topic close to the heart of George Elliott Clarke, Toronto's poet laureate and professor of English at the University of Toronto. He joins The Agenda in the Summer to give his take on the often fraught relationship between black people and law enforcement in Canada and the U.S.
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Boulou Ebanda de B'béri: The Promised Land
For many Canadians, the history of African-Canadians is limited to ...
For many Canadians, the history of African-Canadians is limited to the Underground Railroad. It's a history that some historians are working to expand upon. Boulou Ebanda de B'Béri, professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Ottawa, and co-editor of "The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond," joins The Agenda in the Summer to discuss his efforts to move African-Canadian history out of the margins.
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Linda Mahood: Hitchin' a Ride
The University of Guelph's Linda Mahood visits The Agenda in ...
The University of Guelph's Linda Mahood visits The Agenda in the Summer for a feature interview to discuss her research work, "Hitchin' a Ride in the 1970s: Canadian Youth Culture and the Romance with Mobility," which details the movement of young Canadian hitchhikers across the country during a time of political and social change, and how their travels influenced Canadian culture.
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Kim Thúy: A Newcomer's Odyssey
Author Kim Thúy joins The Agenda to reflect on how ...
Author Kim Thúy joins The Agenda to reflect on how the Vietnam War changed her family forever. Her book "Ru," selected as the book to break barriers by Canada Reads, traces a Vietnamese family's journey from Vietnam to Canada She also discusses to what extent Canada is a welcoming place for newcomers, and how immigrants shape the country.
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Jeffrey Simpson: Radical Parallelism
Jeffrey Simpson, National Affairs Columnist for The Globe and Mail, ...
Jeffrey Simpson, National Affairs Columnist for The Globe and Mail, discusses the unhappy state of affairs between Canada and Aboriginal peoples. Simpson will explore how federal governments went from a policy of subjugation and assimilation to one of parallel institutions and self-governance for First Nations, with progress for Aboriginal peoples remaining stubbornly slow.
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Stephanie Kain: Alternative Families
Author and English professor Stephanie Kain wanted to see more ...
Author and English professor Stephanie Kain wanted to see more positive portrayals of gay and lesbians in children's books to read to her daughter Emyln. So, she decided to write her own under the pen name Steff F. Kneff, and the series "Emlyn and the Gremlin" was born. She joins Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss how the normalization of alternative families in children's literature can play a role in changing people's attitudes.
