The Agenda with Steve Paikin | November - December 2009

One argument. Two sides. Who should pay for "local" programming?

Brainstorm: Atkinson Fellow Alanna Mitchell and how neuroscience can improve our education system.

Anthony Cary, the British High Commissioner to Canada, on climate change and the state of Canada-British relations.

What can we do to foster a world class service culture and transform service jobs in Toronto and the Province of Ontario?

The past, present and future of Canada's relationship with the United Kingdom.

Reading, Writing... and Boys-Only Schools? Toronto District School Board Director of Education Chris Spence on paving a new educational path.

Cory Doctorow on why copyright is worth fighting about.

Will the provincial government's 25-year plan for Northern Ontario transform the region's economy?

Photographer David Hlynsky on his pictures documenting the differences between western and eastern materialism.

Swimming in red ink. Time to tighten the belt?

Ill prepared? Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Arlene King on the state of H1N1 preparations.

Kindergarten-plus? The right idea at the right time? The political ABCs of early learning.

General Rick Hillier (ret.), Canada's former top soldier, on waging war on two fronts, in Afghanistan and in Ottawa.

Panic at the clinic. The risks...the rollout... and the H1N1 hysteria.

1919: the end of empires. 2009: The end of the US empire?

Life sentence. Human Rights Lawyer Jillian Siskind on bringing war criminals to justice ... in Canada.

Dr. John Ratey on the connection between exercise and the brain's performance.

Josef Joffe on Germany's split East-West personality.

Ontario Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne on her government's all-day kindergarten plan ... and how we'll pay for it.

Minister of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry Michael Gravelle explains the McGuinty government's new growth plan for Northern Ontario.

What makes a leader a leader?

The evolution of religion; old and new.

eHealth Ontario's interim CEO Rob Devitt talks about getting the scandal-plagued agency back on track, where it's at now and where it's headed.

Sesame Street made its debut 40 years ago. Four decades later what have the social, educational and cultural ramifications of the show done to transform children's television?

On the eve of the 100th Anniversary of the Canadian Navy, Vice Admiral Dean McFadden, Commander of the Canadian Navy, discusses the state of Canada's maritime force.

Waller Newell on the modern leader -- what are we looking for and has the meaning of leadership changed?