Steve Paikin has been co-host of TVO's Studio 2 since the program's inception in 1994. Steve also hosts TVO's weekly foreign affairs series, Diplomatic Immunity with Steve Paikin, which debuted in 1998.

Besides his hosting duties, Steve has also produced several documentaries for TVO. Internationally, his 1993 effort, Return to The Warsaw Ghetto, won the Silver Screen Award at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival as well as awards at Canada's Yorkton Film Festival and China's Shanghai Film Festival. He also went to Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and presented Balkan Madness in 1992.

Here at home, in 1996 Paikin co-produced A Main Street Man which chronicled the life of former Ontario premier William Davis. The Mike Harris government's controversial education reform Bill 160 was the subject of Teachers, Tories, and Turmoil in 1997. And Chairman of the Board: The Life and Death of John Robarts aired in 2001, on the occasion of the former Ontario premier's 40th anniversary of taking power.

His latest book, published in March, 2005, analyses the impact of former Ontario Premier John Robarts on the province. It's called, Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Double Life of John P. Robarts. In 2001, Paikin wrote his first book, The Life: The Seductive Call of Politics for Penguin Canada. In 2003, he followed up with his second book, The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life.

Before coming to TVOntario, Paikin had been at CBC Television for seven years in a wide variety of anchoring and reporting roles: as anchor of CBC at Six, CBC's Queen's Park correspondent, and host of a daily news and current affairs program on Newsworld. Paikin has also held reporting jobs in private radio and print media, including the Hamilton Spectator and CHFI Radio in Toronto.

Steve Paikin is a native of Hamilton, Ontario. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto, and a Master's Degree in Broadcast Journalism at Boston University.

For more information on Steve Paikin, please visit his Web site.

Paula Todd is a Canadian journalist, lawyer, television host. Todd currently hosts and co-produces TVO's Person 2 Person with Paula Todd, which profiles citizens exploring issues and facing challenges in the political, social and cultural spheres.

For a decade, she also co-hosted TVO's Studio 2, the popular Gemini-award winning nightly current affairs program.

Todd entered public broadcasting after more than a dozen years at Canada's largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, where she worked as a political reporter, news reporter and feature writer. The last four years at the Star, Todd served as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Todd served as a judge for the National Newspaper Awards, the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Awards and is a National Magazine Award nominee. She is the 2004 recipient of the Paramedic Association's Media Award for public education, and serves on the volunteer Board of Directors of Integra, an organization that assists children and teens with learning disabilities. She works extensively as a moderator in politics, law and business, and is a well-known inspirational speaker.

Todd, who holds a B.A. and an L.L.B., studied literature and political science at York University and law at Osgoode Hall, and is a member of the Ontario Bar.

Todd has worked extensively in print, radio and private and public television, including CBC Television, CBC Radio, Newsworld, and Global.

She has written more than a 1,000 articles for such publications as the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Elm Street Magazine, Reader's Digest, Homemaker's, and The Law Times.

Paula Todd is the author of the best-selling book, A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from All of Us published by Thomas Allen.

In any given Allan Gregg in Conversation program, host Allan Gregg sits across from guests as diverse as flashy billionaire Richard Branson or leading Alzheimer's researcher Dr. William Molloy. The seasoned broadcaster brings more to the table than a mere list of questions. He also brings a wealth of experience and a boundless curiosity.

"Whether the subject is stem cell research or Canadian politics, whether our guests are household names like Jimmy Carter and Adrienne Clarkson, or the latest author that everyone's talking about, our show endeavours to reach beyond the headlines to explore the forces that create the news," says Gregg.

Born and educated in Alberta, Allan Gregg has had a varied career.

He was the former chairman of the Toronto International Film Festival, a founding shareholder in the YTV network, and, for thirteen years, co-managed the multiple Juno Award-winning group The Tragically Hip.

Currently, he is one of Canada's most respected pollsters: as Chairman of Harris/Decima, he has his finger on the pulse of Canadian society and brings the insights he has gained to each interview. Much sought-after for his analysis, Gregg is a frequently quoted and widely published author of articles and commentary. He co-authored The Big Picture: What Canadians Think about Almost Everything. Recently, the Public Affairs Association of Canada presented Gregg with its 2006 Award of Distinction for his significant contributions to public affairs in Canada. In 2007 he received a National Magazine Award for his writing on multiculturalism.

Over the past 13 years, Allan Gregg has interviewed the world's best and brightest -- from Nobel Prize-winning scientists and authors to cutting edge political, social and cultural commentators. His stimulating, in-depth conversations give viewers a unique opportunity to better understand the forces that shape us as Canadians and as citizens of the world.

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