Host Richard Ouzounian interviews actors, choreographers, broadcasters, comedians, filmmakers, and other pivotal artists in the vibrant cultural life of Ontario.
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Dec 19, 1999
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- June 16, 2019 - 57:38What does it mean to be a young adult who becomes a caregiver for a parent with early-onset Alzheimer's?
- June 16, 2019 - 1:28:14Dancers featured in Madonna's 1991 concert film Truth Or Dare reveal their complicated experiences.
- June 16, 2019 - 44:00The secret lives and complex social hierarchy of a small group of dolphins are revealed in Shark Bay, Western Australia.
- June 15, 2019 - 43:55It was once the country's busiest port, but Kaipara Harbour is also the deadliest; thought to have claimed up to 150 shipwrecks since the 1840s. Neil Oliver hits Ripiro Beach and is treated to a sound and light show at Gibbs Farm.
- June 15, 2019 - 1:27:40In 2012, Britain was shaken by revelations of sexual abuse by television personality Jimmy Savile, abuse that had gone unchecked for decades.
- June 15, 2019 - 1:28:31In Columbus, Ohio, a group of teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum prepare for an American rite of passage - a spring formal.
- June 14, 2019 - 44:25Oamaru; the white-stone city is picture perfect and the entire coastline is studded with stories. Neil visits an extraordinary feat of Victorian engineering, and goes in search of the perfect penguin.
- June 14, 2019 - 51:18Grizzlies are increasingly protected in Alberta, challenging the ranchers of the Waterton Biosphere Reserve to find new ways to coexist with them.
- June 14, 2019 - 51:59The Inner Bay of Fundy's population of Atlantic salmon is teetering on the edge of extinction, but people are determined to bring it back.
- June 14, 2019 - 11:27David Rockne Corrigan discusses the growing trend toward green burials.
- June 14, 2019 - 16:52The Agenda reviews its week of programming.
- June 14, 2019 - 21:06Steve Paikin talks to Roger Strasser, the founding dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
- June 13, 2019 - 27:07The Agenda discusses the Montreal Protocol to phase out CFCs and heal the ozone-layer hole.
- June 13, 2019 - 27:21Steve Paikin talks with Catherine McKenna, Canada's environment minister.
- June 12, 2019 - 21:34Paul Gooch, president of Victoria University at the University of Toronto talks about how Canada can improve its post-secondary institutions.
- June 12, 2019 - 28:12The Agenda discusses public-private partnerships for school funding in Ontario.
- June 11, 2019 - 20:49The Agenda welcomes Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia, to discuss the country's digital revolution.
- June 11, 2019 - 33:09The Agenda discusses the Tiananmen Square massacre on its 30th anniversary.
- How Canada helped save the ozone layer, public service buyouts, and the long wait for pharmacare
OPINION: Although women still do the bulk of unpaid care work, a new report finds that men want to do their fair share. All that stands in their way are pervasive social attitudes and inadequate government policies.
In the green-burial section of Glenwood Cemetery, in Picton, there’s no steel, no concrete, and no formaldehyde — just bodies, sometimes blankets, and earth
- The end of the universe, receding floodwaters, and an NBA star breeding ground — in Mississauga
- ANALYSIS: A committee headed by a prominent Ontario Liberal has recommended that Ottawa move ahead with full public pharmacare. But that can’t happen before the next election — and, after October, provinces may stand in the way.
- “We teach academics in school. We are now going to…start teaching financial literacy. Why can’t we teach coping skills?”
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT project has one. So does the Woodbine casino expansion. More infrastructure projects are adopting the agreements, and proponents say that’s leading to more equitable job sites and communities.
- The future of Canada’s universities, saving an endangered language on Twitter, and how to write a viral hit
- 30 years after Tiananmen, Kiefer madness, and how the curriculum gets to the classroom
