March 2012

Even though politics is an often ruthless business, to critics, the Prime Minister and the Conservative Party play a particularly nasty form of political gamesmanship. Do those critics have a point? Or is Harper's "mean streak" a matter of perception?

Awarding some prizes in our informal contest on what political branding may be used to define new NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair.

A behind the scenes look at today's Ontario budget.

We'll be taking a look at both the federal and provincial budget, both coming out this week.

A wide-ranging interview with Ontario's second longest-serving minister of health on the ORNGE scandal.  

Saturday's 12-hour marathon at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre started weakly for Thomas Mulcair, but by night's end, he was the new NDP leader. 

People respond with their thoughts (and jokes) on how the Conservatives might try to define new NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair.

Today is our talented director Michael Smith's last day at work. Beginning next week, he'll be directing his retirement. 

Bob Sandford is the Canadian Chair of the United Nations Water for Life Decade, and a renowned water expert. He answered some of our questions about Canadians' attitudes towards water.

Could the next Ontario budget be so austere that the McGuinty government will be brought down over it? 

It's been 25 years since the introduction of Prozac. Have we become too reliant on anti-depressants? 

Agenda Insight essayist Carla Lucchetta on being an introvert in an extrovert's world. 

This week Inside Ontario: What a GTA casino could mean for Niagara Region; coming changes to Ontario’s feed-in tariff system for green energy; a Toronto Star investigation questions if the Toronto police have documented every young black man living in the city; Catholics divided over gay-straight alliances; and a St. Patrick’s Day riot in London, Ontario.

It's often said that technology will change everything. Politics, too. 

Jeff Mole thinks he's got a much better idea than the FIT program for creating renewable energy in Ontario. Check out his idea in our interview.

Alan Mitchell, Strategy Director of Ctrl-Shift, a research and advisory business focused on understanding the implications of consumer empowerment, asks: What are you? A human being or a vegetable? A silly questions, perhaps, but in the context of Big Data, it’s not that silly.

82-year-old former Ontario Premier William Davis has never spoken publicly about his first wife, who died tragically of cancer at age 30. But he did earlier this month when paying tribute to his predecessor, John P. Robarts. It was an extraordinary moment.

How should we react when a premier lets fly with a little frank talk?

John Stackhouse's reporting on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

An Agenda guest has a cute way of telling people how to pronounce his Arabic name.

Tonight we turn our attention to mental health. It is the first of a series of programs on that topic to air in the coming months.

Two weeks ago, a YouTube video of two white girls from Gainesville, Florida went viral. The two teenagers ranted about their black peers for 14 minutes, and in turn have been expelled, and sent death threats. But this video is one of many. Is it time to rethink how we approach online conversation?

The Ontario goverment's rhetoric doesn't go over well with the province's teachers or Alberta's premier.

Check out this documentary I did many moons ago, on the 25th anniversary of William Davis's becoming the 18th Premier of Ontario.