Thirty years ago 14 women were shot dead in Montreal, most aspiring engineers who never got the chance to practice their chosen profession. Tonight
@spaikin
talks to four female engineers about the enduring impact of that terrible tragedy. | Producer:
@carastern
#MontrealMassacre
"The Ford government apparently wants to turn schools into job-training facilities, filling pails with water and using that water to extinguish any fires of curiosity that may be surreptitiously lit." —
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
#onted
Relocating ServiceOntario locations "is about monetizing every last little bit of life until people are nothing but consumer data and profit — a means to a corporate end — while eroding the public service," writes
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
"The government has deliberately adopted a strategy of silence because it doesn't want to share bad news or answer unpleasant questions. It doesn't see any win there, so it just... won't." —
@mattgurney
#onpoli
"Without a higher-education requirement... the risk of police violence, service complaints, and community distrust rises. That means the risk of civilian injury and death rises. Why take such a risk?" — by
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
@nilikm
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"You don't get to lie about women's bodies on my watch. That's the way it is." — gynecologist
@DrJenGunter
, author of "The Vagina Bible," on why she took on celebrity websites like Goop. Tonight at 8/11pm with
@namshine
| Producer:
@sandragionas
#vagenda
"While Ford and his crew stonewall and stand their ground, the only path to accountability and renewed trust runs through investigations. That path ought to lead wherever it must until we find justice." —
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
"Both Ford and Tory won re-election. That’s not in dispute. But they did so in contests that failed to engage the electorate and have since taken actions that weren’t obviously on the ballot." —
@namshine
#onpoli
#topoli
"We must accept that climate change is partly to blame for the disasters we face — and the Ontario government in particular ought to say as much." —
@David_Moscrop
Experts warned of this weeks ago. Events have proved them right. What we have in Ontario is a clear failure of public-health policy. — by
@jm_mcgrath
#onhealth
#onpoli
Ontario needs a temporary mask mandate to once again make masking a social norm and protect children, says
@MustafaHirji
, Niagara's acting medical officer of health.
He joins
@Namshine
at 8/11 p.m. ET for a pandemic update.
Producer
@MariaSarrouh
"Following the Ford government’s logic is a great way to produce weak, docile students who are neither curious nor, incidentally, capable of learning the things the government wants them to in the first place." —
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
#onted
"Ontario Place ought to be redeveloped as a public space welcoming to all, a massive park space in which you can spend a day without spending a dollar." —
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
#topoli
"Every Ontarian ought to be paying attention to Ford’s play ... because the fight for Ontario place is a fight for public space and for the public good." —
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
#topoli
"This is what happens when you get a bored middle class that is fed a steady diet of propaganda about how they are the downtrodden and most aggrieved people in the world." —
@RadioFreeTom
talks to
@spaikin
about his book "Our Own Worst Enemy," at 8/11pm| Producer:
@ebombicino
"If there's one tenet that defines democracy... it's called majority government. And somehow the idea that you can get rid of it and say, 'trust me,' is bizarre." — former Toronto mayor
@david_crombie
tonight at 8/11pm | Producers:
@spaikin
&
@Mariasarrouh
#topoli
#onpoli
“I think there’s a lot of voter remorse out there right now.” “…[T]hey’ve broken all their promises already.”- incoming Ontario NDP Leader
@maritstiles
on Premier Ford’s second term with
@spaikin
tonight at 8/11pm ET | Producers:
@harrisonlowman
"The government has deliberately adopted a strategy of silence because it doesn't want to share bad news or answer unpleasant questions. It doesn't see any win there, so it just... won't." —
@mattgurney
#onpoli
"Canada is a shockingly lazy and spoiled country, and primary emergency-management, domestic-security, and national-defence philosophies all generally boil down to 'don't worry that won’t happen, so stop bringing it up, you weirdo.'" —
@mattgurney
#cdnpoli
"It's not binary. It is not effed or not-effed. It's a matter of how effed — that is left for us to determine. The more carbon we burn, the worse it gets." —
@MichaelEMann
on climate change, tonight on The Agenda with
@spaikin
at 11pm | Producer:
@ebombicino
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
"The Ford government is cursed with the overconfidence of the mediocre. It’s certain of itself in the way only the least capable and most short-sighted tend to be." —
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
"While Ford and his crew stonewall and stand their ground, the only path to accountability and renewed trust runs through investigations. That path ought to lead wherever it must until we find justice." —
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
"In the 1,706 days since Ford became Ontario’s 26th premier, he has never once done an interview on the TV station the province actually owns." —
@spaikin
#onpoli
The Tories plan to grant municipalities the power to subdivide agricultural land to develop housing. Farmers are fighting back — and so should all Ontarians, writes
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
#ontag
"[The Ford government] isn’t a serious government. It is aggressively unserious and doesn’t deserve the courtesy of anyone pretending otherwise." —
@mattgurney
#onpoli
“I think the Liberal party moved much too far to the left. I think traditionally our roots are in the centre and I'm firmly in the centre. I believe we govern from right of centre, ”
@BonnieCrombie
tells
@jm_mcgrath
#onpoli
"You don't get to lie about women's bodies on my watch. That's the way it is." — gynecologist
@DrJenGunter
, author of "The Vagina Bible," on why she took on celebrity websites like Goop. Tonight at 11pm with
@namshine
| Producer:
@sandragionas
#vagenda
"You can’t shut down the economy again, you can’t shut down these businesses again. So at least be prepared to [issue vaccine passports]." — infectious diseases physician
@BogochIsaac
on vaccine mandates, tonight at 8/11pm with
@namshine
| Producer:
@meredithmartin
#onpoli
"[The Ford government] isn’t a serious government. It is aggressively unserious and doesn’t deserve the courtesy of anyone pretending otherwise." —
@mattgurney
#onpoli
Former Conservative leadership contender, and the first Black woman to run for major party leadership in 45 years in Canada,
@LeslynLewis
talks to
@spaikin
about her campaign, social conservatives, and Black Lives Matter. Tonight at 8/11pm | Producer:
@harrisonlowman
#cdnpoli
"Medicine has been hopelessly patriarchal, right? So, we've had largely male physicians, women's bodies have been understudied." — gynecologist
@DrJenGunter
on why women are misinformed about the own bodies. Tonight
@namshine
revisits her 2019 conversation with Gunter, at 11pm
What if there is no housing crisis, but rather, that the market is working as intended – to make the rich, richer, and the working class, beholden? That’s the thesis of Ricardo Tranjan's (
@CCPA
) book "The Tenant Class." He speaks with
@spaikin
at 8/11pm | Producer:
@Mariasarrouh
"Education isn’t about job training... alongside developing curiosity, it’s also about instilling a capacity to think for oneself. Deep down, I suspect the Ford government knows this to be true and is terrified of it." —
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
#onted
What does racism look like in Canada?
@cblackst
of the
@caringsociety
tells the story of Jordan River Anderson and why she continues to fight the Canadian government to gain rights for Indigenous children | Producer:
@mgirouar
&
@charneland
More:
"The charitable assessment of the FAO’s projections is that they reveal a government that is bad at budgeting... The uncharitable assessment is that the government isn’t being straight with Ontarians." — by
@David_Moscrop
#onpoli
"I think the politics of resentment and fear and division is spreading." — director
@Deeyah_Khan
on her documentary on white supremacy, during an
@theagenda
interview last year . Stream White Right: Meeting the Enemy on
@TVOdocs
"We must accept that climate change is partly to blame for the disasters we face — and the Ontario government in particular ought to say as much." —
@David_Moscrop
Eighty-five years ago, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s forced collectivization of farms and theft of food in Ukraine led to the deaths of millions by starvation. Tonight on The Agenda,
@anneapplebaum
discuss the events that led to that catastrophic, man-made tragedy. At 11pm.
If you find the news about climate change distressing, imagine how climate scientists feel. Tonight on The Agenda, a conversation about the psychological toll of their research, with
@MichaelEMann
,
@HoffmannMatt
,
@jasonthistle
, Lise Van Susteren &
@spaikin
| Producer:
@ebombicino