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Live Now: Why Don't Canadian Pension Funds Invest More at Home?
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"It is inappropriate to say that masks are some form of hardship. They are not. They are not cruelty." — @nilikm , @strauss_matt , and @maxwellsmith debate COVID mandates, tonight at 8/11pm with @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #onpoli
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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
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Doug Ford is the only premier in the past five decades to turn us down for a one-on-one. And he’s done it repeatedly, writes @spaikin #onpoli #onelxn
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Flu and RSV are filling our ICUs, and that means "We absolutely need to reinstitute masking right now in public spaces," @DrCarolynSnider ( @UnityHealthTO ) tells @NamShine on TVO tonight. They're joined by @alandrummond2 ( @CAEP_Docs ). Producer: @ColinEllis81
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"We engaged in a lot of, I think, cruel and coercive measures this past winter... and what we found was everyone, not everyone, but the majority of Ontarians got COVID anyway." — @strauss_matt at 8/11pm with @nilikm , @maxwellsmith & @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #onpoli
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Doug Ford shouldn’t need to be summoned to the Emergencies Act inquiry. It is his moral and ethical duty to attend — by @mattgurney #onpoli #cdnpoli
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"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
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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
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A narrative, and genetic, link with our closest but now extinct human relatives, Neanderthals. Tonight on The Agenda, with @clairecameron .
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"It is inappropriate to say that masks are some form of hardship. They are not. They are not cruelty." — @nilikm , @strauss_matt , and @maxwellsmith debate COVID mandates, tonight at 11pm with @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #onpoli
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"The myth of the Greenbelt is causing unaffordability has... been debunked more times than I have fingers." — @shoshannasaxe ( @civmin ) at 8/11pm with @EneUnderwood ( @HabitatGTA ), @mazyarmortazavi ( @tas_impact ), @jacoobaloo ( @MoreNeighbours ) & @spaikin | Producer: @meredithmartin
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It’s our healthcare system — not the unvaccinated — that's to blame for where we are in the pandemic, says @Roman_Baber . At 11pm with @garymasonglobe ( @globeandmail ), @drlabos ( @mtlgazette ), @rupasubramanya ( @NationalPost ) & @spaikin | Producers: @harrisonlowman & @Mariasarrouh
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"I'm not using the words that other people require me to use." — @jordanbpeterson on gender-neutral pronouns, tonight on The Agenda.
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"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
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“All governments lie. And that’s what all journalists have to remember." - @democracynow 's Amy Goodman, at 8 p.m.
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When will Ontario rein in police strip searches? by @jm_mcgrath #onpoli
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Is the surge in viral infections in children due to immune suppression post-COVID, or an immunity gap? Both, says @fitterhappierAJ . At 8/11pm with @MsMacrophage ( @machealthsci ), Allison McGeer ( @sinaihealth ), @FurnessColin ( @UofTInfoFaculty ) & JeyanTVO | Producer: @Mariasarrou
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The Chronicle-Herald editorial cartoon this morning. Powerful. http://t.co/1KqpW2v9hO
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Premier Doug Ford doesn’t believe that new police hires should need a post-secondary education. He’s wrong. — by @David_Moscrop #onpoli
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"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
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@nilikm We condemn this vile behaviour. Guests voicing an opinion should not face threats or harassment. We stand for civil debate and condemn those who don’t.
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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
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"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
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"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
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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
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A small minority shouldn’t have to forgo their civil rights so the vast majority can feel safer, says @rupasubramanya ( @NationalPost ). At 8/11pm with @garymasonglobe ( @globeandmail ), @drlabos ( @mtlgazette ), @Roman_Baber & @spaikin | Producers: @harrisonlowman & @Mariasarrouh
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"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
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Former George W. Bush speechwriter @davidfrum on why he thinks the U.S. could be on a path towards an autocracy. Thursday, on The Agenda.
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"If men in their thirties were disappearing from the labour market, we'd call it a crisis. And when women do it, we call it a choice." — @VassB ( @McMasterSocSci ). Tonight at 8/11pm with @DeenaLadd ( @WorkersAC ), @robyndoolittle ( @globeandmail ) & @spaikin | Producer: @carrletta
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"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
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"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
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“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
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"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
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"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
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"We engaged in a lot of, I think, cruel and coercive measures this past winter... and what we found was everyone, not everyone, but the majority of Ontarians got COVID anyway." — @strauss_matt at 11pm with @nilikm , @maxwellsmith & @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #onpoli
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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
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“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
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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 11pm with @namshine | Producer: @sandragionas #vagenda
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"We had more people die in 2022 in Ontario than in 2020 or in 2021 from COVID... an infection prevented is for the best of all of us." — @DrFahadRazak ( @UnityHealthTO ) at 8/11pm with Jennifer Frontera ( @nyulangone ), @deonandan ( @uOttawaHealthSc ) & @spaikin | Producer: @ebombicino
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"I hate the experience of lockdown... But what I hate more is watching what is happening to people who are getting sick." — Dr. Shelly Dev ( @Sunnybrook , @UofT_DoM ) tonight at 8/11pm with @drmwarner ( @mghtoronto ) and @namshine | Producer: @PreetiBhuyan #onhealth #onpoli
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"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
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"What I'm worried about for my seven-year-old, I'm worried that there won't be any salmon in the Pacific Ocean." — @NaomiAKlein , author of “On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal”, tonight at 8/11pm with @spaikin | Producer: @ColinEllis81 #climatechange #greennewdeal
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One in six children in Canada is affected by food insecurity #FeedYourMind
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This year will have been the deadliest of the pandemic for Canada, says @mustafahirji , Niagara's acting medical officer of health ( @NRPublicHealth , @NiagaraEM , @HEI_McMaster ). Catch his interview with @Namshine at 8/11 p.m. ET on TVO. Producer @MariaSarrouh
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"[Land acknowledgments] don't improve the living conditions of a single Indigenous person. So, it's sort of an empty gesture," says @lyyperr . At 8/11pm with Margaret MacMillan, @kenscoates , Paul Wells, @AkaashMaharaj , @dbernhardCAN & @spaikin | Producer: @wodekszemberg #cdnpoli
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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
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What draws people to authoritarian politics? Tonight on The Agenda, with @sarahkendzior , @jonweiler , Lucan Way & Mariam Mufti. At 8/11.
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"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
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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
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"I can't find another country that has handled this outbreak better than Canada." — @shoffmania ( @gstrategylab ). At 8/11pm w/ @epdevilla ( @TOPublicHealth ), @shoffmania ( @gstrategylab ) Ryan Watkins ( @whittenlublin ) & @spaikin | Producers @sandragionas & @ColinEllis81 #coronavirus
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"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
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"Being a nice guy isn't enough if the city sort of falling apart around you." — @jen_keesmaat ( @MarkeeHousing ) on John Tory's legacy, at 8/11pm with @BenSpurr ( @TorontoStar ), @marcusbgee ( @globeandmail ), @SabrinaMaddeaux ( @nationalpost ) & @spaikin | Producer: @carastern #topoli
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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:
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"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
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"This is about privatizing public hospitals and it is a serious problem." — @NatalieMehra1 ( @OntarioHealthC ), tonight at 11pm with @drrosezacharias ( @OntariosDoctors ), @reggcohn ( @TorontoStar ), and @JeyanTVO | Producer: @VickyQiao3 #onpoli #onhealth
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"I've seen no evidence whatsoever that this is such an emergency, such a crisis, that it has to be passed through right away." — @acoyne , tonight on The Agenda. Whose democracy is it anyway, with @mbountrogianni , @KarenStintz , @pkbwood , @millandmaitmom , and @spaikin #onpoli
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Does the immune suppression vs immunity gap debate harken back to conflict over droplet vs airborne transmission? @JeyanTVO asks @FurnessColin ( @UofTInfoFaculty ), @fitterhappierAJ , @MsMacrophage ( @machealthsci ) & Allison McGeer ( @sinaihealth ) at 8/11pm | Producer: @Mariasarrouh
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"If we took the approach that it's not our jurisdiction, we would never have universal health care." — @theJagmeetSingh on the @NDP 's long-term care proposals, tonight at 8/11pm with @spaikin | Producer: @ColinEllis81 #cdnpoli #elxn44
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Live Now: Ontario Election Night 2018 #ONpoli #ONelxn
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Is hanging Indigenous art in an office “reconciliation?” @Pam_Palmater , @cblackst and Eddy Robinson explain what it really means to reconcile. Producers: @mgirouar & @charneland #TruthAndReconciliation
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"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
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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.
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“We’re intimately aware of the reality that Canada doesn’t want us to exist. It’s genocide.” — @sarainfox , @deejayndn , @TanyaTalaga , @jessewente and @rileyyesnomaybe look at the finding of genocide in the MMIWG inquiry’s final report | Producer: @chris_beaver #MMIWG #Indigenous
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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
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