The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)

Hey! You want to know what Steve’s pets are up to? What interesting side project he’s working on now? This is the show for you! Want to hear a vigorous defence of a mayor who watched Toronto slide into multiple political crises, and made a number of them worse? Check out Steve’s view of John Tory! Don’t be glad that a man who exasperated the housing and COL crisis is gone: Tory was a victim of a witch hunt cuz he cheated on his wife! Just ask Steve. Want to hear why urban sprawl and gross municipal mismanagement is cool? Check out the eulogy for the queen of sprawl Hazel “don’t wear religious costumes to the hospitals” McCallion! Or download the show from a decade ago where Hazel yells “people want sprawl” and watch Steve nod along. Oodles if fun! And don’t forget the mandatory references to ‘full disclosure my family is made up of developers’ so he can at least pretend to be objective about the gross urban development failures plaguing the province. Just kidding! There’s no hard questions or serious discussions here. That would take a desire to see Ontario change. Instead enjoy the bread and circuses! If you want serious discussions about the myriad of issues the province is facing, this is not that show. (Ontario doesn’t have one like that.) but if you want people shilling books, defenders of the status quo, comments about ancient premiers no one remembers, and an answer to “who ghostwrote Patrick Brown’s book?” Try this podcast. Or put on some rose coloured glasses, add some blinders and pretend everything is working as it should. It’s almost the same thing.

The Agenda has long been standing as informative and conversational program cover a very wide range of topics and issues. There is discussion here for everyone. I appreciate the diverse groups of people they bring to the table even if I disagree with them. The hosts often ask questions or follow up in ways to help the listener have a better understanding. I also don’t understand the beef people have with Paikin, I think he is a great and knowledgeable host!

Hands down, this is the best current affairs program in Canada and beyond. Steve’s genuine curiosity and level hand make this show into a highly informative and critical component of our democracy.

Steve has been an unbiased and even keeled host for as long as I have been watching him. The agenda is not afraid to have people from all sides of the political field come and share their views. I appreciate that there are people in the world who are making informed and interesting content about the issues that affect Canadians.