Steve Paikin
@spaikin.bsky.social
https://stevepaikin.com Host, "The Paikin Podcast" Co-host, the "#onpoli podcast" Columnist, http://TVO.org Columnist, Toronto Star Host, TVO Today Live Host, Ontario Chronicle Author of 10 books. Pathologies: Leafs, Red Sox, Ticats.
I thought I knew Toronto — until a new plan threw me for a Loop. www.tvo.org/article/i-th... #nature
I thought I knew Toronto — until a new plan threw me for a Loop | TVO Today
Connecting 80 kilometres of trails across the city is an ambitious plan. it may pay untold dividends.
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The mission of Canada's first ever AI minister. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #cdnpoli @avilewis.ca @evansolomon.bsky.social
Steve Paikin: Evan Solomon on what we need to protect our sovereignty, and having his birthday on 4/20
Steve Paikin talks to our country’s minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation
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NEW: Bob Rae joins The Paikin Podcast for our monthly visit: Billy Bishop Airport, wildfire politics, is national unity is more important than climate change, Andy Burnham becoming the seventh British PM in ten years, and more. VIDEO:https://youtu.be/jYVheX_iK8o AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
On this date in 1929, one of Ontario's greatest premiers was born. Here was my tvo interview with Bill Davis, on the 50th anniversary of his first election in 1959. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcTH... #onpoli @ontariopcparty.bsky.social
Bill Davis | The Agenda
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ANALYSIS: Beaches—East York proves it: nomination meetings stink www.tvo.org/article/anal... #cdnpoli @liberalparty.bsky.social @summernudel.bsky.social @nateforontario.bsky.social @ndp.ca @mikelayton.bsky.social
ANALYSIS: Beaches—East York proves it: nomination meetings stink | TVO Today
Political parties are running roughshod over the entry point to our democracy. Maybe we shouldn’t let them.
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Thanks to the @torontostar-rss.bsky.social for publishing this piece of mine and @ddunsky's: Donald Trump's shameless grift is changing unwritten political rules www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Donald Trump’s shameless grift is changing unwritten political rules
Our political system has always had an Achilles heel, and Trump found it
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🚨🎙️Christine Elliott joins the Everything Political crew. ➡️Trump’s wildfire tariffs ➡️Gordie Howe Bridge ➡️Finding decency ➡️Making politics more decent YouTube: youtu.be/Bb4SZekC-Kk Linktree: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
Well, I'd pay to see this. Actually, come to think of it, I am. Maybe you'd like to, too? Bob Rae vs. Erin O'Toole. The Great Debate: Should National Interest Take Precedence Over Global Responsibility? victoria.alumni.utoronto.ca/event/Greatc... #debate #foreign #foreignpolicy
🇨🇦🎙️Canada’s Min. of AI and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon joins @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social on whether the AI revolution will make the Industrial Revolution look like a tea party, & the backlash against energy-consuming data centres. Video: youtu.be/J5sZtil9vyU Audio: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
How a former Ontario energy minister is selling Canadian nuclear technology around the world www.tvo.org/article/how-... @atkinsrealis.bsky.social #nuclear #energy
How a former energy minister is selling Canadian nuclear technology around the world | TVO Today
Todd Smith left Queen’s Park in 2024 — but kept his fascination with nuclear power
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Thanks to the @torontostar-rss.bsky.social for publishing my column yesterday on the departing president of @victoriauniversity.bsky.social @rhondamcewen.bsky.social. She's leaving for @uvic.ca in BC. From Vic to Vic, as it were: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #university #education
Steve Paikin: Rhonda McEwen on the ‘wicked problems’ she faced as president of U of T’s Victoria University
Canada's first Black university president, Rhonda McEwen talks about the interesting challenges of leading a university during a time of complex geopolitical issues.
thestar.com
A delight to have Caryn Ceolin from Breakfast Television join me for another edition of "Paik's Takes," on @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social. We talk Canada in the EU, US influence in the Alberta referendum, & whether soccer is boring. stevepaikin.com/paiks-takes-...
Paik’s Takes: Canada in the EU, American Influence in Alberta, and Soccer is Boring - Steve Paikin
In our third edition of “Paik’s Takes,” Steve is joined by The Big Story’s Caryn Ceolin to discuss why Steve thinks soccer is boring, whether the World Cup was worth it for Canada, why Steve thinks mu...
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Walter Russell Mead joins @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social to talk all things Trump and foreign policy. ➡️America at 250 ➡️“In an uncharted world with a man who doesn’t believe in charts” ➡️Is there a Trump doctrine? Is chaos a policy? YouTube: youtu.be/xPhRHBstcys Podcasts: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
Is the Trump Doctrine Calculated Chaos?
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Exactly one year ago today, after 19 years of doing The Agenda on @tvo, @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social debuted with yours truly, Martha Hall Findlay, & Tony Clement. Since then, we've added Janice Stein & Bob Rae as regular guests. It's been a great adventure. Much more to come. #podcasts
Happy birthday to Elwy Yost, who would be 101 today. 🎂 To TVO viewers, Elwy made classic cinema feel personal. Host of Saturday Night at the Movies and Magic Shadows, he brought classic Hollywood into Ontario homes. Stream Magic Shadows, Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OMD...
Leonard Cohen fans take note: “The Secret Chord” is now playing at the CAATheatre in Toronto. A wonderful cavalcade of the balladeer’s best. Won’t spoil what the last song is but I bet you know.
🚨NEW EP: @stephenmarche.bsky.social joins to discuss season two of Gloves Off. ➡️ Canadian optimism in an era of American chaos? ➡️ America’s doomsday clock ➡️ The 📉 of 🇺🇸power ➡️ Old Canada vs. New Canada ➡️ The path for middle powers YouTube: youtu.be/HXn-q7wMsNQ Podcast: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
America’s Doomsday Clock, Canadian Optimism, and the Imperial Presidency | World on Edge
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As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th, icymi: @mdrohan.bsky.social tells @spaikin.bsky.social about American founding father Benjamin Franklin's failed attempts to annex Canada. Don't know this story? She says that's because Canadians let the losers write the story: youtu.be/71XcY7OgYe8?...
Madelaine Drohan: Long Before Trump, Franklin Failed to Annex Canada | TVO Today Live
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NEW Episode of @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social: Our "Everything Political" duo of Tony Clement & Martha Hall Findlay weighs in on Mark Carney's plan to fix 24 Sussex Drive, and the controversial BC condo buyback policy: youtu.be/h3EzSLid8yI?... #cdnpoli
The Shame of 24 Sussex and Carney’s Condo Buyback Blunder | Everything Political
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On this 250th anniversary of America's birth, former deputy prime minister John Manley shares some complicated feelings for our neighbour to the south: www.thestar.com/opinion/how-... #usa250 #america250 #july4th
Steve Paikin: How does former foreign affairs minister John Manley see America today?
It was a different way of dealing with the world, showing respect for other countries, certainly showing respect for Canada as a sovereign nation, says John Manley of his time
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A big thanks to @njsaul.bsky.social for his 6 years as chancellor at my alma mater, Victoria University, U of T. Nick, you were the very model of a modern major chancellor. I pity the fool, who just got his new robes, who has to replace you.
Just did an intvu for @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social with this book's author, @roccorossitto.bsky.social, former CEO of the @ontariocofc.bsky.social. A truly wonderful novel about walking the Camino de Santiago, which he's done 23 times. Watch for it in the wks ahead. @caminodesantiago.bsky.social
What’s next for Beaches—East York? A very familiar name, that's what. www.tvo.org/article/anal... #cdnpoli @summernudel.bsky.social @claireseaborn.bsky.social @nateforontario.bsky.social @ontliberal.bsky.social @jillpromoli.bsky.social @avilewis.ca
ANALYSIS: What’s next for Beaches—East York? | TVO Today
The riding has been in the headlines for months. A familiar name will keep it there.
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“I’ve fought Putin for 17 years.” @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social with@billbrowder.bsky.social on whether Russia is losing the war & why Putin would rather watch Russia burn than admit he can’t win. YouTube: youtu.be/uU8bTZGOxuM Podcast: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod... #russia #russiaukraine #ukraine
Is Russia Losing the Ukraine War? | Bill Browder
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“I’ve fought Putin for 17 years.” @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social with@billbrowder.bsky.social on whether Russia is losing the war & why Putin would rather watch Russia burn than admit he can’t win. YouTube: youtu.be/uU8bTZGOxuM Podcast: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod... #russia #russiaukraine #ukraine
Is Russia Losing the Ukraine War? | Bill Browder
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Eight years ago today, Doug Ford was sworn in as Ontario's 26th premier by Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell. #onpoli @ontariopcparty.bsky.social
Thanks to the @torontostar-rss.bsky.social for publishing today's column on Canada's first openly gay judge, whom I've known for my whole life: Harvey Brownstone. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #justice
Steve Paikin: Wearing his pride on his sleeve, Justice Harvey Brownstone on the kicks that made him who he is
Canada’s first openly gay judge has written a memoir “Without Prejudice”
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🚨🌐NEW World on Edge with Janice Stein. 👉 Did the Iran War achieve … anything? 👉 Did America lose? 👉 Does Iran need a nuke now that they can weaponize the Strait of Hormuz? 👉 Sign of American decline? YouTube: youtu.be/b08ruMq9Pfw Apple: apple.co/3SsR6PG
