The Agenda with Steve Paikin

ANALYSIS: Doug Ford’s move to shrink Toronto city council has revived calls to give municipalities more power. But the easiest path forward, writes John Michael McGrath, would be to amend the Constitution.

Derval Clarke has long volunteered his services in his homeland of Jamaica. Last month, he travelled to another place that needs dental care — the remote community of Wunnumin Lake.

OPINION: Female-focused marketing too often tries to squeeze women into boxes — but when it comes to weed, a little pinkification might not be a bad thing, writes Lauren McKeon.

Just two of the 36 mayoral candidates in the region’s five largest cities are women — and while things are changing, some say they’re changing too slowly.

OPINION: The government says legislation to cut council from 47 to 25 seats will eliminate “dysfunction.” It won’t, but John Michael McGrath suggests some measures that could.

OPINION: An Ontario court has ruled that a woman can use a frozen embryo post-divorce. But if we treat embryos as just another form of contested marital property, we're ignoring serious questions about consent, writes Alana Cattapan.

The snowshoe hare changes colour to match the snow, but warming weather is throwing its camouflage out of sync — and that leaves it vulnerable to predators.

A recent study found that young people in northern Ontario are much less likely to pursue post-secondary education than their southern peers. Here’s why.

ANALYSIS: The PCs are not the first party to have discovered that the tools of the Opposition are inconvenient when you’re in government, writes John Michael McGrath.