brit weaver
@britweaver.bsky.social
Journalist & Producer @therundowntvo.bsky.social ~ formerly at The Agenda with Steve Paikin
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How can Canada compete globally? "We need to focus on those niches where we have distinctive, research expertise," David Wolfe (@utm.utoronto.ca, Munk School) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social, tonight at 8pm with Stephany Lapierre (Tealbook) | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
How can Canada compete globally? "We need to focus on those niches where we have distinctive, research expertise," David Wolfe (@utm.utoronto.ca, Munk School) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social, tonight at 8pm with Stephany Lapierre (Tealbook) | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
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"I thought I could prepare for everything." Brian Stewart, author of "On the Ground" recalls the harrowing scenes and emotional toll of covering the 1984 famine in Ethiopia as a foreign correspondent, tonight at 8pm with @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"I thought I could prepare for everything." Brian Stewart, author of "On the Ground" recalls the harrowing scenes and emotional toll of covering the 1984 famine in Ethiopia as a foreign correspondent, tonight at 8pm with @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
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"It was post-9/11, and the global financial crisis, and the first year of the pandemic, and all the minority parliaments put together." — Tonda MacCharles (@thestar.com) on the year in politics, at 8pm with @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social and @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"It was post-9/11, and the global financial crisis, and the first year of the pandemic, and all the minority parliaments put together." — Tonda MacCharles (@thestar.com) on the year in politics, at 8pm with @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social and @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
Tonight at 8pm, we look at how China and Apple have become intertwined. And, whether Canada could ever compete with the industrial giant.
How did China become essential to Apple’s global dominance? @patrickmcgee.bsky.social, author of "Apple in China," tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social about the vast industrial capacity behind the iPhone, and what this means for tech and trade. Tonight at 8pm | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Tonight at 8pm, we look at how China and Apple have become intertwined. And, whether Canada could ever compete with the industrial giant.
Tonight at 8pm, how do we keep the country together amidst threats against Canada's sovereignty?
Threats against our sovereignty have brought some Canadians together, yet divides persist. Darrell Bricker, co-author of Breaking Point, explains why younger voters and Albertans feel left behind, at 8pm with @johnibbitson.bsky.social and @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Tonight at 8pm, how do we keep the country together amidst threats against Canada's sovereignty?
Tonight at 8pm, we explore whether Canada is at its breaking point and how to unite the country.
Quebec and Alberta talking sovereignty, millennials and Gen Z furious about their future — Canada is facing multiple fault lines, says @johnibbitson.bsky.social co-author of "Breaking Point" with Darrell Bricker. Tonight at 8pm with @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Tonight at 8pm, we explore whether Canada is at its breaking point and how to unite the country.
Tonight at 8pm, Canada's relationship with the U.S. is strained. What does that mean for Canada's role in the world? How should we navigate a path without our closest ally by our side?
"What's the point in negotiating with a pirate? I mean any time that we come to an agreement, they'll just rip it up in the next five minutes." — journalist @stephenmarche.bsky.social on resuming trade negotiations with the U.S., at 8pm with @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Tonight at 8pm, Canada's relationship with the U.S. is strained. What does that mean for Canada's role in the world? How should we navigate a path without our closest ally by our side?
Tonight at 8pm, we have a show on Canada's place in the world. Considering we have a strained relationship with our biggest ally and partner, how will Canada find its footing?
"We're going to have to find a way back to the negotiation table, and have to be realistic." — Louise Blais, former Canadian ambassador to the UN, on relations with the U.S., tonight at 8pm on The Rundown with @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Tonight at 8pm, we have a show on Canada's place in the world. Considering we have a strained relationship with our biggest ally and partner, how will Canada find its footing?
What an honour it was to produce this interview. Brian Stewart talked about his new memoir and offered his insights on Canada's place in the world right now.
"We didn't seem to have a coherent message quite often or we would have a bumper sticker slogan as a message." — former foreign correspondent Brian Stewart, author of "On the Ground," tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social how Canada has fallen from the world stage, at 8pm | Producer @britweaver.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
What an honour it was to produce this interview. Brian Stewart talked about his new memoir and offered his insights on Canada's place in the world right now.
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How are community organizations, local businesses, and municipalities dealing with food waste? @britweaver.bsky.social asks Kate Parizeau (@uofguelph.bsky.social), Tom Armitage & Logan Pollock (The SEED), Bradley Crepeau (Food Cycle Science), and Cameron Walsh (City of Guelph)
Is Canada's Food System Broken? | ONsite
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January 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
How are community organizations, local businesses, and municipalities dealing with food waste? @britweaver.bsky.social asks Kate Parizeau (@uofguelph.bsky.social), Tom Armitage & Logan Pollock (The SEED), Bradley Crepeau (Food Cycle Science), and Cameron Walsh (City of Guelph)
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Why are permanent residents choosing not to become Canadian citizens? "Optimism for the future really seems like actually the core thing here," Daniel Bernhard, CEO of Institute for Canadian Citizenship, tells @spaikin.bsky.social, tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social #cdnpoli
November 26, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Why are permanent residents choosing not to become Canadian citizens? "Optimism for the future really seems like actually the core thing here," Daniel Bernhard, CEO of Institute for Canadian Citizenship, tells @spaikin.bsky.social, tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social #cdnpoli
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Does Canada need to rethink its attitude towards immigration? We should want "a team built up of stars from around the world who want to play for our team," Daniel Bernhard, CEO of Institute for Canadian Citizenship, tells @spaikin.bsky.social, tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Does Canada need to rethink its attitude towards immigration? We should want "a team built up of stars from around the world who want to play for our team," Daniel Bernhard, CEO of Institute for Canadian Citizenship, tells @spaikin.bsky.social, tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social
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Does Doug Ford want to be premier of Ontario, or Toronto? @spaikin.bsky.social asks Laura Stone (@theglobeandmail.com), @amandagalbraith.bsky.social, and John Sewell, tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social #onpoli #topoli
November 25, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Does Doug Ford want to be premier of Ontario, or Toronto? @spaikin.bsky.social asks Laura Stone (@theglobeandmail.com), @amandagalbraith.bsky.social, and John Sewell, tonight at 8/11pm | Producer: @britweaver.bsky.social #onpoli #topoli
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I currently have 150 Officially Verified reporters and media types in the first Bluesky Press List and 91 in the Second Edition. Hoping to get us to a full suite of 300 this weekend.
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November 24, 2024 at 12:13 AM
I currently have 150 Officially Verified reporters and media types in the first Bluesky Press List and 91 in the Second Edition. Hoping to get us to a full suite of 300 this weekend.
go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
go.bsky.app/8WhdCDa
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What does @margaretatwood.bsky.social think about the state of democracy in a renewed Trump era? How do writers/artists so often track deep shifts in political & popular culture before the rest of us? Join us on Nov 28 in Toronto, as @spaikin.bsky.social asks her. www.eventbrite.ca/e/margaret-a...
Margaret Atwood: The Art of Democracy
Host Steve Paikin (The Agenda) sits down with the world-renowned author, Margaret Atwood
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November 14, 2024 at 3:41 PM
What does @margaretatwood.bsky.social think about the state of democracy in a renewed Trump era? How do writers/artists so often track deep shifts in political & popular culture before the rest of us? Join us on Nov 28 in Toronto, as @spaikin.bsky.social asks her. www.eventbrite.ca/e/margaret-a...
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Why does Bob Young call himself the "caretaker" of the @ticats.bsky.social? He tells @spaikin.bsky.social as the two talk football ahead of the #GreyCup, tonight at 8/11pm #oskeeweewee
November 14, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Why does Bob Young call himself the "caretaker" of the @ticats.bsky.social? He tells @spaikin.bsky.social as the two talk football ahead of the #GreyCup, tonight at 8/11pm #oskeeweewee
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Is there such a thing as an Ontario identity? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asks George Carothers (Institute for Canadian Citizenship), Gord Knowles (Atikokan), @parkinac.bsky.social (Environics Institute), Helen Chimirri-Russell (Ontario Heritage Trust) and Amanda Simard tonight at 8/11pm #ontariariario
November 14, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Is there such a thing as an Ontario identity? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asks George Carothers (Institute for Canadian Citizenship), Gord Knowles (Atikokan), @parkinac.bsky.social (Environics Institute), Helen Chimirri-Russell (Ontario Heritage Trust) and Amanda Simard tonight at 8/11pm #ontariariario
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Do you feel more Canadian than Ontarian? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asks Gord Knowles (Atikokan), @parkinac.bsky.social (Environics Institute), George Carothers (Institute for Canadian Citizenship), Helen Chimirri-Russell (Ontario Heritage Trust), and Amanda Simard tonight at 8/11pm #ontariariario
November 14, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Do you feel more Canadian than Ontarian? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asks Gord Knowles (Atikokan), @parkinac.bsky.social (Environics Institute), George Carothers (Institute for Canadian Citizenship), Helen Chimirri-Russell (Ontario Heritage Trust), and Amanda Simard tonight at 8/11pm #ontariariario
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Does Ontario have an identity? Are you Ontarian? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asked Gord Knowles (Atikokan), @parkinac.bsky.social (Environics Institute), George Carothers (Institute for Canadian Citizenship), Helen Chimirri-Russell (Ontario Heritage Trust) & Amanda Simard www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvGz...
November 15, 2024 at 5:32 PM
Does Ontario have an identity? Are you Ontarian? @jeyantvo.bsky.social asked Gord Knowles (Atikokan), @parkinac.bsky.social (Environics Institute), George Carothers (Institute for Canadian Citizenship), Helen Chimirri-Russell (Ontario Heritage Trust) & Amanda Simard www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvGz...