Diplomatic Immunity with Steve Paikin
Discussions on the most current foreign affairs. Host Steve Paikin along with informed panelists Richard Gwyn of the Toronto Star, Janice Stein, professor of international relations at the University of Toronto; and Eric Margolis, contributing foreign editor for the Toronto Sun help to clarify complex and critical issues affecting the world today.
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Show 244
June 25, 2006
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: A LOOK BACK, AND AHEAD In the last episode of our eighth season, Diplomatic Immunity takes a look at some of the key stories of the year: these stories have changed, and are likely to evolve in the coming months. Producer: Daniel
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Show 243
June 18, 2006
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: THE "L" WORD It's become a four-letter word in American politics. But can the word "liberal" be rescued for the 21st Century? New Republic Editor-at-Large Peter Beinart takes up the challenge in his new book: "The Good Fight: Why
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Show #242
June 11, 2006
For the next month, billions of people will be fixated on Germany as 32 national teams compete for the World Cup. But the World Cup is about more than just soccer. It can give us insight into the similarities and differences between countries.
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Show #241
June 4, 2006
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: DEALING WITH IRAN A flurry of diplomatic activity this week by the US and its allies on the Iran nuclear file. But will any of it convince Iran to give up the ability to produce nuclear fuel and, perhaps someday, a bomb? Najmeh B
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Show #240
May 28, 2006
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #239
May 21, 2006
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: AFGHANISTAN EXTENDED Canada will now be in Afghanistan until at least 2009. But how will we know if the mission is succeeding? And what do we do if the mission begins to fail? Former Chief of Defence Staff Paul Manson joins Janic
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Show #238
May 14, 2006
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS Nuclear weapons, international terrorism, environmental degradation...the dawn of the 21st Century is rife with potential global crises. In a time where many question the intentions of the US and the effec
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Show #237
April 30, 2006
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #236
April 23, 2006
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: BUSH BLUES President Bush fended off another attack on Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week. But what, apart from White House staff changes announced this week, can he do to reinvigorate his presidency? Retired army intell
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Show #235
April 9, 2006
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: BURYING THE CHAINS Ending slavery an impossible dream? It seemed that way two centuries ago. In the book Bury the Chains, the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize, Adam Hochschild chronicles how a relatively smal
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Show #234
April 2, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: REVOLUTIONARY OR REACTIONARY? In the past week millions of people have marched across France to protest a controversial new law regulating the hiring of people under the age of 26. But the law and the demonstrat
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Show #233
March 26, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: AMERICAN MOOD SWING? The US public's doubts about the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's vision of the world are growing. Is this just bad news for Bush, or a more fundamental shift in American thinking? Walter Ru
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Show #232
March 19, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: IRAN & THE U.S. FACE TO FACE Since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Great Satan America have not exchanged so much as a "how do you do" -- at least not officially. But now Iran and the U.S. have agreed
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Show #231
March 12, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: THE IRAQ DILEMMA In a week that saw dozens of people blown up, kidnapped, and otherwise brutalized, do we really know where Iraq is headed? Do Iraqis even know? Peter Beinart of The New Republic and William Odom
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Show #230
March 5, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: INDIA'S TURN? President Bush's historic visit to India is being compared to Nixon's trip to China: as marking a fundamental strategic shift in American foreign policy. It also comes as some analysts wonder which
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Show #229
February 26, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: THE GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA The government of China routinely blocks web content it deems offensive from reaching its own citizens. And now internet heavyweights Google and Yahoo have been accused of helping Chi
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Show #217
February 19, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY Three elections and a constitution later, Iraq finally has its first legitimate, duly elected post-Saddam government. Joining the DI team tonight is Bob Rae, 21st premier of the province of Ontario and member o
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Show #228
February 12, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY An examination of the wider political fallout stemming from the controversial cartoons? What does this firestorm mean for European-Middle East relations, Mideast politics, and the US desire to reform the Muslim w
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Show #227
February 5, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: NUCLEAR SHOWDOWN Iran's leaders maintain their nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. The problem? Almost nobody believes them. Edward Luttwak of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and S
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Show #225
January 29, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: MIDEAST'S LATEST EARTHQUAKE It is considered a terrorist organization by many countries, including Canada. But the Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya - better known to the world as Hamas - has just been given two
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Show #224
January 22, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY With a distinctly Conservative breeze blowing across the nation, does that put us in step, or out of step, with the rest of the world? This week on DI: Barbara McDougall, former Foreign Minister of Canada the las
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Show #223
January 13, 2006
Host Steve Paikin DI SPECIAL EDITION - CANADA'S ROLE IN THE WORLD: FEDERAL ELECTION 2006 Join host, Steve Paikin, and Diplomatic Immunity's Foreign Affairs analysts as they examine the federal election and each party's view of Canada in the world. Li
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Show #222
January 8, 2006
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #214
October 23, 2005
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #209
September 18, 2005
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #207
June 3, 2005
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #193
February 25, 2005
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #184
December 10, 2004
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #177
October 22, 2004
Hot talk on the world's hot spots. Each week, join Janice Stein from the Munk Centre for International Studies, Richard Gwyn from the Toronto Star and host Steve Paikin as they deliver intelligent and lively debate on the international events that ar
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Show #172
April 16, 2004
They are two giants of international affairs: Henry Kissinger, national security advisor and secretary of state to presidents Nixon and Ford, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security advisor to president Carter. They join us to talk about the Bus
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Show #157
December 19, 2003
2003 -- quite a year. And with quite a capper: The capture of Saddam Hussein. How does Hussein's arrest affect the major stories of the year? Like the Bush administration's plans for the Mideast? The reaction of the Arab street? The upcoming US presi
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Show #103
February 8, 2002
Discussions on the most current foreign affairs. Host Steve Paikin along with informed panelists Richard Gwyn of the Toronto Star, Janice Stein, professor of international relations at the University of Toronto; and Eric Margolis, contributing foreig
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Shwow #88
October 12, 2001
Richard Gwyn, Eric Margolis, and Janice Stein discuss this week's international hotspot.
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Show #6
September 28, 2001
Richard Gwyn, Eric Margolis, and Janice Stein discuss this week's international hotspot.
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Show #56
April 28, 2000
<br><b>TONIGHT AT 7 ON DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY: "VIRTUAL WAR"</b><br> That's the title of a new book by Canadian Michael Ignatieff, a keen student of post-Cold War history. Ignatieff says last year's war in Kosovo redefined the rules of warfare in the m
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Politics in the Time of Disaster
What does it take to be a government minister and a politician when a humanitarian disaster strikes?
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TVO and Hot Docs
TVO has four outstanding films showing at the Hot Docs festival this year.
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Hatian Coup
Haiti this week suffered through what some are calling a coup. If so, it's the 33rd coup d'etat in the country's 200-year history as an independent nation.
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The Representations of the Intellectual in Everyday Life
Philosophy professor Mark Kingswell talks about the intellectual's ability for critical engagement in a media saturated environment.
