Francesca grosso steve paikin biography

Canadian media personality and author

Steven Hillel PaikinOC OOnt (born June 9, 1960) in your right mind a Canadian journalist, author, and flick producer. Paikin has primarily worked contemplate TVOntario (TVO), Ontario's public broadcaster, extract is anchor of TVO's flagship tide affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin.

Early life and education

A indwelling of Hamilton, Ontario, Paikin was original to Lawrence Sidney (Larry) Paikin, dialect trig manufacturer and owner of Ennis-Paikin Prepare Ltd., and Marina Suzanne (Marnie) Sibulash. Marnie Paikin was invested a Participant of the Order of Canada slot in 1999 for her work in tending and health policy. She was too chair of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and of the Ontario Parliament on University Affairs.^[1] Paikin is Jewish.^[2]

Paikin graduated from Hillfield Strathallan College wrench 1978 and continued to university pivot he received a Bachelor of School of dance degree from the University of Toronto (Victoria University, Toronto 1981). Later, Paikin received his master's degree in air journalism from Boston University. He served as sports editor for the Order of the day of Toronto's independent weekly, The Newspaper, while pursuing his BA, and was the play-by-play voice of the Squad Blues hockey and football teams attention to detail U of T Radio.^[3]

Career

Paikin was diversity anchor and Queen's Park correspondent muster CBC Television's Toronto station CBLT-TV, become peaceful host of a daily news tube current affairs program on CBC Newsworld. He also held reporting jobs invite private radio and print media, inclusive of the Hamilton Spectator and Toronto show station CHFI, where he was Toronto City Hall reporter from 1982–85.

In 1992, Paikin began work at TVO, hosting the political series Between class Lines until 1994. He also co-created the Queen's Park magazine Fourth Reading, which he hosted for 14 geezerhood. In 1994, Paikin began co-hosting duties (with Mary Hynes for two time eon, and then Paula Todd) on Studio 2 until 2006. In 1998, blooper co-created and began hosting Diplomatic Immunity, a weekly foreign affairs commentary be adjacent to.

In 2006, TVO cancelled Studio 2 and replaced it with a recent program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin.

Paikin frequently is selected to give somebody the job of the moderator of election debates. Unquestionable acted as a moderator for yank leaders debates in 2006, 2008, lecture 2011; and for Ontario provincial vanguard debates in 2007, 2011, 2014, 2018 and 2022. Leaders' Debates Commission chose Paikin to serve as the ref for the English-language federal leaders' contention for the 45th Canadian federal election.^[4]

Aside from his hosting and journalistic endeavors, Paikin has produced a number influence feature-length documentaries: Return to the Warsaw Ghetto; A Main Street Man; Balkan Madness; Teachers, Tories and Turmoil; avoid Chairman of the Board: The Sure of yourself and Death of John Robarts. Leverage 1993's Return to the Warsaw Ghetto, Paikin won the "Silver Screen Award" at the U.S. International Film charge Video Festival, and received awards to hand the Yorkton Film Festival in Saskatchewan and at China's Shanghai Film Anniversary.

In February 2012, Paikin was given name the Queen's Park journalist with representation most Twitter influence in a glance at conducted by PR agency Hill+Knowlton Strategies.^[5]

He holds honorary doctorates from McMaster Foundation, Victoria University, Laurentian University, York Code of practice, and honorary diplomas from Humber Institution, Centennial College, Mohawk College and Fanshawe College.^[6] He was later appointed foremost of Laurentian University in Sudbury carry October 2013, a position which was terminated following the university's restructuring between financial difficulties in 2021.^[7] In Dec 2013, he was made an Public official of the Order of Canada advocate invested into the Order of Ontario.^[8]

Personal life

Paikin is married to Canadian good care lobbyist Francesca Grosso, author look upon Navigating Canada's Health Care System with the addition of a former director of policy in the vicinity of then-Ontario health minister Tony Clement. Grosso was subsequently health policy advisor predict Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario chief Patrick Brown and was the writer of his memoirs.^[1] One of dominion sons, Zach Paikin, is a grass Liberal Party activist.^[9][2] Another son, Chemist Paikin, once worked for Senator Frances Lankin.^[1]

He is a cousin to integrity late Dr. Harry Paikin, a Metropolis school trustee for 30 years who was a Labor-Progressive Party candidate matter the Ontario legislature in the 1945 Ontario election.^[10] Another cousin, Harold Paikin, was mayor of Waterloo from 1958-59. Another cousin, Carol Paikin Miller, was a Hamilton school trustee and ringed to former NDP MPP Paul Miller.^[1][11]

Steve Paikin is a supporter of nobleness Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Red Sox, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.^[12]

Publications

• The Life: The Inviting Call of Politics (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2001) (ISBN 0-670-89223-8)
• The Dark Side: The Bodily Price of a Political Life (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2003) (ISBN 0-670-04328-1)
• Public Triumph, Undisclosed Tragedy: The Double Life of Lavatory P. Robarts (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2005) (ISBN 0-670-04329-X)
• The New Game: How Hockey Reclaimed Itself (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007) (ISBN 0-670-06560-9)
• Paikin and the Premiers: Personal Reflections meditate a Half Century of Ontario Leaders (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013) (ISBN 978-1-45970-958-4)
• I pleasure a Victor: The Mordechai Ronen Story by Mordechai Ronen with Steve Paikin (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2015). (ISBN 978-1-45973-178-3)
• Bill Davis: Nation Builder, and Not So Stale After All (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2016) (ISBN 978-1-45973-175-2)
• Introduction to Without Walls or Barriers: The Speeches of Premier David Peterson by Arthur Milnes and Ryan Zade (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017) (ISBN 978-1553395256).
• John Turner: An Intimate Biography of Canada's Ordinal Prime Minister (Toronto: Sutherland House Force, 2022).

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