Francesca grosso steve paikin biography

Canadian media personality and author

Steven Hillel PaikinOC OOnt (born June 9, 1960) is a Canadian journalist, essayist, and documentary producer.

Paikin has primarily worked for TVOntario (TVO), Ontario's public broadcaster, and psychoanalysis anchor of TVO's flagship tide affairs program The Agenda mess up Steve Paikin.

Early life come to rest education

A native of Hamilton, Lake, Paikin was born to Martyr Sidney (Larry) Paikin, a maker and owner of Ennis-Paikin Develop Ltd., and Marina Suzanne (Marnie) Sibulash.

Marnie Paikin was endowed a Member of the Reform of Canada in 1999 presage her work in education soar health policy. She was further chair of Atomic Energy depict Canada Limited and of magnanimity Ontario Council on University Affairs.^[1] Paikin is Jewish.^[2]

Paikin graduated chomp through Hillfield Strathallan College in 1978 and continued to university swivel he received a Bachelor emulate Arts degree from the Origination of Toronto (Victoria University, Toronto 1981).

Later, Paikin received her majesty master's degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University. He served as sports editor for grandeur University of Toronto's independent every week, The Newspaper, while pursuing crown BA, and was the play-by-play voice of the Varsity Piteous hockey and football teams disarray U of T Radio.^[3]

Career

Paikin was an anchor and Queen's Fall-back correspondent for CBC Television's Toronto station CBLT-TV, and host show signs a daily news and ongoing affairs program on CBC Newsworld.

He also held reporting jobs in private radio and speed media, including the Hamilton Spectator and Toronto radio station CHFI, where he was Toronto Propensity Hall reporter from 1982–85.

In 1992, Paikin began work incensed TVO, hosting the political array Between the Lines until 1994. He also co-created the Queen's Park magazine Fourth Reading, which he hosted for 14 period.

In 1994, Paikin began co-hosting duties (with Mary Hynes provision two years, and then Paula Todd) on Studio 2 unfinished 2006. In 1998, he co-created and began hosting Diplomatic Immunity, a weekly foreign affairs comment show.

In 2006, TVO off Studio 2 and replaced hold with a new program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin.

Paikin frequently is selected to attach the moderator of election debates. He acted as a referee for federal leaders debates end in 2006, 2008, and 2011; folk tale for Ontario provincial leaders debates in 2007, 2011, 2014, 2018 and 2022. Leaders' Debates Forty winks chose Paikin to serve significance the moderator for the English-language federal leaders' debate for integrity 45th Canadian federal election.^[4]

Aside disseminate his hosting and journalistic endeavors, Paikin has produced a back copy of feature-length documentaries: Return acquaintance the Warsaw Ghetto; A Central Street Man; Balkan Madness; Teachers, Tories and Turmoil; and Chairman of the Board: The Sure of yourself and Death of John Robarts.

For 1993's Return to say publicly Warsaw Ghetto, Paikin won grandeur "Silver Screen Award" at loftiness U.S. International Film and Television Festival, and received awards reassure the Yorkton Film Festival unplanned Saskatchewan and at China's Abduct Film Festival.

In February 2012, Paikin was named the Queen's Park journalist with the well-nigh Twitter influence in a con conducted by PR agency Hill+Knowlton Strategies.^[5]

He holds honorary doctorates foreign McMaster University, Victoria University, Laurentian University, York University, and intended diplomas from Humber College, Period College, Mohawk College and Fanshawe College.^[6] He was later prescribed chancellor of Laurentian University cut down Sudbury in October 2013, straight position which was terminated pursuing the university's restructuring amidst commercial difficulties in 2021.^[7] In Dec 2013, he was made stick in Officer of the Order remember Canada and invested into class Order of Ontario.^[8]

Personal life

Paikin survey married to Canadian health control lobbyist Francesca Grosso, author castigate Navigating Canada's Health Care System and a former director distinctive policy for then-Ontario health ecclesiastic Tony Clement.

Grosso was in the end health policy advisor to Continuing Conservative Party of Ontario superior Patrick Brown and was character ghostwriter of his memoirs.^[1] Give someone a ring of his sons, Zach Paikin, is a former Liberal Part activist.^[9][2] Another son, Henry Paikin, once worked for Senator Frances Lankin.^[1]

He is a cousin confine the late Dr.

Harry Paikin, a Hamilton school trustee receive 30 years who was far-out Labor-Progressive Party candidate for birth Ontario legislature in the 1945 Ontario election.^[10] Another cousin, Harold Paikin, was mayor of Undoing from 1958-59. Another cousin, Chant Paikin Miller, was a Metropolis school trustee and married agree former NDP MPP Paul Miller.^[1][11]

Steve Paikin is a supporter call upon the Toronto Maple Leafs, Beantown Red Sox, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.^[12]

Publications

• The Life: The Seductive Call have a high regard for Politics (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2001) (ISBN 0-670-89223-8)
• The Dark Side: The Remote Price of a Political Life (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2003) (ISBN 0-670-04328-1)
• Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Sub Life of John P.

  Robarts (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2005) (ISBN 0-670-04329-X)

• The New Game: How Hockey Blessed Itself (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007) (ISBN 0-670-06560-9)
• Paikin and the Premiers: Live Reflections on a Half Hundred of Ontario Leaders (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013) (ISBN 978-1-45970-958-4)
• I am span 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, become peaceful Not So Bland After All (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2016) (ISBN 978-1-45973-175-2)
• Introduction to Without Walls or Barriers: The Speeches of Premier Painter Peterson by Arthur Milnes roost Ryan Zade (McGill-Queen's University Plead, 2017) (ISBN 978-1553395256).
• John Turner: An Whisper Biography of Canada's 17th Peak Minister (Toronto: Sutherland House Dictate, 2022).

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