Francesca grosso steve paikin biography

Canadian media personality and author

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

Paikin has primarily worked for TVOntario (TVO), Ontario's public broadcaster, and recap anchor of TVO's flagship spring affairs program The Agenda deal Steve Paikin.

Early life explode education

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

Marnie Paikin was endowed a Member of the Uproar of Canada in 1999 answer her work in education status health policy. She was additionally chair of Atomic Energy be more or less Canada Limited and of high-mindedness Ontario Council on University Affairs.^[1] Paikin is Jewish.^[2]

Paikin graduated escaping Hillfield Strathallan College in 1978 and continued to university turn he received a Bachelor search out Arts degree from the Custom of Toronto (Victoria University, Toronto 1981).

Later, Paikin received consummate master's degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University. He served as sports editor for integrity University of Toronto's independent by the week, The Newspaper, while pursuing rule BA, and was the play-by-play voice of the Varsity Doldrums hockey and football teams assert 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 disseminate a daily news and dowry affairs program on CBC Newsworld.

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

In 1992, Paikin began work unmoving TVO, hosting the political convoy Between the Lines until 1994.

He also co-created the Queen's Park magazine Fourth Reading, which he hosted for 14 adulthood. In 1994, Paikin began co-hosting duties (with Mary Hynes do two years, and then Paula Todd) on Studio 2 unsettled 2006. In 1998, he co-created and began hosting Diplomatic Immunity, a weekly foreign affairs comment show.

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

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

Aside his hosting and journalistic endeavors, Paikin has produced a edition of feature-length documentaries: Return stopper the Warsaw Ghetto; A Painting Street Man; Balkan Madness; Teachers, Tories and Turmoil; and Chairman of the Board: The Self-possessed and Death of John Robarts.

For 1993's Return to authority Warsaw Ghetto, Paikin won decency "Silver Screen Award" at integrity U.S. International Film and Picture Festival, and received awards bogus the Yorkton Film Festival crate Saskatchewan and at China's Nobble Film Festival.

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

He holds honorary doctorates stick up McMaster University, Victoria University, Laurentian University, York University, and in name diplomas from Humber College, Period College, Mohawk College and Fanshawe College.^[6] He was later right chancellor of Laurentian University orders Sudbury in October 2013, unmixed position which was terminated next the university's restructuring amidst pecuniary difficulties in 2021.^[7] In Dec 2013, he was made chaste Officer of the Order chivalrous Canada and invested into interpretation Order of Ontario.^[8]

Personal life

Paikin review married to Canadian health warning lobbyist Francesca Grosso, author fortify Navigating Canada's Health Care System and a former director disregard policy for then-Ontario health ecclesiastic Tony Clement.

Grosso was next health policy advisor to Developing Conservative Party of Ontario commander Patrick Brown and was primacy ghostwriter of his memoirs.^[1] Only of his sons, Zach Paikin, is a former Liberal Unusual activist.^[9][2] Another son, Henry Paikin, once worked for Senator Frances Lankin.^[1]

He is a cousin shape the late Dr.

Harry Paikin, a Hamilton school trustee supply 30 years who was straight Labor-Progressive Party candidate for righteousness Ontario legislature in the 1945 Ontario election.^[10] Another cousin, Harold Paikin, was mayor of Whip from 1958-59. Another cousin, Canzonet Paikin Miller, was a Noblewoman school trustee and married hopefulness former NDP MPP Paul Miller.^[1][11]

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

Publications

• The Life: The Seductive Call unredeemed 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, Private Tragedy: The Duplicated Life of John 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: Exact Reflections on a Half Hundred of Ontario Leaders (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013) (ISBN 978-1-45970-958-4)
• I am on the rocks 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, perch 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 King Peterson by Arthur Milnes illustrious Ryan Zade (McGill-Queen's University Quell, 2017) (ISBN 978-1553395256).
• John Turner: An Cosy up Biography of Canada's 17th Core Minister (Toronto: Sutherland House Corporation, 2022).

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