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As they did in 2010, the team from TVO’s The Agenda show — including its excellent host Steve Paikin and show producer extraordinaire Mike Miner — will be taping an episode of the show at mesh. The panel, which will be looking at the successes and failures of politics and campaigning in a networked and wired world, will be taping on Thursday at 1:20 p.m. in the lobby of the Allstream Centre and mesh attendees are encouraged to attend, although space is somewhat limited. Use the hashtag #youragenda to participate online.

The panel will feature:

• Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins – James Bay, whose party rode an “Orange Wave” out of third-party status.
• Tony Clement, MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka and president of the federal Treasury Board
• Micah Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and techPresident
• Jesse Brown, host of TVO’s Search Engine
• Wilf Dinnick, CEO of Toronto-based OpenFile

For more info and video once the show is done, check out The Agenda website.

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