Canadian Jazz Legend Joe Sealy joined us live in studio on Friday…we’ll hear some live tracks from that performance as well as some tracks from his Juno Award winning album Africville Suite.

On Friday an agreement-in-principle was reached between Ottawa and Washington on controversial "Buy American" protectionist restrictions contained in the near-$800 billion US economic Recovery Act. The deal will allow Canadian firms to bid on certain remaining US stimulus programs covering infrastructure projects at the state and local level. The tentative agreement will see 37 states and all Canadian provinces and municipalities sign on to World Trade Organization rules allowing companies from both countries to bid on government contracts at the sub-national level, albeit with some exceptions. Yet some warn that Canada gave up too much for this deal. We'll be covering the Buy American deal from both angles today.

For another perspective on Friday's Buy American deal we're joined by Scott Sinclair. He's director of the Trade and Investment Research Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the author of a fall report on the Buy American dispute for the Centre.

Take5 movie reviewer, CulturalMining.com creator, and film aficionado, Daniel Garber returns for his look at some of the movies you may want to check out…movies that are out of the mainstream, alternative and right up his alley. 

The Centre for International Governance Innovation think-tank has release a major report on the future of nuclear energy in the world. The report, titled Nuclear Energy and Global Governance to 2030: An Action Plan, examines both how international governments should manage the development of nuclear energy to avoid accidents, nuclear terrorism and weapons proliferation, and predicts that a major expansion of nuclear energy as a means to generate electricity will not occur until 2030. For more on the report we're joined by its author, Dr. Trevor Findlay, Director of the Nuclear Energy Futures Project at CIGI.

The Amazing Absorbing Boy, Rabindranath Maharaj’s new book is both familiar and strange…it’s story of a large Canadian city seen through the wide eyes of a naive and inexperienced young immigrant — wise in the culture of comic books — both hilarious and heartbreaking. When his mother dies, 17 year old Samuel is called to live with the father he has only heard of, and must leave his village in Trinidad and come to Toronto, where he finds his father living in a place called Regent Park. Samuel is lonely in this “big mall of a country,” but he has his memories of superheroes — his mentors — to guide him, including the memory of an unusual friend who was two superheroes in one, as he sets out to explore what Toronto has to offer. Rabindranath Maharaj joins us live in studio.

As an inner city undergoes transformation, can two of its troubled residents escape their community’s shadows and stigmas to carve a path to success? From Academy Award–nominated director Hubert Davis comes Invisible City, a portrait of two teenage boys from Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood that sensitively depicts the disconnect of urban poverty and race from the mainstream. You can see Invisible City this Wednesday February 10, when TVO will present the world broadcast premiere of the film, but you can hear director Hubert Davis talk about the film when he joins us in studio this morning.