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The world is changing every day. Now, more than ever, these questions matter. What’s happening? And why should you care? This Matters, a daily news podcast from the Toronto Star, aims to answer those questions, on important stories and ideas, every day, Monday to Friday. Hosts Saba Eitizaz and Ed Keenan talk to their fellow journalists, experts and newsmakers about the social, cultural, political and economic stories that shape your life.

Episode Date
How the end of a pilot program for migrant food workers might affect your meals
May 05, 2025
The growing price of keeping Toronto festivals safe
May 02, 2025
New report reveals how Ontario schools restrain and isolate students with disabilities
Apr 30, 2025
What we learned in the final days of the 2025 election campaign
Apr 25, 2025
How not to get digitally duped this election
Apr 21, 2025
Two years later Canada's biggest gold heist is still unsolved
Apr 17, 2025
A screening room of our own
Apr 15, 2025
We can, sort of, bring back the woolly mammoth. But should we?
Apr 11, 2025
Is Canada's immigration dream broken?
Apr 07, 2025
‘Torturing us as payback’: How Ontario jail guards exacted a violent, hours-long revenge against inmates
Apr 04, 2025
A Liberal candidate's controversial comments, an upcoming election and a crisis for Carney
Apr 02, 2025
Why Canada must brace for U.S. interference in the 2025 election
Mar 31, 2025
Grandpa, what did you do in the trade war?
Mar 28, 2025
A life spent undercover with terrorists trying to incite a race war
Mar 27, 2025
Why a retired college president’s $1M payout is causing controversy
Mar 25, 2025
In conversation with Amira Elghawaby on the rise of Islamophobia in Canada and fighting hate
Mar 21, 2025
They have a league of their own, should they play in it?
Mar 20, 2025
“These guys just looked at the crowd and opened fire”
Mar 14, 2025
Why are so many patients filing complaints about Ontario's ERs?
Mar 13, 2025
A new refuge for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Toronto
Mar 12, 2025
Mark Carney won the Liberal leadership. Next up? Trump, Poilievre and a likely early election
Mar 10, 2025
What Trump wants in waging a trade war against us
Mar 05, 2025
Ford wins! But did everyone kind of lose?
Feb 28, 2025
The Ontario Election: Has housing become not just unaffordable...but impossible?
Feb 25, 2025
Mike Schreiner - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum
Feb 24, 2025
Marit Stiles - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum
Feb 24, 2025
Bonnie Crombie - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum
Feb 24, 2025
The Ontario election: Healthcare on life-support
Feb 21, 2025
Debating over the long weekend
Feb 19, 2025
Ontario’s campaign goes south
Feb 13, 2025
What’s at stake for Toronto in the provincial election
Feb 10, 2025
Trump week on the Ontario campaign trail
Feb 07, 2025
Hitting the snowy campaign trail
Jan 31, 2025
Here's why Doug Ford might call a snap election
Jan 23, 2025
The President strikes back
Jan 21, 2025
Reflecting on Toronto, for better or worse
Jan 17, 2025
Trudeau, the Liberals and next steps: A roundtable with Star politics reporters
Jan 10, 2025
Olivia Chow on 2024 and the year ahead
Dec 19, 2024
The humble heat pump: the easiest way to dramatically cut your emissions
Dec 18, 2024
Beef is the worst food for the climate. Can it be done better?
Dec 17, 2024
E-bikes are popular because they're basically small cars
Dec 16, 2024
Plastic is everywhere, it’s made of oil and it lasts 1,000 years
Dec 14, 2024
Fire is both the cause and effect of climate change
Dec 11, 2024
Fighting climate change collectively and individually
Dec 09, 2024
It's Taylor Swift's Toronto. We just live here
Nov 15, 2024
Trump returns, stronger than ever
Nov 06, 2024
Trump’s triumphant convention (and tedious speech)
Jul 19, 2024
Moments after the attempted assassination of Trump, conspiracy theories went viral
Jul 18, 2024
After the Trump assassination attempt
Jul 17, 2024
Toronto (sports) the bad: The conclusion
Jul 11, 2024
The Shanaplan in Shambles
Jul 10, 2024
Rebuild in Raptorland
Jul 09, 2024
The Blue Jays' decade of playing it safe
Jul 08, 2024
Alice Munro's family kept a terrible secret for decades. Now they want the world to know
Jul 08, 2024
In Toronto, “love wins” (but traffic still sucks)
Jun 28, 2024
Ontario against gender-based violence, Part 2: Intimate partner violence, a survivor tells her story
Jun 27, 2024
Ontario against gender-based violence, Part 1: Sexual harassment and Lydia’s Law
Jun 26, 2024
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on reconciliation, respect and her fight against online hate
Jun 21, 2024
What Toronto lost in the St. Anne's fire
Jun 18, 2024
What you learn about conspiracy theories by starting one
Jun 08, 2024
Is the TTC rolling towards its first strike in almost 20 years?
Jun 05, 2024
Why municipal governments might be best positioned to rapidly deploy climate solutions
May 27, 2024
The city-changing magic of wandering around
May 21, 2024
Voices from the ground: a glimpse inside Canada's student encampments
May 16, 2024
PWHL is creating superstars and superfans
May 07, 2024
Ontario has banned cellphones in class. We take a deeper dive into the new rules for schools
May 02, 2024
After the verdict, Umar Zameer reflects
Apr 26, 2024
A Q&A with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Apr 23, 2024
Poets discuss Taylor Swift’s lyrics as poetry
Apr 22, 2024
Why are Ontario school boards suing TikTok, Snapchat and Meta for $4.5 billion?
Apr 19, 2024
Author Salman Rushdie on his attack, writing ‘Knife’ and fear
Apr 18, 2024
What will it take for women to get a pay raise?
Apr 16, 2024
Mayor Olivia Chow’s plans for homeless encampments, tax fiascos and dangerous dogs
Apr 11, 2024
The vacant-home tax and other disasters
Apr 05, 2024
Why is Canada limiting its number of temporary residents and what are the new rules?
Apr 04, 2024
Thinking about a "lunch-break facelift?" It comes with risks you might not know
Apr 03, 2024
Why are people talking about running out of maple syrup?
Apr 01, 2024
Taking in the sheer scale of the Baltimore bridge collapse
Mar 28, 2024
The biggest mayoral election you might not have heard of
Mar 27, 2024
Have Canadian prisons made access to online education almost impossible for inmates?
Mar 26, 2024
Our last stop: Specialty EVs for the mining industry
Mar 23, 2024
City council gets ready for an expensive FIFA party
Mar 22, 2024
The last big-swinging prime minister
Mar 21, 2024
Canada set to have the best EV supply chain in the world
Mar 16, 2024
Is Canada heading toward a measles outbreak?
Mar 14, 2024
A Star reporter was hacked and got a terrifying glimpse into a digital dystopia
Mar 11, 2024
Can Ontario’s resource-extraction and industrial economy transition to the clean economy?
Mar 09, 2024
Women’s sports and other reasons for hope
Mar 08, 2024
Women's bodies in the public eye
Mar 06, 2024
Ontario has every stage in the EV supply chain right here at home
Mar 02, 2024
What do Canadians want for their health care?
Mar 01, 2024
The Ultimate Choice: A family's journey reveals the political and ethical stakes behind Canada's debate around MAID
Feb 29, 2024
The first cobalt refinery in North America is in Canada
Feb 24, 2024
‘Law & Order’ and porn and politics
Feb 23, 2024
Facing our smartphone addiction
Feb 21, 2024
Can EV batteries be made with Canadian minerals?
Feb 17, 2024
What we saw on Toronto budget day
Feb 16, 2024
Taylor Swift and the dystopian world of AI deepfakes
Feb 15, 2024
Lies, damn lies and statistics about police budgets
Feb 14, 2024
Road Trip: 2,300km up north in the dead of winter, in an EV, to look at the future of electric vehicles
Feb 12, 2024
One year after John Tory
Feb 09, 2024
Is Canada prepared for an impending dementia epidemic?
Feb 08, 2024
Why your Toronto neighbourhood needs to change
Feb 07, 2024
‘You have to survive. Stay safe. I'm doing what I can.’ Canadians describe nightmare race to get loved ones out of Gaza
Feb 06, 2024
Lower tax (hikes), Scarborough buses and jerks on the rink
Feb 02, 2024
How to grow your nest egg when no one taught you how (An episode of the Millennial Money podcast)
Jan 27, 2024
Budgets, toboggans and other ups and downs
Jan 26, 2024
Canada’s new restrictions on international students: An explainer
Jan 25, 2024
More Greenbelt scandal, but no MPP pay hike
Jan 24, 2024
Fight or flight? Options in the threat of eviction (An episode of the Millennial Money podcast)
Jan 20, 2024
Another season of the Trump show roars to life in 2024
Jan 18, 2024
The mysterious murder of a prominent Canadian
Jan 17, 2024
A long walk around a big planet
Jan 16, 2024
How Chow should approach taxes and hate crimes
Jan 12, 2024
Nylander stays at “home”
Jan 11, 2024
Rooting for a new year, new hockey team
Jan 05, 2024
Home ownership or kids: do I have to choose? (Episode 1 of the Millennial Money podcast)
Dec 29, 2023
'It's Political' listener questions on Trudeau, Poilievre, dental subsidy, foreign interference and more
Dec 28, 2023
The great Santa conspiracy
Dec 24, 2023
Mayor Olivia Chow on a very unexpected year
Dec 22, 2023
A year of surprises in Toronto
Dec 21, 2023
20 years of 'Spacing' out in Toronto
Dec 20, 2023
Peter Nygard: who he was, what he did and what happens now
Dec 14, 2023
Soleiman Faqiri's jailhouse death was a homicide. What now?
Dec 13, 2023
Where did COVID-19 come from?
Dec 12, 2023
Dissolving the Peel Region dissolution and protecting the library
Dec 08, 2023
Aging alone: How Canada is failing older adults
Dec 07, 2023
Introducing a new season of the Millennial Money podcast
Dec 06, 2023
What does Bonnie Crombie's win mean for the Ontario Liberals?
Dec 05, 2023
The new deal (in Toronto and Scarborough Southwest)
Dec 01, 2023
Toronto sports history by the numbers
Nov 30, 2023
Why diaspora communities are losing their first language
Nov 29, 2023
Bathroom kings and tricky things in Toronto this week
Nov 24, 2023
Why many international students skip meals to survive in Canada
Nov 23, 2023
A white-nationalist murderer, made in Canada
Nov 22, 2023
Jog along with a world-record holder
Nov 21, 2023
Labour trafficking victims working in plain sight
Nov 18, 2023
A discussion on Canada’s foreign farm workers’ rights
Nov 17, 2023
'We are not doing that well': Mayor Olivia Chow on kids in the city
Nov 16, 2023
Nearly 30,000 Ontario kids are trapped on mental-health waiting lists
Nov 14, 2023
New prescribing powers for Ontario’s nurses
Nov 13, 2023
Ford’s fast-track MZOs sped up nothing
Nov 09, 2023
Why women’s basketball isn’t coming to Toronto
Nov 08, 2023
Ontario schools are failing kids with ADHD
Nov 06, 2023
Kids and violence: catching up with ‘the boy who lived’
Nov 03, 2023
As green space shrinks, how do we raise kids in a concrete world?
Nov 02, 2023
Kids are going hungry. What can we do about it?
Nov 01, 2023
What it is like for kids who lose the place they call home
Oct 31, 2023
Thousands of children are waiting for surgery. Some for years
Oct 30, 2023
How we know the kids aren’t all right
Oct 26, 2023
100 days of Olivia Chow
Oct 25, 2023
Coles notes on the books nominated for 2023’s Giller Prize
Oct 18, 2023
Is Toronto’s ice time policy freezing out girls’ hockey?
Oct 16, 2023
Ozempic: when game-changing medicine becomes a trend
Oct 11, 2023
‘I had to go through the discomfort of being wrong’: a self-proclaimed anti-vaxxer switches sides
Oct 10, 2023
Toronto is the raccoon’s city. We just live in it
Oct 06, 2023
Author Michael Lewis on the rise and fall of ‘King of Crypto’ Sam Bankman-Fried
Oct 04, 2023
Canada-India diplomacy: The view from Ottawa and New Delhi
Oct 03, 2023
Inside the celebration as the Blue Jays clinch a playoff spot
Oct 02, 2023
The Yonge-Dundas Square peg, Eglington Crosstown, Olivia Chow’s measures of progress in Ottawa and at Queen’s Park and more stories of the week
Sep 29, 2023
Are apologies and a resignation enough?
Sep 28, 2023
Doug Ford’s summertime blues
Sep 27, 2023
Truth, reconciliation and sustaining the land
Sep 26, 2023
Ford’s week is a case of ‘surprise, not surprised’ and other big stories
Sep 22, 2023
A history of violence and other Toronto mayoral stories
Sep 20, 2023
Why Hanlan’s Point is important to Toronto history
Sep 19, 2023
How the London terror trial will test Canada’s anti-terror laws
Sep 18, 2023
‘If I can finish it, I will’: the inside story of Terry Fox’s run
Sep 15, 2023
Toronto’s mayor keeps making the case for cash, plus other Toronto news of the week
Sep 14, 2023
Unleashed and barking mad
Sep 13, 2023
The shows must go on: SAG, WGA tiff puts new light on TIFF
Sep 11, 2023
In a Greenbelt hole, Ford keeps digging, plus other Toronto news of the week
Sep 08, 2023
Digital generation struggling with facts vs. misinformation
Sep 07, 2023
The bee catastrophe we should be worried about
Sep 06, 2023
Mission impossible: Real estate
Aug 31, 2023
Is the American dream more attainable than Canada’s?
Aug 30, 2023
Policing wellness checks
Aug 29, 2023
Summer ends early at City Hall
Aug 25, 2023
A homebuyer, seller, tenant dispute that could happen to you
Aug 24, 2023
COVID booster shots and the next pandemic wave
Aug 23, 2023
Ford persists that Greenbelt is needed for housing. Experts say no
Aug 22, 2023
Trump’s tangled legal web
Aug 18, 2023
Class-action lawsuit against police ‘carding’ highlights its lasting impact
Aug 17, 2023
Style vs. substance: How Trudeau, Poilievre and Canadian minds are changing
Aug 14, 2023
Olivia Chow's one-month performance review
Aug 11, 2023
Does Toronto need to nip tree problems in the bud?
Aug 10, 2023
On class divisions, and why not everyone’s stories get told
Aug 04, 2023
Cruel summer: Devastating wildfires, flash floods and heat records
Aug 02, 2023
The COVID papers: What Canada's top doctors say about the country's pandemic response
Aug 01, 2023
The story of mass murder in a GTA condo tower
Jul 28, 2023
Justin Trudeau just overhauled his cabinet. What now?
Jul 27, 2023
Is Doug Ford ‘excessively preoccupied’ with municipalities?
Jul 25, 2023
Mercury contamination linked to high youth suicide attempt rate in Grassy Narrows First Nation
Jul 24, 2023
Report says minimum wage needs to be higher than $33 to afford rent in Toronto
Jul 21, 2023
Will Canada’s Mounties become the ‘FBI of the North’?
Jul 20, 2023
Star investigation reveals troubling tax trend hitting Toronto’s cheapest homes while mansions catch a break
Jul 19, 2023
Electric vehicles are picking up speed but have one speed bump. They’re illegal
Jul 18, 2023
These nurses treat mental health patients wherever they might find them
Jul 17, 2023
Why do Canadians search for proof of racism instead of finding solutions?
Jul 14, 2023
Toronto’s best (and worst) playgrounds? This dad has made a guide
Jul 13, 2023
Why are newcomers seeking refuge sleeping on Toronto streets?
Jul 12, 2023
King’s Counsel honours stirs questions, accusations of patronage
Jul 11, 2023
Unravelling Meta’s new Threads
Jul 10, 2023
The Star, police and racial profiling: A reporter looks back (Rebroadcast)
Jul 07, 2023
One on one with David Suzuki: climate change, clean energy and whether there’s hope (Rebroadcast)
Jul 06, 2023
A chief at the centre of a national reckoning on residential schools (Rebroadcast)
Jul 05, 2023
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on getting to the moon (Rebroadcast)
Jul 04, 2023
What we know about Google’s plan to block all Canadian news content
Jun 30, 2023
Olivia Chow and a new time of possibility in Toronto?
Jun 29, 2023
Drag has always been part of Toronto. Here’s part of its history
Jun 28, 2023
Pride, hope and Olivia Chow’s prospects
Jun 27, 2023
Toronto Star’s Fresh Air Fund: Its impact and the magic of camp
Jun 26, 2023
Is this ‘the most exciting and positive election in 20 years’?
Jun 23, 2023
Hot shots: Are laced drugs being used to murder people?
Jun 22, 2023
The rising costs and concerns of building light rail transit
Jun 21, 2023
Why are so many newcomers giving up the Canadian dream?
Jun 20, 2023
Your last-minute Toronto mayoral election questions, answered
Jun 19, 2023
Climate change noticeable in Toronto, not so in mayoral platforms
Jun 16, 2023
Three of their kids are going blind. So they went and saw the world
Jun 15, 2023
‘Seizing the means of construction’ and other mayoral attacks
Jun 14, 2023
Toronto Pride: funding woes, rising hate and why events must go on
Jun 13, 2023
Paul Bernardo and how federal corrections handles dangerous offenders
Jun 09, 2023
Are any candidates separating themselves? It’s up for debate
Jun 09, 2023
A reality check on Apple’s new Vision Pro headset
Jun 08, 2023
An insider’s look at the race for mayor from Jennifer Keesmaat
Jun 07, 2023
Is Toronto a safe city? The data versus perception
Jun 06, 2023
Canada is in flames. What you need to know about fire science
Jun 05, 2023
One on one with David Suzuki: climate change, clean energy and whether there’s hope
Jun 02, 2023
Olivia Chow vs. Everyone? Keenan and Teitel weigh in on the Star’s mayoral candidates debate
Jun 01, 2023
‘We’re getting screwed... make that the ballot question’
May 31, 2023
The ups and downs of the elevator industry
May 30, 2023
Body cams on soccer referees to deter abuse from parents and coaches
May 29, 2023
The historical context behind renaming Dundas Street
May 26, 2023
Debating Toronto’s future: The race for mayor
May 25, 2023
Is Olivia Chow’s ‘untouchable’ lead for real?
May 24, 2023
How will Ontario peel Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon apart?
May 23, 2023
Sodium nitrite, self harm and the case people around the world are watching
May 19, 2023
Supply teachers and demand: How staffing shortages are affecting TDSB
May 18, 2023
How the Eglinton Crosstown LRT has been derailed again
May 17, 2023
How soon is ‘now’ on affordable housing? A big election question
May 16, 2023
Business not as usual: The return to office and downtown Toronto now
May 15, 2023
After George Floyd: One city’s vow to ‘end’ police
May 12, 2023
Ontario’s housing plan and how it could lead to sprawl
May 11, 2023
Canada set to name foreign labs, universities that pose national security risk
May 10, 2023
Can you have too many candidates for mayor of Toronto?
May 09, 2023
WHO says COVID as global health emergency is over. Now what?
May 08, 2023
Alberta’s neck and neck election: Notley vs. Smith
May 05, 2023
How Toronto police’s drug evidence locker thefts impact prosecutions
May 04, 2023
‘You need to stand up to the bully’: David Miller’s advice to next mayor about Doug Ford
May 03, 2023
How will Bill C-11 affect Cancon, streaming platforms and cat videos?
May 02, 2023
Violence in Sudan: A Canadian family shares their story
May 01, 2023
Planes, heists and other steals: Inside the $20 million Pearson gold theft
Apr 28, 2023
What you need to know about the PSAC strike
Apr 27, 2023
How provinces are trying to win the hearts, minds and wallets of nurses
Apr 26, 2023
Star columnists discuss the ‘Great Mayoral Battle Royale’
Apr 25, 2023
A Canadian missing in Mexico and the hunt for justice
Apr 24, 2023
A chief at the centre of a national reckoning on residential schools
Apr 21, 2023
Ontario Science Centre Place: Yours to Discover!
Apr 20, 2023
Ontario’s plan to change high school skilled trades education
Apr 19, 2023
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on getting to the moon
Apr 18, 2023
What the Pentagon leak means for Canada
Apr 17, 2023
Kevin Donovan on going to court to unseal documents related to the Sherman homicide investigation
Apr 14, 2023
Mayoral candidates could make Ontario Place a key election issue
Apr 13, 2023
How can we address the family doctor shortage in Canada?
Apr 12, 2023
Forty per cent of farmers are retiring in the next decade. How do we replace them?
Apr 11, 2023
Two topics we’re not supposed to talk about: religion and politics
Apr 10, 2023
The mystery of why CFCs are rising
Apr 06, 2023
Transit safety: What can we learn from Philadelphia and New York?
Apr 05, 2023
Closing Roxham Road: what migrants face at the border
Apr 04, 2023
Mass Casualty Commission inquiry puts RCMP in the hot seat
Apr 03, 2023
Youth crime: The case of eight teen girls, a murder and what we know
Mar 31, 2023
Jays opening day with Vladdy, Springer, Manoah, Romano and Jansen
Mar 30, 2023
How the federal budget went green, but left Toronto out in the cold
Mar 29, 2023
Scam phone calls: fraud, technology and other hang ups
Mar 28, 2023
The City of Peel vs. a Mississauga ‘Mexit’
Mar 27, 2023
Ontario’s record-breaking budget explained
Mar 24, 2023
Who’s in and who’s out? A look at who is running for mayor of Toronto
Mar 23, 2023
Is Canada failing older women?
Mar 22, 2023
How the Gardiner East debate may drive votes for mayor
Mar 21, 2023
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. What are the Canadian implications?
Mar 20, 2023
How ‘southbounders’ are fuelling cross-border politics
Mar 17, 2023
The ticking TikTok: How an app ignited a national security debate
Mar 16, 2023
What we know and don’t know about hate incidents on campuses
Mar 15, 2023
What did we learn from the four-day work week experiment?
Mar 14, 2023
Why Jagmeet Singh still wants to prop up the Liberals
Mar 13, 2023
Why engineers want to retool a mysterious ring ceremony
Mar 10, 2023
How the idea of 15-minute cities became controversial
Mar 09, 2023
A life lost, a person unclaimed and a subsidized apartment frozen in time
Mar 08, 2023
What will it take to calm uproar at Oakville Trafalgar High School?
Mar 07, 2023
Private care in a public hospital
Mar 06, 2023
Who is Canada’s most wanted person?
Mar 03, 2023
Canadian elections and foreign influence: What we know so far
Mar 02, 2023
Probe calls for workplace culture change at Trillium Health Partners
Mar 01, 2023
Search barred: Why Google is conducting secret tests to filter news results in Canada
Feb 28, 2023
New data sheds light on Canada's wrongfully convicted. What does it tell us?
Feb 27, 2023
Canada was called a vaccine hoarder. Has it redeemed itself?
Feb 24, 2023
Netflix cracks down on password sharing
Feb 23, 2023
Fight for gender equality heats up at Canada Soccer
Feb 22, 2023
What a balloon says about U.S. and Canadian concerns with China
Feb 21, 2023
Introducing The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman
Feb 17, 2023
The devastating earthquake in Turkey and its political aftershocks
Feb 16, 2023
192 Ontario jail deaths in just eight years. What can be done?
Feb 15, 2023
Why Doug Ford’s ties to developers are under scrutiny again
Feb 14, 2023
How the Star broke the story on John Tory and what’s next for Toronto?
Feb 14, 2023
CaféTO lives! The new deal for the patio program
Feb 10, 2023
The $46.2 billion federal prescription for the health care crisis
Feb 09, 2023
Ontario court rules encampment can stay in precedent-setting decision
Feb 08, 2023
What Amira Elghawaby’s apology says about Islamophobia
Feb 07, 2023
Justin Trudeau's next moves: A sit down with the Prime Minister
Feb 06, 2023
Canada’s new alcohol guidelines have a spirited response
Feb 03, 2023
Why Toronto’s homeless are sleeping in hospital ERs
Feb 02, 2023
Can a vending machine save lives?
Feb 01, 2023
Why Scarborough is upset about potential electoral redistricting
Jan 31, 2023
How gas stoves affect health, the climate and (some say) freedom
Jan 30, 2023
Violent TTC incidents leave riders questioning safety of transit system
Jan 27, 2023
Looking at the ‘Freedom Convoy’ a year after the occupation
Jan 26, 2023
Following a string of sexual assaults inside a Toronto university, the school’s response is under fire
Jan 25, 2023
Sewage flowed into waters around Hamilton for years. Why?
Jan 24, 2023
How food inflation is hitting food banks as demand grows
Jan 23, 2023
Everything you need to know about XBB.1.5, a.k.a. the Kraken subvariant
Jan 20, 2023
Why Canada still needs to work on recognizing skills of immigrants
Jan 19, 2023
How Ontario hospitals treated the surge in sick kids
Jan 18, 2023
Ontario’s plan to use private clinics for surgeries explained
Jan 17, 2023
Caught on camera: How mass surveillance is changing our judicial system
Jan 16, 2023
How to make sense of Toronto’s 2023 budget
Jan 13, 2023
Air travel and passenger rights: What you need to know
Jan 12, 2023
Does the RCMP need a revamp?
Jan 11, 2023
TTC crimes, cops and service cuts
Jan 10, 2023
The Star, police and racial profiling: A reporter looks back
Jan 09, 2023
Why there are more coyotes in urban areas
Jan 06, 2023
Medical condition reports: How a diagnosis can lead to a suspended licence
Jan 05, 2023
What’s the real estate market going to look like in 2023?
Jan 04, 2023
A spirited take on Dry January (Rebroadcast)
Jan 03, 2023
A tribute to John Honderich, newspaperman (Rebroadcast)
Dec 30, 2022
How do you want to spend the final years of your life? (Rebroadcast)
Dec 29, 2022
The cold truth about the fastest warming place on Earth (rebroadcast)
Dec 28, 2022
How Toronto police made an arrest in two cold cases (rebroadcast)
Dec 27, 2022
Holiday romance movies and why Ontario loves (and makes) them
Dec 23, 2022
Highway Development: Documents show Bradford Bypass could double in size
Dec 22, 2022
Will COP15 help save the world’s biodiversity?
Dec 21, 2022
What’s behind the staggering increase in car jackings and pharmacy thefts?
Dec 20, 2022
Ontario Place: Yours to discover spa treatments?
Dec 19, 2022
Scrooged: The scams of Christmas present (a true rhyme podcast)
Dec 16, 2022
Are pension plans funding human-rights abuses in China?
Dec 15, 2022
The pains of transit projects: Metrolinx and various disputes around the city
Dec 14, 2022
The Barry and Honey Sherman murders: Kevin Donovan reflects five years on
Dec 13, 2022
Cold weather, full shelters. Where can those facing homelessness go?
Dec 12, 2022
Artificial Intelligence went viral with ChatGPT and Lensa AI. What’s next
Dec 09, 2022
How Ford’s housing plan may mean property tax hikes
Dec 08, 2022
Violence in schools: York Memorial and how the TDSB plans to respond
Dec 07, 2022
Why some of Canada’s notorious criminals could get out of prison sooner
Dec 06, 2022
RSV: as hospitals struggle, a mother shares her story
Dec 05, 2022
Will China’s protests over zero-COVID spark lasting change?
Dec 02, 2022
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s power move with sovereignty act
Dec 01, 2022
Migration cessation: a process that could cost refugees their Canadian future
Nov 30, 2022
How Toronto police made an arrest in two cold cases
Nov 29, 2022
The PM, the protestors and the public inquiry
Nov 28, 2022
Greenbelt development: Looking into who owns what
Nov 25, 2022
What you need to know about Ontario’s new housing legislation
Nov 24, 2022
Show me the money! Toronto’s $2.3 billion dollar budget shortfall
Nov 23, 2022
Do mayors need even stronger powers?
Nov 22, 2022
Advocates sound the alarm over youth violence in the GTA
Nov 21, 2022
To mask or not to mask, that is (still) the question
Nov 18, 2022
Is the GOP still on Trump’s wavelength?
Nov 17, 2022
Kicking off the World Cup
Nov 16, 2022
The cold truth about the fastest warming place on Earth
Nov 15, 2022
Michael’s choice: The ethics of medical assistance in dying
Nov 14, 2022
Developing the Greenbelt: Ontario’s new plan to build on protected lands
Nov 11, 2022
Climate justice centre stage at COP27
Nov 10, 2022
The kids aren’t alright: flu, RSV, COVID and medicine shortages
Nov 09, 2022
Do you feel like somebody’s watching you...at work?
Nov 08, 2022
How do you want to spend the final years of your life?
Nov 07, 2022
How did the manufacturing sector suffer so many COVID fatalities?
Nov 04, 2022
The good books: Star recommends your holiday reads
Nov 03, 2022
CUPE vs. the province: Schools, the notwithstanding clause and workers' rights
Nov 02, 2022
The Drug User Liberation Front: Selling drugs to try to save lives
Nov 01, 2022
Toronto’s homeless shelter system is stretched to the brink
Oct 31, 2022
Ontario’s new housing plan: construction targets, density and development
Oct 28, 2022
‘Don’t take my emotion as weakness’: Patricia Jaggernauth in conversation
Oct 27, 2022
Grocery store price freezes backfire
Oct 26, 2022
City hall’s new faces, tight races and Toronto’s oncoming challenges
Oct 25, 2022
Inquiry into invocation of the Emergencies Act: what we know so far
Oct 24, 2022
With Jacob Hoggard sentenced for sexual assault, what are the larger implications?
Oct 21, 2022
Canada’s growing corporate tax gap
Oct 20, 2022
The inner workings of hostage diplomacy and prisoner swaps
Oct 19, 2022
Toronto, the not so good. Can’t we do better?
Oct 18, 2022
Are we ready to head back to the office? If so, how?
Oct 17, 2022
Is a recession inevitable? An economist’s view
Oct 14, 2022
Analyzing the current attacks in Ukraine and what happens next
Oct 13, 2022
What you need to know about Bill C-11 and online streaming in Canada
Oct 12, 2022
Elon Musk finally agreed to buy Twitter. What comes next?
Oct 11, 2022
The Hockey Canada scandal and the culture of sport
Oct 07, 2022
BONUS: Mike Wilner talks Blue Jays with Alek Manoah, John Schneider and Ross Stripling
Oct 07, 2022
View from Taiwan: A conversation on national security
Oct 06, 2022
Why sex workers are taking the government to court to reform the law
Oct 05, 2022
Scandal and sexual abuse allegations at a Canadian megachurch
Oct 04, 2022
‘Women, life, freedom’: Inside Iran’s new revolution
Oct 03, 2022
Is the pandemic over? It depends on who you ask
Sep 30, 2022
What truth and reconciliation means: a candid conversation
Sep 29, 2022
They threatened Pierre Poilievre’s wife. What is Diagolon?
Sep 28, 2022
The criminalization of HIV non-disclosure
Sep 27, 2022
Who should pay for Pakistan’s cataclysmic flood?
Sep 26, 2022
BONUS: 'It's Political with Althia Raj' discusses Pierre Poilievre’s Big Tent
Sep 24, 2022
A complicated country: Edward Keenan on reporting from the U.S.
Sep 23, 2022
Inflation, affordability, recession? What you need to know
Sep 22, 2022
Stranded with a broken wheelchair, Maayan Ziv on airline accessibility
Sep 21, 2022
How the Great Resignation became the Great Retirement in Canada
Sep 20, 2022
Meet one of the youth climate activists suing the province
Sep 19, 2022
In a London pub Lisa LaFlamme and Rosie DiManno discuss the Queen
Sep 17, 2022
Indigenous women reflect on the Queen and the monarchy
Sep 15, 2022
Up in smoke? The reckoning coming for cannabis stores
Sep 14, 2022
Reality TV check: An investigation of ‘4 Days to Save the World’
Sep 13, 2022
Pierre Poilievre: What’s next for the new Conservative leader
Sep 12, 2022
Saskatchewan aftermath: How the community is trying to heal
Sep 09, 2022
Vision Zero: Are the city’s safer street policies working?
Sep 08, 2022
Gaming the system: How casino-style gaming machines got into bingo halls
Sep 07, 2022
The overrepresentation of Black people when Peel police use force
Sep 06, 2022
The bivalent vaccine and the COVID way forward
Sep 02, 2022
How Bill 7 could change health care in the province
Sep 01, 2022
Allegations of abuse within Canada’s temporary foreign worker program
Aug 31, 2022
What you need to know about Toronto’s upcoming municipal election
Aug 30, 2022
Death threats for doing your job: Journalists discuss being on the receiving end
Aug 29, 2022
Grey Matters: LaFlamme exit ignites conversation on workplace sexism and ageism
Aug 26, 2022
What you need to know about sustainable aviation fuels
Aug 25, 2022
The Mayor of Peterborough’s f-bombs and the challenge of working in city politics
Aug 24, 2022
How did misinformation feed the myth that COVID vaccines killed hundreds of Canadians?
Aug 23, 2022
Ontario to disabled teen: lose funding or independence
Aug 22, 2022
Quebec’s Bill 21 and its latest controversy
Aug 19, 2022
Ontario’s not-so-strong mayor plan
Aug 18, 2022
Why the cost and use of temp agency nurses is skyrocketing
Aug 17, 2022
Back to school and what to expect
Aug 16, 2022
Renovictions and tenant rights: How the city is trying to help renters
Aug 15, 2022
905 politicians behaving badly
Aug 12, 2022
Internationally trained medical staff could help Ontario hospitals but can’t
Aug 11, 2022
Politics of public space: Cyclists and High Park
Aug 10, 2022
Sexism in skilled trades: Meet a woman bringing change
Aug 09, 2022
The metaverse is coming. What does that mean?
Aug 08, 2022
Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan, but the crisis is just beginning
Aug 05, 2022
How the B.C. coast is a cruise ship dumping ground
Aug 04, 2022
If routine Pap tests are becoming a thing of the past, why is Ontario lagging behind?
Aug 03, 2022
What the Nova Scotia shooting reveals about survivors of domestic violence
Aug 02, 2022
Housing correction: How far will the market fall?
Jul 29, 2022
Thousands of Afghans are waiting for Canada’s help. Time is running out
Jul 28, 2022
What will it take for the Pope’s apology to mean something?
Jul 27, 2022
Monkeypox is a global health emergency. We talk to someone who went through it
Jul 26, 2022
Planes, blame and airport shame: Pearson’s problems investigated
Jul 25, 2022
Summer of strikes: Looking at the labour movement now
Jul 22, 2022
Scorching weather signals crisis point: is Canada prepared?
Jul 21, 2022
What the new ‘strong-mayor’ plan means for municipal politics
Jul 20, 2022
Panic buttons and peril: the new reality for Canadian politicians
Jul 19, 2022
How Canada's top three supermarket chains are making money from inflation
Jul 18, 2022
Why emergency departments are overwhelmed
Jul 15, 2022
To boost or not to boost? Ontario expands fourth shots to all adults
Jul 14, 2022
The Right Stuff: What’s next for the Conservative leadership race
Jul 13, 2022
Network effect: Rogers’ outage and how the government is making telcos work together
Jul 12, 2022
Contempt of the Supreme Court: The judiciary and American democracy
Jul 11, 2022
How Canada’s new crime bill will wipe out drug possession charges
Jul 08, 2022
Why are nurses quitting their jobs for temp agencies?
Jul 07, 2022
Can an Ontario breakthrough help long COVID sufferers?
Jul 06, 2022
Down by The Bay: Inside the retailer's reinvention
Jul 05, 2022
A prescription for healthy food? New program tackles food insecurity
Jul 04, 2022
Is a ‘Freedom Convoy’ sequel on the way to Ottawa for Canada Day?
Jun 30, 2022
What life is like on ODSP
Jun 29, 2022
Office Politics: Vaccination status and the workplace
Jun 28, 2022
Roe v. Wade has been overturned. What happens now?
Jun 27, 2022
Sanctions, censorship and war: What it’s like living in Russia
Jun 24, 2022
Tracking down one of Canada’s most notorious hit men
Jun 23, 2022
Explaining the cryptocurrency crash
Jun 22, 2022
400 displaced people in social housing. Few answers. Few homes
Jun 21, 2022
Flight Risk: Will relaxing vaccine mandates tackle chaos at the airport?
Jun 20, 2022
Does Canada need legislation against Black and Indigenous hair discrimination?
Jun 17, 2022
Unpacking the Toronto Police's report revealing systemic racism
Jun 16, 2022
Angry Young Men: How youth workers are trying to stop the next attack
Jun 15, 2022
Is the ride over for ActiveTO?
Jun 14, 2022
Waves of power creation: How tidal energy is the next potential renewable source
Jun 13, 2022
A tale of two communities struck by climate disasters
Jun 10, 2022
Rights wronged: How police are violating people’s Charter rights
Jun 09, 2022
What the Hoggard verdict highlights about consent and sexual violence victims
Jun 08, 2022
Why Conservatives are embracing conspiracy theories
Jun 07, 2022
Tow truck wars, York Region and why high-profile cases keep falling apart
Jun 06, 2022
What’s in Canada’s new gun control bill and is it enough?
Jun 03, 2022
What have Canada’s big pensions invested in? It’s hard to know
Jun 02, 2022
Ontario Election: fact-checking the party leaders
Jun 01, 2022
There is a big demand for accessible housing in Ontario. Few can find it
May 31, 2022
Days after Uvalde massacre, NRA hosts annual summit
May 30, 2022
Ontario Votes: Looking at the final days of the campaign
May 27, 2022
Baby boomers are getting older and want change in long-term care
May 26, 2022
What we know about monkeypox so far
May 25, 2022
The Price is Wrong: Grocery store inflation and what you can do about it
May 24, 2022
Introducing ‘Death in a Small Town,’ a podcast hosted by Kevin Donovan
May 23, 2022
Grand Theft Auto GTA: Carjackings and auto thefts soar
May 20, 2022
Food fight: The Michelin Guide is coming to Toronto
May 19, 2022
Why are hundreds of immigrants languishing in Canada’s maximum security jails?
May 18, 2022
Blue bin blues: Why recycling in Canada is a big green lie
May 17, 2022
Reproductive rights and abortion access: Is Canada as pro-choice as you think?
May 16, 2022
Air sick: The problems at Canada’s airports and why it won’t get better soon
May 13, 2022
Sticky wicket: Why Toronto needs more cricket pitches
May 12, 2022
Can a new law tackle the opioid crisis in Ontario’s construction industry?
May 11, 2022
Does the government need to clamp down on predatory lending?
May 10, 2022
What a damning report reveals about white supremacy in Canada’s military
May 09, 2022
As cycling data points to rise in ER visits, how safe are our streets?
May 06, 2022
The campaign is on. So, what’s behind Del Duca’s handgun ban?
May 05, 2022
Introducing ‘It’s Political with Althia Raj,’ a new Canadian politics podcast
May 05, 2022
How the Ukraine war is escalating the global hunger crisis
May 04, 2022
Roe v. Wade in peril? What a major leak suggests about the future of U.S. abortion laws
May 03, 2022
Meet Percy: Freshii’s new outsourced ‘virtual cashier’
May 02, 2022
Ontario’s budget: Politics, platforms and how it sets up the election
Apr 29, 2022
The changing political dynamics of Toronto city hall
Apr 28, 2022
How climate and pandemic anxiety is overwhelming Ontario teens
Apr 27, 2022
Housing affordability: What can be done to help people get into the market?
Apr 26, 2022
How right is too right? Conservatives look to the middle
Apr 25, 2022
Everything you need to know about the antiviral COVID drug
Apr 22, 2022
How Canada is trying to deal with the cost of inflation
Apr 21, 2022
Why are so many COVID vaccine doses wasted in Canada?
Apr 20, 2022
Birds eye view: Satellites and how we watch war now
Apr 19, 2022
TTC bus drivers face violent and bizarre incidents
Apr 18, 2022
One hospital’s plan to treat gun violence
Apr 14, 2022
What we know about the fourth COVID shot
Apr 13, 2022
The inequitable distribution of rapid tests in Ontario
Apr 12, 2022
Now or never: UN warns the world must act on climate
Apr 11, 2022
How the unregulated dog rescue industry has spelled disaster for some
Apr 08, 2022
Jays Opening Day Extravaganza, with Bichette, Manoah, Berrios, Romano, Jansen, Rivera and Vladdy
Apr 07, 2022
Why you should take the sixth wave of COVID-19 seriously
Apr 06, 2022
Hotel check out: The city’s plan to close temporary homeless shelters
Apr 05, 2022
How a deadly sixth wave of COVID hit Hong Kong and New Zealand differently
Apr 04, 2022
'I am very sorry.' Pope apologizes for Church’s role in Canada’s residential school system
Apr 01, 2022
Will Toronto’s real estate market bloom in spring? An agent’s outlook
Mar 31, 2022
Canada’s World Cup qualifying dreams have come true. What’s next?
Mar 30, 2022
It’s a deal: unpacking the $10-a-day child care plan
Mar 29, 2022
Jerry Dias and Unifor: How the head of Canada’s largest private sector union fell
Mar 28, 2022
Mid-Life Happiness: Why joy later in life looks different than you think
Mar 25, 2022
Scarred by war: The impact on Ukraine's children will be lasting
Mar 24, 2022
Inside the Trudeau-Singh agreement
Mar 23, 2022
How Ontario’s changes to the Blue Box program might need to be recycled
Mar 22, 2022
A family violence case set a legal precedent. Can it help save lives?
Mar 21, 2022
Hang up that phone! Robocalls, spoofing and phone-related fraud
Mar 18, 2022
New highways need gravel from GTA quarries. Residents are fighting back
Mar 17, 2022
A foodie’s guide to pandemic dining
Mar 16, 2022
Ontario’s Tiger King and the lack of rules around animals and zoos
Mar 15, 2022
Ontario is lifting mask mandates. Here’s what it means for you
Mar 14, 2022
A scientist makes the case against Daylight Saving Time
Mar 11, 2022
Escaping invasion in Ukraine: People share their stories
Mar 10, 2022
Why gas prices are high and won’t be going down anytime soon
Mar 09, 2022
The rules don't apply for some refugees in Europe
Mar 08, 2022
Inside Ukraine, preparing for invasion in a border town
Mar 07, 2022
The view from Ottawa: What Canada is doing to help Ukraine
Mar 04, 2022
COVID restrictions are lifting, but some are left behind
Mar 03, 2022
Modern warfare: Cyber attacks, hacking and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict
Mar 02, 2022
Vaccine Inequity Part II: South Africa fights back
Mar 01, 2022
Vaccine Inequity Part I: The view from Angola
Feb 28, 2022
Voices from Ukraine: A family trapped in the war and a journalist in Kyiv
Feb 25, 2022
Why has the justice system failed to fix Canada’s hate problem?
Feb 24, 2022
The cost of one's convictions: convoy ringleaders in court
Feb 23, 2022
Can the world deter Putin’s plans for Ukraine?
Feb 22, 2022
Can the world deter Putin’s plans for Ukraine?
Feb 22, 2022
Don’t Look Up: How NASA is getting ready for killer asteroids
Feb 18, 2022
Press freedom, convoy protests and the safety of journalists
Feb 17, 2022
Follow the money: What a leaked crowdfunding convoy donor list tells us
Feb 16, 2022
Why you shouldn’t look for ‘closure’ while grieving
Feb 15, 2022
A tale of two protests: Windsor vs. Ottawa
Feb 14, 2022
A tribute to John Honderich, newspaperman
Feb 11, 2022
Should Black women challenge ‘excellence’ and embrace ‘mediocrity’ to reclaim power?
Feb 10, 2022
Calls for personal hygiene products for the city’s most vulnerable
Feb 09, 2022
Carolyn Bennett on Canada’s first mental health and addictions ministry
Feb 08, 2022
The 'Freedom Convoy' and policing protests
Feb 07, 2022
Partner podcast: Between Us With Wes Hall explores the journeys of BIPOC visionaries in Canada
Feb 05, 2022
A physician on Omicron and how we move forward
Feb 04, 2022
Tackling alleged racist hiring practices in the NFL
Feb 03, 2022
Why did a key report on the mayor’s transit plan include inflated numbers?
Feb 02, 2022
Long-term-care residents are facing unprecedented loneliness and depression
Feb 01, 2022
The Freedom Convoy: Rage, racism and what happens next
Jan 31, 2022
How some Canadians are getting ivermectin
Jan 28, 2022
Why we need N95 respirators more than cloth masks
Jan 27, 2022
Tips from an expert on how to save as inflation soars
Jan 26, 2022
Canada’s blood donation ban may open up. Here’s how
Jan 25, 2022
Restaurant worker makeover: Why so many are leaving the service industry
Jan 24, 2022
What role do horses have in a modern police force?
Jan 21, 2022
Taxed for being unvaxxed: The ethics of government mandates
Jan 20, 2022
Why is Peel Region falling behind in vaccinating kids?
Jan 19, 2022
Novak Djokovic’s no-vax gambit and pandemic sports now
Jan 18, 2022
Celebrating Canada’s health care workers had its downside
Jan 17, 2022
How Canada and the U.S. differ in Omicron response
Jan 14, 2022
It’s OK to not be OK in a pandemic
Jan 13, 2022
Afghans facing retribution for helping Canadians are struggling to get to Canada
Jan 12, 2022
Today’s lesson: Why Ontario decided to reopen schools
Jan 11, 2022
Code Orange: What Ontario's nursing shortage looks like in ICUs
Jan 10, 2022
Mental health support tailored to Indigenous culture remains out of reach
Jan 07, 2022
Voter rights and fights: How Jan. 6 changed American politics
Jan 06, 2022
The Omicron wave: What numbers to watch
Jan 05, 2022
A spirited take on Dry January
Jan 04, 2022
Boko Haram survivors, Mellissa Fung and the complexity of shared trauma (REBROADCAST)
Dec 30, 2021
A four-day work week? (REBROADCAST)
Dec 29, 2021
How sportsmanship brought two nations and the lacrosse world closer (REBROADCAST)
Dec 28, 2021
Why you miss (and need) casual friendships (REBROADCAST)
Dec 27, 2021
Should the end of Ontario’s liquor server wage mean lower tips for restaurant workers?
Dec 24, 2021
Nurses are leaving the profession in worrying numbers
Dec 23, 2021
Ontario doctors fight virus, system that exposes the vulnerable
Dec 22, 2021
How a massive bitcoin robbery ended up with an arrest in Hamilton
Dec 21, 2021
The Night Walker: Kevin Donovan on the suspect in the Sherman murders
Dec 20, 2021
Costs and benefits of virtual health care
Dec 17, 2021
Food prices rise amidst COVID-19, supply chain issues and climate change
Dec 16, 2021
How health professionals plan to spend their holidays on a wave of Omicron
Dec 15, 2021
Inside Brampton truckers’ fight against wage theft
Dec 14, 2021
Alcohol sales are changing. Will The Beer Store survive?
Dec 13, 2021
How Canadian Olympians are being unearthed at a training centre
Dec 10, 2021
How the ‘Grinch Bots’ are stealing Christmas
Dec 09, 2021
How a 13-year-old faced anti-Black violence at school: a mother’s story
Dec 08, 2021
Who gets to decide how Toronto grows and changes?
Dec 07, 2021
The Fast and Nefarious: How thieves steal cars
Dec 06, 2021
The Omicron Variant: what we know and what we don’t
Dec 03, 2021
Omicron, the travel ban and getting home to Canada under the wire
Dec 02, 2021
COVID outbreaks are surging in schools. What can we do about it?
Dec 01, 2021
Vaccine Hunters are back for kids’ vaccines and third-dose boosters
Nov 30, 2021
Conflict on Wet’suwet’en territory, the RCMP and press freedom
Nov 29, 2021
The Metaverse is coming. Here’s what you need to know
Nov 26, 2021
How space technology is helping to fight the next pandemic
Nov 25, 2021
Mask up, it’s not over, Canada’s health officials warn
Nov 24, 2021
Kids and vaccines: What you need to know now
Nov 23, 2021
Kids at heart: ‘Kidults’ help toys reach sales records
Nov 22, 2021
The ‘Three Amigos’ summit and the Canada-U.S. relationship
Nov 19, 2021
Why the fight over fluoride in water is resurfacing
Nov 18, 2021
Front-line doctors fighting on two fronts: a deadly pandemic and digital harassment
Nov 17, 2021
This after-school program taught Alphonso Davies and keeps transforming lives
Nov 16, 2021
Ontario’s pit bull ban back in the spotlight
Nov 15, 2021
How Canada’s museums are decolonizing and transforming
Nov 12, 2021
Pandemic highlights longstanding issues in the restaurant industry
Nov 11, 2021
Are new highways the on ramp to reelection for the Conservatives?
Nov 10, 2021
Labour Minister Monte McNaughton discusses Ontario’s new labour legislation
Nov 09, 2021
Reefer Madness: How many weed shops are too many weed shops?
Nov 08, 2021
Who’s going to win the Giller and what else should you read this fall?
Nov 05, 2021
How the cartels from Mexico made inroads into Canada
Nov 04, 2021
Is COP26 the turning point in fighting climate change?
Nov 03, 2021
How pandemic burnout is affecting teachers and schools
Nov 02, 2021
How ‘A Better Tent City’ is trying a new way to tackle homelessness in Kitchener
Nov 01, 2021
Will Toronto’s hotel industry ever bounce back to its pre-pandemic peak?
Oct 29, 2021
Why are Toronto’s roads so dangerous?
Oct 28, 2021
Long COVID in kids and the hope of a children’s vaccine
Oct 27, 2021
The pandemic pet boom is driving a vet shortage emergency
Oct 26, 2021
Canada’s Succession: Rogers’ boardroom drama explained
Oct 25, 2021
Why is there a high rate of vaccine hesitancy among pregnant people?
Oct 22, 2021
Breaking the silence: Dancers accuse choreographers of sexual harassment and grooming
Oct 21, 2021
Are Ontario’s new election laws being used to muzzle dissent?
Oct 20, 2021
Can you get fired for refusing to get vaccinated?
Oct 19, 2021
What you need to know about the Canada-U.S. land border reopening
Oct 18, 2021
Why won't City Hall move forward on rooming houses and renters' rights?
Oct 15, 2021
Supply chain reaction: Product delays, stock shortages and higher prices
Oct 14, 2021
Can a computer glitch dash immigration dreams?
Oct 13, 2021
New Zealand abandons COVID-Zero. Is hope of elimination over?
Oct 12, 2021
How far will new long-term-care legislation go?
Oct 08, 2021
A look at the GTA real estate market now
Oct 07, 2021
Transit ‘death spiral’: Will post-pandemic Toronto be led by cars?
Oct 06, 2021
How Alberta and Saskatchewan lost control of COVID’s fourth wave
Oct 04, 2021
Opening the Pandora Papers and what they reveal
Oct 04, 2021
Many businesses are refusing the new vaccine certificate rules. What now?
Oct 01, 2021
Annamie Paul and the Green Party: what it reveals about Canada’s misogynoir problem
Sep 30, 2021
How should Canada handle former residential school sites? Ask the Indigenous community
Sep 30, 2021
What we know about vaccines and younger kids
Sep 29, 2021
Can an MP be forced to resign and, if so, how?`
Sep 28, 2021
Two Michaels return. Where does that leave Canada and China?
Sep 27, 2021
Vaccine certificates are the law in Ontario. Here’s how they’re working
Sep 24, 2021
Facebook’s relationship with its own research is complicated
Sep 23, 2021
The election is over. Now where will Trudeau's Liberals take Canada?
Sep 22, 2021
Déjà vote: Unpacking the election
Sep 21, 2021
The state of the race
Sep 20, 2021
Fact checking the leaders on the campaign trail
Sep 17, 2021
How candidates say their party will address racism
Sep 16, 2021
Affordability, housing and recovery: what are the parties promising?
Sep 15, 2021
Temperature check: Comparing platforms on climate change
Sep 14, 2021
In battleground ridings, what does the federal election campaign look like? A Star roundtable discusses
Sep 13, 2021
Two journalists from opposite hemispheres discuss a post-9/11 world
Sep 10, 2021
Data shows Canadians are running out of empathy as the pandemic runs on
Sep 09, 2021
Why some medically fragile kids can’t return to school because of a nursing shortage
Sep 08, 2021
Fear and loathing on the campaign trail ’21
Sep 07, 2021
From being burned at the stake to digital abuse, it’s not you. It’s the patriarchy (Rebroadcast)
Sep 06, 2021
Back to School: students, symptoms and screening guides
Sep 03, 2021
Everything you need to know about Ontario’s vaccine passport plan
Sep 02, 2021
The debate and ethics of vaccine boosters
Sep 01, 2021
Lessons lost: An Afghan educator shares his story
Aug 31, 2021
Want to be at a live event again? Vaccine mandates are being pushed by businesses
Aug 30, 2021
Vaccine mandates and the return to work
Aug 27, 2021
The mob war that followed Angelo Musitano’s murder
Aug 26, 2021
Why is femicide on the rise in Canada?
Aug 25, 2021
Behind 6ixBuzz’s controversial rise
Aug 24, 2021
What Afghan women want: a conversation on the situation in Afghanistan
Aug 23, 2021
COVID and kids: What we know and what to expect in September
Aug 20, 2021
An unwinnable situation: American foreign policy after Afghanistan
Aug 19, 2021
Canada's two Michaels and China's long history of 'hostage diplomacy'
Aug 18, 2021
How COVAX is getting vaccines to nations that need it the most
Aug 17, 2021
Canada’s federal election is on. Here’s what you need to know
Aug 16, 2021
Canadians want vaccine passports. Why is Ontario’s government saying no?
Aug 13, 2021
Running the numbers: The fourth wave is moving faster than expected
Aug 12, 2021
Pink robots are delivering your food. What does this mean for local gig workers?
Aug 11, 2021
Pandemic style wars: From face masks and sweatpants to what’s next
Aug 10, 2021
Canada’s $31-billion food waste problem
Aug 09, 2021
Olympic bonus: Partner podcast Tokyo Daily discusses Christine Sinclair and Canadian soccer
Aug 07, 2021
How Simone Biles brought the importance of mental health to the world’s greatest stage
Aug 06, 2021
The pandemic of the (still) unvaccinated
Aug 05, 2021
How should Canada handle former residential school sites? Ask the Indigenous community
Aug 04, 2021
9 to 5? More like 24/7 for women during COVID. How will this impact their return to the workplace?
Aug 03, 2021
Four. Day. Work. Week.
Jul 30, 2021
The dangerous business of Canada’s dead ships
Jul 29, 2021
The science behind why you should date your friends (no, really)
Jul 28, 2021
What COVID reveals about Canada
Jul 27, 2021
Opioid crisis: How Toronto’s street drug supply is getting more dangerous
Jul 26, 2021
Introducing Tokyo Daily, the Summer Olympics podcast from the Toronto Star
Jul 26, 2021
It’s summer! Let’s get together. Here’s how to do it COVID safe
Jul 23, 2021
What you need to know about the fourth wave
Jul 22, 2021
Canada’s bill to ban conversion therapy may be lost. Here’s why
Jul 21, 2021
Quebec’s Bill 21 from a Canadian Muslim woman's perspective
Jul 20, 2021
Flights of Fancy: How billionaires are making space tourism blast off
Jul 19, 2021
How accommodating pets at domestic violence shelters can save lives
Jul 16, 2021
Are conservatorships toxic? How Britney Spears’ cry for help forced a conversation in America
Jul 15, 2021
The bugs that are ticking us off this summer
Jul 14, 2021
Ransomware: How an expert deals with a breach
Jul 13, 2021
By classifying workers as contractors, do Uber and Lyft avoid millions in taxes?
Jul 12, 2021
How Toronto is using ‘playbooks’ and vaccines to reopen
Jul 09, 2021
New Sick Kids study reveals the pandemic’s heavy toll on children
Jul 08, 2021
New Sick Kids study reveals the pandemic’s heavy toll on children
Jul 08, 2021
A wave of terrifying racist attacks in Alberta sheds light on Canada’s Islamophobia problem
Jul 07, 2021
Garment factory workers were already exploited and abused. COVID made it worse
Jul 06, 2021
The neuroscience of lockdowns and reopening
Jul 05, 2021
Why Canada is dreaming of a World Cup berth
Jul 02, 2021
Should we cancel Canada Day?
Jun 30, 2021
The shows will finally go on: Reopening and live performances
Jun 29, 2021
Why optometrists and the province aren’t seeing eye to eye
Jun 28, 2021
Pride Hamilton is facing police at human rights tribunal. The result will set a strong precedent
Jun 25, 2021
Two-dose summer? Many Canadians haven’t had their first dose
Jun 24, 2021
UK is a ‘crystal ball’ of Delta variant spread. Is Canada learning from it?
Jun 23, 2021
The A-Z of AstraZeneca science, guidance and (mis)communications
Jun 22, 2021
A lack of representation in the great Canadian outdoors and how we change that
Jun 21, 2021
Kevin Donovan talks about his ‘Death in a Small Town’ series
Jun 18, 2021
The stress test, young buyers and the housing crisis
Jun 17, 2021
Nuclear option: why Ford used the Notwithstanding Clause and what it means
Jun 16, 2021
Everything you need to know about the second dose
Jun 15, 2021
Canada’s Islamophobia problem is real. It’s time we dealt with it
Jun 14, 2021
How Trump’s big lies loom over the U.S. government
Jun 11, 2021
‘Walk the walk.’ Canada’s Muslims want action, not words against rising Islamophobia
Jun 10, 2021
The reckoning and push for ‘X University’ at a Toronto school
Jun 09, 2021
Your one (or two?) dose summer guide to reopenings and travel
Jun 08, 2021
Buttergate, the dairy conspiracy theory, explained
Jun 07, 2021
How some restaurants opened and adapted during the pandemic and what’s next
Jun 04, 2021
COVID case counts decline but a variant could be rising
Jun 03, 2021
How radar technology found the unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous children, renewing calls for more searches and truth
Jun 02, 2021
The unmarked graves of Indigenous children and Canada’s shameful legacy of residential schools
Jun 01, 2021
Domestic violence victims’ social housing applications highlight shadow pandemic during COVID-19
May 31, 2021
Bathrooms and porta-potties are pandemic essentials. Why don’t they stay open?
May 28, 2021
Waxing poetic with Ontario’s first Poet Laureate, Randell Adjei
May 27, 2021
The case for outdoor graduation ceremonies
May 26, 2021
How a COVID ‘blindspot’ keeps essential workplaces dangerous
May 25, 2021
Start spreading the news. New York is back
May 21, 2021
When is a COVID layoff actually constructive dismissal?
May 20, 2021
Why it’s time to rethink outdoor COVID risk
May 19, 2021
Meet Vaccine Hunters, the volunteer team helping Canadians get their jabs
May 18, 2021
20 million years: Human potential lost to COVID can be measured in years
May 17, 2021
The truth is out there: How Canada tracks UFOs
May 14, 2021
Canada’s one-time immigration program is a doorway to dreams but with a deadline
May 13, 2021
AstraZeneca and second thoughts on second doses
May 12, 2021
Why COVID will stay when the pandemic ends
May 11, 2021
Daycare testing: Making sure the kids are all right
May 10, 2021
The clear-as-mud messaging on vaccines and how to fix it
May 07, 2021
Bill C-10 is not coming for your cat videos. Or is it?
May 06, 2021
Alberta’s COVID crisis, explained
May 05, 2021
Tracking the variants of concern in the third wave
May 04, 2021
How Toronto is trying to reshape mental health response for those in crisis
May 03, 2021
Prepping finances for a post-pandemic world, from emergency funds to spending savings
Apr 30, 2021
How we failed Peel Region during a pandemic
Apr 29, 2021
How ‘hero pay’ came, went and is pushing business to be more responsible
Apr 28, 2021
Doug Ford, paid sick days and what’s next
Apr 27, 2021
Why many in Canada’s First Nations still don’t have clean drinking water
Apr 26, 2021
Our partner SCOREGolf speaks with Canadian Brooke Henderson after her LPGA LA Open win
Apr 25, 2021
COVID, cops and carding: Did the province put racialized people at risk?
Apr 23, 2021
Is scientific and medical advice leading Ontario’s COVID response?
Apr 22, 2021
One on one with Dr. Homer Tien, the new head of Ontario’s vaccine task force
Apr 21, 2021
ICUs on the brink: Can Ontario’s hospitals cope during the third wave?
Apr 20, 2021
Waiting on vaccines: How Canada and the U.S.’s rollouts shape the ‘third wave’
Apr 19, 2021
The systemic failures of Toronto Police and missing persons cases
Apr 16, 2021
Booking a shot isn’t simple. The frustration and inequality of Ontario’s vaccine rollout
Apr 15, 2021
How Ontario is (and isn’t) vaccinating essential workers
Apr 14, 2021
How Amazon is remaking the modern workforce
Apr 13, 2021
Talking Transit: a ‘Union Station to the east’ and Metrolinx’s power moves
Apr 12, 2021
Why Canada’s new gun bill upsets both sides of the gun control debate
Apr 09, 2021
‘It was a choice’: Bruce Arthur on how Ontario is mismanaging COVID’s third wave
Apr 08, 2021
School’s out for COVID! School’s out for... whenever
Apr 07, 2021
Behind the mask, a COVID story
Apr 06, 2021
Developing Highway 413: Who benefits?
Apr 05, 2021
The fight over sick pay in Ontario (Rebroadcast from March 12, 2021)
Apr 04, 2021
Opening Day: Blue Jay Jordan Romano, MLB.com’s Alyson Footer and Kim’s Convenience’s Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (simulcast of Deep Left Field baseball podcast)
Apr 01, 2021
How the ‘model minority’ myth fuels anti-Asian racism and white supremacy
Mar 31, 2021
Explaining Canada’s new medical assistance in dying law
Mar 30, 2021
Team Canada leader Marnie McBean on preparing for the Tokyo Olympics
Mar 30, 2021
Canada’s vaccine rollout vs. the world’s, and whether vaccinating Canadians by summer is a long shot
Mar 26, 2021
Vaccine politics and how shots in the arm will change our government
Mar 25, 2021
COVID-19 vaccines and children: Why they must wait
Mar 24, 2021
Talking with friends and family about vaccine hesitancy
Mar 23, 2021
The “best” vaccine? What efficacy numbers mean and why they can be misleading
Mar 22, 2021
Vaccine passports: Necessity or false sense of security? Freedom or inequality?
Mar 19, 2021
15 years worth of data shows most SIU charges against police get dropped. Why?
Mar 18, 2021
COVID long-haulers look for answers to medical problems, a year later
Mar 17, 2021
You asked, we answer: tackling taxes after a pandemic year
Mar 16, 2021
Could the 2020s be the Roaring Twenties again?
Mar 15, 2021
Will Ford change his tune? The fight over sick pay in Ontario
Mar 12, 2021
How Black health leaders took on COVID’s impact on Black communities and vaccine hesitancy
Mar 11, 2021
Who’s allowed into Canada to work right now (and who isn’t)?
Mar 10, 2021
Vaccines, variants and the grey zone: Where Ontario is at now
Mar 09, 2021
COVID collapsed ground gained for Indigenous women in business
Mar 08, 2021
Could Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act be suspended?
Mar 05, 2021
Airlines in panic mode as Canada clamps down on travel
Mar 04, 2021
There is a ‘diversity deficit’ in Canadian non-profits
Mar 03, 2021
Toronto’s encampments and homeless crisis: a view from the ground
Mar 02, 2021
Feeling pandemic fatigue? Here’s what’s happening in our brains and how to fight it
Mar 01, 2021
Is this heaven? No, it’s Dunedin. Toronto Star baseball columnists talk Blue Jays
Feb 26, 2021
The rise of eating disorders in pandemic isolation
Feb 25, 2021
Who’s on (and who’s allowed to be on) Clubhouse?
Feb 24, 2021
O’Toole pushes the Conservatives to the political middle. Can it work?
Feb 23, 2021
Kevin Donovan discusses the Sherman family’s succession battle
Feb 22, 2021
Boko Haram survivors, Mellissa Fung and the complexity of shared trauma
Feb 19, 2021
How communities are fighting MZOs (Ministerial Zoning Orders)
Feb 18, 2021
Double masks, vaccines and variants: your COVID cheat sheet
Feb 17, 2021
Flight risk: Canada’s new travel rules, explained
Feb 16, 2021
The noisy episode: It’s a little bit louder now
Feb 12, 2021
The need for cultural inclusivity in long-term care
Feb 11, 2021
What counts as a workplace outbreak, anyway?
Feb 10, 2021
Why you miss (and need) casual friendships
Feb 09, 2021
Canada deported thousands during pandemic. Is it safe?
Feb 08, 2021
Inside Russia’s protests, and Navalny vs. Putin
Feb 05, 2021
Lesson plan: Why Ontario is reopening schools
Feb 04, 2021
Google’s fight with Australia and what it means to Canada
Feb 03, 2021
Ontario’s eviction moratorium, explained
Feb 02, 2021
QAnon, Boogaloo, Proud Boys: What’s next for the U.S. extreme right?
Feb 01, 2021
How four Black teachers created an anti-Black racism course to fight ignorance
Jan 29, 2021
Toronto has shrunk. Will it reinvent?
Jan 28, 2021
Are Canadians buying products allegedly made in forced labour camps?
Jan 27, 2021
The GTA’s tow truck turf wars rage on
Jan 26, 2021
Biblio files: The most anticipated books to start 2021
Jan 25, 2021
LTC’s continuous COVID tragedies: How did we get here?
Jan 22, 2021
Biden era begins: a pandemic, impeachment and deep divisions await
Jan 21, 2021
Waiting game: What’s delaying the vaccine rollout?
Jan 20, 2021
A more contagious COVID variant explained
Jan 19, 2021
What’s for dinner? Lab-grown meat and the ethics of food science
Jan 18, 2021
Misinformed by disinformation and a lack of media literacy
Jan 15, 2021
On Trump and truth: Daniel Dale in conversation with Edward Keenan
Jan 14, 2021
Lockdown confusion, compromises and contradictions
Jan 13, 2021
How sportsmanship brought two nations and the lacrosse world closer
Jan 12, 2021
Privacy vs. potential: The big questions around smart cities
Jan 11, 2021
What Ontario can do to save seniors and LTCs
Jan 08, 2021
An attempted coup against American democracy
Jan 07, 2021
Are stronger, longer lockdowns needed to save lives and the economy?
Jan 06, 2021
Why Toronto will reveal which workplaces have COVID outbreaks
Jan 05, 2021
New year, new career? A recruiter’s tips for a pandemic job hunt
Jan 04, 2021
The not-too-distant future of travel (Rebroadcast)
Jan 01, 2021
Murder hornet hunters: How one beekeeping couple tracked and terminated a nest in BC (Rebroadcast)
Dec 31, 2020
Desmond Cole and the case for defunding police (Rebroadcast)
Dec 30, 2020
That’s all folks, the singularity is near. Elon Musk’s cyber pigs and brain computer tech (Rebroadcast)
Dec 29, 2020
What we can learn from the disabled community during COVID-19 (Rebroadcast)
Dec 28, 2020
Let it snow, TO! Remake the city and embrace winter (Rebroadcast)
Dec 25, 2020
COVID can take out restaurants but not great food
Dec 24, 2020
Looking out for good news
Dec 23, 2020
The case for hitting the 'reset' button on the internet and social media
Dec 22, 2020
Closing time: 2020's real estate and housing year-end wrap up
Dec 21, 2020
Searching for lost Indigenous remains: How the Star helped solve a 150 year old mystery
Dec 18, 2020
One on one with a COVID vaccine trial participant
Dec 17, 2020
Inside Amazon’s hidden safety crisis: A Star investigation
Dec 16, 2020
Will Facebook need to unfriend Instagram and WhatsApp?
Dec 15, 2020
The COVID vaccine is here. How Ontario is rolling it out this year and in 2021
Dec 14, 2020
Analyzing Doug Ford’s pandemic politics, then and now
Dec 11, 2020
How hackers, fraudsters and other criminals are prospering in the pandemic
Dec 10, 2020
Cher’s got you, babe: ‘World’s loneliest elephant’ is lonely no more
Dec 09, 2020
Why the second wave is worse for BIPOC, low-income people, again
Dec 08, 2020
COVID-19 vaccine 101: Health Canada’s chief medical advisor sheds light
Dec 07, 2020
A boy and his dad investigate the curious case of the missing hockey cards
Dec 04, 2020
Inside the ER in the second wave
Dec 03, 2020
From being burned at the stake to digital abuse, it’s not you. It’s the patriarchy
Dec 02, 2020
Let it snow, TO! Remake the city and embrace winter
Dec 01, 2020
What’s the hold up with COVID-19 rapid tests in Canada?
Nov 30, 2020
Out of office: The case to remake empty spaces
Nov 27, 2020
No coup for you! What’s next for The Donald and the Republican Party
Nov 26, 2020
Are Jason Kenney’s plans to fight COVID-19 in Alberta enough?
Nov 25, 2020
Generation Distress: Discussing the youth mental health crisis
Nov 24, 2020
Confused on COVID rules? You’re not alone
Nov 23, 2020
Marcus Rashford and the rise of athletes refusing to ‘shut up and dribble’
Nov 20, 2020
Will the bands play on? The future of live music is on life support
Nov 19, 2020
Cold comfort: Overcoming sadness during winter blues (and a pandemic)
Nov 18, 2020
Will the promise of national child-care help ease she-cession?
Nov 17, 2020
How COVID stranded new Canadian residents and stalled immigration
Nov 16, 2020
Restaurants remake themselves for the short and long-term
Nov 13, 2020
Digital inequality: How high-speed internet is dividing Canada
Nov 12, 2020
Is Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Canada’s best shot?
Nov 11, 2020
Remember ‘flatten the curve?’ Surging numbers say ‘not so much’
Nov 10, 2020
What Biden and Harris winning means for Canada and the world
Nov 09, 2020
Hindsight 2020 Rebroadcast: What if Trump won't leave?
Nov 07, 2020
How psychedelic drugs are being used to help mental health and the terminally ill
Nov 06, 2020
Two years after the Toronto van attack, the trial is set to begin
Nov 05, 2020
States of flux: What we know, what we don’t know, as 'election night' continues
Nov 04, 2020
Fate of the nation: Bonus, overnight U.S. election episode from D.C.
Nov 04, 2020
Disinformation overload: How Canada spreads it and how to avoid it on election night
Nov 03, 2020
American History X-plained
Nov 02, 2020
Trump vs. Biden in the U.S election, viewed from Canada
Nov 01, 2020
Trump v$ Biden: What the election means for Canada’s economy
Nov 01, 2020
How Biden and Trump differ on immigration and what it means for Canada
Nov 01, 2020
Will Trump's or Biden's environment policy blow winds of change into Canada?
Nov 01, 2020
Trump’s strategic chaos and what it means for Canada on the global stage
Nov 01, 2020
What will the U.S. election change for the Canada-U.S. border?
Nov 01, 2020
How the Ford government is upending the local planning process
Oct 30, 2020
Haunted Hogtown: A historian walks us through the city’s spookiest stories
Oct 29, 2020
Mr. Vice President, we are speaking: A conversation about ‘manterruptions’
Oct 28, 2020
The need for TLC in long-term care, during the pandemic and beyond
Oct 27, 2020
The legal rights of Mi’kmaq fishers in Nova Scotia and the violence they face
Oct 22, 2020
Toronto vs. everybody...or at least the Ontario government
Oct 19, 2020
Finally, answers to the Christine Jessop cold case, but questions remain
Oct 16, 2020
“Oscar” season for books: An editor’s guide for isolation reading
Oct 15, 2020
What you need to know about COVID-19 antibodies from someone who has them
Oct 14, 2020
Food for thought: How the pandemic changed how we buy, cook and eat (Rebroadcast)
Oct 12, 2020
Stick a fork in it, Thanksgiving is done: An epidemiologist’s guide to the upcoming holidays
Oct 09, 2020
The big business of chronic pain treatment in Ontario: Inside the Star investigation of pain doctors and injections
Oct 08, 2020
What the rising positive COVID-19 test rates in Toronto mean
Oct 07, 2020
What smart, safe reopening of Canada’s borders can look like
Oct 06, 2020
The Sherman Estate and The Supreme Court
Oct 05, 2020
Second wave: Sorry to burst your bubble but winter is coming
Oct 02, 2020
What does the TikTok saga mean to Canada?
Oct 01, 2020
Is Canada’s mental health care system for everyone?
Sep 30, 2020
His office was under fire. Now, Ontario's Chief Coroner leads the pandemic response
Sep 29, 2020
How U of T’s hiring process became an international controversy
Sep 28, 2020
Fortnite’s ‘Epic’ fight with Apple explained
Sep 25, 2020
What if Trump won’t leave?
Sep 24, 2020
What if Trump won’t leave? (FiveThirtyEight extended cut for political junkies)
Sep 24, 2020
COVID-19 cases are spiking. Here’s what the data means
Sep 22, 2020
Food for thought: How the pandemic changed how we buy, cook and eat
Sep 21, 2020
QAnon, the viral pro-Trump conspiracy theory, explained
Sep 18, 2020
The road to a vaccine
Sep 17, 2020
How COVID-19 has disproportionately affected women
Sep 16, 2020
The ABC's (algorithms, big tech and cops) of predictive policing and surveillance
Sep 15, 2020
Another day on the job: Racism and workplace PTSD
Sep 14, 2020
How did WE Charity get here?
Sep 11, 2020
Mortgaging the future: Why people are leaving the big city
Sep 10, 2020
The costs of the cashless economy
Sep 09, 2020
Your back-to-school questions, answered
Sep 08, 2020
Food couriers vs. their boss, an app: Hustled episode 1 (Labour Day rebroadcast)
Sep 07, 2020
A police officer shares her story of surviving workplace sexual harassment
Sep 04, 2020
That’s all folks, the singularity is near. Elon Musk’s cyber pigs and brain computer tech
Sep 03, 2020
The truth behind the racist message in skin “whitening” creams
Sep 02, 2020
The sound of cities, and what it says about your health and wealth
Sep 01, 2020
3.2% of Ontario’s lawyers are Black. Why that’s a problem for law and society
Aug 31, 2020
Who polices the police? SIU under microscope after Regis Korchinski-Paquet report
Aug 28, 2020
There’s no place like (home) theatres: Will blockbusters like ‘Tenet’ bring people back to cinemas?
Aug 27, 2020
What Erin O’Toole as the new Conservative leader means
Aug 26, 2020
A military frontline worker discusses Ontario’s LTC homes
Aug 25, 2020
What could a COVID-19 second wave look like? And how do we respond socially and economically?
Aug 24, 2020
Footage in. Jury out. Do body cams add accountability or deflect from defunding the police?
Aug 21, 2020
Hygiene Theatre: Scrub all you want, COVID-19 is still here
Aug 20, 2020
WHO says millennials drive COVID-19 but who says they’re covidiots?
Aug 19, 2020
Freeland in, Morneau out as the Liberals face a crisis
Aug 18, 2020
Can Neil Young stop Trump from ‘Rockin’ in the Free World?’
Aug 17, 2020
Canada and China: It’s complicated
Aug 14, 2020
Public spaces: Thinking outside the blocks
Aug 13, 2020
Schools are the best place for kids' mental health? Not so fast.
Aug 12, 2020
How some Asian Canadians led the COVID-19 fight
Aug 11, 2020
Back to school guide: Parent Edition
Aug 10, 2020
Growing up in a shelter: Child homelessness on the rise
Aug 07, 2020
Protests and employment: What speaking out means for your job
Aug 06, 2020
Doomscrolling: Why our screen addictions turn to bad news binges
Aug 05, 2020
Canada’s Dreamers and their precarious future
Aug 04, 2020
Black Children’s Lives Matter: Why children's aid needs change (Rebroadcast)
Aug 03, 2020
Doug Smith on the NBA’s return and the Raptors’ chances
Jul 31, 2020
The ethics of a COVID-19 vaccine and who gets it first
Jul 30, 2020
Eviction Jurisdiction: Why Bill 184 scares tenants
Jul 29, 2020
The murder of Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano
Jul 28, 2020
GTA gun crisis: The numbers and potential solutions
Jul 27, 2020
Bylaw & Order: Do’s and don’ts of Toronto’s pandemic rules
Jul 24, 2020
Black Children’s Lives Matter: Why Ontario’s child welfare system needs change
Jul 23, 2020
Ontario Place: Yours to recover
Jul 22, 2020
Open bars: What you need to know before heading out
Jul 21, 2020
Dazed and confused? Here’s a Schools Reopening 101
Jul 20, 2020
Comedy's racial reckoning
Jul 17, 2020
The mystery of COVID-19 long haulers' months-long symptoms
Jul 16, 2020
Is Ontario ignoring workplace cancer?
Jul 15, 2020
Trudeau versus ethics. Again
Jul 14, 2020
What we can learn from the disabled community during COVID-19
Jul 13, 2020
Canada's border with the Isolated States of America
Jul 10, 2020
NHL hub cities, eh?
Jul 09, 2020
Pizza Pizza Policegate
Jul 08, 2020
Un-masking the mandatory mask policy
Jul 07, 2020
The not-too-distant future of travel
Jul 06, 2020
Should armed police be on the mental health frontline?
Jul 03, 2020
Can an ad boycott change Facebook? It's complicated
Jul 02, 2020
Squeaky wheels: Two opinions on bike lanes
Jun 30, 2020
Breaking down the Theriault trial and Dafonte Miller's call for justice
Jun 29, 2020
A lawyer breaks down the "extreme intoxication" defence
Jun 26, 2020
“Yellow Peril”: How the pandemic is fuelling anti-Chinese racism
Jun 25, 2020
Are TikTokers and K-pop fans practising politics, or pranktivism?
Jun 24, 2020
“Out of office” forever: A tech giant and a local newspaper discuss working from home
Jun 23, 2020
Hustled, episode 6: What does the future hold for gig workers? (aka Golden State)
Jun 22, 2020
Shop talk: How retail will look now and in the future
Jun 19, 2020
BodyBreak’s Hal Johnson on racism in media
Jun 18, 2020
Does technology perpetuate racism?
Jun 17, 2020
Name dropping Dundas Street
Jun 16, 2020
Hustled, episode 5: Foodora couriers just won their union vote. Here’s how it happened — and what it means (aka Groundhog Day)
Jun 15, 2020
Lights! Camera! Physically distanced action!
Jun 12, 2020
We the Champs: One year since Toronto Raptors’ championship run
Jun 11, 2020
Athletes, sports and a game-changing protest
Jun 10, 2020
Desmond Cole and the case for defunding police
Jun 09, 2020
Hustled, episode 4: COVID-19 raises risks for Foodora couriers (aka Pandemic)
Jun 08, 2020
The death of Leonard Rodriques and the need for race-based data
Jun 05, 2020
How does Canada save its economy?
Jun 04, 2020
Trumpocalypse now
Jun 03, 2020
Regis Korchinski-Paquet’s death and anti-Black violence in policing
Jun 02, 2020
Hustled, episode 3: Questions about the gig economy’s promise of innovation and convenience (aka Oshidashi)
Jun 01, 2020
The death of the buffet?
May 29, 2020
Tow truck turf wars
May 28, 2020
Real estate signs: Is now the time to buy?
May 27, 2020
The case for women’s police stations in Canada
May 26, 2020
Hustled, episode 2: Undercover as a Foodora courier, the daily grind exposes gaps in protection for gig workers (aka Delivery Hero)
May 25, 2020
Redefining terrorism: CSIS changes how it talks about extremist threats, including “incel” violence
May 22, 2020
School’s out...forever?
May 21, 2020
“We have to learn to live with COVID-19”
May 20, 2020
Introducing Hustled, episode 1: How Foodora couriers took on the gig economy (aka David vs. Goliath)
May 19, 2020
A very 2020 guide to heading to the cottage (or not)
May 15, 2020
Repatriating thousands of Canadians stuck abroad
May 14, 2020
Don’t call it a comeback: The pandemic and business of sports
May 13, 2020
A mental health “echo pandemic” in the aftermath of COVID-19?
May 12, 2020
Heading back to work? Know your rights
May 11, 2020
Murder hornet hunters: How one beekeeping couple tracked and terminated a nest in BC
May 08, 2020
Sidewalk Labs’ walk on the Quayside is over
May 07, 2020
Anti-vaxxers and the question of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations
May 06, 2020
What happened with long-term care homes and what comes next?
May 05, 2020
Immunity passports and contact tracing, explained
May 04, 2020
Domestic violence, isolation and what to do if you or someone you know is at risk
May 01, 2020
May days
May 01, 2020
The gig is up: Foodora’s exit, explained
Apr 30, 2020
Can your pets get COVID-19?
Apr 29, 2020
What it’s like in—and once you’re out of—jail during COVID-19
Apr 28, 2020
How COVID-19 could remake transit and transportation networks
Apr 27, 2020
Why you shouldn’t avoid the ER
Apr 24, 2020
Do we have the data we need to reopen Canada?
Apr 23, 2020
23 million people, 6 deaths: How Taiwan tackled the COVID-19 crisis
Apr 22, 2020
Migrant workers keep you fed. Do they need help?
Apr 21, 2020
Untouchable: How COVID-19 hit organized crime
Apr 20, 2020
Fraught properties: COVID-19 and the real estate market
Apr 17, 2020
Indigenous communities, systemic racism and COVID-19
Apr 16, 2020
Pandemic politics: A different Doug Ford
Apr 15, 2020
All about CERB (Canadian Emergency Relief Benefits)
Apr 14, 2020
What do companies owe essential workers before and after COVID-19?
Apr 13, 2020
Q&A with Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s public health guardian
Apr 10, 2020
Viral inequality: Coronavirus might be an equalizer but society is not
Apr 08, 2020
Is it ok to go outside for a walk?
Apr 07, 2020
Why some white supremacists are celebrating the pandemic
Apr 06, 2020
Young, healthy Star reporter says getting COVID-19 so much worse than expected
Apr 03, 2020
ER doctor speaks from the frontline of COVID-19 and about what we can do to help
Apr 02, 2020
Are you the perfect quarantine parent? (No and there’s no need to be)
Apr 01, 2020
Crime, COVID-19 and how bad actors will take advantage of this pandemic
Mar 31, 2020
A (now isolated) scientist who isolated the COVID-19 virus explains the fight for a vaccine
Mar 30, 2020
Soccer, the NBA, finally the Olympics. How pro sports lost to COVID-19 but warned the world
Mar 27, 2020
Not thinking straight? What happens to our minds during a pandemic
Mar 26, 2020
Millennials, Gen Xers, and women facing increased pressure taking care of kids and parents during COVID-19
Mar 25, 2020
Why infectious disease experts say the worst of the curve is yet to come
Mar 24, 2020
The pandemic of loneliness
Mar 23, 2020
Introducing This Matters, from the Toronto Star
Mar 09, 2020