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This Matters
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 Ke...
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10 years ago, the Jays lost the first two games at home. Then the bat - and script - flipped
Guest: Mike Wilner, baseball columnist & host of Deep Left Field baseball podcast
The Blue Jays are currently battling the Seattle Mariners in t...
The Worst Commute
Guest: Andy Takagi, Toronto Star transportation reporter
Many of us know this pain too well: waiting on a very late bus or crawling between subw...
Inside Canada's biggest dark web drug bust
Guest: Omar Mosleh, Toronto Star reporter
The RCMP says it has dismantled one of the largest dark web drug networks in Canadian history, a GTA-b...
We look at the Jays ALDS matchup against the New York Yankees, plus we discuss the Blue Jays season with a special superfan and we open up the mailbag
In honour of the Blue Jays playoff run starting tomorrow, we’re sharing an episode from our sister podcast Deep Left Field.
Guest: RUSH frontman...
Truth and Reconciliation and the reality of Indigenous homelessness
Guest: Steve Teekens, Executive Director, Na-Me-Res, a Toronto-based Indigenous-run non-profit that provides temporary, transitional and permanent hou...
Has Big Tech rewired Gen Z?
Guest: Ava Smithing, advocacy director at the Young People's Alliance
Young people today have been raised with the most powerful tools in human...
Why Toronto's garbage problem stinks for everyone
Guests: Star journalists Ben Spurr and Mahdis Habibinia
The Star’s City Hall bureau has been digging deep into the garbage with its Waste Not, W...
Serial vandalism of Toronto speed cameras are about something bigger
Lately, speed cameras in this city and neighbouring cities have become a symbol and target of people’s rage. The Parkside Drive speed camera was erect...
Why is Canada changing its immigration policy?
Guest: Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star Immigration Reporter
Canada is quietly but significantly changing course on immigration. As the federal gove...
The cycle of Toronto's gun violence that statistics don't show
Guest: Jason Miller, Toronto Star crime reporter
On Aug.16, eight-year-old JahVai Roy was shot and killed in his North York apartment when a bul...
Are Ontario's new stricter background checks hurting kids in care?
Guests: Star reporters Amy Dempsey Raven and Megan Ogilvie
A new Ontario law was meant to protect vulnerable children in care, but it may be dee...
Talking TIFF at 50 with those in the know
This year marks TIFF’s 50th anniversary. The festival has done many things over the years - it’s been a bellwether for industry talent along with chan...
Are financial landlords reshaping Toronto's rental market and driving evictions?
Guest: Manuela Vega, Toronto Star housing reporter
A new study has found that financial landlords are filing eviction applications at much highe...
Elbows in? Why Carney pulled back on tariffs with Trump
Guests: Star reporters Raisa Patel and Josh Rubin
Prime Minister Mark Carney is pulling back on Canada’s trade fight with the U.S., dropping ret...
Record enrolment, shrinking budgets. Why the math doesn't add up for Ontario universities
Guest: Kris Rushowy, Toronto Star reporter
It’s back-to-school season and Ontario universities are packed like never before. A record number of...
Young, qualified and still jobless in Toronto
Listen here or subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. If you would like to support the journalism of...
Long COVID, the pandemic that never ended for millions of Canadians
Guest: Kevin Jiang, Toronto Star reporter
Nearly one in five Canadians who had COVID—more than more than 3 million people—went on to develop lo...
Could Doug Ford's 401 tunnel fix gridlock or is it just tunnel vision?
Guest: Andy Takagi, Toronto Star transportation reporter
Premier Ford says he’s pitching an unprecedented plan to tackle one of the GTA’s bigge...
What this family doctor wants you to know about Ontario's primary care crisis
Guest: Dr. David Barber, Chair OMA’s General and Family Practice
Two million people in Ontario do not have access to a family physician, and tha...
Inside the Premiers summit as Trump's tariff deadline looms
Guest: Star Queen’s Park Bureau Chief, Robert Benzie
Last week, Canada’s premiers wrapped up their annual Council of the Federation meeting in O...
Reflecting on the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial
Guest: Toronto Star court reporter Jacques Gallant
All five former members of Canada’s 2018 World Junior hockey team accused of sexual assault h...
What ER doctors would never let their kids do
Guest: Toronto Star reporter Abby O'Brien
A bike ride to the local pool. A perfect dive off the board. A backyard trampoline showdown with the k...
Disturbing errors at Ontario fertility clinics causing concern
Guest: Morgan Sevareid-Bocknek, investigative reporter
Imagine you want a biological kid and you need the help of a fertility clinic. But then i...
How Ontario's cellphone ban played in classrooms and politics
Guests: Toronto Star reporters Isabel Teotonio and Kristin Rushowy
With the summer break, Ontario is wrapping up the first full school year unde...
Who's to blame when Toronto pools close during a heatwave?
GUEST: Star climate change reporter Kate Allen
Toronto just sweltered its way through one of the most intense heatwaves on record. Many Toronton...
Are wildfires moving faster than Ontario can fight them?
Guest: Star climate change reporter Marco Chown Oved
Wildfire season started early this year, with states of emergency declared in Saskatchewan...
This economic moment, according to the Bank of Canada
Guests: Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada Sharon Kozicki and Star Business Reporter Ana Pereira
Recently, the Bank of Canada announced their...
What Carney's big border bill could mean for refugees and civil liberties
Guests: Star Reporters Nicholas Keung and Mark Ramzy
Introduced last week by the federal government—the Strong Borders Act seeks to overhaul ho...
Introducing the podcast, Arachnid: Hunting the Web's Darkest Secrets
This Matters is pleased to share a new podcast from the Toronto Star, TVO Podcasts, the Investigative Journalism Bureau and Piz Gloria Productions, Ar...
Sticker shock in the restaurant seats
Guest: Karon Liu, Toronto Star food reporter
When one Toronto restaurant introduced a $25 cauliflower dish more than 10 years ago, it caused a b...
Breaking down Ontario's big spend budget as Trump's tariffs loom large
Guest: Queen’s Park Bureau Chief Robert Benzie
Ontario just dropped its biggest budget ever — $232.5 billion — and looming over every dollar of...
What Mark Carney’s new cabinet reveals about his leadership
Guest: Star National Columnist Susan Delacourt
Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his first cabinet. On Tuesday, ministers were sworn in a...
Inside Mark Carney's high stakes visit to Washington
Guest: Ottawa Bureau Chief Tonda MacCharles
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Washington this week was his first face-to-face meeting with...
How the end of a pilot program for migrant food workers might affect your meals
Guests: Star reporters Nicholas Keung and Ghada Alsharif
During the pandemic, they were called essential. Migrant workers who packed our meat, p...
The growing price of keeping Toronto festivals safe
Guest: Star city hall reporter Mahdis Habibinia
After the recent devastating vehicle attack at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Day festival, Toronto organ...
New report reveals how Ontario schools restrain and isolate students with disabilities
Guest: Shawn Pegg, Director at Community Living Ontario
A new report by Community Living Ontario exposes a disturbing reality faced by children...
What we learned in the final days of the 2025 election campaign
Guest: Ottawa bureau chief Tonda MacCharles
We’re heading into the final stretch of a charged federal election campaign that’s shaped not just...
How not to get digitally duped this election
Guest: Toronto Star reporter Alex Boyd
As Canada heads toward a federal election, the online information landscape is getting messier, more ma...
Two years later Canada's biggest gold heist is still unsolved
Guest: Toronto Star crime reporter Peter Edwards
It’s like a Netflix show in real life. A truck driving off with $24 million in gold and cash,...
A screening room of our own
Guests: Jack Blum and Sharon Corder, co-founders of National Canadian Film Day
Over the past few months, the president of the United States has...