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Guest: Shellene Drakes-Tull, contributing columnist

How many racialized people calling it out does it take to fix racism? Toronto Star contributing columnist Shellene Drakes-Tull addressed this head…

Guest: Katie Daubs, senior writer

The City of Toronto manages more than 850 playgrounds, but city-provided information is lacking and children have critical questions. How fast is the slide? Will I …

Guest: Victoria Gibson, affordable housing reporter

Asylum seekers come to Canada hoping to find safety, refuge and the chance to build a better life. Instead, many have ended up sleeping on the stre…

Guest: Jacques Gallant, courts and justice reporter

The Ford government is facing accusations of patronage for bringing back the King’s Counsel (K.C. for short) special designation for lawyers and a…

Guest: Paris Marx, author and host of “Tech Won’t Save Us” podcast

Threads, Meta’s new social media app that is being called the “Twitter killer” by some experts, has now become the fastest growing a…

This episode originally aired January 9, 2023.

Guest: Jim Rankin, staff reporter

Twenty years ago, the Star published a landmark and controversial investigation examining data that showed police inte…

This episode originally aired June 2, 2023.

Guest: David Suzuki, world-renowned geneticist and environmentalist

Before the Paris Agreement, before the Kyoto Protocol, before even the UN Climate Con…

This episode originally aired April 21, 2023. 

Two years ago, Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of 715 unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school. The news shocked the …

This episode was originally broadcast April 18, 2023.

Guest: Jeremy Hansen, Canadian Space Agency astronaut

Col. Jeremy Hansen, a CAF fighter pilot and Canadian Space Agency astronaut, has been name…

Guest: Raisa Patel, Ottawa Bureau

Google has announced plans to block all Canadian news content from its platforms and the ramifications are huge. The move is in response to the just-passed Online N…

Guests: The Toronto Star All-Star Opinionator Panel, featuring columnists Emma Teitel, Shawn Micallef, Matt Elliott and guest host Edward Keenan

Now that the election is done, our panel of columnists…

Guest: Michael Oscars, talent agent and theatre producer

Drag is increasingly a target of hate and criticism across the world, looped into far-right hysteria, “freedom” convoy protesting and narrativ…

Guests: Toronto Star columnists and guest hosts Emma Teitel and Edward Keenan

When Olivia Chow won the mayoral election Monday night, she ended 12 years of Conservative rule at city hall, bringing a…

Guest: Tracy Morley, executive director at Camp Awakening, and Joshua Chong, staff reporter

The Toronto Star’s Fresh Air Fund has provided thousands of children and teens with a memorable summer holi…

Guests: Toronto Star City Hall Bureau Chief David Rider, and reporters Alyshah Hasham and Ben Spurr, join guest host Edward Keenan

Just before the final weekend of the Toronto mayoral campaign, Premi…

Guest: Katharine Lake Berz, freelance journalist

Are criminals using laced drugs to target and murder people? With overdose deaths more than quadrupling from 2016 to 2021 in the Niagara region and in…

Guest: Matthew Van Dongen, transportation reporter at The Hamilton Spectator

Light rail transit has long been considered a cheaper public transit option, especially when compared to building subways,…

Guest: Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter

While Canada is in the process of welcoming nearly 1.5 million permanent residents by the end of 2025, Statistics Canada data raises the question whether …

Guests: Toronto Star City Hall Bureau Chief David Rider, and reporters Alyshah Hasham and Ben Spurr, join guest host Edward Keenan

One week before election day, undecided Toronto voters are wrestling…

Guests: Denise Balkissoon, Ontario Bureau Chief for The Narwhal, speaks with guest host Edward Keenan

In the final weeks of the mayoral election campaign, journalist Denise Balkissoon wrote a piece f…