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Guest: Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park bureau chief

Redevelopment at Ontario Place just took an “experimental” turn. The Ontario Science Centre will now be moving to the waterfront site, entwining the f…

Guests: Kris Rushowy, Queen's Park reporter, and Matt Bradley, teacher and Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program co-ordinator

Ontario is facing a skilled trades shortage and is looking at changing th…

Guest: Jeremy Hansen, Canadian Space Agency astronaut

Col. Jeremy Hansen, a CAF fighter pilot and Canadian Space Agency astronaut, has been named to NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first scheduled cr…

Guest: Stephanie Carvin, associate professor at Carleton University and former national security analyst

According to leaked documents from the Pentagon, a Canadian pipeline was successfully hacked i…

Guest: David Rider, City Hall bureau chief

Ontario Place is becoming an election issue in the Toronto mayoral byelection. It is early days, but the province’s controversial plans to redevelop the wa…

Guest: Megan Ogilvie, health reporter

More than 6.5 million adult Canadian do not have a primary care practitioner, like a family doctor. There have been several reports pointing to this gap of acce…

Guest: Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter

When forty per cent of farm operators retire in the next decade, an influx of skilled labourers will be needed to fill the gap. A new report says targeted…

Today, we're bringing you an episode of It's Political with Althia Raj. 

This week on “It’s Political,” we mark April’s high religious holidays, such as Easter, Ramadan, Passover and Vaisakhi, with a…

Guest: Kate Allen, climate change reporter

Chlorofluorocarbons, a.ka. CFCs, are chemicals that were used in all kinds of household items in the 70s and 80s, but they were found to be causing a massiv…

Guest: Lex Harvey, transportation reporter

Violence on transit is an issue that is plaguing cities across North America, including Toronto. Answers to problems have not been clear. In fact, Toronto’s…

Guest: Christina Clark-Kazak, associate professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

In the aftermath of U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Canada, …

Guest: Steve McKinley, Atlantic correspondent

After two and a half years and more than $20 million, the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry has released its final report, looking back on the worst mass …

Guest: Jennifer Pagliaro, crime reporter

In December, eight teenage girls were accused of allegedly swarming and killing a man in downtown Toronto. This shocking crime is now making its way through …

With the start of the Jays season, This Matters is broadcasting today's opening day episode of Deep Left Field from the Star's Mike Wilner.

Guests: Blue Jays Opening Day starter Alek Manoah, first ba…

Guest: Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau Chief

The new federal budget spends $497 billion in all manner of ways, with a host of new green incentives, a grocery rebate for some Canadians and a dental c…

Guest: Christine Dobby, business reporter

Scam calls are an annoying and growing problem that cost Canadians $57 million in losses last year. With a technological arms race between con artists, phon…

Guest: Noor Javed, staff reporter

Peel Region is being studied for potential governance changes and Mississauga wants out. The city is the economic powerhouse of the region and feels it pays for ser…

Guest: Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park bureau chief

Ontario’s record-breaking $204.7 billion spending plan spreads money around to a lot of places, injecting dollars in health care, education and a numb…

Guest: David Rider, City Hall bureau chief

The mayoral byelection is June 26 and already it is looking like this will be the most wide-open competition for the city’s top job in years. Candidates of…