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Guest: Moira Welsh, Toronto Star journalist leading The Third Act project

A growing number of older women are facing poverty in Canada. It is a situation that can be brutally isolating as well as ph…

Guest: Alyshah Hasham, City Hall reporter

Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway is a perennial debate from all directions, and just as the mayoral race gets underway, we have arrived at the debate about the…

Guest: Chay Ornthanalai, associate professor at the Rotman School of Management

Silicon Valley Bank was the 16th largest bank in the United States yet, in less than two days, it collapsed and marked…

Guest: Allan Woods, staff reporter

Just as Roxham Road in Quebec became a crossing point for thousands of migrants hoping to enter Canada to avoid deportation in the United States, a new northern bor…

Guest: Caitlin Chin, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC

The social media app TikTok has attracted billions of users but concerns have grown over its roots…

Guest: Rob Cribb, investigative reporter and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau

Hate is on the rise on university and college campuses across the country. Wanting data, The Star and the …

Guest: Matt Juniper, associate partner at PRAXIS

Last year, the largest ever global trial of a four-day work week began in the midst of a work culture reckoning and a pandemic. Companies across the w…

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

Althia takes stock of the supply and confidence agreement the Liberals and NDP agreed to last March. In exchange for supporti…

Guest: Robyn Paul, Retool the Ring

At the end of their education, engineers receive a coveted ring in a ceremony full of symbolism, steeped in secrecy. It is called The Ritual of the Calling of an En…

Guest: Alex Boyd, staff reporter

The 15-minute city has long been an urban planning ideal, where people lived close to everything they need. It has recently become twisted by those who feel it might …

Guest: Victoria Gibson, Affordable Housing reporter

Sometimes even beloved neighbours and friends can slip away  unnoticed at life’s end, with their memory frozen in time. That’s what happened to Ch…

Guest: Kris Rushowy and Isabel Teotonio, reporters

Administrators, teachers and students connected to Oakville Trafalgar High School have been subject to bomb threats (as recently as February), death…

Guest: Megan Ogilvie and Kenyon Wallace, reporters

A group of orthopedic surgeons is leasing operating rooms from Ottawa’s biggest hospital. It’s a controversial move that the company says will help …

Guest: Peter Edwards, crime reporter

Canada’s list of most wanted fugitives lives at Boloprogram.org (“bolo” meaning “be on the lookout”). These criminals are being hunted by authorities, both here a…

Guest: Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau Chief

Ottawa is buzzing over news about the possibility of foreign interference in the last two federal elections. While government officials say those electio…

Guest: Megan Ogilvie, Health Reporter

Last year, a group of doctors anonymously made serious allegations of abuse of power by hospital leadership at Trillium Health Partners. It triggered an indepe…

Guest: Raisa Patel is a reporter in the Star’s Ottawa Bureau

Google has been conducting a secret test that filters out online news results for a small percentage of Canadians as a result of their con…

Guest: Jim Rankin, Toronto Star reporter

There finally might be a way to track a long-standing dark side of Canada’s criminal justice system — the issue of wrongful convictions — through a new databa…

Guest: Alex Boyd is a reporter in the Star's Calgary Bureau.

It has been almost two years since Justin Trudeau committed to sharing Canada’s vaccines with the world. Two years later, the results are …

Guest: Patrick O'Rourke, Mobilesyrup.com Editor-in-Chief

Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing arrived in Canada this week, with the streaming service warning users who let others mooch off their a…