This Matters

Guest: Matthew Van Dongen, The Hamilton Spectator

The City of Hamilton has found that nearly 400 million litres of sanitary sewage from 61 homes has leaked into Hamilton Harbour, an industrial area, …

Guest: Dhriti Gupta, staff reporter

There were more than one million visits to food banks across Canada in 2022, according to Food Banks Canada. It is the highest number on record. In addition to thi…

Guest: Dr. Fahad Razak, internist at St Michael’s Hospital

The XBB.1.5, known by the nickname “Kraken,” is the latest COVID-19 subvariant of concern. Found to be highly transmissible, health experts …

Guest: Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter

Canada needs more immigrants to help fill labour shortages, yet so many people who come here find roadblocks and issues in pursuing work in their chosen fi…

Guest: Megan Ogilvie, health reporter

Faced with a triple-demic including flu, RSV and COVID-19, children have been hit by wave after wave of illness and filled up the pediatric hospitals across the …

Guest: Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park bureau

The Ontario government has unveiled their plan to deal with surgical backlogs in the province by moving some procedures to private clinics. Critics fear this …

Guests: Betsy Powell and Alyshah Hasham, staff reporters

Mass surveillance is everywhere and adding to the use of video in police investigations and in-court cases. The head of the Toronto Police Ser…

Guest: Ed Keenan, city columnist

A few months ago, Toronto Mayor John Tory was asking other levels of government to help cover $2 billion in budget shortfalls and yet, the mayor has now announced mor…

Guest: Gábor Lukács, president of Air Passenger Rights

The airline industry’s meltdown over the holidays has the House of Commons transportation committee convening an emergency meeting to grill comp…

Guest: Jeremy Nuttall, staff reporter

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) organization remains a symbol of Canadian history and national pride, even though the recent history of the police force…

Guest: Lex Harvey, transportation reporter

As TTC ridership is down, violent incidents are up. As the service still recovers from the pandemic, a spate of violent crimes on TTC vehicles and in and ar…

Guest: Jim Rankin, staff reporter

Twenty years ago, the Star published a landmark and controversial investigation examining data that showed police interaction with racialized people occurred at a hi…

Guest: Katie Daubs, feature writer

There have been an increasing number of coyote sightings and attacks across the GTA. Often portrayed as smart, dangerous animals, the truth is that there is another…

Guest: Robert Cribb, investigative reporter

Imagine having your license suspended and you didn’t know it was in jeopardy? It all comes down to medical condition reports (MCRs), widely used forms that…

Guest: Tess Kalinowski, real estate reporter

2022 was a roller coaster year in the GTA’s real estate market and, just as we hit a peak, things are now speeding downhill. Falling prices, a lack of inv…

This episode originally aired January 4, 2022.

Guest: Christine Sismondo, author of “America Walks Into a Bar” and the upcoming “Cocktails: A Still Life”

Happy New Year! By now, hopefully your hangov…

This episode originally aired on February 11, 2022.

John Honderich, who has served as both editor and publisher of the Toronto Star, as well as chair of Torstar, died on Saturday, February 5, at 75. …

This episode originally aired on November 7, 2022.

Guest: Moira Welsh, investigative reporter

The devastation faced by Ontario’s long-term care residents during the pandemic may have fuelled a reckon…

This episode originally aired on November 15, 2022. 

Guest: Lex Harvey, staff reporter

The Arctic town Svalbard is about as remote as you can get. It’s an archipelago located on top of the world. Res…

This episode originally aired on November 29, 2022.

Guest: Wendy Gillis, crime and policing reporter

The Toronto police cold case unit has announced the arrest of Joseph George Sutherland, 60, for al…