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Guests: Katie Daubs and Kris Rushowy, staff reporters

Holiday romance movies are everywhere. They started as a staple of the Hallmark brand, but now have spread to others like Lifetime, Netflix and m…

Guest: Noor Javed covers 905 municipal politics for the Star

According to the findings of a Star co-investigation with The Narwhal, documents show that the government is quietly considering expanding…

Guest: Kate Allen, climate change reporter

Will the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) be a “Montreal moment” in the fight to save the planet’s biodiversity? That’s how Steven Guilbeault,…

Guest: Jennifer Pagliaro, crime reporter

Car jackings and pharmacy thefts are on the rise, with many of the crimes committed by younger people. With a stolen luxury car fetching up to $10,000, it is …

Guest: David Rider, City Hall bureau chief

Ontario Place is in the news as the plans for a massive spa on the site move through City Hall. While the 155-acre site on Toronto’s waterfront is an urban …

Guests: Nichelle Laus, former police officer, business owner and TikTok creator, and Stephen Lautens, an author, lawyer and podcaster

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Guest: Jeremy Nuttall, investigative reporter

Chances are, like most Canadians, you have no idea how the country’s big pension funds are investing your money. A report is revealing that multiple fede…

Guest: Lex Harvey, transportation reporter

Public transit is something that is always difficult to get built in the Toronto area. Case in point: several transit lines are to be built in the next deca…

Guest: Kevin Donovan, chief investigative reporter

It has been five years since the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman. The police say it is an active investigation, but there are have been no arrest…

Guest: Victoria Gibson, affordable housing reporter

Hundreds of people looking for a place to stay are being turned away from Toronto’s shelter system every night. As winter arrives and the weather g…

Guest: Kelsey Piper, senior writer at Vox.com

ChatGPT by OpenAI and Lensa AI are two generative artificial intelligence tools that have been going viral. There are fun uses of artificial intelligence…

Guests: Brian Rosborough and Colin Best, Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO)

The Ontario government’s new housing bill has many municipal politicians upset about the removal of development…

Guest: Isabel Teotonio, education reporter

After months of neglect and violent incidents, the situation at York Memorial Collegiate Institute has reached its breaking point. Students staged a walkout…

Guest: Susan Clairmont, Hamilton Spectator justice columnist

How long should offenders with more than one murder conviction stay in prison before they are eligible for parole? According to the Suprem…

Guest: Megan Ogilvie, health reporter, and Weronika Drab, mother

While a fraction of babies with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are hospitalized each year in Canada, that’s still about 12,000 infa…

Guest: Joanna Chiu, staff reporter

China saw its largest protests in a generation this week. In more than 20 cities across the country, protesters demanded an end to Beijing’s draconian zero-COVID po…

Guest: Kieran Leavitt, politics reporter

Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith has fulfilled her campaign promise and launched the Alberta Sovereignty in a United Canada act, which aims to allow the provi…

Guest: Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter

Will a former refugee’s trip to see his dying father cost him his status in Canada? A growing number of ex-refugees have lost protected status in Canada as…

Guest: Wendy Gillis, crime and policing reporter

The Toronto police cold case unit has announced the arrest of Joseph George Sutherland, 60, for allegedly committing the murders of local women Erin G…

Guest: Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa Bureau

Live testimony at the inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act during the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa last winter has …