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Guests: Star reporters Megan Ogilvie and Kenyon Wallace

We all know the COVID-19 pandemic started for most of the world in March 2020, but how do we decide when it is over? U.S. President Joe Biden r…

Guest: Dr. Alika Lafontaine, president of the Canadian Medical Association

As the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation approaches to remember the Indigenous children who died in residenti…

Guest: Alex Ballingall, politics reporter

Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre has sent a strongly worded message denouncing the online group Diagolon after a clip emerged of de factor leader J…

Guest: Alexander McClelland, member of the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization

The ongoing criminalization of HIV non-disclosure continues to perpetuate harmful stigma against people liv…

Guest: Sahar Habib Ghazi, South Asia editor for Vice World News

As Atlantic Canada deals with the fallout of Hurricane Fiona, Pakistan continues to grapple with one of the most cataclysmic floods in …

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Guest: Edward Keenan, Toronto Star journalist

Edward Keenan was the Star’s Washington bureau chief from 2019 until just a few weeks ago. Over his brief tenure, he witnessed two impeachment trials, th…

Guest: Heather Scoffield, economics columnist

The latest inflation numbers are in and while it looks to be slowing slightly due to lower gas prices, all other signs show that Canadians are paying hig…

Guest: Maayan Ziv, disability advocate and the founder and CEO of AccessNow

When disability advocate Maayan Ziv flew to an accessibility conference in Israel last week, she found herself stranded and…

Guests: Kelly Matheson, a recently retired teacher, and David Macdonald, senior economist at Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

During the pandemic, Americans quit their jobs in such high numbe…

Guest: Madison Dyck, youth climate activist

Climate activists brought the Ontario government to court last week, alleging the provincial climate plan fails to protect them and future generations. The…

On the patio of a pub near Green Park in London, the Star’s Rosie DiManno and Canadian journalist Lisa LaFlamme, on special assignment for City News, discuss what they are seeing as the city prepares…

Guests: Angela Mashford-Pringle and Courtney Skye

The death of Queen Elizabeth II last week fuelled a wave of global grief, but also reawakened memories and ignited conversation of a brutal colonial …

Guest: Rosa Saba, business reporter

The future of cannabis retail is headed for a reckoning that could see a third of stores across the country close. Once thought to be a product that would be a lic…

Guest: Kevin Donovan, Chief Investigative Reporter

Reality television is a genre that has taken over the airwaves with all kinds of dating series and extreme competitions. Some find the genre shallow…

Guest: Stephanie Levitz, politics reporter

Pierre Poilievre is the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. The front-runner for much of the leadership campaign, he won a decisive vi…

Guest: Omar Mosleh, staff reporter

The stabbing rampage in the James Smith Cree Nation has left that community reeling. The fatalities, injuries and subsequent manhunt for suspects left a trail of tr…

Guest: Lex Harvey, transportation reporter

With a number of recent traffic-related collisions resulting in fatalities and kids on the sidewalks with classes back in session, road safety is back under…

Guest: Christine Dobby is business reporter at the Star

Ontario’s bingo halls are looking at lot like casinos with rows of modern gaming machines. The question is, are they slot machines? Because if …

Guest: Jason Miller, crime reporter

Peel police used force on Black people 3.2 times more often than their share of the population, a report on 2021 police data has shown. With only minimal improveme…