This Matters

Guest: Joanna Chiu, staff reporter

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking American official to visit Taiwan in 25 years earlier this week. The visit lasted only 19 hours but was …

Guest: Anna Barford, Canadian Shipping Campaigner with Stand.earth

While cruise ship lines took a hit during the pandemic, business is back in full swing. Cruise ships are floating cities on the wate…

Guest: Olivia Bowden, staff reporter

There has been global momentum to end Pap tests for cervical cancer and replace them with less intrusive and more effective HPV testing. As countries around the w…

Warning: This podcast contains graphic content

Guest: Farrah Khan, manager of Consent Comes First at Toronto Metropolitan University

The inquiry into Canada’s worst mass shooting has put a spotlight …

Guest: Jacob Lorinc, business reporter

As prices fall and listings get pulled off the market, experts are projecting a historic correction to come for the Canadian housing market. There already was l…

Guests: Mohammed, Afghan human rights activist, and Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter

Nearly one year after the U.S. and NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover, thousands of Afg…

Guest: Brandi Morin, freelance journalist

Pope Francis is in Canada this week on a pilgrimage of penance, meeting the survivors of the residential school system in which the Catholic Church played a …

Guest: Len Tooley, evaluation director at the Community-Based Research Centre

With more than 16,000 recorded cases in 75 countries so far, the World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox out…

Guest: Richard Warnica, feature writer

Toronto Pearson International Airport has just been named the worst airport for delays in the world. The ranking comes after months of media reports of long lin…

Guest: Larry Savage, professor of Labour Studies at Brock University

With organizing efforts underway at Starbucks, Amazon, Apple and many more employers, unions and the labour movement are having a …

Guest: Blair Feltmate, University of Waterloo’s Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation

This week has seen yet another in climate firsts as a scorching heat wave has swept across the globe. As Britain re…

Guest: Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief

The Ontario government is going to give enhanced powers to the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa. Described as being similar to U.S. style “strong-mayor” sy…

Guest: Alex Ballingall, Toronto Star reporter

In recent months, and in the wake of alarming killings like the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, some Canadian politicians say…

Guest: Marco Chown Oved, Toronto Star reporter

A Star investigation has found that Canada’s three largest supermarket chains are actually making money from inflation. Grocery prices have been rising …

Guest: Dr. Katharine Smart, president of the Canadian Medical Association

Despite spending much of the pandemic trying to ensure that hospitals were not overwhelmed, incredibly long waits at emergenc…

Guest: May Warren, Toronto Star reporter

Fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses are now open to all Ontarians older than 18 years of age. Ontario’s chief medical officer of health Dr. Kieran Moore made the mu…

Guest: Stephanie Levitz, politics reporter for the Star

With just under two months left in the Conservative party leadership race, it’s been a wild week that still hasn’t been settled. Disqualified l…

Guest: Christine Dobby, business reporter at the Star, joins us to talk Rogers fallout and the new requirement for telecom companies to help each other during outages.

The Rogers network outage affec…

Guest: Edward Keenan, Washington Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star

Last month, as Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as the first Black woman to be sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, the momen…

Guest: Jacques Gallant, politics reporter

As Bill C-5 moves through the legislative process, Canadians who have been convicted of simple possession of drugs could see their records disappear in the n…