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Guest: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist & Atkinson Fellow

Throughout the pandemic, nurses worked long hours with fewer resources and made major sacrifices to keep us safe. For some, perks that made the jo…

Guests: Dr. Grace Parraga, Tier 1 Canada research chair in lung imaging at Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and Dr. Michael Nicholson, a respirologist with the post-acute…

Guest: Rosa Saba, business reporter at the Star

The Bay is spending millions on reinventing itself to appeal to Canadians. With a history that predates Canada, the company has a long tradition that i…

Guest: Dr. Andrew Boozary, physician and executive director of UHN’s Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine

A pilot project called Food Rx, run in collaboration with the University Health Network (UHN) a…

Guest: Alex Ballingall, politics reporter for The Star

As Ottawa prepares for a larger and less COVID dampened Canada Day, protesters are making their way to the city to protest vaccine mandates, hea…

Guests: Trevor Manson, co-chair ODSP Action Coalition, and Anne Jensen, mental health and disability advocate

Ontario’s Disability Support Program (ODSP), which provides income and employment support…

Guest: Jacob Lorinc, Business Reporter at The Star.

The message early in the pandemic was simple from many employers: Get vaccinated. Now, as vaccine mandates are being lifted, some employees who wer…

Guest: Rosemary Westwood, reproductive health reporter

The U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade — a nearly 50-year-old constitutional right for a woman to end a pregnancy — will lead t…

Guest: Allan Woods, global and national affairs reporter for the Toronto Star

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth long month, you may wonder, what’s it like in Russia? In a country s…

Guest: Jon Wells, feature writer for the Hamilton Spectator

Hamilton has a long history of organized crime. One of the biggest events in its history was the killing of Johnny “The Enforcer” Papalia i…

Guest: Erica Pimentel, assistant professor at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University

Cryptocurrencies have been spiralling downward for the past two months after bitcoin’s value fell …

Guest: Victoria Gibson, affordable housing reporter

Hundreds of tenants of Swansea Mews, a beleaguered west Toronto community housing complex, have been thrown into turmoil after a ceiling collapsed …

Guest: Raisa Patel, Toronto Star reporter

As of June 20, Ottawa scrapped “proof of vaccination” requirements for air passengers on domestic or outbound international flights, as well as for rail trav…

Guests: Angelyn Francis and Annette Ejiofor, Toronto Star journalists

After decades of systemic racism and discrimination have punished Black Americans at school and at work because of their natural …

Guest: Wendy Gillis, crime and policing reporter

On Wednesday, the Toronto Police Service unveiled a landmark report that made clear there is systemic discrimination in their policing. Including use …

Guest: David O'Brien, youth worker and director of mental health for ETA

It is evident that violent attacks committed by angry young men, regardless of the ideology behind them, are increasing. Wheth…

Guest: David Rider, City Hall Bureau Chief

The fate of ActiveTO is up for discussion at City Council this week. Established in April 2020 at the start of the pandemic lockdown, the program shut down …

Guest: Steve McKinley, Halifax bureau

There is an interesting project off the East Coast involving tidal energy that has accomplished something that no previous one has. Sustainable Marine’s floating…

Guest: Alex McKeen, reporter

Last June, a wildfire decimated the small town of Lytton, B.C. after three days of record-breaking heat. Months later, floodwaters drowned the farming region of Abbotsfor…

Guests: Rachel Mendleson, investigative reporter at The Star and Steve Buist, investigative reporter at The Spec

A recent Torstar investigation found over 600 cases where a judge found police forces …