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Guests: Nadine Yousif and Cristina Selva

As the pandemic surged in Ontario, the opioid crisis hit another peak. While opioid related deaths increased by 60 per cent in 2020, nearly one in three emp…

Guest: Christine Dobby, Business Reporter

You don’t have to look far to see those who experienced terrible financial hardship over the past two years. We don’t talk about our finances. But a recent r…

Guest: Jacques Gallant, Political Reporter

A yearlong review by a panel of former military personnel has recently concluded that military leadership failed to tackle systemic racism and discriminatio…

Guests: Ben Spurr and Jim Rankin, Star Reporters

At the beginning of the pandemic, bikes became a hot commodity as people looked for ways to enjoy the outdoors. Cities like Toronto added more bikes l…

Guest: Wendy Gillis, crime reporter

The Ontario election campaign is officially underway. Today, we zero in on an early pledge from Liberal leader Steven Del Duca who says that his government will ba…

Guest: Arif Husain, Chief Economist at World Food Programme

Ukraine was forced to close its four Black and Azov sea ports earlier this week and, as one of the breadbaskets of the world, this cut …

Guest: Edward Keenan, Washington Bureau Chief

Protests erupted in Washington D.C. Monday night after a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito leaked to Politico suggested the country'…

Guest: Jacob Lorinc, business reporter

Want a smoothie with a side of outsourcing? That’s what customers are seeing at several Freshii locations in Ontario. Instead of a regular cashier, a virtual cu…

Guest: Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief

The Ontario government just released a record budget for spending, with over $198.6 billion allocated to things like health care, education, tax cuts a…

Guests: David Rider and Jennifer Pagliaro, The Star’s City Hall bureau

With a municipal election coming in October, change is coming to city hall. While Mayor John Tory will be seeking his third term…

Guest: Nadine Yousif, mental health reporter

A recent survey conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found disturbing trends. More than half of the 2,200 kids in grades 7-1…

Guest: Paul Kershaw, a professor at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health and founder of Generation Squeeze, a non-profit that works for generational fairness

They say timing is everything, bu…

Guest: Stephanie Levitz, a reporter in the Star's Ottawa Bureau

The Conservative party leadership race is underway and while the goal is to find a new leader, some think this contest could be for the…

Guest: Megan Ogilvie & Kenyon Wallace, Star reporters

Last week, Ontario expanded eligibility to testing and antiviral treatments such as Paxlovid for high-risk individuals as the sixth wave of COVID…

Guest: Heather Scoffield, economics columnist and the Star's Ottawa Bureau Chief.

Inflation hit a 31-year high, rising to 6.7 per cent in March, with escalating prices across many sectors. Grocery st…

Guest: Alex Boyd, Toronto Star reporter

Almost two years after the first COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Canada, the excitement is somewhat over. Most Canadians are now vaccinated and demand is grinding…

Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, professor and satellite imaging specialist at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California.

Satellites and social media are working together to …

Guest: Ben Spurr, the Star’s transportation reporter.

It has been a terrible week for tragic events on public transit, with New York City dealing with a subway shooting, a murder outside of Sherbourn…

Guest: Wendy Gillis, Star reporter

As Toronto Police say the average age of those linked to gun violence continues to drop, Sunnybrook Hospital is taking action because “patching people up and sendin…