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Guest: Karon Liu, food reporter

Two years of a pandemic have changed the hospitality industry, including the way we look at labour, essential workers, the way we eat and our relationship with food. T…

Guest: Grant LaFleche, investigative reporter

Ontario is the wild west when it comes to regulations for ownership of exotic animals and the running of zoos and other animal exhibitions. This has led …

Guest: Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park reporter

Ontario will be dropping mask mandates in most settings including schools on March 21, right after March break. Ontario’s top doctor Kieran Moore cites the …

Guest: Patricia Lakin-Thomas, York University professor

It is time to spring forward! Daylight Saving Time begins this weekend. Clocks shifting ahead an hour on Sunday not only may make you feel a li…

Today, we will be taking you to Ukraine, speaking with those who are trying to escape war, which for some includes leaving their homes, their families and their lives. Journalist Johanna Chisholm rep…

Guest: Jim Williams, president and energy economist at WTRG Economics

As the world watches the horrors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ripple effects are being felt around the globe. With eve…

Guest: Lauren Markham, journalist and author

As Europe opens its doors to more than two million Ukrainians fleeing the horrific Russian invasion of their country, there are others for whom the doors …

Today, we are taking you to Novoiavorivsk, a small town outside Lviv, Ukraine near the Polish border. Reporter Johanna Chisholm spent time there over the weekend, speaking with the townspeople on the…

Guest: Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa-based reporter covering federal politics

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted about speaking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, the…

Guest: Dr. Dawn Bowdish, professor of medicine at McMaster University and Canada Research Chair in aging and immunity

As many of look ahead to learning to live with COVID-19 and embrace the lifting o…

Guest: James Lewis, senior vice president and director, Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Russia has been using cyber attacks on Ukraine for years, …

Guest: Alex Boyd, reporter for the Toronto Star

Canada currently has enough COVID-19 vaccines to double vaccinate the country six times over. That is a bigger stockpile per person than any other coun…

Guest: Alex Boyd, reporter for the Toronto Star

The excitement in getting a COVID-19 vaccine is something almost 85 per cent of Canadians can relate to and for most of us, the opportunity came and we…

In today's episode, we bring you urgent voices from inside the war in Ukraine including a Ukrainian-Canadian father desperate to get his family out, and Sara Firth, a British foreign correspondent in…

Guest: Robert Cribb, investigative reporter Host: Saba Eitizaz

Canada's hate problem has reached new heights, an investigation by the Toronto Star and the Investigative Journalism Bureau has found. C…

Guest: Alex Ballingall, Ottawa Bureau

Ottawa’s streets have been cleared of protesters and now the aftermath truly begins. With civil suits have been filed, policing costs are estimated to be million…

Guest: Edward Keenan, Washington Bureau Chief Host: Raju Mudhar

After weeks of posturing, on what President Vladimir Putin is calling a peace keeping mission, Russian forces have entered Ukraine. It …

Guest: Michael Daly, professor of space science and research chair in planetary science at York University

“Don’t Look Up” is the latest film to join the killer-asteroid-threatens-the-Earth genre of …

Guest: Bruce Campion-Smith, Public Editor

As reporters seek to cover the so-called “Freedom Convoy,” they have been threatened on the streets and online. The hostility is even greater if the journali…

Guest: Grant LaFleche, investigative reporter with the St. Catharines Standard and part of the Star's investigative team

Crowdfunding has long-allowed people to fund projects they feel passionate abo…