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Guest: Olivia Bowden, staff reporter for the Star

Peel Region is behind the provincial average in vaccinating children age five to 11 and community health professionals say it will take a strong outr…

Guest: Howard Bryant, senior writer at ESPN and Meadowlark Media

While the vast majority of athletes in most sports are vaccinated, there are high profile stars that choose not to and seem to be pres…

Guest: Steve McKinley, reporter in the Star's Halifax Bureau

In a world where people are celebrated for what they do on screens, it makes sense that medical personnel were celebrated early on in the …

Guest: Edward Keenan, The Star’s Washington Bureau Chief

As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads rapidly and infects people, stark contrasts in approach by Canada and the U.S have become evident. …

Guest: Saunia Ahmad, clinical psychologist and director of the Toronto Psychology Clinic

The surge in depression and other mental health issues in the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic has been…

Guest: Wendy Long, founder of Afghan-Canadian Interpreters

When Canadian forces were deployed in Afghanistan, they relied on local Afghans to help them navigate a dangerous conflict zone, the unfamil…

Guest: Kris Rushowy, Queen's Park Reporter at the Star

With the Omicron variant raging throughout the province, the government has decided to hold firm and reopen schools on Jan. 17. The decision has…

Guest: Birgit Umaigba, an ICU/ER nurse based in Toronto

The ongoing wave of the Omicron variant is straining Ontario’s hospitals to a breaking point. At least two hospitals in the GTA do not enough n…

Guest: Robert Cribb, investigative reporter for the Star

A joint investigation by the Toronto Star and the Investigative Journalism Bureau has done an analysis of key mental health indicators for Fir…

Guest: Ed Keenan, The Star's Washington Bureau Chief

It has been one year since the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol building by rioters who felt the 2020 election was stolen from former president Do…

Guest: Ed Tubb, assignment editor focused on COVID-19 data

The recent surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has broken the province's testing regime, rendered contact tracing useless and made an a…

Guest: Christine Sismondo, author of “America Walks Into a Bar” and the upcoming “Cocktails: A Still Life”

Happy New Year! By now, hopefully your hangover from new year celebrations are long gone and…

We are taking a short break over the holidays and are rebroadcasting some memorable discussions. This episode was originally published February 19, 2021.

In 2008, Canadian journalist Mellissa Fung wa…

We are taking a short break over the holidays and are rebroadcasting some memorable discussions. This episode was originally published July 30, 2021.

GUEST: Professor Jean-Nicolas Reyt, Assistant Pro…

We are taking a short break over the holidays and are rebroadcasting some memorable discussions. This episode was originally published January 12, 2021.

The Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team are ranke…

We are taking a short break over the holidays and are rebroadcasting some memorable discussions. This episode was originally published February 9, 2021.

The pandemic has shrunk people’s lives. We’ve …

Guest: Rosa Saba, business reporter for the Star

Ontario, unlike elsewhere in Canada, has had a much lower minimum wage for liquor servers leading to a culture of tipping, not just for great servi…

Guest: Patty Winsa, data reporter for the Star

We have all seen the huge price that front-line workers have paid during COVID-19. Nurses have been at the forefront of this battle in clinics, hospi…

Guest: Dr. Gaibrie Stephen, ER physician and member of the Decent Work and Health Network (DWHN)

We all remember the haunting posts on social media — doctors across the province sharing stories o…

Guest: Nicole O’Reilly, courts and crime reporter for The Hamilton Spectator

It was a story that has become infamous within the cryptocurrency community. In early 2020, an early bitcoin investor repo…