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Guest: Kevin Donovan, chief investigative reporter at the Star, and author of The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman

It has been four years since the bodies of Barr…

Guest: Carine Abouseif, features editor at The Walrus

Editor's note: This episode was recorded in November 2021, before the Omicron variant made in-person meeting a much higher risk. There are at thi…

Guest: Rosa Saba, business reporter for the Star

If you've been feeling price sticker shock at the checkout counter lately, you're not alone. Canada is bracing for what experts are calling a "perfect…

Guests: May Warren and Lex Harvey, reporters at The Star

Hark! The Omicron variant threatens to put a damper on holiday plans as many people are trying to balance seeing their loved ones with a now w…

Guest: Sara Mojtehedzadeh, work and wealth reporter for the Star

A recent Star investigation has revealed a tangled thread of wage theft, threats and intimidation, all a systemic pattern of abuse wit…

Guest: Josh Rubin, business reporter at The Star

Is it time to say a final "cheers" to The Beer Store? The provincial government wants to change alcohol sales in Ontario are and has already loosened …

Guest: Kerry Gillespie, sports reporter for the Star

Are Olympians born or are they created? While Canada has a big athletic talent pool to choose from, there are athletes flying under the radar who …

Guest: Jake Roach, senior writer, computing at Digitaltrends.com

If you've tried to buy a hot ticket item online like a new video game console, PC graphics cards or high end sneakers, you know that i…

Guests: Natasha Shakespeare, mother of a 13-year-old girl facing bullying and harassment at school, and Shree Paradkar, The Star's race and gender columnist

Warning: Graphic content outlining anti-Bl…

Guest: Danica Samuel, reporter for the Toronto Star

With hundreds of ethnicities, cultures and unique neighbourhoods, one of the great points of pride for Toronto is its diversity. The City of Toront…

Guest: Kevin Donovan, The Star's chief investigative reporter

With films like "Gone in 60 Seconds" to "The Fast and The Furious," the world of car theft has been portrayed as a glamorous life full of…

Guest: Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti, infectious diseases physician at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga

News and serious worry over the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spread almost as quickly as the viru…

Guest: Alex Boyd, Calgary-based reporter for the Toronto Star

The latest Omicron variant has starkly reminded the world about what global health advocates have been shouting about for more than a yea…

Guest: Kenyon Wallace, investigative reporter for the Star

The start of the school year in Canada was in effect a real-time experiment of how COVID-19 could spread among a mostly unvaccinated populat…

Guest: Andrew Young, founder and director of Vaccine Hunters Canada

For more than a million Canadians, volunteers for Vaccine Hunters Canada have been heroes and messengers of hope in the difficultie…

Guest: Brandi Morin, French/Cree/Iroquois human rights journalist who lives in Treaty 6 territory

Last Friday, RCMP arrested award-winning journalist Amber Bracken and documentary maker Michael Toled…

Guest: Emma Westecott, associate professor of game design at OCAD University and co-director of the Game: Play Lab

The Metaverse is coming. Long thought to be one of the next great leaps in shared di…

Guests: Canadian astronaut Dr. Dave Williams and Alex Boyd, Toronto Star reporter

What if the answers and solutions of the pandemic are found in the stars? The two industries of space and medicine ar…

Guest: May Warren, reporter for the Toronto Star

With winter months bringing in an uptick in COVID-19 cases and a relatively static vaccination rate, Canada's top health officers are urging people to…

Guest: Megan Ogilvie is a health reporter at the Star

Parents of children aged 5 to 11 can now book their children for their first dose of vaccines across Canada. It’s been a long wait for this cohor…