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Guest: Adrienne Appell, toy trends expert and senior vice-president of marketing communications of The Toy Association

While many industries were devastated by the pandemic, the toy industry enjoyed …

Guest: Edward Keenan, Washington Bureau Chief for the Star

It’s been five years since the last trilateral summit between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. on trade, co-operation and diplomatic relations. N…

Guest: Kieran Leavitt, Toronto Star politics reporter

For decades, adding fluoride to the water supply of many Canadians towns and cities has been standard public health protocol. Fluoridation has pr…

Guest: Dr. Naheed Dosani, Toronto-based palliative care physician and health justice activist

Even as health care workers were being hailed by many as heroes for facing the deadly COVID-19 pandemic o…

Guest: Ruke Okome, program manager of the after-school program Free Play for Kids

Alphonso Davies, Canadian soccer superstar, has become a world-renowned name with highlight reel goals, pride in his …

Guest: Liam Casey, Canadian Press reporter

Ontario is the only province that has legislation that bans pit bulls. Since it’s enactment over 15 years ago, dog lovers have had issues with the ban, from…

Guest: Jeremy Nuttall, investigative reporter for the Toronto Star

In the middle of societal and racial reckonings, many Canadians are asking questions about their shared histories, education and how…

Guest: Corey Mintz, freelance food reporter and the author of the upcoming book “The Next Supper: The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After”

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that in…

Guest: Robert Benzie, The Star’s Queen’s Park bureau chief

It seems like the Progressive Conservatives believe the road to next year’s election will be paved with new highways. Recently, Premier Doug…

Guest: Monte McNaughton, Ontario Labour Minister

The last two years of this pandemic hit everyone differently. It is undeniable that its impacts were not equitable and those with precarious jobs — in…

Guest: Jennifer Pagliaro, City Hall reporter for the Star

It’s been three years since cannabis was legalized in Canada, and you can see the results on many streets around the GTA. In Ontario, there a…

Guest: Deborah Dundas, Star Books Editor

Canada’s prestigious literary award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize recently announced its shortlist — which is not short on diverse Canadian literature — and we…

Guests: Peter Edwards is a reporter covering crime at the Star. Luis Najera is a journalist who covers crime, and is in exile from Mexico. They are the co-authors of The Wolfpack: The Millennial Mobs…

Guest: Heather Scoffield, Toronto Star’s Ottawa bureau chief and economics columnist

COP26, the United Nations-led summit on climate change is underway in Glasgow, where world leaders and their deleg…

Guest: Nadine Yousif, reporter covering mental health issues, the Star

New data shows that the number of teachers taking sick leave during the pandemic has doubled over the past two years of the pand…

Guest: Liam Casey, reporter at The Canadian Press

Trying to tackle the issue of homelessness is a difficult one, as there is no one singular fix. But one issue for many people living on the streets i…

Guest: Tess Kalinowski, real estate reporter for the Star

Toronto’s hotel industry has been one of the hardest hit in the COVID-19 pandemic. With the start of the first lockdown, hotel rooms emptied …

Guests: Shawn Micallef, columnist, and Gilbert Ngabo, reporter

Toronto is one of the major Canadian cities where collisions with pedestrians are at a dangerous high. More than a hundred pedestrians w…

Guest: Omar Mosleh, Toronto Star reporter

The medical community is only beginning to understand long COVID, the debilitating and often mysterious symptoms so-called “long hauler” patients face that c…

Guests: Dr. Louis Kwantes, president of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, and Jory Bocknek, veterinarian

The phenomenon of the pandemic pet boom is real. According to an Abacus Data resear…