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Guest: Christine Dobby, Business Reporter at the Star

It has been an extraordinary week at the highest level of power at Rogers Communications, one of Canada's largest telecommunications empires. A b…

Guest: Megan Ogilvie, Toronto Star health reporter

It's well documented and well-known now that pregnant people and their unborn babies are at significantly high-risk due to COVID-19, with many requi…

Guest: Star journalist Morgan Bocknek and Keanu Uchida, professional dancer

An exclusive Star investigation has found allegations of widespread sexual harassment and predatory behaviour by Break the …

Guests: Star reporters Noor Javed, who covers 905 municipal politics, and Kris Rushowy, Queen’s Park reporter

Earlier this year, the Ontario government controversially used the notwithstanding clause…

Guest: Rosa Saba, Business Reporter at The Star

With vaccine mandates now being enforced in many establishments, workplace mandates are now proliferating across many businesses as they try to return …

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

More than 18 months it closed due to the pandemic, the world’s largest undefended border will reopen in November. The closure has resulted…

Guest: Shawn Micallef, contributing columnist for the Star

This summer, the city of Toronto spent almost $2 million on private security guards and police to forcefully clear encampments in public par…

Guest: David Johnston of the Schulich School of Business at York University

With the holiday season fast approaching, many retailers have been ramping up their efforts to make sure there is enough st…

Guest: Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter

The pandemic, travel restrictions and the recent refugee crisis in Afghanistan have created some serious issues within Canada’s immigration system. From re…

Guest: Alex McKeen, Toronto Star reporter

For much of the pandemic, New Zealand has avoided mass outbreaks, a large number of deaths and high case counts, and in doing so has been heralded by COVID-Z…

Guest: Tess Kalinowski, real estate reporter at The Star

The real estate market has been one of the few things that this pandemic has not really disrupted. After an initial lockdown, the Greater Toro…

Guest: Ben Spurr, the Star’s transportation reporter

The pandemic has been near catastrophic for public transit. Ridership dropped for the TTC, costing the transit service millions in fare revenue an…

Guest: Kieran Leavitt, politics reporter for the Star

The fourth wave in western Canada has become a crisis. COVID-19 patients in Alberta are dying at four times the rate of the national average as t…

Guests: Robert Cribb & Marco Chown Oved, investigative reporters at the Star

In what is being called the largest collaborative journalism project in history, hundreds of journalists around the world …

Guest: Jacob Lorinc, Toronto Star business reporter

Ontario's anti-vaccine movement has expanded. Hundreds of businesses have formed a network to refuse the new vaccine certificate rules, and take a …

Guest: Erica Ifill, columnist for the Hill Times

Green party leader Annamie Paul's resignation came after a defeat in her own Toronto Centre riding but it was a long time coming. After the party's ow…

As Canada reflects on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Star reporter Olivia Bowden wrote a piece titled: How do you teach children about residential schools? Mix history with kindness. Oli…

Guest: Alex Boyd, Toronto Star reporter covering COVID vaccination

As parents await news on vaccines for younger kids, Pfizer recently announced shots for children aged five to 11 are not far away. W…

Guest: Jacques Gallant, Toronto Star political reporter

Whenever a politician gets into trouble, people look up the steps for recourse but the truth is it's very difficult to remove an elected offici…