This Matters

Guest: Josh Rubin, business reporter for the Star

Because neither the federal or Ontario provincial government have created vaccine passports for the public yet (while other provinces have started pl…

Guest: Lior Samfiru, employment lawyer and co-founding partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP

Vaccine mandates in the workplace aren’t hypothetical anymore. They are real. The federal government has one for…

Guest: Nicole O’Reilly, crime reporter from The Hamilton Spectator

It has been over four years since Angelo Musitano, a prominent member of the Musitano crime family in Hamilton, was gunned down in h…

Guest: Julie S. Lalonde, women’s rights advocate and author of “Resilience is Futile”

Did you know that there is a country in the world where one woman or girl is killed every two and a half days? Th…

Guest: Nichole Jankowski, freelance journalist who wrote on 6ixBuzz for Toronto Life

6ixBuzz began as a simple meme and joke Instagram account on all things Toronto, but in just a few short years, it…

There is a sense of uncertainty, fear and deep anxiety for Afghan women following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Many are afraid of a return to a repressive past and reversal of painstaking pro…

Guest: Dr. Karina Top, pediatrician, vaccine researcher and associate professor at Dalhousie University

In what is increasingly being called a pandemic of the unvaccinated, the largest cohort that ca…

Guest: Craig Whitlock, Washington Post investigative journalist who broke The Afghanistan Papers

While many question the United States government’s decision to withdrawal from Afghanistan, within the…

Guest: Joanna Chiu, Toronto Star reporter covering Canada-China relations and author of “China Unbound”

It’s been almost three years since former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spav…

Guest: Dr. Margaret Harris, infectious diseases expert and spokesperson for World Health Organization

As the pandemic continues, low-income and developing nations remain left behind in vaccination ef…

Guests: Susan Delacourt and Alex Boutilier of the Star’s Ottawa bureau

After months of speculation, it’s happening: the Canadian federal election is set for September 20. The stakes are historic and …

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

A majority of Canadians say they are in favour of vaccine passports, the documentation proving people who enter a public space, like resta…

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

With rising case counts and other indicators, the fourth wave of COVID-19 is here and just getting started. The Delta variant i…

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

Robots have arrived in Toronto and they’re delivering your food. You may have come across Geoffrey, an adorable pink robot wit…

Guest: Jack Froese, Chair of National Zero Waste Council

Canada has a real problem with food waste and we’re all responsible. According to Second Harvest, 58 per cent of all food produced in Cana…

As a bonus episode, This Matters is broadcasting an episode from another Toronto Star podcast. Tokyo Daily, hosted by Brendan Dunlop, recaps the Canadian women’s national team’s historic gold medal w…

Guest: Nadine Yousif, the Star’s mental health reporter

The Tokyo Olympics have been historic in many ways. The games took place in the middle of a global pandemic, Canada’s female athletes are bring…

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

This week New York City became the first city in the United States to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination for indoor spaces and activities. Just…

Guest: Olivia Bowden, Toronto Star reporter

As Canada goes through the painful process of identifying hundreds of Indigenous children’s remains who were buried in unmarked graves outside the sites of…