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Guest: Kana Enomoto, senior expert at McKinsey & Company, national leader in mental health, substance-use policy, data and programs

Recent data released by global management consulting firm McKinsey …

GUEST: Professor Jean-Nicolas Reyt, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at McGill University

A recent study in Iceland involving thousands of workers has brought back the buzz around a sh…

Guest: Moira Welsh, investigative reporter for the Star

The case of the MV Miner is a siren call to the question of what happens to “dead ships” that come from Canada and the dire consequences of neg…

Guest: Stephanie Nolen, the 2020-21 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy

Stephanie Nolen is on “This Matters” to talk about her extensive reporting on the impact of COVID-19 in Canada, where it hit the h…

Guest: Robert Cribb, Toronto Star investigative reporter and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau at the University of Toronto

The opioid crisis has been raging, with deaths surging in Tor…

This Matters is happy to share that sports broadcaster and author Brendan Dunlop hosts “Tokyo Daily,” the daily Summer Olympics podcast, also from the Toronto Star. Each day during the Tokyo 2020 Oly…

Guest: Rebecca Cotter, GTA-based event specialist

It is summer and many of us are gathering again, from inviting friends over for a pool party to getting together for meetings, holidays, festivals an…

Guest: Colin Furness, an infection control epidemiologist and assistant professor at University of Toronto

There are plenty of positive signs regarding COVID-19 in Canada, with vaccination rates lead…

Guest: Nicholas Schiavo, founder of No Conversion Canada

There was an important piece of legislation brought to the Senate last month, but with senators now on summer break and the possibility of an…

Guest: Dania Suleman, a lawyer and author from Quebec

The National Council of Canadian Muslims wants the government to show they’re serious about tackling violent and systemic Islamophobia. This week…

Guest: John Moores, associate professor and York University Research Chair in Space Exploration

In the future, we may say space tourism really began in July 2021. Following Virgin Galactic’s recent s…

Guest: Hannah Brown, manager of the criminal justice system reform program at Humane Canada

During COVID-19, domestic violence numbers spiked to the point where we began to call it “the shadow pandem…

Guest: Professor Nina Kohn, law professor at Syracuse University and expert on elder law and conservatorships

Britney Spears is fighting to free herself from a decade-long conservatorship under her f…

Guest: Dr. Andrew Young, assistant professor of systematic entomology at the University of Guelph

The bugs are back. With summer in full bloom and many of us enjoying the great outdoors, it’s a good …

Guest: Sunny Handa, technology group lead at Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Cybercrime is growing at an incredible rate. Ransomware attacks are up and according to the experts, companies are willing t…

Guest: Ben Spurr, The Star’s transportation reporter

Tax avoidance isn’t tax evasion, but is it fair? A new report from the non-profit Canadians for Tax Fairness says ride-hailing services Uber and L…

Guest: Jennifer Pagliaro, Toronto city hall reporter for the Star

Toronto continues to reopen alongside the staged plan created by the Ontario government. How we progress and when reopening happens d…

Guest: Nadine Yousif, mental health reporter for the Star

A new report by Sick Kids has revealed worryingly high rates of depression and other mental health issues in kids in the aftermath of the sec…

Guest: Omar Mosleh, Edmonton-based reporter for the Star

A wave of terrifying racist attacks in Alberta has the province on edge. The targets have been Muslim women, most of them Black and wearing a …