This Matters

Guest: Robert Cribb, investigative and foreign affairs reporter at the Toronto Star

The Star’s Robert Cribb speaks to “This Matters” about a recent investigative collaboration that took a deep dive i…

Guest: Kareem Clark, post-doctoral associate in neuroscience at Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute

With all the time in COVID-related lockdown, you and your brain are likely out of …

Guest: Brendan Dunlop, host of the Star’s Headers and Footers UEFA Euro 2020 podcast

Canada is not among the traditional superpowers of world football (or soccer, if you like). But a new generation o…

Guests: Ontario NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa, and Samanta Krishnapillai, founder of On Canada Project

The calls to cancel Canada Day are loud. After more than 1,000 bodies of Indigenous children have been fou…

Guest: Erin Benjamin, president and CEO of the Canadian Live Music Association

With over 85 entertainment venues closed across the country during this pandemic, the people behind the concert halls an…

With eye doctors embroiled in a pay dispute with the Ontario government over what OHIP covers of an annual eye exam, the province’s optometrists have threatened to not accept OHIP-covered patients — …

June is Pride month. It’s a month that is a celebration of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, a recognition of a decades-long struggle for rights and equality and a reminder that this struggle is ongoing. Brian…

Most of us knows someone who mistrusts some element of the COVID-19 vaccine. Access, miscommunication, cultural barriers and the historic traumas that some communities have associated with the health…

While there are fresh concerns over the Delta Plus variant of COVID, the Delta variant itself is reaching a tipping point in Ontario. For much of the pandemic, Canada has lagged a few weeks behind th…

COVID vaccines approved and circulated by Health Canada — Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca — are safe and effective, but one of these is not like the other. AstraZeneca is a viral vector vaccine and i…

Kofi Hope and Zahra Ebrahim, co-founders of Monumental and part of a team leading the AllOut campaign, join “This Matters” to talk about the systemic barriers that lead to a lack of representation of…

For the first time in its history, the Ontario provincial government invoked the “notwithstanding” clause to override the courts on a campaign law that was deemed unconstitutional by an Ontario Super…

With the rise of the worrisome Delta variant, Ontario is accelerating second doses of COVID vaccines in hot spots across the province, as well as shortening the length between doses from 12 to eight …

Political leaders have publicly condemned the murders of a Muslim family in London, Ont. Terrorism charges have been brought against the alleged killer. But many Muslim Canadians say words are no lon…

Guest: Edward Keenan, the Toronto Star's Washington Bureau Chief

While former president Donald Trump has effectively been muzzled on social media, his power and influence continue to grow as Republic…

Guest: Noor Javed, Toronto Star reporter Muslim Canadians have felt profound grief in the wake of the hateful attack in London that left four members of the Afzaal family dead, and one 9-year-old boy…

Guest: Hayden King, educator and director of the Yellowhead Institute

It was a powerful image seen across Canada: the statue of Egerton Ryerson, chief architect of the residential school system, torn…

Guest: Dr. Fahad Razak, epidemiologist and internist at St. Michael’s Hospital, and member of Ontario’s Science Advisory Table

With 58 per cent of Canadians (and counting) having received a first dos…