This Matters

Guests: John Degen, novelist, and Peter Gorman, Deputy People's Warden at St. Anne's

On June 9, a catastrophic four-alarm fire destroyed St. Anne's Anglican Church in Toronto's Little Portugal neighb…

Guest: Satirical conspiracy theory leader Peter McIndoe

It all started when Peter McIndoe, a self-described “obnoxious teenager,” went to a women’s march and scrawled the most random phrase he could …

Guest: Ben Spurr, city hall bureau chief 

Can you imagine Toronto without its public transit lifeline? A TTC strike might be looming for the first time in almost 16 years as thousands of transit work…

Guest: David Miller, former mayor of Toronto

Former Toronto Mayor David Miller was always an advocate for the environment. But in the nearly 14 years since he left office he’s become one of the world…

Guest: Shawn Micallef, contributing columnist and author of “Stroll: Pyschogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto”

In 2010, journalist Shawn Micallef first published his book of observations, suggestion…

Guests: Journalists Samira Mohyeddin and Christopher Curtis

Student protests that first erupted across the United States have now spread northward, igniting across Canada, including campuses at Univ…

Guest: Toronto PWHL season ticket holder and superfan Connie Hamers

At the inaugural game of Toronto’s professional women’s hockey team, Connie Hamers had front-row seats, and immediately took a liki…

Guests: Jasmine Eastmond, Tristan Kim and Kristin Rushowy 

The Ontario government has announced a crackdown on cellphones and vaping in schools, new regulations that are being seen as some of the tou…

Guest: Betsy Powell, courts reporter

After the death of police Const. Jeffrey Northrup, the trial of Umar Zameer for first degree murder galvanized attention (and political rage) in the Toronto area.…

Guest: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

Even before Sophie Grégoire Trudeau married Prime Minister Justin Trudeau she was an advocate for mental health, openly sharing her personal struggles with eating disor…

We asked three published, award-winning Toronto poets to weigh in on Swift’s literary merit at a listening party on the album’s release day. The assignment: dissect three new songs as though Swift we…

Guests: Leena Usman, Pino Buffone and Kris Rushowy

In what could be a landmark lawsuit in Canada, at least five major Ontario school boards are taking some of the largest social media companies to co…

Guest: Salman Rushdie, author

It has been almost two years since celebrated author Salman Rushdie was attacked on a stage in Erie, New York as he was about to deliver a lecture. In an assault that la…

Guest: Anuradha Dugal, Vice President Community Initiatives at the Canadian Women's Foundation

Equal Pay Day is recognized internationally as a day of action, calling on stakeholders to advance women…

Guest: Olivia Chow, mayor

News over the last couple of weeks around city hall has been heavy on tax worries and mix-ups — thousands of bills sent out for vacant home taxes for occupied properties and…

Thousands of property owners across the city got bills this week for vacant home taxes applying to homes they live in. Today, hosts Ed Keenan and Emma Teitel try to understand the comprehensive fiasc…

Guest: Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter 

The federal government is scaling back on the number of temporary residents and foreign workers in Canada while trying to boost access to permanent reside…

Guests: Sheila Wang and Morgan Sevareid-Bocknek, investigative reporters

They're called ”lunch hour facelifts,” cosmetic touch-ups without the surgery. But if you are rethinking your lunch plans, you…

Guest: Toronto Star climate reporter Kate Allen

Canada is the leader in maple syrup production and Quebec’s maple syrup producers maintain a strategic reserve stockpile that in recent years held over…

Guest: Richard Warnica, staff reporter

The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was a massive component of the port city's entire transportation network, and in a matter of moments this week, it col…