ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The world is changing every day. Now, more than ever, these questions matter. What's happening? And why should you care? This Matters, a daily news podcast from the Toronto Star, aims to answer those questions, on important stories and ideas, every day, Monday to Friday. Hosts Saba Eitizaz and Ed Keenan talk to their fellow journalists, experts and newsmakers about the social, cultural, political and economic stories that shape your life.
Update frequency:
semiweekly
Average audio length:
23 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Canada
1105 episodes
since March 9, 2020
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Guest: Calvi Leon, Staff Reporter
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Guest: Megan Ogilvie, Toronto Star health reporter
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Guest: Bruce Arthur, Toronto Star columnist
In a high-stakes war games exercise held in Toronto, top military officials, health-care leaders, and government representatives gathered behind closed doors to game out a scenario few Canadians can ever imagine; war arriving on our doorstep.
The exerci…
Guest: Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa bureau chief Canada avoided a snap election Monday night as the Liberal government pushed its federal budget through by a two-vote margin, 170 to 168. Support from Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and two NDP abstentions proved decisive after intense pressure and las…
Guest: Richard Warnica, Senior Opinion Writer
In this episode, we explore Richard's recent visit to Texas as a vivid microcosm of Trump's current America. He reports on cratering trust in vaccines, increasingly aggressive ICE arrests that are cleaving families apart, and the dismantling of public …
Guest: Ed Keenan, Toronto Star city columnist
Toronto has always been a contradiction; a city people fall in love with and get fed up with, often at the same time.
This year, the Toronto Star explored those many shades in our Toronto the Better series, digging into the cracks, complexities, and q…
Guests: Sean Menard, Toronto-based filmmaker and director of 'Run Terry Run' and Kirsten Fox, a director at the Terry Fox Foundation and Terry Fox's niece.
Terry Fox is a Canadian institution.
His crown of thick brown spirals, heathergrey 2.5 inch shorts, 'Marathon of Hope' shirt and prosthetic w…
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