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Olympian Kingpin: The Hunt for Ryan Wedding

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A shadowy crypto-to-cash system is surging in Canada. Star reporters went undercover to reveal how it works

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Why so many skilled immigrants are leaving Canada

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Star investigations followed a Facebook drug ad and revealed how illegal drugs are being sold online in Canada

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The doctor is in, but over a million Ontarians are too far away

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If Canada went to war, could our hospitals cope? A simulation in Toronto revealed alarming gaps

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Behind the scenes of a narrow budget win for Mark Carney's Liberal government

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Dispatches from Texas: Trump's America up close

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Can One Great Idea fix Toronto?

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Listen: Exploring the human behind the hero, Canadian icon Terry Fox

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Baseball is a game of failure. The Blue Jays and a nation of fans were winners.

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What's the best neighbourhood for Halloween in Toronto? We reveal which parts of the city are spooktacular and which areas you should ghost

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How Ontario employers are getting away with $200 million in unpaid wages

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The Toronto Blue Jays at the World Series, an episode for bandwagoners and die hards

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Listen: Bill C-3 and who qualifies as Canadian

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How E-bikes and scooters took over Toronto's streets

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10 years ago, the Jays lost the first two games at home. Then the bat - and script - flipped

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The Worst Commute

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Inside Canada's biggest dark web drug bust

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We look at the Jays ALDS matchup against the New York Yankees, plus we discuss the Blue Jays season with a special superfan and we open up the mailbag

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Truth and Reconciliation and the reality of Indigenous homelessness

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Has Big Tech rewired Gen Z?

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Why Toronto's garbage problem stinks for everyone

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Serial vandalism of Toronto speed cameras are about something bigger

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Why is Canada changing its immigration policy?

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The cycle of Toronto's gun violence that statistics don't show

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Are Ontario's new stricter background checks hurting kids in care?

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Talking TIFF at 50 with those in the know

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Are financial landlords reshaping Toronto's rental market and driving evictions?

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Elbows in? Why Carney pulled back on tariffs with Trump

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Record enrolment, shrinking budgets. Why the math doesn't add up for Ontario universities

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Young, qualified and still jobless in Toronto

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Long COVID, the pandemic that never ended for millions of Canadians

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Could Doug Ford's 401 tunnel fix gridlock or is it just tunnel vision?

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What this family doctor wants you to know about Ontario's primary care crisis

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Inside the Premiers summit as Trump's tariff deadline looms

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Reflecting on the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial

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What ER doctors would never let their kids do

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Disturbing errors at Ontario fertility clinics causing concern

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How Ontario's cellphone ban played in classrooms and politics

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Who's to blame when Toronto pools close during a heatwave?

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Are wildfires moving faster than Ontario can fight them?

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This economic moment, according to the Bank of Canada

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What Carney's big border bill could mean for refugees and civil liberties

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Introducing the podcast, Arachnid: Hunting the Web's Darkest Secrets

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Sticker shock in the restaurant seats

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Breaking down Ontario's big spend budget as Trump's tariffs loom large

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What Mark Carney's new cabinet reveals about his leadership

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Inside Mark Carney's high stakes visit to Washington

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How the end of a pilot program for migrant food workers might affect your meals

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The growing price of keeping Toronto festivals safe

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New report reveals how Ontario schools restrain and isolate students with disabilities

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What we learned in the final days of the 2025 election campaign

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How not to get digitally duped this election

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Two years later Canada's biggest gold heist is still unsolved

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A screening room of our own

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We can, sort of, bring back the woolly mammoth. But should we?

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Is Canada's immigration dream broken?

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'Torturing us as payback': How Ontario jail guards exacted a violent, hours-long revenge against inmates

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A Liberal candidate's controversial comments, an upcoming election and a crisis for Carney

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Why Canada must brace for U.S. interference in the 2025 election

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Grandpa, what did you do in the trade war?

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A life spent undercover with terrorists trying to incite a race war

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Why a retired college president's $1M payout is causing controversy

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In conversation with Amira Elghawaby on the rise of Islamophobia in Canada and fighting hate

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They have a league of their own, should they play in it?

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"These guys just looked at the crowd and opened fire"

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Why are so many patients filing complaints about Ontario's ERs?

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A new refuge for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Toronto

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Mark Carney won the Liberal leadership. Next up? Trump, Poilievre and a likely early election

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What Trump wants in waging a trade war against us

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Ford wins! But did everyone kind of lose?

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The Ontario Election: Has housing become not just unaffordable...but impossible?

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Mike Schreiner - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

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Marit Stiles - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

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Bonnie Crombie - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

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The Ontario election: Healthcare on life-support

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Debating over the long weekend

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Ontario's campaign goes south

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What's at stake for Toronto in the provincial election

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Trump week on the Ontario campaign trail

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Hitting the snowy campaign trail

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Here's why Doug Ford might call a snap election

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The President strikes back

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Reflecting on Toronto, for better or worse

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Trudeau, the Liberals and next steps: A roundtable with Star politics reporters

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Olivia Chow on 2024 and the year ahead

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The humble heat pump: the easiest way to dramatically cut your emissions

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Beef is the worst food for the climate. Can it be done better?

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E-bikes are popular because they're basically small cars

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Plastic is everywhere, it's made of oil and it lasts 1,000 years

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Fire is both the cause and effect of climate change

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Fighting climate change collectively and individually

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It's Taylor Swift's Toronto. We just live here

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Trump returns, stronger than ever

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Trump's triumphant convention (and tedious speech)

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Moments after the attempted assassination of Trump, conspiracy theories went viral

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After the Trump assassination attempt

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Toronto (sports) the bad: The conclusion

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The Shanaplan in Shambles