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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

3

Why so many skilled immigrants are leaving Canada

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

Dispatches from Texas: Trump's America up close

9

Can One Great Idea fix Toronto?

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

Listen: Bill C-3 and who qualifies as Canadian

16

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

17

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

18

The Worst Commute

19

Inside Canada's biggest dark web drug bust

20

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

21

Truth and Reconciliation and the reality of Indigenous homelessness

22

Has Big Tech rewired Gen Z?

23

Why Toronto's garbage problem stinks for everyone

24

Serial vandalism of Toronto speed cameras are about something bigger

25

Why is Canada changing its immigration policy?

26

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

27

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

28

Talking TIFF at 50 with those in the know

29

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

30

Elbows in? Why Carney pulled back on tariffs with Trump

31

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

32

Young, qualified and still jobless in Toronto

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

Inside the Premiers summit as Trump's tariff deadline looms

37

Reflecting on the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial

38

What ER doctors would never let their kids do

39

Disturbing errors at Ontario fertility clinics causing concern

40

How Ontario's cellphone ban played in classrooms and politics

41

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

42

Are wildfires moving faster than Ontario can fight them?

43

This economic moment, according to the Bank of Canada

44

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

45

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

46

Sticker shock in the restaurant seats

47

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

48

What Mark Carney's new cabinet reveals about his leadership

49

Inside Mark Carney's high stakes visit to Washington

50

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

51

The growing price of keeping Toronto festivals safe

52

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

53

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

54

How not to get digitally duped this election

55

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

56

A screening room of our own

57

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

58

Is Canada's immigration dream broken?

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

Grandpa, what did you do in the trade war?

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

A new refuge for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Toronto

70

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

71

What Trump wants in waging a trade war against us

72

Ford wins! But did everyone kind of lose?

73

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

74

Mike Schreiner - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

75

Marit Stiles - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

76

Bonnie Crombie - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

77

The Ontario election: Healthcare on life-support

78

Debating over the long weekend

79

Ontario's campaign goes south

80

What's at stake for Toronto in the provincial election

81

Trump week on the Ontario campaign trail

82

Hitting the snowy campaign trail

83

Here's why Doug Ford might call a snap election

84

The President strikes back

85

Reflecting on Toronto, for better or worse

86

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

87

Olivia Chow on 2024 and the year ahead

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

Fire is both the cause and effect of climate change

93

Fighting climate change collectively and individually

94

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

95

Trump returns, stronger than ever

96

Trump's triumphant convention (and tedious speech)

97

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

98

After the Trump assassination attempt

99

Toronto (sports) the bad: The conclusion

100

The Shanaplan in Shambles

101

Rebuild in Raptorland

102

The Blue Jays' decade of playing it safe

103

Alice Munro's family kept a terrible secret for decades. Now they want the world to know

104

In Toronto, "love wins" (but traffic still sucks)

105

Ontario against gender-based violence, Part 2: Intimate partner violence, a survivor tells her story

106

Ontario against gender-based violence, Part 1: Sexual harassment and Lydia's Law

107

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on reconciliation, respect and her fight against online hate

108

What Toronto lost in the St. Anne's fire

109

What you learn about conspiracy theories by starting one

110

Is the TTC rolling towards its first strike in almost 20 years?

111

Why municipal governments might be best positioned to rapidly deploy climate solutions

112

The city-changing magic of wandering around

113

Voices from the ground: a glimpse inside Canada's student encampments

114

PWHL is creating superstars and superfans

115

Ontario has banned cellphones in class. We take a deeper dive into the new rules for schools

116

After the verdict, Umar Zameer reflects

117

A Q&A with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

118

Poets discuss Taylor Swift's lyrics as poetry

119

Why are Ontario school boards suing TikTok, Snapchat and Meta for $4.5 billion?

120

Author Salman Rushdie on his attack, writing 'Knife' and fear

121

What will it take for women to get a pay raise?

122

Mayor Olivia Chow's plans for homeless encampments, tax fiascos and dangerous dogs

123

The vacant-home tax and other disasters

124

Why is Canada limiting its number of temporary residents and what are the new rules?

125

Thinking about a "lunch-break facelift?" It comes with risks you might not know

126

Why are people talking about running out of maple syrup?

127

Taking in the sheer scale of the Baltimore bridge collapse

128

The biggest mayoral election you might not have heard of

129

Have Canadian prisons made access to online education almost impossible for inmates?

130

Our last stop: Specialty EVs for the mining industry

131

City council gets ready for an expensive FIFA party

132

The last big-swinging prime minister

133

Canada set to have the best EV supply chain in the world

134

Is Canada heading toward a measles outbreak?

135

A Star reporter was hacked and got a terrifying glimpse into a digital dystopia

136

Can Ontario's resource-extraction and industrial economy transition to the clean economy?

137

Women's sports and other reasons for hope

138

Women's bodies in the public eye

139

Ontario has every stage in the EV supply chain right here at home

140

What do Canadians want for their health care?

141

The Ultimate Choice: A family's journey reveals the political and ethical stakes behind Canada's debate around MAID

142

The first cobalt refinery in North America is in Canada

143

'Law & Order' and porn and politics

144

Facing our smartphone addiction

145

Can EV batteries be made with Canadian minerals?

146

What we saw on Toronto budget day

147

Taylor Swift and the dystopian world of AI deepfakes

148

Lies, damn lies and statistics about police budgets

149

Road Trip: 2,300km up north in the dead of winter, in an EV, to look at the future of electric vehicles

150

One year after John Tory

151

Is Canada prepared for an impending dementia epidemic?

152

Why your Toronto neighbourhood needs to change

153

'You have to survive. Stay safe. I'm doing what I can.' Canadians describe nightmare race to get loved ones out of Gaza

154

Lower tax (hikes), Scarborough buses and jerks on the rink

155

How to grow your nest egg when no one taught you how (An episode of the Millennial Money podcast)

156

Budgets, toboggans and other ups and downs

157

Canada's new restrictions on international students: An explainer

158

More Greenbelt scandal, but no MPP pay hike

159

Fight or flight? Options in the threat of eviction (An episode of the Millennial Money podcast)

160

Another season of the Trump show roars to life in 2024

161

The mysterious murder of a prominent Canadian

162

A long walk around a big planet

163

How Chow should approach taxes and hate crimes

164

Nylander stays at "home"

165

Rooting for a new year, new hockey team

166

Home ownership or kids: do I have to choose? (Episode 1 of the Millennial Money podcast)

167

'It's Political' listener questions on Trudeau, Poilievre, dental subsidy, foreign interference and more

168

The great Santa conspiracy

169

Mayor Olivia Chow on a very unexpected year

170

A year of surprises in Toronto

171

20 years of 'Spacing' out in Toronto

172

Peter Nygard: who he was, what he did and what happens now

173

Soleiman Faqiri's jailhouse death was a homicide. What now?

174

Where did COVID-19 come from?

175

Dissolving the Peel Region dissolution and protecting the library

176

Aging alone: How Canada is failing older adults

177

Introducing a new season of the Millennial Money podcast

178

What does Bonnie Crombie's win mean for the Ontario Liberals?

179

The new deal (in Toronto and Scarborough Southwest)

180

Toronto sports history by the numbers

181

Why diaspora communities are losing their first language

182

Bathroom kings and tricky things in Toronto this week

183

Why many international students skip meals to survive in Canada

184

A white-nationalist murderer, made in Canada

185

Jog along with a world-record holder

186

Labour trafficking victims working in plain sight

187

A discussion on Canada's foreign farm workers' rights

188

'We are not doing that well': Mayor Olivia Chow on kids in the city

189

Nearly 30,000 Ontario kids are trapped on mental-health waiting lists

190

New prescribing powers for Ontario's nurses

191

Ford's fast-track MZOs sped up nothing

192

Why women's basketball isn't coming to Toronto

193

Ontario schools are failing kids with ADHD

194

Kids and violence: catching up with 'the boy who lived'

195

As green space shrinks, how do we raise kids in a concrete world?

196

Kids are going hungry. What can we do about it?

197

What it is like for kids who lose the place they call home

198

Thousands of children are waiting for surgery. Some for years

199

How we know the kids aren't all right

200

100 days of Olivia Chow

201

Coles notes on the books nominated for 2023's Giller Prize

202

Is Toronto's ice time policy freezing out girls' hockey?

203

Ozempic: when game-changing medicine becomes a trend

204

'I had to go through the discomfort of being wrong': a self-proclaimed anti-vaxxer switches sides

205

Toronto is the raccoon's city. We just live in it

206

Author Michael Lewis on the rise and fall of 'King of Crypto' Sam Bankman-Fried

207

Canada-India diplomacy: The view from Ottawa and New Delhi

208

Inside the celebration as the Blue Jays clinch a playoff spot

209

The Yonge-Dundas Square peg, Eglington Crosstown, Olivia Chow's measures of progress in Ottawa and at Queen's Park and more stories of the week

210

Are apologies and a resignation enough?

211

Doug Ford's summertime blues

212

Truth, reconciliation and sustaining the land

213

Ford's week is a case of 'surprise, not surprised' and other big stories

214

A history of violence and other Toronto mayoral stories

215

Why Hanlan's Point is important to Toronto history

216

How the London terror trial will test Canada's anti-terror laws

217

'If I can finish it, I will': the inside story of Terry Fox's run

218

Toronto's mayor keeps making the case for cash, plus other Toronto news of the week

219

Unleashed and barking mad

220

The shows must go on: SAG, WGA tiff puts new light on TIFF

221

In a Greenbelt hole, Ford keeps digging, plus other Toronto news of the week

222

Digital generation struggling with facts vs. misinformation

223

The bee catastrophe we should be worried about

224

Mission impossible: Real estate

225

Is the American dream more attainable than Canada's?

226

Policing wellness checks

227

Summer ends early at City Hall

228

A homebuyer, seller, tenant dispute that could happen to you

229

COVID booster shots and the next pandemic wave

230

Ford persists that Greenbelt is needed for housing. Experts say no

231

Trump's tangled legal web

232

Class-action lawsuit against police 'carding' highlights its lasting impact

233

Style vs. substance: How Trudeau, Poilievre and Canadian minds are changing

234

Olivia Chow's one-month performance review

235

Does Toronto need to nip tree problems in the bud?

236

On class divisions, and why not everyone's stories get told

237

Cruel summer: Devastating wildfires, flash floods and heat records

238

The COVID papers: What Canada's top doctors say about the country's pandemic response

239

The story of mass murder in a GTA condo tower

240

Justin Trudeau just overhauled his cabinet. What now?

241

Is Doug Ford 'excessively preoccupied' with municipalities?

242

Mercury contamination linked to high youth suicide attempt rate in Grassy Narrows First Nation

243

Report says minimum wage needs to be higher than $33 to afford rent in Toronto

244

Will Canada's Mounties become the 'FBI of the North'?

245

Star investigation reveals troubling tax trend hitting Toronto's cheapest homes while mansions catch a break

246

Electric vehicles are picking up speed but have one speed bump. They're illegal

247

These nurses treat mental health patients wherever they might find them

248

Why do Canadians search for proof of racism instead of finding solutions?

249

Toronto's best (and worst) playgrounds? This dad has made a guide

250

Why are newcomers seeking refuge sleeping on Toronto streets?

251

King's Counsel honours stirs questions, accusations of patronage

252

Unravelling Meta's new Threads

253

The Star, police and racial profiling: A reporter looks back (Rebroadcast)

254

One on one with David Suzuki: climate change, clean energy and whether there's hope (Rebroadcast)

255

A chief at the centre of a national reckoning on residential schools (Rebroadcast)

256

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on getting to the moon (Rebroadcast)

257

What we know about Google's plan to block all Canadian news content

258

Olivia Chow and a new time of possibility in Toronto?

259

Drag has always been part of Toronto. Here's part of its history

260

Pride, hope and Olivia Chow's prospects

261

Toronto Star's Fresh Air Fund: Its impact and the magic of camp

262

Is this 'the most exciting and positive election in 20 years'?

263

Hot shots: Are laced drugs being used to murder people?

264

The rising costs and concerns of building light rail transit

265

Why are so many newcomers giving up the Canadian dream?

266

Your last-minute Toronto mayoral election questions, answered

267

Climate change noticeable in Toronto, not so in mayoral platforms

268

Three of their kids are going blind. So they went and saw the world

269

'Seizing the means of construction' and other mayoral attacks

270

Toronto Pride: funding woes, rising hate and why events must go on

271

Paul Bernardo and how federal corrections handles dangerous offenders

272

Are any candidates separating themselves? It's up for debate

273

A reality check on Apple's new Vision Pro headset

274

An insider's look at the race for mayor from Jennifer Keesmaat

275

Is Toronto a safe city? The data versus perception

276

Canada is in flames. What you need to know about fire science

277

One on one with David Suzuki: climate change, clean energy and whether there's hope

278

Olivia Chow vs. Everyone? Keenan and Teitel weigh in on the Star's mayoral candidates debate

279

'We're getting screwed... make that the ballot question'

280

The ups and downs of the elevator industry

281

Body cams on soccer referees to deter abuse from parents and coaches

282

The historical context behind renaming Dundas Street

283

Debating Toronto's future: The race for mayor

284

Is Olivia Chow's 'untouchable' lead for real?

285

How will Ontario peel Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon apart?

286

Sodium nitrite, self harm and the case people around the world are watching

287

Supply teachers and demand: How staffing shortages are affecting TDSB

288

How the Eglinton Crosstown LRT has been derailed again

289

How soon is 'now' on affordable housing? A big election question

290

Business not as usual: The return to office and downtown Toronto now

291

After George Floyd: One city's vow to 'end' police

292

Ontario's housing plan and how it could lead to sprawl

293

Canada set to name foreign labs, universities that pose national security risk

294

Can you have too many candidates for mayor of Toronto?

295

WHO says COVID as global health emergency is over. Now what?

296

Alberta's neck and neck election: Notley vs. Smith

297

How Toronto police's drug evidence locker thefts impact prosecutions

298

'You need to stand up to the bully': David Miller's advice to next mayor about Doug Ford

299

How will Bill C-11 affect Cancon, streaming platforms and cat videos?

300

Violence in Sudan: A Canadian family shares their story

301

Planes, heists and other steals: Inside the $20 million Pearson gold theft

302

What you need to know about the PSAC strike

303

How provinces are trying to win the hearts, minds and wallets of nurses

304

Star columnists discuss the 'Great Mayoral Battle Royale'

305

A Canadian missing in Mexico and the hunt for justice

306

A chief at the centre of a national reckoning on residential schools

307

Ontario Science Centre Place: Yours to Discover!

308

Ontario's plan to change high school skilled trades education

309

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on getting to the moon

310

What the Pentagon leak means for Canada

311

Kevin Donovan on going to court to unseal documents related to the Sherman homicide investigation

312

Mayoral candidates could make Ontario Place a key election issue

313

How can we address the family doctor shortage in Canada?

314

Forty per cent of farmers are retiring in the next decade. How do we replace them?

315

Two topics we're not supposed to talk about: religion and politics

316

The mystery of why CFCs are rising

317

Transit safety: What can we learn from Philadelphia and New York?

318

Closing Roxham Road: what migrants face at the border

319

Mass Casualty Commission inquiry puts RCMP in the hot seat

320

Youth crime: The case of eight teen girls, a murder and what we know

321

Jays opening day with Vladdy, Springer, Manoah, Romano and Jansen

322

How the federal budget went green, but left Toronto out in the cold

323

Scam phone calls: fraud, technology and other hang ups

324

The City of Peel vs. a Mississauga 'Mexit'

325

Ontario's record-breaking budget explained

326

Who's in and who's out? A look at who is running for mayor of Toronto

327

Is Canada failing older women?

328

How the Gardiner East debate may drive votes for mayor

329

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. What are the Canadian implications?

330

How 'southbounders' are fuelling cross-border politics

331

The ticking TikTok: How an app ignited a national security debate

332

What we know and don't know about hate incidents on campuses

333

What did we learn from the four-day work week experiment?

334

Why Jagmeet Singh still wants to prop up the Liberals

335

Why engineers want to retool a mysterious ring ceremony

336

How the idea of 15-minute cities became controversial

337

A life lost, a person unclaimed and a subsidized apartment frozen in time

338

What will it take to calm uproar at Oakville Trafalgar High School?

339

Private care in a public hospital

340

Who is Canada's most wanted person?

341

Canadian elections and foreign influence: What we know so far

342

Probe calls for workplace culture change at Trillium Health Partners

343

Search barred: Why Google is conducting secret tests to filter news results in Canada

344

New data sheds light on Canada's wrongfully convicted. What does it tell us?

345

Canada was called a vaccine hoarder. Has it redeemed itself?

346

Netflix cracks down on password sharing

347

Fight for gender equality heats up at Canada Soccer

348

What a balloon says about U.S. and Canadian concerns with China

349

Introducing The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman

350

The devastating earthquake in Turkey and its political aftershocks

351

192 Ontario jail deaths in just eight years. What can be done?

352

Why Doug Ford's ties to developers are under scrutiny again

353

How the Star broke the story on John Tory and what's next for Toronto?

354

CaféTO lives! The new deal for the patio program

355

The $46.2 billion federal prescription for the health care crisis

356

Ontario court rules encampment can stay in precedent-setting decision

357

What Amira Elghawaby's apology says about Islamophobia

358

Justin Trudeau's next moves: A sit down with the Prime Minister

359

Canada's new alcohol guidelines have a spirited response

360

Why Toronto's homeless are sleeping in hospital ERs

361

Can a vending machine save lives?

362

Why Scarborough is upset about potential electoral redistricting

363

How gas stoves affect health, the climate and (some say) freedom

364

Violent TTC incidents leave riders questioning safety of transit system

365

Looking at the 'Freedom Convoy' a year after the occupation

366

Following a string of sexual assaults inside a Toronto university, the school's response is under fire

367

Sewage flowed into waters around Hamilton for years. Why?

368

How food inflation is hitting food banks as demand grows

369

Everything you need to know about XBB.1.5, a.k.a. the Kraken subvariant

370

Why Canada still needs to work on recognizing skills of immigrants

371

How Ontario hospitals treated the surge in sick kids

372

Ontario's plan to use private clinics for surgeries explained

373

Caught on camera: How mass surveillance is changing our judicial system

374

How to make sense of Toronto's 2023 budget

375

Air travel and passenger rights: What you need to know

376

Does the RCMP need a revamp?

377

TTC crimes, cops and service cuts

378

The Star, police and racial profiling: A reporter looks back

379

Why there are more coyotes in urban areas

380

Medical condition reports: How a diagnosis can lead to a suspended licence

381

What's the real estate market going to look like in 2023?

382

A spirited take on Dry January (Rebroadcast)

383

A tribute to John Honderich, newspaperman (Rebroadcast)

384

How do you want to spend the final years of your life? (Rebroadcast)

385

The cold truth about the fastest warming place on Earth (rebroadcast)

386

How Toronto police made an arrest in two cold cases (rebroadcast)

387

Holiday romance movies and why Ontario loves (and makes) them

388

Highway Development: Documents show Bradford Bypass could double in size

389

Will COP15 help save the world's biodiversity?

390

What's behind the staggering increase in car jackings and pharmacy thefts?

391

Ontario Place: Yours to discover spa treatments?

392

Scrooged: The scams of Christmas present (a true rhyme podcast)

393

Are pension plans funding human-rights abuses in China?

394

The pains of transit projects: Metrolinx and various disputes around the city

395

The Barry and Honey Sherman murders: Kevin Donovan reflects five years on

396

Cold weather, full shelters. Where can those facing homelessness go?

397

Artificial Intelligence went viral with ChatGPT and Lensa AI. What's next

398

How Ford's housing plan may mean property tax hikes

399

Violence in schools: York Memorial and how the TDSB plans to respond

400

Why some of Canada's notorious criminals could get out of prison sooner

401

RSV: as hospitals struggle, a mother shares her story

402

Will China's protests over zero-COVID spark lasting change?

403

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's power move with sovereignty act

404

Migration cessation: a process that could cost refugees their Canadian future

405

How Toronto police made an arrest in two cold cases

406

The PM, the protestors and the public inquiry

407

Greenbelt development: Looking into who owns what

408

What you need to know about Ontario's new housing legislation

409

Show me the money! Toronto's $2.3 billion dollar budget shortfall

410

Do mayors need even stronger powers?

411

Advocates sound the alarm over youth violence in the GTA

412

To mask or not to mask, that is (still) the question

413

Is the GOP still on Trump's wavelength?

414

Kicking off the World Cup

415

The cold truth about the fastest warming place on Earth

416

Michael's choice: The ethics of medical assistance in dying

417

Developing the Greenbelt: Ontario's new plan to build on protected lands

418

Climate justice centre stage at COP27

419

The kids aren't alright: flu, RSV, COVID and medicine shortages

420

Do you feel like somebody's watching you...at work?

421

How do you want to spend the final years of your life?

422

How did the manufacturing sector suffer so many COVID fatalities?

423

The good books: Star recommends your holiday reads

424

CUPE vs. the province: Schools, the notwithstanding clause and workers' rights

425

The Drug User Liberation Front: Selling drugs to try to save lives

426

Toronto's homeless shelter system is stretched to the brink

427

Ontario's new housing plan: construction targets, density and development

428

'Don't take my emotion as weakness': Patricia Jaggernauth in conversation

429

Grocery store price freezes backfire

430

City hall's new faces, tight races and Toronto's oncoming challenges

431

Inquiry into invocation of the Emergencies Act: what we know so far

432

With Jacob Hoggard sentenced for sexual assault, what are the larger implications?

433

Canada's growing corporate tax gap

434

The inner workings of hostage diplomacy and prisoner swaps

435

Toronto, the not so good. Can't we do better?

436

Are we ready to head back to the office? If so, how?

437

Is a recession inevitable? An economist's view

438

Analyzing the current attacks in Ukraine and what happens next

439

What you need to know about Bill C-11 and online streaming in Canada

440

Elon Musk finally agreed to buy Twitter. What comes next?

441

The Hockey Canada scandal and the culture of sport

442

BONUS: Mike Wilner talks Blue Jays with Alek Manoah, John Schneider and Ross Stripling

443

View from Taiwan: A conversation on national security

444

Why sex workers are taking the government to court to reform the law

445

Scandal and sexual abuse allegations at a Canadian megachurch

446

'Women, life, freedom': Inside Iran's new revolution

447

Is the pandemic over? It depends on who you ask

448

What truth and reconciliation means: a candid conversation

449

They threatened Pierre Poilievre's wife. What is Diagolon?

450

The criminalization of HIV non-disclosure

451

Who should pay for Pakistan's cataclysmic flood?

452

BONUS: 'It's Political with Althia Raj' discusses Pierre Poilievre's Big Tent

453

A complicated country: Edward Keenan on reporting from the U.S.

454

Inflation, affordability, recession? What you need to know

455

Stranded with a broken wheelchair, Maayan Ziv on airline accessibility

456

How the Great Resignation became the Great Retirement in Canada

457

Meet one of the youth climate activists suing the province

458

In a London pub Lisa LaFlamme and Rosie DiManno discuss the Queen

459

Indigenous women reflect on the Queen and the monarchy

460

Up in smoke? The reckoning coming for cannabis stores

461

Reality TV check: An investigation of '4 Days to Save the World'

462

Pierre Poilievre: What's next for the new Conservative leader

463

Saskatchewan aftermath: How the community is trying to heal

464

Vision Zero: Are the city's safer street policies working?

465

Gaming the system: How casino-style gaming machines got into bingo halls

466

The overrepresentation of Black people when Peel police use force

467

The bivalent vaccine and the COVID way forward

468

How Bill 7 could change health care in the province

469

Allegations of abuse within Canada's temporary foreign worker program

470

What you need to know about Toronto's upcoming municipal election

471

Death threats for doing your job: Journalists discuss being on the receiving end

472

Grey Matters: LaFlamme exit ignites conversation on workplace sexism and ageism

473

What you need to know about sustainable aviation fuels

474

The Mayor of Peterborough's f-bombs and the challenge of working in city politics

475

How did misinformation feed the myth that COVID vaccines killed hundreds of Canadians?

476

Ontario to disabled teen: lose funding or independence

477

Quebec's Bill 21 and its latest controversy

478

Ontario's not-so-strong mayor plan

479

Why the cost and use of temp agency nurses is skyrocketing

480

Back to school and what to expect

481

Renovictions and tenant rights: How the city is trying to help renters

482

905 politicians behaving badly

483

Internationally trained medical staff could help Ontario hospitals but can't

484

Politics of public space: Cyclists and High Park

485

Sexism in skilled trades: Meet a woman bringing change

486

The metaverse is coming. What does that mean?

487

Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan, but the crisis is just beginning

488

How the B.C. coast is a cruise ship dumping ground

489

If routine Pap tests are becoming a thing of the past, why is Ontario lagging behind?

490

What the Nova Scotia shooting reveals about survivors of domestic violence

491

Housing correction: How far will the market fall?

492

Thousands of Afghans are waiting for Canada's help. Time is running out

493

What will it take for the Pope's apology to mean something?

494

Monkeypox is a global health emergency. We talk to someone who went through it

495

Planes, blame and airport shame: Pearson's problems investigated

496

Summer of strikes: Looking at the labour movement now

497

Scorching weather signals crisis point: is Canada prepared?

498

What the new 'strong-mayor' plan means for municipal politics

499

Panic buttons and peril: the new reality for Canadian politicians

500

How Canada's top three supermarket chains are making money from inflation

501

Why emergency departments are overwhelmed

502

To boost or not to boost? Ontario expands fourth shots to all adults

503

The Right Stuff: What's next for the Conservative leadership race

504

Network effect: Rogers' outage and how the government is making telcos work together

505

Contempt of the Supreme Court: The judiciary and American democracy

506

How Canada's new crime bill will wipe out drug possession charges

507

Why are nurses quitting their jobs for temp agencies?

508

Can an Ontario breakthrough help long COVID sufferers?

509

Down by The Bay: Inside the retailer's reinvention

510

A prescription for healthy food? New program tackles food insecurity

511

Is a 'Freedom Convoy' sequel on the way to Ottawa for Canada Day?

512

What life is like on ODSP

513

Office Politics: Vaccination status and the workplace

514

Roe v. Wade has been overturned. What happens now?

515

Sanctions, censorship and war: What it's like living in Russia

516

Tracking down one of Canada's most notorious hit men

517

Explaining the cryptocurrency crash

518

400 displaced people in social housing. Few answers. Few homes

519

Flight Risk: Will relaxing vaccine mandates tackle chaos at the airport?

520

Does Canada need legislation against Black and Indigenous hair discrimination?

521

Unpacking the Toronto Police's report revealing systemic racism

522

Angry Young Men: How youth workers are trying to stop the next attack

523

Is the ride over for ActiveTO?

524

Waves of power creation: How tidal energy is the next potential renewable source

525

A tale of two communities struck by climate disasters

526

Rights wronged: How police are violating people's Charter rights

527

What the Hoggard verdict highlights about consent and sexual violence victims

528

Why Conservatives are embracing conspiracy theories

529

Tow truck wars, York Region and why high-profile cases keep falling apart

530

What's in Canada's new gun control bill and is it enough?

531

What have Canada's big pensions invested in? It's hard to know

532

Ontario Election: fact-checking the party leaders

533

There is a big demand for accessible housing in Ontario. Few can find it

534

Days after Uvalde massacre, NRA hosts annual summit

535

Ontario Votes: Looking at the final days of the campaign

536

Baby boomers are getting older and want change in long-term care

537

What we know about monkeypox so far

538

The Price is Wrong: Grocery store inflation and what you can do about it

539

Introducing 'Death in a Small Town,' a podcast hosted by Kevin Donovan

540

Grand Theft Auto GTA: Carjackings and auto thefts soar

541

Food fight: The Michelin Guide is coming to Toronto

542

Why are hundreds of immigrants languishing in Canada's maximum security jails?

543

Blue bin blues: Why recycling in Canada is a big green lie

544

Reproductive rights and abortion access: Is Canada as pro-choice as you think?

545

Air sick: The problems at Canada's airports and why it won't get better soon

546

Sticky wicket: Why Toronto needs more cricket pitches

547

Can a new law tackle the opioid crisis in Ontario's construction industry?

548

Does the government need to clamp down on predatory lending?

549

What a damning report reveals about white supremacy in Canada's military

550

As cycling data points to rise in ER visits, how safe are our streets?

551

The campaign is on. So, what's behind Del Duca's handgun ban?

552

Introducing 'It's Political with Althia Raj,' a new Canadian politics podcast

553

How the Ukraine war is escalating the global hunger crisis

554

Roe v. Wade in peril? What a major leak suggests about the future of U.S. abortion laws

555

Meet Percy: Freshii's new outsourced 'virtual cashier'

556

Ontario's budget: Politics, platforms and how it sets up the election

557

The changing political dynamics of Toronto city hall

558

How climate and pandemic anxiety is overwhelming Ontario teens

559

Housing affordability: What can be done to help people get into the market?

560

How right is too right? Conservatives look to the middle

561

Everything you need to know about the antiviral COVID drug

562

How Canada is trying to deal with the cost of inflation

563

Why are so many COVID vaccine doses wasted in Canada?

564

Birds eye view: Satellites and how we watch war now

565

TTC bus drivers face violent and bizarre incidents

566

One hospital's plan to treat gun violence

567

What we know about the fourth COVID shot

568

The inequitable distribution of rapid tests in Ontario

569

Now or never: UN warns the world must act on climate

570

How the unregulated dog rescue industry has spelled disaster for some

571

Jays Opening Day Extravaganza, with Bichette, Manoah, Berrios, Romano, Jansen, Rivera and Vladdy

572

Why you should take the sixth wave of COVID-19 seriously

573

Hotel check out: The city's plan to close temporary homeless shelters

574

How a deadly sixth wave of COVID hit Hong Kong and New Zealand differently

575

'I am very sorry.' Pope apologizes for Church's role in Canada's residential school system

576

Will Toronto's real estate market bloom in spring? An agent's outlook

577

Canada's World Cup qualifying dreams have come true. What's next?

578

It's a deal: unpacking the $10-a-day child care plan

579

Jerry Dias and Unifor: How the head of Canada's largest private sector union fell

580

Mid-Life Happiness: Why joy later in life looks different than you think

581

Scarred by war: The impact on Ukraine's children will be lasting

582

Inside the Trudeau-Singh agreement

583

How Ontario's changes to the Blue Box program might need to be recycled

584

A family violence case set a legal precedent. Can it help save lives?

585

Hang up that phone! Robocalls, spoofing and phone-related fraud

586

New highways need gravel from GTA quarries. Residents are fighting back

587

A foodie's guide to pandemic dining

588

Ontario's Tiger King and the lack of rules around animals and zoos

589

Ontario is lifting mask mandates. Here's what it means for you

590

A scientist makes the case against Daylight Saving Time

591

Escaping invasion in Ukraine: People share their stories

592

Why gas prices are high and won't be going down anytime soon

593

The rules don't apply for some refugees in Europe

594

Inside Ukraine, preparing for invasion in a border town

595

The view from Ottawa: What Canada is doing to help Ukraine

596

COVID restrictions are lifting, but some are left behind

597

Modern warfare: Cyber attacks, hacking and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict

598

Vaccine Inequity Part II: South Africa fights back

599

Vaccine Inequity Part I: The view from Angola

600

Voices from Ukraine: A family trapped in the war and a journalist in Kyiv

601

Why has the justice system failed to fix Canada's hate problem?

602

The cost of one's convictions: convoy ringleaders in court

603

Can the world deter Putin's plans for Ukraine?

604

Don't Look Up: How NASA is getting ready for killer asteroids

605

Press freedom, convoy protests and the safety of journalists

606

Follow the money: What a leaked crowdfunding convoy donor list tells us

607

Why you shouldn't look for 'closure' while grieving

608

A tale of two protests: Windsor vs. Ottawa

609

A tribute to John Honderich, newspaperman

610

Should Black women challenge 'excellence' and embrace 'mediocrity' to reclaim power?

611

Calls for personal hygiene products for the city's most vulnerable

612

Carolyn Bennett on Canada's first mental health and addictions ministry

613

The 'Freedom Convoy' and policing protests

614

Partner podcast: Between Us With Wes Hall explores the journeys of BIPOC visionaries in Canada

615

A physician on Omicron and how we move forward

616

Tackling alleged racist hiring practices in the NFL

617

Why did a key report on the mayor's transit plan include inflated numbers?

618

Long-term-care residents are facing unprecedented loneliness and depression

619

The Freedom Convoy: Rage, racism and what happens next

620

How some Canadians are getting ivermectin

621

Why we need N95 respirators more than cloth masks

622

Tips from an expert on how to save as inflation soars

623

Canada's blood donation ban may open up. Here's how

624

Restaurant worker makeover: Why so many are leaving the service industry

625

What role do horses have in a modern police force?

626

Taxed for being unvaxxed: The ethics of government mandates

627

Why is Peel Region falling behind in vaccinating kids?

628

Novak Djokovic's no-vax gambit and pandemic sports now

629

Celebrating Canada's health care workers had its downside

630

How Canada and the U.S. differ in Omicron response

631

It's OK to not be OK in a pandemic

632

Afghans facing retribution for helping Canadians are struggling to get to Canada

633

Today's lesson: Why Ontario decided to reopen schools

634

Code Orange: What Ontario's nursing shortage looks like in ICUs

635

Mental health support tailored to Indigenous culture remains out of reach

636

Voter rights and fights: How Jan. 6 changed American politics

637

The Omicron wave: What numbers to watch

638

A spirited take on Dry January

639

Boko Haram survivors, Mellissa Fung and the complexity of shared trauma (REBROADCAST)

640

A four-day work week? (REBROADCAST)

641

How sportsmanship brought two nations and the lacrosse world closer (REBROADCAST)

642

Why you miss (and need) casual friendships (REBROADCAST)

643

Should the end of Ontario's liquor server wage mean lower tips for restaurant workers?

644

Nurses are leaving the profession in worrying numbers

645

Ontario doctors fight virus, system that exposes the vulnerable

646

How a massive bitcoin robbery ended up with an arrest in Hamilton

647

The Night Walker: Kevin Donovan on the suspect in the Sherman murders

648

Costs and benefits of virtual health care

649

Food prices rise amidst COVID-19, supply chain issues and climate change

650

How health professionals plan to spend their holidays on a wave of Omicron

651

Inside Brampton truckers' fight against wage theft

652

Alcohol sales are changing. Will The Beer Store survive?

653

How Canadian Olympians are being unearthed at a training centre

654

How the 'Grinch Bots' are stealing Christmas

655

How a 13-year-old faced anti-Black violence at school: a mother's story

656

Who gets to decide how Toronto grows and changes?

657

The Fast and Nefarious: How thieves steal cars

658

The Omicron Variant: what we know and what we don't

659

Omicron, the travel ban and getting home to Canada under the wire

660

COVID outbreaks are surging in schools. What can we do about it?

661

Vaccine Hunters are back for kids' vaccines and third-dose boosters

662

Conflict on Wet'suwet'en territory, the RCMP and press freedom

663

The Metaverse is coming. Here's what you need to know

664

How space technology is helping to fight the next pandemic

665

Mask up, it's not over, Canada's health officials warn

666

Kids and vaccines: What you need to know now

667

Kids at heart: 'Kidults' help toys reach sales records

668

The 'Three Amigos' summit and the Canada-U.S. relationship

669

Why the fight over fluoride in water is resurfacing

670

Front-line doctors fighting on two fronts: a deadly pandemic and digital harassment

671

This after-school program taught Alphonso Davies and keeps transforming lives

672

Ontario's pit bull ban back in the spotlight

673

How Canada's museums are decolonizing and transforming

674

Pandemic highlights longstanding issues in the restaurant industry

675

Are new highways the on ramp to reelection for the Conservatives?

676

Labour Minister Monte McNaughton discusses Ontario's new labour legislation

677

Reefer Madness: How many weed shops are too many weed shops?

678

Who's going to win the Giller and what else should you read this fall?

679

How the cartels from Mexico made inroads into Canada

680

Is COP26 the turning point in fighting climate change?

681

How pandemic burnout is affecting teachers and schools

682

How 'A Better Tent City' is trying a new way to tackle homelessness in Kitchener

683

Will Toronto's hotel industry ever bounce back to its pre-pandemic peak?

684

Why are Toronto's roads so dangerous?

685

Long COVID in kids and the hope of a children's vaccine

686

The pandemic pet boom is driving a vet shortage emergency

687

Canada's Succession: Rogers' boardroom drama explained

688

Why is there a high rate of vaccine hesitancy among pregnant people?

689

Breaking the silence: Dancers accuse choreographers of sexual harassment and grooming

690

Are Ontario's new election laws being used to muzzle dissent?

691

Can you get fired for refusing to get vaccinated?

692

What you need to know about the Canada-U.S. land border reopening

693

Why won't City Hall move forward on rooming houses and renters' rights?

694

Supply chain reaction: Product delays, stock shortages and higher prices

695

Can a computer glitch dash immigration dreams?

696

New Zealand abandons COVID-Zero. Is hope of elimination over?

697

How far will new long-term-care legislation go?

698

A look at the GTA real estate market now

699

Transit 'death spiral': Will post-pandemic Toronto be led by cars?

700

How Alberta and Saskatchewan lost control of COVID's fourth wave

701

Opening the Pandora Papers and what they reveal

702

Many businesses are refusing the new vaccine certificate rules. What now?

703

Annamie Paul and the Green Party: what it reveals about Canada's misogynoir problem

704

How should Canada handle former residential school sites? Ask the Indigenous community

705

What we know about vaccines and younger kids

706

Can an MP be forced to resign and, if so, how?`

707

Two Michaels return. Where does that leave Canada and China?

708

Vaccine certificates are the law in Ontario. Here's how they're working

709

Facebook's relationship with its own research is complicated

710

The election is over. Now where will Trudeau's Liberals take Canada?

711

Déjà vote: Unpacking the election

712

The state of the race

713

Fact checking the leaders on the campaign trail

714

How candidates say their party will address racism

715

Affordability, housing and recovery: what are the parties promising?

716

Temperature check: Comparing platforms on climate change

717

In battleground ridings, what does the federal election campaign look like? A Star roundtable discusses

718

Two journalists from opposite hemispheres discuss a post-9/11 world

719

Data shows Canadians are running out of empathy as the pandemic runs on

720

Why some medically fragile kids can't return to school because of a nursing shortage

721

Fear and loathing on the campaign trail '21

722

From being burned at the stake to digital abuse, it's not you. It's the patriarchy (Rebroadcast)

723

Back to School: students, symptoms and screening guides

724

Everything you need to know about Ontario's vaccine passport plan

725

The debate and ethics of vaccine boosters

726

Lessons lost: An Afghan educator shares his story

727

Want to be at a live event again? Vaccine mandates are being pushed by businesses

728

Vaccine mandates and the return to work

729

The mob war that followed Angelo Musitano's murder

730

Why is femicide on the rise in Canada?

731

Behind 6ixBuzz's controversial rise

732

What Afghan women want: a conversation on the situation in Afghanistan

733

COVID and kids: What we know and what to expect in September

734

An unwinnable situation: American foreign policy after Afghanistan

735

Canada's two Michaels and China's long history of 'hostage diplomacy'

736

How COVAX is getting vaccines to nations that need it the most

737

Canada's federal election is on. Here's what you need to know

738

Canadians want vaccine passports. Why is Ontario's government saying no?

739

Running the numbers: The fourth wave is moving faster than expected

740

Pink robots are delivering your food. What does this mean for local gig workers?

741

Pandemic style wars: From face masks and sweatpants to what's next

742

Canada's $31-billion food waste problem

743

Olympic bonus: Partner podcast Tokyo Daily discusses Christine Sinclair and Canadian soccer

744

How Simone Biles brought the importance of mental health to the world's greatest stage

745

The pandemic of the (still) unvaccinated

746

9 to 5? More like 24/7 for women during COVID. How will this impact their return to the workplace?

747

Four. Day. Work. Week.

748

The dangerous business of Canada's dead ships

749

The science behind why you should date your friends (no, really)

750

What COVID reveals about Canada

751

Opioid crisis: How Toronto's street drug supply is getting more dangerous

752

Introducing Tokyo Daily, the Summer Olympics podcast from the Toronto Star

753

It's summer! Let's get together. Here's how to do it COVID safe

754

What you need to know about the fourth wave

755

Canada's bill to ban conversion therapy may be lost. Here's why

756

Quebec's Bill 21 from a Canadian Muslim woman's perspective

757

Flights of Fancy: How billionaires are making space tourism blast off

758

How accommodating pets at domestic violence shelters can save lives

759

Are conservatorships toxic? How Britney Spears' cry for help forced a conversation in America

760

The bugs that are ticking us off this summer

761

Ransomware: How an expert deals with a breach

762

By classifying workers as contractors, do Uber and Lyft avoid millions in taxes?

763

How Toronto is using 'playbooks' and vaccines to reopen

764

New Sick Kids study reveals the pandemic's heavy toll on children

765

A wave of terrifying racist attacks in Alberta sheds light on Canada's Islamophobia problem

766

Garment factory workers were already exploited and abused. COVID made it worse

767

The neuroscience of lockdowns and reopening

768

Why Canada is dreaming of a World Cup berth

769

Should we cancel Canada Day?

770

The shows will finally go on: Reopening and live performances

771

Why optometrists and the province aren't seeing eye to eye

772

Pride Hamilton is facing police at human rights tribunal. The result will set a strong precedent

773

Two-dose summer? Many Canadians haven't had their first dose

774

UK is a 'crystal ball' of Delta variant spread. Is Canada learning from it?

775

The A-Z of AstraZeneca science, guidance and (mis)communications

776

A lack of representation in the great Canadian outdoors and how we change that

777

Kevin Donovan talks about his 'Death in a Small Town' series

778

The stress test, young buyers and the housing crisis

779

Nuclear option: why Ford used the Notwithstanding Clause and what it means

780

Everything you need to know about the second dose

781

Canada's Islamophobia problem is real. It's time we dealt with it

782

How Trump's big lies loom over the U.S. government

783

'Walk the walk.' Canada's Muslims want action, not words against rising Islamophobia

784

The reckoning and push for 'X University' at a Toronto school

785

Your one (or two?) dose summer guide to reopenings and travel

786

Buttergate, the dairy conspiracy theory, explained

787

How some restaurants opened and adapted during the pandemic and what's next

788

COVID case counts decline but a variant could be rising

789

How radar technology found the unmarked graves of 215 Indigenous children, renewing calls for more searches and truth

790

The unmarked graves of Indigenous children and Canada's shameful legacy of residential schools

791

Domestic violence victims' social housing applications highlight shadow pandemic during COVID-19

792

Bathrooms and porta-potties are pandemic essentials. Why don't they stay open?

793

Waxing poetic with Ontario's first Poet Laureate, Randell Adjei

794

The case for outdoor graduation ceremonies

795

How a COVID 'blindspot' keeps essential workplaces dangerous

796

Start spreading the news. New York is back

797

When is a COVID layoff actually constructive dismissal?

798

Why it's time to rethink outdoor COVID risk

799

Meet Vaccine Hunters, the volunteer team helping Canadians get their jabs

800

20 million years: Human potential lost to COVID can be measured in years

801

The truth is out there: How Canada tracks UFOs

802

Canada's one-time immigration program is a doorway to dreams but with a deadline

803

AstraZeneca and second thoughts on second doses

804

Why COVID will stay when the pandemic ends

805

Daycare testing: Making sure the kids are all right

806

The clear-as-mud messaging on vaccines and how to fix it

807

Bill C-10 is not coming for your cat videos. Or is it?

808

Alberta's COVID crisis, explained

809

Tracking the variants of concern in the third wave

810

How Toronto is trying to reshape mental health response for those in crisis

811

Prepping finances for a post-pandemic world, from emergency funds to spending savings

812

How we failed Peel Region during a pandemic

813

How 'hero pay' came, went and is pushing business to be more responsible

814

Doug Ford, paid sick days and what's next

815

Why many in Canada's First Nations still don't have clean drinking water

816

Our partner SCOREGolf speaks with Canadian Brooke Henderson after her LPGA LA Open win

817

COVID, cops and carding: Did the province put racialized people at risk?

818

Is scientific and medical advice leading Ontario's COVID response?

819

One on one with Dr. Homer Tien, the new head of Ontario's vaccine task force

820

ICUs on the brink: Can Ontario's hospitals cope during the third wave?

821

Waiting on vaccines: How Canada and the U.S.'s rollouts shape the 'third wave'

822

The systemic failures of Toronto Police and missing persons cases

823

Booking a shot isn't simple. The frustration and inequality of Ontario's vaccine rollout

824

How Ontario is (and isn't) vaccinating essential workers

825

How Amazon is remaking the modern workforce

826

Talking Transit: a 'Union Station to the east' and Metrolinx's power moves

827

Why Canada's new gun bill upsets both sides of the gun control debate

828

'It was a choice': Bruce Arthur on how Ontario is mismanaging COVID's third wave

829

School's out for COVID! School's out for... whenever

830

Behind the mask, a COVID story

831

Developing Highway 413: Who benefits?

832

The fight over sick pay in Ontario (Rebroadcast from March 12, 2021)

833

Opening Day: Blue Jay Jordan Romano, MLB.com's Alyson Footer and Kim's Convenience's Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (simulcast of Deep Left Field baseball podcast)

834

How the 'model minority' myth fuels anti-Asian racism and white supremacy

835

Explaining Canada's new medical assistance in dying law

836

Team Canada leader Marnie McBean on preparing for the Tokyo Olympics

837

Canada's vaccine rollout vs. the world's, and whether vaccinating Canadians by summer is a long shot

838

Vaccine politics and how shots in the arm will change our government

839

COVID-19 vaccines and children: Why they must wait

840

Talking with friends and family about vaccine hesitancy

841

The "best" vaccine? What efficacy numbers mean and why they can be misleading

842

Vaccine passports: Necessity or false sense of security? Freedom or inequality?

843

15 years worth of data shows most SIU charges against police get dropped. Why?

844

COVID long-haulers look for answers to medical problems, a year later

845

You asked, we answer: tackling taxes after a pandemic year

846

Could the 2020s be the Roaring Twenties again?

847

Will Ford change his tune? The fight over sick pay in Ontario

848

How Black health leaders took on COVID's impact on Black communities and vaccine hesitancy

849

Who's allowed into Canada to work right now (and who isn't)?

850

Vaccines, variants and the grey zone: Where Ontario is at now

851

COVID collapsed ground gained for Indigenous women in business

852

Could Ontario's Health Care Consent Act be suspended?

853

Airlines in panic mode as Canada clamps down on travel

854

There is a 'diversity deficit' in Canadian non-profits

855

Toronto's encampments and homeless crisis: a view from the ground

856

Feeling pandemic fatigue? Here's what's happening in our brains and how to fight it

857

Is this heaven? No, it's Dunedin. Toronto Star baseball columnists talk Blue Jays

858

The rise of eating disorders in pandemic isolation

859

Who's on (and who's allowed to be on) Clubhouse?

860

O'Toole pushes the Conservatives to the political middle. Can it work?

861

Kevin Donovan discusses the Sherman family's succession battle

862

Boko Haram survivors, Mellissa Fung and the complexity of shared trauma

863

How communities are fighting MZOs (Ministerial Zoning Orders)

864

Double masks, vaccines and variants: your COVID cheat sheet

865

Flight risk: Canada's new travel rules, explained

866

The noisy episode: It's a little bit louder now

867

The need for cultural inclusivity in long-term care

868

What counts as a workplace outbreak, anyway?

869

Why you miss (and need) casual friendships

870

Canada deported thousands during pandemic. Is it safe?

871

Inside Russia's protests, and Navalny vs. Putin

872

Lesson plan: Why Ontario is reopening schools

873

Google's fight with Australia and what it means to Canada

874

Ontario's eviction moratorium, explained

875

QAnon, Boogaloo, Proud Boys: What's next for the U.S. extreme right?

876

How four Black teachers created an anti-Black racism course to fight ignorance

877

Toronto has shrunk. Will it reinvent?

878

Are Canadians buying products allegedly made in forced labour camps?

879

The GTA's tow truck turf wars rage on

880

Biblio files: The most anticipated books to start 2021

881

LTC's continuous COVID tragedies: How did we get here?

882

Biden era begins: a pandemic, impeachment and deep divisions await

883

Waiting game: What's delaying the vaccine rollout?

884

A more contagious COVID variant explained

885

What's for dinner? Lab-grown meat and the ethics of food science

886

Misinformed by disinformation and a lack of media literacy

887

On Trump and truth: Daniel Dale in conversation with Edward Keenan

888

Lockdown confusion, compromises and contradictions

889

How sportsmanship brought two nations and the lacrosse world closer

890

Privacy vs. potential: The big questions around smart cities

891

What Ontario can do to save seniors and LTCs

892

An attempted coup against American democracy

893

Are stronger, longer lockdowns needed to save lives and the economy?

894

Why Toronto will reveal which workplaces have COVID outbreaks

895

New year, new career? A recruiter's tips for a pandemic job hunt

896

The not-too-distant future of travel (Rebroadcast)

897

Murder hornet hunters: How one beekeeping couple tracked and terminated a nest in BC (Rebroadcast)

898

Desmond Cole and the case for defunding police (Rebroadcast)

899

That's all folks, the singularity is near. Elon Musk's cyber pigs and brain computer tech (Rebroadcast)

900

What we can learn from the disabled community during COVID-19 (Rebroadcast)

901

Let it snow, TO! Remake the city and embrace winter (Rebroadcast)

902

COVID can take out restaurants but not great food

903

Looking out for good news

904

The case for hitting the 'reset' button on the internet and social media

905

Closing time: 2020's real estate and housing year-end wrap up

906

Searching for lost Indigenous remains: How the Star helped solve a 150 year old mystery

907

One on one with a COVID vaccine trial participant

908

Inside Amazon's hidden safety crisis: A Star investigation

909

Will Facebook need to unfriend Instagram and WhatsApp?

910

The COVID vaccine is here. How Ontario is rolling it out this year and in 2021

911

Analyzing Doug Ford's pandemic politics, then and now

912

How hackers, fraudsters and other criminals are prospering in the pandemic

913

Cher's got you, babe: 'World's loneliest elephant' is lonely no more

914

Why the second wave is worse for BIPOC, low-income people, again

915

COVID-19 vaccine 101: Health Canada's chief medical advisor sheds light

916

A boy and his dad investigate the curious case of the missing hockey cards

917

Inside the ER in the second wave

918

From being burned at the stake to digital abuse, it's not you. It's the patriarchy

919

Let it snow, TO! Remake the city and embrace winter

920

What's the hold up with COVID-19 rapid tests in Canada?

921

Out of office: The case to remake empty spaces

922

No coup for you! What's next for The Donald and the Republican Party

923

Are Jason Kenney's plans to fight COVID-19 in Alberta enough?

924

Generation Distress: Discussing the youth mental health crisis

925

Confused on COVID rules? You're not alone

926

Marcus Rashford and the rise of athletes refusing to 'shut up and dribble'

927

Will the bands play on? The future of live music is on life support

928

Cold comfort: Overcoming sadness during winter blues (and a pandemic)

929

Will the promise of national child-care help ease she-cession?

930

How COVID stranded new Canadian residents and stalled immigration

931

Restaurants remake themselves for the short and long-term

932

Digital inequality: How high-speed internet is dividing Canada

933

Is Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Canada's best shot?

934

Remember 'flatten the curve?' Surging numbers say 'not so much'

935

What Biden and Harris winning means for Canada and the world

936

Hindsight 2020 Rebroadcast: What if Trump won't leave?

937

How psychedelic drugs are being used to help mental health and the terminally ill

938

Two years after the Toronto van attack, the trial is set to begin

939

States of flux: What we know, what we don't know, as 'election night' continues

940

Fate of the nation: Bonus, overnight U.S. election episode from D.C.

941

Disinformation overload: How Canada spreads it and how to avoid it on election night

942

American History X-plained

943

Trump vs. Biden in the U.S election, viewed from Canada

944

Trump v$ Biden: What the election means for Canada's economy

945

How Biden and Trump differ on immigration and what it means for Canada

946

Will Trump's or Biden's environment policy blow winds of change into Canada?

947

Trump's strategic chaos and what it means for Canada on the global stage

948

What will the U.S. election change for the Canada-U.S. border?

949

How the Ford government is upending the local planning process

950

Haunted Hogtown: A historian walks us through the city's spookiest stories

951

Mr. Vice President, we are speaking: A conversation about 'manterruptions'

952

The need for TLC in long-term care, during the pandemic and beyond

953

The legal rights of Mi'kmaq fishers in Nova Scotia and the violence they face

954

Toronto vs. everybody...or at least the Ontario government

955

Finally, answers to the Christine Jessop cold case, but questions remain

956

"Oscar" season for books: An editor's guide for isolation reading

957

What you need to know about COVID-19 antibodies from someone who has them

958

Food for thought: How the pandemic changed how we buy, cook and eat (Rebroadcast)

959

Stick a fork in it, Thanksgiving is done: An epidemiologist's guide to the upcoming holidays

960

The big business of chronic pain treatment in Ontario: Inside the Star investigation of pain doctors and injections

961

What the rising positive COVID-19 test rates in Toronto mean

962

What smart, safe reopening of Canada's borders can look like

963

The Sherman Estate and The Supreme Court

964

Second wave: Sorry to burst your bubble but winter is coming

965

What does the TikTok saga mean to Canada?

966

Is Canada's mental health care system for everyone?

967

His office was under fire. Now, Ontario's Chief Coroner leads the pandemic response

968

How U of T's hiring process became an international controversy

969

Fortnite's 'Epic' fight with Apple explained

970

What if Trump won't leave?

971

What if Trump won't leave? (FiveThirtyEight extended cut for political junkies)

972

COVID-19 cases are spiking. Here's what the data means

973

Food for thought: How the pandemic changed how we buy, cook and eat

974

QAnon, the viral pro-Trump conspiracy theory, explained

975

The road to a vaccine

976

How COVID-19 has disproportionately affected women

977

The ABC's (algorithms, big tech and cops) of predictive policing and surveillance

978

Another day on the job: Racism and workplace PTSD

979

How did WE Charity get here?

980

Mortgaging the future: Why people are leaving the big city

981

The costs of the cashless economy

982

Your back-to-school questions, answered

983

Food couriers vs. their boss, an app: Hustled episode 1 (Labour Day rebroadcast)

984

A police officer shares her story of surviving workplace sexual harassment

985

That's all folks, the singularity is near. Elon Musk's cyber pigs and brain computer tech

986

The truth behind the racist message in skin "whitening" creams

987

The sound of cities, and what it says about your health and wealth

988

3.2% of Ontario's lawyers are Black. Why that's a problem for law and society

989

Who polices the police? SIU under microscope after Regis Korchinski-Paquet report

990

There's no place like (home) theatres: Will blockbusters like 'Tenet' bring people back to cinemas?

991

What Erin O'Toole as the new Conservative leader means

992

A military frontline worker discusses Ontario's LTC homes

993

What could a COVID-19 second wave look like? And how do we respond socially and economically?

994

Footage in. Jury out. Do body cams add accountability or deflect from defunding the police?

995

Hygiene Theatre: Scrub all you want, COVID-19 is still here

996

WHO says millennials drive COVID-19 but who says they're covidiots?

997

Freeland in, Morneau out as the Liberals face a crisis

998

Can Neil Young stop Trump from 'Rockin' in the Free World?'

999

Canada and China: It's complicated

1000

Public spaces: Thinking outside the blocks

1001

Schools are the best place for kids' mental health? Not so fast.

1002

How some Asian Canadians led the COVID-19 fight

1003

Back to school guide: Parent Edition

1004

Growing up in a shelter: Child homelessness on the rise

1005

Protests and employment: What speaking out means for your job

1006

Doomscrolling: Why our screen addictions turn to bad news binges

1007

Canada's Dreamers and their precarious future

1008

Black Children's Lives Matter: Why children's aid needs change (Rebroadcast)

1009

Doug Smith on the NBA's return and the Raptors' chances

1010

The ethics of a COVID-19 vaccine and who gets it first

1011

Eviction Jurisdiction: Why Bill 184 scares tenants

1012

The murder of Hamilton mobster Pat Musitano

1013

GTA gun crisis: The numbers and potential solutions

1014

Bylaw & Order: Do's and don'ts of Toronto's pandemic rules

1015

Black Children's Lives Matter: Why Ontario's child welfare system needs change

1016

Ontario Place: Yours to recover

1017

Open bars: What you need to know before heading out

1018

Dazed and confused? Here's a Schools Reopening 101

1019

Comedy's racial reckoning

1020

The mystery of COVID-19 long haulers' months-long symptoms

1021

Is Ontario ignoring workplace cancer?

1022

Trudeau versus ethics. Again

1023

What we can learn from the disabled community during COVID-19

1024

Canada's border with the Isolated States of America

1025

NHL hub cities, eh?

1026

Pizza Pizza Policegate

1027

Un-masking the mandatory mask policy

1028

The not-too-distant future of travel

1029

Should armed police be on the mental health frontline?

1030

Can an ad boycott change Facebook? It's complicated

1031

Squeaky wheels: Two opinions on bike lanes

1032

Breaking down the Theriault trial and Dafonte Miller's call for justice

1033

A lawyer breaks down the "extreme intoxication" defence

1034

"Yellow Peril": How the pandemic is fuelling anti-Chinese racism

1035

Are TikTokers and K-pop fans practising politics, or pranktivism?

1036

"Out of office" forever: A tech giant and a local newspaper discuss working from home

1037

Hustled, episode 6: What does the future hold for gig workers? (aka Golden State)

1038

Shop talk: How retail will look now and in the future

1039

BodyBreak's Hal Johnson on racism in media

1040

Does technology perpetuate racism?

1041

Name dropping Dundas Street

1042

Hustled, episode 5: Foodora couriers just won their union vote. Here's how it happened — and what it means (aka Groundhog Day)

1043

Lights! Camera! Physically distanced action!

1044

We the Champs: One year since Toronto Raptors' championship run

1045

Athletes, sports and a game-changing protest

1046

Desmond Cole and the case for defunding police

1047

Hustled, episode 4: COVID-19 raises risks for Foodora couriers (aka Pandemic)

1048

The death of Leonard Rodriques and the need for race-based data

1049

How does Canada save its economy?

1050

Trumpocalypse now

1051

Regis Korchinski-Paquet's death and anti-Black violence in policing

1052

Hustled, episode 3: Questions about the gig economy's promise of innovation and convenience (aka Oshidashi)

1053

The death of the buffet?

1054

Tow truck turf wars

1055

Real estate signs: Is now the time to buy?

1056

The case for women's police stations in Canada

1057

Hustled, episode 2: Undercover as a Foodora courier, the daily grind exposes gaps in protection for gig workers (aka Delivery Hero)

1058

Redefining terrorism: CSIS changes how it talks about extremist threats, including "incel" violence

1059

School's out...forever?

1060

"We have to learn to live with COVID-19"

1061

Introducing Hustled, episode 1: How Foodora couriers took on the gig economy (aka David vs. Goliath)

1062

A very 2020 guide to heading to the cottage (or not)

1063

Repatriating thousands of Canadians stuck abroad

1064

Don't call it a comeback: The pandemic and business of sports

1065

A mental health "echo pandemic" in the aftermath of COVID-19?

1066

Heading back to work? Know your rights

1067

Murder hornet hunters: How one beekeeping couple tracked and terminated a nest in BC

1068

Sidewalk Labs' walk on the Quayside is over

1069

Anti-vaxxers and the question of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations

1070

What happened with long-term care homes and what comes next?

1071

Immunity passports and contact tracing, explained

1072

Domestic violence, isolation and what to do if you or someone you know is at risk

1073

May days

1074

The gig is up: Foodora's exit, explained

1075

Can your pets get COVID-19?

1076

What it's like in—and once you're out of—jail during COVID-19

1077

How COVID-19 could remake transit and transportation networks

1078

Why you shouldn't avoid the ER

1079

Do we have the data we need to reopen Canada?

1080

23 million people, 6 deaths: How Taiwan tackled the COVID-19 crisis

1081

Migrant workers keep you fed. Do they need help?

1082

Untouchable: How COVID-19 hit organized crime

1083

Fraught properties: COVID-19 and the real estate market

1084

Indigenous communities, systemic racism and COVID-19

1085

Pandemic politics: A different Doug Ford

1086

All about CERB (Canadian Emergency Relief Benefits)

1087

What do companies owe essential workers before and after COVID-19?

1088

Q&A with Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto's public health guardian

1089

Viral inequality: Coronavirus might be an equalizer but society is not

1090

Is it ok to go outside for a walk?

1091

Why some white supremacists are celebrating the pandemic

1092

Young, healthy Star reporter says getting COVID-19 so much worse than expected

1093

ER doctor speaks from the frontline of COVID-19 and about what we can do to help

1094

Are you the perfect quarantine parent? (No and there's no need to be)

1095

Crime, COVID-19 and how bad actors will take advantage of this pandemic

1096

A (now isolated) scientist who isolated the COVID-19 virus explains the fight for a vaccine

1097

Soccer, the NBA, finally the Olympics. How pro sports lost to COVID-19 but warned the world

1098

Not thinking straight? What happens to our minds during a pandemic

1099

Millennials, Gen Xers, and women facing increased pressure taking care of kids and parents during COVID-19

1100

Why infectious disease experts say the worst of the curve is yet to come

1101

The pandemic of loneliness

1102

Introducing This Matters, from the Toronto Star