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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.

Olympian Kingpin: The Hunt for Ryan Wedding

21 mins; January 19, 2026

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

26 mins; December 05, 2025

Why so many skilled immigrants are leaving Canada

18 mins; December 03, 2025

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

28 mins; November 28, 2025

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

19 mins; November 25, 2025

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

29 mins; November 21, 2025

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

24 mins; November 18, 2025

Dispatches from Texas: Trump's America up close

33 mins; November 14, 2025

Can One Great Idea fix Toronto?

30 mins; November 11, 2025

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

29 mins; November 07, 2025

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

26 mins; November 04, 2025

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

23 mins; October 31, 2025

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

24 mins; October 28, 2025

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

34 mins; October 24, 2025

Listen: Bill C-3 and who qualifies as Canadian

22 mins; October 21, 2025

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

20 mins; October 17, 2025

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

25 mins; October 14, 2025

The Worst Commute

20 mins; October 10, 2025

Inside Canada's biggest dark web drug bust

20 mins; October 07, 2025

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

20 mins; October 03, 2025

Truth and Reconciliation and the reality of Indigenous homelessness

27 mins; September 30, 2025

Has Big Tech rewired Gen Z?

31 mins; September 26, 2025

Why Toronto's garbage problem stinks for everyone

23 mins; September 23, 2025

Serial vandalism of Toronto speed cameras are about something bigger

26 mins; September 19, 2025

Why is Canada changing its immigration policy?

25 mins; September 16, 2025

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

31 mins; September 14, 2025

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

23 mins; September 09, 2025

Talking TIFF at 50 with those in the know

28 mins; September 05, 2025

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

16 mins; August 29, 2025

Elbows in? Why Carney pulled back on tariffs with Trump

24 mins; August 26, 2025

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

15 mins; August 22, 2025

Young, qualified and still jobless in Toronto

20 mins; August 19, 2025

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

19 mins; August 15, 2025

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

16 mins; August 12, 2025

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

22 mins; August 08, 2025

Inside the Premiers summit as Trump's tariff deadline looms

26 mins; July 29, 2025

Reflecting on the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial

23 mins; July 25, 2025

What ER doctors would never let their kids do

28 mins; July 20, 2025

Disturbing errors at Ontario fertility clinics causing concern

24 mins; July 11, 2025

How Ontario's cellphone ban played in classrooms and politics

22 mins; July 04, 2025

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

16 mins; June 27, 2025

Are wildfires moving faster than Ontario can fight them?

27 mins; June 20, 2025

This economic moment, according to the Bank of Canada

26 mins; June 12, 2025

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

23 mins; June 10, 2025

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

3 mins; May 28, 2025

Sticker shock in the restaurant seats

23 mins; May 20, 2025

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

19 mins; May 16, 2025

What Mark Carney’s new cabinet reveals about his leadership

19 mins; May 14, 2025

Inside Mark Carney's high stakes visit to Washington

14 mins; May 07, 2025

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

21 mins; May 05, 2025

The growing price of keeping Toronto festivals safe

16 mins; May 02, 2025

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

20 mins; April 30, 2025

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

19 mins; April 25, 2025

How not to get digitally duped this election

17 mins; April 21, 2025

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

20 mins; April 17, 2025

A screening room of our own

29 mins; April 15, 2025

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

29 mins; April 11, 2025

Is Canada's immigration dream broken?

22 mins; April 07, 2025

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

29 mins; April 04, 2025

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

19 mins; April 02, 2025

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

21 mins; March 31, 2025

Grandpa, what did you do in the trade war?

37 mins; March 28, 2025

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

32 mins; March 27, 2025

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

19 mins; March 25, 2025

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

26 mins; March 21, 2025

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

38 mins; March 20, 2025

“These guys just looked at the crowd and opened fire”

24 mins; March 14, 2025

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

6 mins; March 13, 2025

A new refuge for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Toronto

17 mins; March 12, 2025

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

27 mins; March 10, 2025

What Trump wants in waging a trade war against us

46 mins; March 05, 2025

Ford wins! But did everyone kind of lose?

36 mins; February 28, 2025

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

19 mins; February 25, 2025

Mike Schreiner - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

56 mins; February 24, 2025

Marit Stiles - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

51 mins; February 24, 2025

Bonnie Crombie - Ontario Leaders at TMU Democracy Forum

57 mins; February 24, 2025

The Ontario election: Healthcare on life-support

21 mins; February 21, 2025

Debating over the long weekend

36 mins; February 19, 2025

Ontario’s campaign goes south

33 mins; February 13, 2025

What’s at stake for Toronto in the provincial election

27 mins; February 10, 2025

Trump week on the Ontario campaign trail

33 mins; February 07, 2025

Hitting the snowy campaign trail

25 mins; January 31, 2025

Here's why Doug Ford might call a snap election

8 mins; January 23, 2025

The President strikes back

21 mins; January 21, 2025

Reflecting on Toronto, for better or worse

30 mins; January 17, 2025

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

47 mins; January 10, 2025

Olivia Chow on 2024 and the year ahead

57 mins; December 19, 2024

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

33 mins; December 18, 2024

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

34 mins; December 17, 2024

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

34 mins; December 16, 2024

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

33 mins; December 14, 2024

Fire is both the cause and effect of climate change

32 mins; December 10, 2024

Fighting climate change collectively and individually

31 mins; December 09, 2024

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

36 mins; November 15, 2024

Trump returns, stronger than ever

34 mins; November 06, 2024

Trump’s triumphant convention (and tedious speech)

49 mins; July 19, 2024

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

23 mins; July 18, 2024

After the Trump assassination attempt

32 mins; July 17, 2024

Toronto (sports) the bad: The conclusion

78 hours 26 mins; July 11, 2024

The Shanaplan in Shambles

87 hours 45 mins; July 10, 2024

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