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Desmond Cole and the case for defunding police (Rebroadcast)
30 mins; December 30, 2020
That’s all folks, the singularity is near. Elon Musk’s cyber pigs and brain computer tech (Rebroadcast)
21 mins; December 29, 2020
What we can learn from the disabled community during COVID-19 (Rebroadcast)
22 mins; December 28, 2020
Let it snow, TO! Remake the city and embrace winter (Rebroadcast)
17 mins; December 25, 2020
COVID can take out restaurants but not great food
21 mins; December 24, 2020
Looking out for good news
13 mins; December 23, 2020
The case for hitting the 'reset' button on the internet and social media
28 mins; December 22, 2020
Closing time: 2020's real estate and housing year-end wrap up
19 mins; December 21, 2020
Searching for lost Indigenous remains: How the Star helped solve a 150 year old mystery
20 mins; December 18, 2020
One on one with a COVID vaccine trial participant
21 mins; December 17, 2020
Inside Amazon’s hidden safety crisis: A Star investigation
22 mins; December 16, 2020
Will Facebook need to unfriend Instagram and WhatsApp?
19 mins; December 15, 2020
The COVID vaccine is here. How Ontario is rolling it out this year and in 2021
18 mins; December 14, 2020
Analyzing Doug Ford’s pandemic politics, then and now
21 mins; December 11, 2020
How hackers, fraudsters and other criminals are prospering in the pandemic
25 mins; December 10, 2020
Cher’s got you, babe: ‘World’s loneliest elephant’ is lonely no more
20 mins; December 09, 2020
Why the second wave is worse for BIPOC, low-income people, again
18 mins; December 08, 2020
COVID-19 vaccine 101: Health Canada’s chief medical advisor sheds light
23 mins; December 07, 2020
A boy and his dad investigate the curious case of the missing hockey cards
18 mins; December 04, 2020
Inside the ER in the second wave
20 mins; December 03, 2020
From being burned at the stake to digital abuse, it’s not you. It’s the patriarchy
20 mins; December 02, 2020
Let it snow, TO! Remake the city and embrace winter
17 mins; December 01, 2020
What’s the hold up with COVID-19 rapid tests in Canada?
19 mins; November 30, 2020
Out of office: The case to remake empty spaces
16 mins; November 27, 2020
No coup for you! What’s next for The Donald and the Republican Party
22 mins; November 26, 2020
Are Jason Kenney’s plans to fight COVID-19 in Alberta enough?
18 mins; November 25, 2020
Generation Distress: Discussing the youth mental health crisis
18 mins; November 24, 2020
Confused on COVID rules? You’re not alone
19 mins; November 23, 2020
Marcus Rashford and the rise of athletes refusing to ‘shut up and dribble’
23 mins; November 20, 2020
Will the bands play on? The future of live music is on life support
20 mins; November 19, 2020
Cold comfort: Overcoming sadness during winter blues (and a pandemic)
18 mins; November 18, 2020
Will the promise of national child-care help ease she-cession?
13 mins; November 17, 2020
How COVID stranded new Canadian residents and stalled immigration
20 mins; November 16, 2020
Restaurants remake themselves for the short and long-term
18 mins; November 13, 2020
Digital inequality: How high-speed internet is dividing Canada
15 mins; November 12, 2020
Is Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Canada’s best shot?
19 mins; November 11, 2020
Remember ‘flatten the curve?’ Surging numbers say ‘not so much’
20 mins; November 10, 2020
What Biden and Harris winning means for Canada and the world
20 mins; November 09, 2020
Hindsight 2020 Rebroadcast: What if Trump won't leave?
39 mins; November 07, 2020
How psychedelic drugs are being used to help mental health and the terminally ill
22 mins; November 06, 2020
Two years after the Toronto van attack, the trial is set to begin
24 mins; November 05, 2020
States of flux: What we know, what we don’t know, as 'election night' continues
18 mins; November 04, 2020
Fate of the nation: Bonus, overnight U.S. election episode from D.C.
10 mins; November 04, 2020
Disinformation overload: How Canada spreads it and how to avoid it on election night
24 mins; November 03, 2020
American History X-plained
25 mins; November 02, 2020
Trump vs. Biden in the U.S election, viewed from Canada
20 mins; November 01, 2020
Trump v$ Biden: What the election means for Canada’s economy
25 mins; November 01, 2020
How Biden and Trump differ on immigration and what it means for Canada
23 mins; November 01, 2020
Will Trump's or Biden's environment policy blow winds of change into Canada?
20 mins; November 01, 2020
Trump’s strategic chaos and what it means for Canada on the global stage
19 mins; November 01, 2020
What will the U.S. election change for the Canada-U.S. border?
24 mins; November 01, 2020
How the Ford government is upending the local planning process
20 mins; October 30, 2020
Haunted Hogtown: A historian walks us through the city’s spookiest stories
20 mins; October 29, 2020
Mr. Vice President, we are speaking: A conversation about ‘manterruptions’
24 mins; October 28, 2020
The need for TLC in long-term care, during the pandemic and beyond
19 mins; October 27, 2020
The legal rights of Mi’kmaq fishers in Nova Scotia and the violence they face
25 mins; October 22, 2020
Toronto vs. everybody...or at least the Ontario government
24 mins; October 19, 2020
Finally, answers to the Christine Jessop cold case, but questions remain
19 mins; October 16, 2020
“Oscar” season for books: An editor’s guide for isolation reading
18 mins; October 15, 2020
What you need to know about COVID-19 antibodies from someone who has them
18 mins; October 14, 2020
Food for thought: How the pandemic changed how we buy, cook and eat (Rebroadcast)
20 mins; October 12, 2020
Stick a fork in it, Thanksgiving is done: An epidemiologist’s guide to the upcoming holidays
22 mins; October 09, 2020
The big business of chronic pain treatment in Ontario: Inside the Star investigation of pain doctors and injections
26 mins; October 08, 2020
What the rising positive COVID-19 test rates in Toronto mean
20 mins; October 07, 2020
What smart, safe reopening of Canada’s borders can look like
26 mins; October 06, 2020
The Sherman Estate and The Supreme Court
21 mins; October 05, 2020
Second wave: Sorry to burst your bubble but winter is coming
28 mins; October 02, 2020
What does the TikTok saga mean to Canada?
17 mins; October 01, 2020
Is Canada’s mental health care system for everyone?
21 mins; September 30, 2020
His office was under fire. Now, Ontario's Chief Coroner leads the pandemic response
17 mins; September 29, 2020
How U of T’s hiring process became an international controversy
20 mins; September 28, 2020
Fortnite’s ‘Epic’ fight with Apple explained
20 mins; September 25, 2020
What if Trump won’t leave?
31 mins; September 24, 2020
What if Trump won’t leave? (FiveThirtyEight extended cut for political junkies)
40 mins; September 24, 2020
COVID-19 cases are spiking. Here’s what the data means
22 mins; September 22, 2020
Food for thought: How the pandemic changed how we buy, cook and eat
20 mins; September 21, 2020
QAnon, the viral pro-Trump conspiracy theory, explained
24 mins; September 18, 2020
The road to a vaccine
24 mins; September 17, 2020
How COVID-19 has disproportionately affected women
15 mins; September 16, 2020
The ABC's (algorithms, big tech and cops) of predictive policing and surveillance
23 mins; September 15, 2020
Another day on the job: Racism and workplace PTSD
19 mins; September 14, 2020
How did WE Charity get here?
30 mins; September 11, 2020
Mortgaging the future: Why people are leaving the big city
23 mins; September 10, 2020
The costs of the cashless economy
13 mins; September 09, 2020
Your back-to-school questions, answered
25 mins; September 08, 2020
Food couriers vs. their boss, an app: Hustled episode 1 (Labour Day rebroadcast)
31 mins; September 07, 2020
A police officer shares her story of surviving workplace sexual harassment
24 mins; September 04, 2020
That’s all folks, the singularity is near. Elon Musk’s cyber pigs and brain computer tech
20 mins; September 03, 2020
The truth behind the racist message in skin “whitening” creams
20 mins; September 02, 2020
The sound of cities, and what it says about your health and wealth
29 mins; September 01, 2020
3.2% of Ontario’s lawyers are Black. Why that’s a problem for law and society
20 mins; August 31, 2020
Who polices the police? SIU under microscope after Regis Korchinski-Paquet report
19 mins; August 28, 2020
There’s no place like (home) theatres: Will blockbusters like ‘Tenet’ bring people back to cinemas?
19 mins; August 27, 2020
What Erin O’Toole as the new Conservative leader means
22 mins; August 26, 2020
A military frontline worker discusses Ontario’s LTC homes
28 mins; August 25, 2020
What could a COVID-19 second wave look like? And how do we respond socially and economically?
24 mins; August 24, 2020
Footage in. Jury out. Do body cams add accountability or deflect from defunding the police?
20 mins; August 21, 2020
Hygiene Theatre: Scrub all you want, COVID-19 is still here
24 mins; August 20, 2020
WHO says millennials drive COVID-19 but who says they’re covidiots?
19 mins; August 19, 2020
Freeland in, Morneau out as the Liberals face a crisis
23 mins; August 18, 2020
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