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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.

Rebuild in Raptorland

58 mins; July 09, 2024

The Blue Jays' decade of playing it safe

61 hours 23 mins; July 08, 2024

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

29 mins; July 08, 2024

In Toronto, “love wins” (but traffic still sucks)

69 hours 12 mins; June 28, 2024

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

27 mins; June 27, 2024

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

21 mins; June 26, 2024

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

21 mins; June 21, 2024

What Toronto lost in the St. Anne's fire

22 mins; June 18, 2024

What you learn about conspiracy theories by starting one

26 mins; June 08, 2024

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

18 mins; June 05, 2024

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

31 mins; May 27, 2024

The city-changing magic of wandering around

27 mins; May 21, 2024

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

36 mins; May 16, 2024

PWHL is creating superstars and superfans

26 mins; May 07, 2024

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

18 mins; May 02, 2024

After the verdict, Umar Zameer reflects

29 mins; April 26, 2024

A Q&A with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

41 mins; April 23, 2024

Three poets discuss Taylor Swift’s lyrics as poetry

64 hours 35 mins; April 22, 2024

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

26 mins; April 19, 2024

Author Salman Rushdie on his attack, writing ‘Knife’ and fear

37 mins; April 18, 2024

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

23 mins; April 16, 2024

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

50 mins; April 11, 2024

The vacant-home tax and other disasters

37 mins; April 05, 2024

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

18 mins; April 04, 2024

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

27 mins; April 03, 2024

Why are people talking about running out of maple syrup?

22 mins; April 01, 2024

Taking in the sheer scale of the Baltimore bridge collapse

18 mins; March 28, 2024

The biggest mayoral election you might not have heard of

36 mins; March 27, 2024

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

21 mins; March 26, 2024

Our last stop: Specialty EVs for the mining industry

24 mins; March 23, 2024

City council gets ready for an expensive FIFA party

31 mins; March 22, 2024

The last big-swinging prime minister

29 mins; March 21, 2024

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

22 mins; March 16, 2024

Is Canada heading toward a measles outbreak?

16 mins; March 14, 2024

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

22 mins; March 11, 2024

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

27 mins; March 09, 2024

Women’s sports and other reasons for hope

41 mins; March 08, 2024

Women's bodies in the public eye

31 mins; March 06, 2024

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

26 mins; March 02, 2024

What do Canadians want for their health care?

19 mins; March 01, 2024

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

26 mins; February 29, 2024

The first cobalt refinery in North America is in Canada

24 mins; February 24, 2024

‘Law & Order’ and porn and politics

49 mins; February 23, 2024

Facing our smartphone addiction

27 mins; February 21, 2024

Can EV batteries be made with Canadian minerals?

19 mins; February 17, 2024

What we saw on Toronto budget day

34 mins; February 16, 2024

Taylor Swift and the dystopian world of AI deepfakes

29 mins; February 15, 2024

Lies, damn lies and statistics about police budgets

36 mins; February 14, 2024

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

40 mins; February 12, 2024

One year after John Tory

35 mins; February 09, 2024

Is Canada prepared for an impending dementia epidemic?

21 mins; February 08, 2024

Why your Toronto neighbourhood needs to change

42 mins; February 07, 2024

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

29 mins; February 06, 2024

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

41 mins; February 02, 2024

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

20 mins; January 27, 2024

Budgets, toboggans and other ups and downs

39 mins; January 26, 2024

Canada’s new restrictions on international students: An explainer

17 mins; January 25, 2024

More Greenbelt scandal, but no MPP pay hike

33 mins; January 24, 2024

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

26 mins; January 20, 2024

Another season of the Trump show roars to life in 2024

31 mins; January 18, 2024

The mysterious murder of a prominent Canadian

20 mins; January 17, 2024

A long walk around a big planet

34 mins; January 16, 2024

How Chow should approach taxes and hate crimes

38 mins; January 12, 2024

Nylander stays at “home”

35 mins; January 11, 2024

Rooting for a new year, new hockey team

57 mins; January 05, 2024

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

24 mins; December 29, 2023

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

43 mins; December 28, 2023

The great Santa conspiracy

11 mins; December 24, 2023

Mayor Olivia Chow on a very unexpected year

54 mins; December 22, 2023

A year of surprises in Toronto

35 mins; December 21, 2023

20 years of 'Spacing' out in Toronto

40 mins; December 20, 2023

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

22 mins; December 14, 2023

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

23 mins; December 13, 2023

Where did COVID-19 come from?

23 mins; December 12, 2023

Dissolving the Peel Region dissolution and protecting the library

36 mins; December 08, 2023

Aging alone: How Canada is failing older adults

23 mins; December 07, 2023

Introducing a new season of the Millennial Money podcast

1 min; December 06, 2023

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

20 mins; December 05, 2023

The new deal (in Toronto and Scarborough Southwest)

41 mins; December 01, 2023

Toronto sports history by the numbers

48 mins; November 30, 2023

Why diaspora communities are losing their first language

19 mins; November 29, 2023

Bathroom kings and tricky things in Toronto this week

45 mins; November 24, 2023

Why many international students skip meals to survive in Canada

23 mins; November 23, 2023

A white-nationalist murderer, made in Canada

27 mins; November 22, 2023

Jog along with a world-record holder

22 mins; November 21, 2023

Labour trafficking victims working in plain sight

21 mins; November 18, 2023

A discussion on Canada’s foreign farm workers’ rights

15 mins; November 17, 2023

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

37 mins; November 16, 2023

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

23 mins; November 14, 2023

New prescribing powers for Ontario’s nurses

19 mins; November 13, 2023

Ford’s fast-track MZOs sped up nothing

19 mins; November 09, 2023

Why women’s basketball isn’t coming to Toronto

27 mins; November 08, 2023

Ontario schools are failing kids with ADHD

20 mins; November 06, 2023

Kids and violence: catching up with ‘the boy who lived’

22 mins; November 03, 2023

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

18 mins; November 02, 2023

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

20 mins; November 01, 2023

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

21 mins; October 31, 2023

Thousands of children are waiting for surgery. Some for years

20 mins; October 30, 2023

How we know the kids aren’t all right

30 mins; October 26, 2023

100 days of Olivia Chow

37 mins; October 25, 2023

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