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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.

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

20 mins; April 28, 2023

What you need to know about the PSAC strike

21 mins; April 27, 2023

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

16 mins; April 26, 2023

Star columnists discuss the ‘Great Mayoral Battle Royale’

37 mins; April 25, 2023

A Canadian missing in Mexico and the hunt for justice

20 mins; April 24, 2023

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

31 mins; April 21, 2023

Ontario Science Centre Place: Yours to Discover!

20 mins; April 20, 2023

Ontario’s plan to change high school skilled trades education

20 mins; April 19, 2023

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on getting to the moon

22 mins; April 18, 2023

What the Pentagon leak means for Canada

20 mins; April 17, 2023

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

23 mins; April 14, 2023

Mayoral candidates could make Ontario Place a key election issue

21 mins; April 13, 2023

How can we address the family doctor shortage in Canada?

15 mins; April 12, 2023

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

14 mins; April 11, 2023

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

50 mins; April 10, 2023

The mystery of why CFCs are rising

13 mins; April 06, 2023

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

19 mins; April 05, 2023

Closing Roxham Road: what migrants face at the border

25 mins; April 04, 2023

Mass Casualty Commission inquiry puts RCMP in the hot seat

20 mins; April 03, 2023

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

23 mins; March 31, 2023

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

72 hours 41 mins; March 30, 2023

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

23 mins; March 29, 2023

Scam phone calls: fraud, technology and other hang ups

17 mins; March 28, 2023

The City of Peel vs. a Mississauga ‘Mexit’

23 mins; March 27, 2023

Ontario’s record-breaking budget explained

22 mins; March 24, 2023

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

22 mins; March 23, 2023

Is Canada failing older women?

18 mins; March 22, 2023

How the Gardiner East debate may drive votes for mayor

16 mins; March 21, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed. What are the Canadian implications?

16 mins; March 20, 2023

How ‘southbounders’ are fuelling cross-border politics

15 mins; March 17, 2023

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

25 mins; March 16, 2023

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

21 mins; March 15, 2023

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

22 mins; March 14, 2023

Why Jagmeet Singh still wants to prop up the Liberals

55 mins; March 13, 2023

Why engineers want to retool a mysterious ring ceremony

18 mins; March 10, 2023

How the idea of 15-minute cities became controversial

24 mins; March 09, 2023

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

17 mins; March 08, 2023

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

21 mins; March 07, 2023

Private care in a public hospital

23 mins; March 06, 2023

Who is Canada’s most wanted person?

18 mins; March 03, 2023

Canadian elections and foreign influence: What we know so far

25 mins; March 02, 2023

Probe calls for workplace culture change at Trillium Health Partners

18 mins; March 01, 2023

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

20 mins; February 28, 2023

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

17 mins; February 27, 2023

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

22 mins; February 24, 2023

Netflix cracks down on password sharing

21 mins; February 23, 2023

Fight for gender equality heats up at Canada Soccer

24 mins; February 22, 2023

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

19 mins; February 21, 2023

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

27 mins; February 17, 2023

The devastating earthquake in Turkey and its political aftershocks

20 mins; February 16, 2023

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

21 mins; February 15, 2023

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

22 mins; February 14, 2023

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

24 mins; February 13, 2023

CaféTO lives! The new deal for the patio program

18 mins; February 10, 2023

The $46.2 billion federal prescription for the health care crisis

20 mins; February 09, 2023

Ontario court rules encampment can stay in precedent-setting decision

23 mins; February 08, 2023

What Amira Elghawaby’s apology says about Islamophobia

21 mins; February 07, 2023

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

41 mins; February 06, 2023

Canada’s new alcohol guidelines have a spirited response

20 mins; February 03, 2023

Why Toronto’s homeless are sleeping in hospital ERs

20 mins; February 02, 2023

Can a vending machine save lives?

20 mins; February 01, 2023

Why Scarborough is upset about potential electoral redistricting

17 mins; January 31, 2023

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

19 mins; January 30, 2023

Violent TTC incidents leave riders questioning safety of transit system

19 mins; January 27, 2023

Looking at the ‘Freedom Convoy’ a year after the occupation

23 mins; January 26, 2023

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

19 mins; January 25, 2023

Sewage flowed into waters around Hamilton for years. Why?

17 mins; January 24, 2023

How food inflation is hitting food banks as demand grows

19 mins; January 23, 2023

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

25 mins; January 20, 2023

Why Canada still needs to work on recognizing skills of immigrants

17 mins; January 19, 2023

How Ontario hospitals treated the surge in sick kids

17 mins; January 18, 2023

Ontario’s plan to use private clinics for surgeries explained

21 mins; January 17, 2023

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

20 mins; January 16, 2023

How to make sense of Toronto’s 2023 budget

20 mins; January 13, 2023

Air travel and passenger rights: What you need to know

20 mins; January 12, 2023

Does the RCMP need a revamp?

20 mins; January 11, 2023

TTC crimes, cops and service cuts

19 mins; January 10, 2023

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

18 mins; January 09, 2023

Why there are more coyotes in urban areas

19 mins; January 06, 2023

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

22 mins; January 05, 2023

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

17 mins; January 04, 2023

A spirited take on Dry January (Rebroadcast)

17 mins; January 03, 2023

A tribute to John Honderich, newspaperman (Rebroadcast)

13 mins; December 30, 2022

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

27 mins; December 29, 2022

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

24 mins; December 28, 2022

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

22 mins; December 27, 2022

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

17 mins; December 23, 2022

Highway Development: Documents show Bradford Bypass could double in size

18 mins; December 22, 2022

Will COP15 help save the world’s biodiversity?

18 mins; December 21, 2022

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

22 mins; December 20, 2022

Ontario Place: Yours to discover spa treatments?

23 mins; December 19, 2022

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

21 mins; December 16, 2022

Are pension plans funding human-rights abuses in China?

14 mins; December 15, 2022

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

18 mins; December 14, 2022

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

20 mins; December 13, 2022

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

18 mins; December 12, 2022

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

22 mins; December 09, 2022

How Ford’s housing plan may mean property tax hikes

25 mins; December 08, 2022

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

22 mins; December 07, 2022

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

18 mins; December 06, 2022

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