This Matters
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.
Latest Episode
Inside Canada's biggest dark web drug bust (07.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 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 03.10.2025
- Truth and Reconciliation and the reality of Indigenous homelessness 30.09.2025
- Has Big Tech rewired Gen Z? 26.09.2025
- Why Toronto's garbage problem stinks for everyone 23.09.2025
- Serial vandalism of Toronto speed cameras are about something bigger 19.09.2025
- Why is Canada changing its immigration policy? 16.09.2025
- The cycle of Toronto's gun violence that statistics don't show 14.09.2025
- Are Ontario's new stricter background checks hurting kids in care? 09.09.2025
- Talking TIFF at 50 with those in the know 05.09.2025
- Are financial landlords reshaping Toronto's rental market and driving evictions? 30.08.2025
- Elbows in? Why Carney pulled back on tariffs with Trump 27.08.2025
- Record enrolment, shrinking budgets. Why the math doesn't add up for Ontario universities 22.08.2025
- Young, qualified and still jobless in Toronto 19.08.2025
- Long COVID, the pandemic that never ended for millions of Canadians 15.08.2025
- Could Doug Ford's 401 tunnel fix gridlock or is it just tunnel vision? 12.08.2025
- What this family doctor wants you to know about Ontario's primary care crisis 08.08.2025
- Inside the Premiers summit as Trump's tariff deadline looms 29.07.2025
- Reflecting on the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial 25.07.2025
- What ER doctors would never let their kids do 20.07.2025
- Disturbing errors at Ontario fertility clinics causing concern 11.07.2025
