
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
Young, qualified and still jobless in Toronto (19.08.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 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
- How Ontario's cellphone ban played in classrooms and politics 04.07.2025
- Who's to blame when Toronto pools close during a heatwave? 27.06.2025
- Are wildfires moving faster than Ontario can fight them? 20.06.2025
- This economic moment, according to the Bank of Canada 12.06.2025
- What Carney's big border bill could mean for refugees and civil liberties 10.06.2025
- Introducing the podcast, Arachnid: Hunting the Web's Darkest Secrets 28.05.2025
- Sticker shock in the restaurant seats 20.05.2025
- Breaking down Ontario's big spend budget as Trump's tariffs loom large 16.05.2025
- What Mark Carney’s new cabinet reveals about his leadership 14.05.2025
- Inside Mark Carney's high stakes visit to Washington 07.05.2025
- How the end of a pilot program for migrant food workers might affect your meals 05.05.2025
- The growing price of keeping Toronto festivals safe 02.05.2025
- New report reveals how Ontario schools restrain and isolate students with disabilities 30.04.2025