Olympian Kingpin: The Hunt for Ryan Wedding
Guest : Calvi Leon , Staff Reporter In 2002, Ryan Wedding represented Canada an Olympic snowboarder. Today, the FBI describes him as a moder...
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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 ans...
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20 of 1,105 episodesA shadowy crypto-to-cash system is surging in Canada. Star reporters went undercover to reveal how it works
Guests: Toronto Star journalists Sheila Wang and Emma McIntosh A major joint investigation involving the Toronto Star, CBC/Radio-Canada, La...
Why so many skilled immigrants are leaving Canada
Guest: Ghada Alsharif , immigration and work reporter Canada's immigration system is often praised for attracting top global talent, but a n...
Star investigations followed a Facebook drug ad and revealed how illegal drugs are being sold online in Canada
Guests: Toronto Star journalists Ben Mussett and Omar Mosleh A Toronto Star investigation uncovered a troubling loophole inside Meta's adver...
The doctor is in, but over a million Ontarians are too far away
Guest: Megan Ogilvie , Toronto Star health reporter A new study has found that over a million Ontarians — that's more than one in ten people...
If Canada went to war, could our hospitals cope? A simulation in Toronto revealed alarming gaps
Guest: Bruce Arthur, Toronto Star columnist In a high-stakes war games exercise held in Toronto, top military officials, health-care leaders...
Behind the scenes of a narrow budget win for Mark Carney's Liberal government
Guest : Tonda MacCharles, Ottawa bureau chief Canada avoided a snap election Monday night as the Liberal government pushed its federal budge...
Dispatches from Texas: Trump's America up close
Guest : Richard Warnica, Senior Opinion Writer In this episode, we explore Richard's recent visit to Texas as a vivid microcosm of Trump's c...
Can One Great Idea fix Toronto?
Guest: Ed Keenan, Toronto Star city columnist Toronto has always been a contradiction; a city people fall in love with and get fed up with,...
Listen: Exploring the human behind the hero, Canadian icon Terry Fox
Guests: Sean Menard, Toronto-based filmmaker and director of 'Run Terry Run' and Kirsten Fox, a director at the Terry Fox Foundation and Ter...
Baseball is a game of failure. The Blue Jays and a nation of fans were winners.
Guest: Bruce Arthur , Columnist The Jays didn't win the world series on Saturday, after an extremely close loss to the LA Dodgers in the 11t...
What's the best neighbourhood for Halloween in Toronto? We reveal which parts of the city are spooktacular and which areas you should ghost
GUEST: Katie Daubs , Toronto Star reporter With Halloween landing on the same night as Game 6 of the World Series — and the Jays in it — Tor...
How Ontario employers are getting away with $200 million in unpaid wages
Guest: Ghada Alsharif, Toronto Star immigration & work reporter A new report has revealed that workers in Ontario are being shortchanged by...
The Toronto Blue Jays at the World Series, an episode for bandwagoners and die hards
Guest : Mike Wilner , baseball columnist & host of Deep Left Field baseball podcast For the first time in 32 years, the Blue Jays have a sho...
Listen: Bill C-3 and who qualifies as Canadian
Guest: Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star immigration reporter A federal bill that could restore citizenship to people born abroad is drawing rene...
How E-bikes and scooters took over Toronto's streets
Guest: Ben Cohen , Toronto Star City Hall reporter Electric scooters weaving through sidewalks, e-bikes flying through intersections, and mo...
10 years ago, the Jays lost the first two games at home. Then the bat - and script - flipped
Guest : Mike Wilner , baseball columnist & host of Deep Left Field baseball podcast The Blue Jays are currently battling the Seattle Mariner...
The Worst Commute
Guest : Andy Takagi , Toronto Star transportation reporter Many of us know this pain too well: waiting on a very late bus or crawling betwee...
Inside Canada's biggest dark web drug bust
Guest: Omar Mosleh, Toronto Star reporter The RCMP says it has dismantled one of the largest dark web drug networks in Canadian history, a G...
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
In honour of the Blue Jays playoff run starting tomorrow, we're sharing an episode from our sister podcast Deep Left Field . Guest: RUSH fro...