May 29, 2020
Karon Liu, the Star’s culture reporter has a conversation with Saba Eitizaz, reminiscing about buffets, their cultural and culinary significance and whether we’re about to say a nostalgic goodbye to the traditional buffet.
For some, the idea of a buffet can bring back childhood memories of birthdays, Sunday...
May 28, 2020
Peter Edwards is a crime reporter at the Star, who has covered organized crime for years. He has written over 15 non-fiction books on the subject. He joins This Matters to break down the two truck turf wars in the GTA and what happens next.
A brazen crime spree has gripped the Greater Toronto Area for almost three...
May 27, 2020
If you look at any of the numbers, the Greater Toronto Area’s real estate market is in free fall. New homes sales were down by 69 per cent, and several conflicting forecasts say prices could go up 7 per cent or potentially fall 18 per cent. COVID-19 has done what seemed impossible by actually cooling Toronto’s white...
May 26, 2020
Star reporters Wendy Gillis and Alyshah Hasham talk with Adrian Cheung about how women’s police stations could work and how domestic violence remains an urgent public health problem, especially during the pandemic.
Canada continues to grapple with a long-standing and disturbing trend of gender-based violence....
May 25, 2020
This Matters will broadcast the Toronto Star’s six-part podcast Hustled each Monday, where the Star’s labour reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh takes us behind the scenes of a David vs. Goliath battle between a scrappy group of Toronto food couriers and the app company they work for.
EPISODE 2: Delivery Hero
Sara gets a...