Aug 31, 2021
Ali Raza Yesa is an Afghan educator and founder of the Star Educational Society, a network of language schools across Afghanistan. With the West now withdrawn from Afghanistan, he has left his homeland and his schools have been shut down. He joins “This Matters” to talk about his life in Afghanistan and a...
Aug 30, 2021
Guest: Josh Rubin, business reporter for the Star
Because neither the federal or Ontario provincial government have created vaccine passports for the public yet (while other provinces have started plans of their own), live event businesses and franchises are taking matters into their own hands to create new rules for...
Aug 27, 2021
Guest: Lior Samfiru, employment lawyer and co-founding partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP
Vaccine mandates in the workplace aren’t hypothetical anymore. They are real. The federal government has one for their employees, as does the Ontario government for people in high-risk settings. Those new rules are filtering down to...
Aug 26, 2021
Guest: Nicole O’Reilly, crime reporter from The Hamilton Spectator
It has been over four years since Angelo Musitano, a prominent member of the Musitano crime family in Hamilton, was gunned down in his driveway. His murder was the result of a sophisticated, mob-driven operation intricately planned, executed and now...
Aug 25, 2021
Guest: Julie S. Lalonde, women’s rights advocate and author of “Resilience is Futile”
Did you know that there is a country in the world where one woman or girl is killed every two and a half days? That country is Canada. According to a report by the Canadian Femicide Observatory, Canada saw an increase in femicide...