Feb 28, 2023
Guest: Raisa Patel is a reporter in the Star’s Ottawa Bureau
Google has been conducting a secret test that filters out online news results for a small percentage of Canadians as a result of their concerns over Bill C-18, the Online News Act. This has raised the ire of several government officials, including Prime...
Feb 27, 2023
Guest: Jim Rankin, Toronto Star reporter
There finally might be a way to track a long-standing dark side of Canada’s criminal justice system — the issue of wrongful convictions — through a new database. It’s hard to put a number to just how many people are languishing behind bars for something they did not do....
Feb 24, 2023
Guest: Alex Boyd is a reporter in the Star's Calgary Bureau.
It has been almost two years since Justin Trudeau committed to sharing Canada’s vaccines with the world. Two years later, the results are in. By New Years day 2023, Canada had donated the equivalent of 196 million doses. That’s four million shy of its...
Feb 23, 2023
Guest: Patrick O'Rourke, Mobilesyrup.com Editor-in-Chief
Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing arrived in Canada this week, with the streaming service warning users who let others mooch off their accounts that they could be paying more for sharing. There are still lots of questions about how this will all work,...
Feb 22, 2023
Guest: Bruce Arthur, sports writer and Star columnist
Canada’s national women’s soccer team is playing in the SheBelieves Cup in Orlando, Fla. this week, an important warm-up event in the lead-up to the World Cup five months from now. Instead of wearing red and white jerseys during our national anthem, the team has...