The 4 Best This Matters | Daily News Podcast Episodes
1) Doomscrolling: Why our screen addictions turn to bad news binges
You probably can’t stop checking your phone for another news article, another video, another chart to help you make sense of what’s happening. And there’s a (relatively) new word for it: ‘Doomscrollin...Show More
2) Don’t Look Up: How NASA is getting ready for killer asteroids
Guest: Michael Daly, professor of space science and research chair in planetary science at York University “Don’t Look Up” is the latest film to join the killer-asteroid-threatens-the-Earth genre of f...Show More
3) Pizza Pizza Policegate
Pizza Pizza has been voluntarily serving up customer information to the police without a warrant. The Star has learned multiple police investigators obtained phone numbers and then went to a contact a...Show More
4) Another day on the job: Racism and workplace PTSD
How does racial trauma impact lives and careers? Can you get PTSD from your workplace? In today’s episode, Dr. Monnica Williams explains. Dr. Williams is an Associate Professor at the University of Ot...Show More
5) 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 advertising system. Reporters Ben Mussett and Omar Mosleh found i...Show More
6) 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 with a family doctor — live far outside their physician's re...Show More
7) 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, and government representatives gathered behind closed door...Show More
8) 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 budget through by a two-vote margin, 170 to 168. Support from Gr...Show More
9) 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 current America. He reports on cratering trust in vaccines, in...Show More
10) 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, often at the same time. This year, the Toronto Star explored...Show More