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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 answer those questions, on important stories and ideas, every day, Monday to Friday. Hosts Saba Eitizaz and Ed Keenan talk to their fellow journalists, experts and newsmakers about the social, cultural, political and economic stories that shape your life.© Copyright Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. Ciencias Sociales Política y Gobierno
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  • Can One Great Idea fix Toronto?
    Nov 11 2025

    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 those many shades in our Toronto the Better series, digging into the cracks, complexities, and questions around how to actually make the city better.

    Now we want you to join the conversation.

    We're launching One Great Idea — a project asking for your bold, beautiful, or just plain weird ideas to help fix Toronto.

    If you could change one thing about this city, what would it be?

    And what kind of ideas could actually turn Toronto into the place you want it to be?

    In this episode, city columnist Ed Keenan talks about the project, the city's identity crisis, and why even the most frustrated Torontonians show up to cry and cheer together during a Blue Jays playoff run.

    Have a great idea of your own?

    Send it to onegreatidea@thestar.ca in under 200 words or drop it in the comments below. We'll be publishing a selection soon and letting readers choose which ones are worth championing.

    Audio sources: Youtube, CP24

    This episode was produced by Sean Pattendon

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    31 m
  • Listen: Exploring the human behind the hero, Canadian icon Terry Fox
    Nov 7 2025

    Guests: Sean Menard, Toronto-based filmmaker and director of 'Run Terry Run' and Kirsten Fox, a director at the Terry Fox Foundation and Terry Fox's niece.

    Terry Fox is a Canadian institution.

    His crown of thick brown spirals, heathergrey 2.5 inch shorts, 'Marathon of Hope' shirt and prosthetic walking leg he fashioned to support athletic capacity are legendary markers of a truly extraordinary human being.

    But there's so much more to Fox than just these instantly recognizable symbols.

    Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope is an incredible feat that has captivated Canadians young and old for decades, but who was he really when the media vans dispersed and the crowds went home? Sean Menard's newest documentary 'Run Terry Run' aims to show viewers the human behind the hero using 45-year-old footage that hitherto sat unseen in a Fox family storage locker.

    Today on This Matters, we speak with Toronto-based filmmaker and a director at the Terry Fox Foundation, Sean Menard as well as Terry Fox's niece, Kirsten Fox, to discuss Terry's prevailing legacy, the tech-primitive world of the 1980s and what 'Run Terry Run' taught Kirsten about her late uncle.

    This episode was mixed by Paulo Marques

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    29 m
  • Baseball is a game of failure. The Blue Jays and a nation of fans were winners.
    Nov 4 2025

    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 11th inning - and the city is still reeling from a heartbreaking final result. Nearly 11 million Canadians tuned in on Saturday to watch the Jays try and take home the trophy for the first time in thirty-two years.

    Bruce Arthur, sports columnist at the Star, is here today to talk about how luck (destiny?) had a guiding hand in the series, why so many people across the city and country fell in love with this team and find this loss so heavy, and the surest way to get the Jays – and the city – back into the World Series.

    Produced by Julia De Laurentiis Johnston & Sean Pattendon

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    27 m
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