- Are TikTokers and K-pop fans practising politics, or pranktivism?
Wednesday, June 24th 2020
This Matters is joined by Travis M. Andrews, an internet culture reporter at the Washington Post, to discuss Kpop stans' and TikTok teens' efforts to flex their online muscle and embrace a new kind of political activism.
- “Out of office” forever: A tech giant and a local newspaper discuss working from home
Tuesday, June 23rd 2020
Paul Burns is the managing director of Twitter Canada and he discusses why his company is letting employees choose if they want to come back to an office. We are also joined by Kennedy Gordon, managing editor of the Peterborough Examiner, which has announced it is leaving its office spaces and becoming a completely virtual newsroom.
- Hustled, episode 6: What does the future hold for gig workers? (aka Golden State)
Monday, June 22nd 2020
This Matters will broadcast the Toronto Star’s six-part podcast Hustled each Monday. In the final episode of Hustled, Foodora couriers in Toronto are buoyed by a recent win. They want to create a gold standard for gig workers. We look to the Golden State.
EPISODE 6: Golden State
With a win under their belt, Foodora couriers in Toronto want to create a gold standard for gig work. In this final episode, we take a trip to California, the birthplace of the gig economy, to explore what the future could look like closer to home.
- Shop talk: How retail will look now and in the future
Friday, June 19th 2020
Diane J. Brisebois is the president and CEO of the Retail Council of Canada, and with much of Ontario entering phase two of the reopening plans, she joins Raju Mudhar to talk about how the retail sector will respond to this turmoil and what comes next, from the economics for retailers, employees and consumers to the technology that will begin to be used. Ultimately, she says, health and safety is priority number one. - BodyBreak’s Hal Johnson on racism in media
Thursday, June 18th 2020
Hal Johnson, of ‘BodyBreak,’ talks to Adrian Cheung about the racism he faced in Canada’s media industry, how those incidents drove their will to make the famous show, and why systemic and structural racism continues to be a big problem today.
‘BodyBreak’, the popular mini-episodes on health, fitness and wellness is something many Canadians remember from the 1980s and ‘90s. But Johnson’s admission this week — that their main motivation was to fight back against racism — has added to a larger conversation about racism, anti-Blackness and diversity in Canada’s media industry.
