Podcasts about Toronto, Ontario

Most of what plays here is a hockey city taking stock. Across the Maple Leafs shows, the April 2026 episode titles share a vocabulary: locker-room cleanout, Treliving fired, Keith Pelley's press conference, a search for the next hire, and an open question about whether Matthews stays. The Raptors shows from the same weeks are arguing over whether 46-36 and a fifth seed count as a success; the Blue Jays shows are in a worse mood. Away from the three teams the non-sports listening is a small set of shows, but a specific one: chefs and sommeliers on Toronto kitchens and wine lists, theatre-makers and comics people, and two shows made on campus.

What Toronto is

Toronto is Canada's largest city and the capital of Ontario, on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario. It is the country's financial and media centre, and home to the Maple Leafs, Raptors and Blue Jays.

The Leafs, after the season

The Leafs shows here are as much about management as about games. On Locked On Leafs - Daily Podcast On The Toronto Maple Leafs, David Alter works through the locker-room cleanout: Toronto needs a high-status player in the mould of Brad Marchand or Tom Wilson to disrupt what he calls a corporate culture, needs big players who can skate rather than only physical bottom-six forwards, and should have attacked early in the season before tightening up defensively. The FAN Morning Show, from Sportsnet with Ben Ennis and Brent Gunning, covers the same cleanout from the reporter's side: Luke Fox says Matthews has not decided whether he wants to remain a Leaf, and the hosts weigh his declaration of loyalty against his refusal to guarantee a Toronto future. The same clip handicaps the front-office search, with Mike Gillis said to have had three interviews.

MLHS Podcast is where the season's arithmetic gets done. Nick Ashbourne and Anthony Petrielli call a 1-2-2 stretch in January "rubber meets the road time", track Bobby McMann's 15.6 per cent shooting toward a pending free-agent decision, and by the end of January Petrielli is saying the Leafs went 1-for-10 at home and last looked this bad in 1984. The title run follows the trade deadline, the Gudas incident and Pelley denouncing the team's culture. It sounds like two hockey-literate voices building a case at speed, with moods that run from neutral to frustrated to sarcastic. Sticks in the 6ix works the same executive story, including a report that Pelley used AI to evaluate trade returns, but ranges wider: Brock Otten on Gavin McKenna's draft stock, and Emma Maltais saying women's hockey growth is real because every game after the Olympics has sold out. Talkin' Buds Leafs Show takes the long view. Its episode "Toronto Maple Leafs: 11 Years of the Shanaplan" treats the 2021 Montreal series as the clearest indictment of the Shanahan-Dubas era, and a 2026 clip argues the Leafs need a president of hockey operations, not six assistant general managers.

Three smaller shows are more fan than analyst. Offside Hockey Talk, in clips from July 2025, has Steve Peters arguing that Matias Maccelli can replace Mitch Marner's playmaking only if the team protects his confidence, and that Ryan Reaves matters only if he actually plays; it sounds like a fan thinking out loud, opinion first, then examples. Don't Stop Beleafing! is Nolan Drinkwalter and Jack Prins, who call their attachment to the Leafs a sickness and then work through a 227-game run without being shut out ending against Montreal. Hebsy on Sports is older, from 2023: its clips catch Mark Hebsher telling Toronto Mike he is retiring, and the Leafs at ten straight elimination games without a win. It sounds chaotic, irreverent and lived-in.

The Raptors, argued from the film

Locked On Raptors - Daily Podcast On The Toronto Raptors has Sean Woodley and Vivek Jacob making the case that 46-36, a fifth seed and a top-ten half-court offence already make the 2025-26 season a success, with a playoff series against the Cavaliers hinging on the young players and on how Toronto handles Donovan Mitchell and James Harden. Pull Up Tre picks up after the loss to Cleveland: dominated on every possession, never winning the margins. It sounds like basketball analysis with the film paused and argued over in real time, and the other clips show it, with Scottie Barnes described as not a scorer yet asked to play through missing spacing, and Murray-Boyles scoring 19 through a thumb injury. Toronto Raptors Games is the TSN 1050 game audio itself, so what plays is live calls: a 21-3 run against the Kings, New York breaking Toronto's runs and scoring 23 points off 14 turnovers, and a crowd chanting for Lowry.

Two older Raptors shows also play. Jurassic Pod, from Eric Koreen of The Athletic Toronto and Holly MacKenzie, has 2022 clips weighing whether to trade Barnes or Pascal Siakam for Kevin Durant and reading Jeff Dowtin's Summer League. Take 6ix, a panel of three fans, goes back to 2019: Morgan Rielly leading Eastern Conference defencemen in points, and Kyle Lowry turning the second unit's five points into 52.

The Blue Jays, in a bad April

The baseball shows are living through a bad start to 2026. In an April clip of Locked On Blue Jays - Daily Podcast On The Toronto Blue Jays, one host admits the game was horrible, painful and hard to watch, then asks whether early matters. The clips move from a White Sox sweep and Max Scherzer's injury to John Schneider's ejection over a disputed toe-tap balk call on Kevin Gausman; the show allows frustration and exasperation alongside optimism. Bat Flips and Maple Dips - A Toronto Blue Jays Podcast is in the same place, with titles "BFMD 406 - Things Can't Get Much Worse" and "BFMD 407 - Things Got Worse", half the 26-man roster injured, and a comparison to Baltimore's 2024 collapse. Blue Jays Talk gets closer to the coaching staff: Mark Budzinski explains how video, scouting and positioning turn into extra bases and defensive outs, Kevin Barker makes the case for Tommy Nance's curveball, and Jeff Blair wonders whether the World Baseball Classic explains Aaron Judge's slow start.

Kitchens, wine lists, stages and comics

The non-sports shows come from people inside the work. TORONTO RESTAURANTS | THE PODCAST, from restaurant journalist Stephanie Dickison, sits down with chefs Aldo Camarena and Ashley McKay of XOLO and Antyllia, a couple in the kitchen and in life, and traces McKay's path through Enigma, Aslar and Giulietta. Tasting Notes Toronto by Insider Wine, hosted by sommelier Alex Abbott Boyd, talks with the people behind the city's wine lists: Patrick Habchi on bin numbers that made guests think several-thousand-dollar bottles cost $110, Christian Perreault Hamel defining hospitality as attention, empathy, anticipation and unprompted action, and Fabienne Dourdon telling Champagne drinkers to trust their own taste even when they dislike Dom Pérignon. A View from the Box - The Podcast is Janine Marley talking with theatre artists, with titles running through Opera Atelier, the Toronto Fringe Festival and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre; one clip introduces Spindle Collective's immersive horror theatre built on Romanian folklore. Speech Bubble goes one-on-one with the writers, artists and retailers of the Toronto comic book scene: Jim Rugg on a blacklight comic printed with fluorescent inks, Chris Sanagan on turning seven Canadian historical figures into a fictional First World War team.

Campus and civic news

The Final Word, Met Radio's news magazine rooted in TMU and Toronto, is the closest thing to local news here. Its clips cover The Local printing a Candidate Tracker with the Toronto Public Library, the TMSU's $20-million lawsuit over election interference, and Met Radio journalists on the NDP leadership race; in one clip someone from The Local describes its start as a healthcare publication for the outer suburbs, where coverage had been parachute journalism. Room 2250 is University of Toronto computer science students in 2021: Windows versus macOS, the GameStop stock run, and why CSC 207 makes everything in Java feel like a class.

Where to start

• For the Leafs front-office story: Locked On Leafs for David Alter's cleanout breakdown, then MLHS Podcast for the argument in numbers.
• For the Raptors: Locked On Raptors for the season verdict, Pull Up Tre for the film.
• For the Blue Jays in a rough spell: Locked On Blue Jays or Bat Flips and Maple Dips; Blue Jays Talk for the coaches' own explanations.
• Away from sports: Tasting Notes Toronto or TORONTO RESTAURANTS | THE PODCAST.

The Toronto feed on this page plays clips from these shows.