Podcasts about Toronto, Ontario

Early in Toronto Maple Leafs | Keith Pelley Addresses Media & Leaves Fans With More Questions Than Answers, the brothers behind Talkin' Buds Leafs Show start counting. One asks the other how many times Pelley said "structure" at his press conference. The answer: twenty-three. It is a joke about corporate language. It also names the question running through the podcasts here. The teams dominate, and the shows argue about them as institutions: who runs them, who answers for them, and who can be made to explain a decision.

The same question has a civic shape. On September 22, 2026, CityNews reported a mayoral debate in which Brad Bradford proposed a first-year property-tax freeze. Incumbent Olivia Chow defended her administration as repairing inherited financial problems. On September 12, 2026, CityNews reported that Ontario's Court of Appeal had reversed an earlier decision blocking the province's plan to remove bike lanes. Neither argument is finished. In the news shows here, the line where the city meets provincial power is never far away.

What Toronto is

Toronto is Ontario's capital, on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario. The city's population was 2,794,356 in the 2021 census, a count for the municipality rather than the much larger Greater Toronto Area. It is Canada's largest financial centre, and film, music and culture are prominent parts of its identity.

The Leafs and the people above them

MLHS Podcast argues from what happened on the ice. Early in The future of Matthews and the Maple Leafs post-Gudas incident - MLHS Podcast EP116, a host says "We don't need to litigate the hit," and the talk turns to the team's lack of response. When one host says players have to go, another agrees but warns against "fetishizing size and toughness." That check keeps the episode honest.

Sticks in the 6ix, hosted by Andrew Forbes with Peter Barrichini, calls for a cultural overhaul in Keith Pelley: Culture, Involvement & the Demise of the Maple Leafs (Ep. 233). The same feed gave Maple Leafs Deadline & 'Her Signature Moment' [ft. Emma Maltais] (Ep. 228) to Maltais, who recalls her mother insisting "you have to have a plan B, C, D, E, F, G."

Offside Hockey Talk is the archive of the 2025 Mitch Marner saga. Near the end of Leafs Post Marner Are What ?, its host offers the creed "no suits. No scripts. Just fan hockey talk."

Tall Can Audio - A Pint Of Canadian Sports Talk samples a local craft beer and leans Senators, and it supplies the rival's view. In WHIPR SNAPR's Spring Time Sens Playoff Chase Pints!, someone at the table calls the Leafs' downward spiral "just super satisfying."

Baseball in real time, and from afar

April 2026 was miserable for the Jays, and the shows sound it. Early in Blue Jays Fans *NEED* To Come To This Realization…. | Blue Jays Rumours & Breakdown, Locked On Blue Jays - Daily Podcast On The Toronto Blue Jays welcomes listeners to "the Toronto Blue Jays therapy session." In We *DID NOT* Expect This To Happen…. | Blue Jays Rumours & Breakdown, co-host Carter Fuerst concedes that reacting to the baseball on the field is "what we have to do when we do a podcast every single day." That candour helps. The sponsor reads in the latter April episode do not.

Bat Flips and Maple Dips - A Toronto Blue Jays Podcast covers the team from Saskatoon, where Justin lives, and Halifax, home to Patrick. It is a reminder that this club is followed well beyond the city. BFMD 406 - Things Can't Get Much Worse works through injuries. Near the end, the hosts remind the exhausted that 147 games remain and a week off is allowed.

Blue Jays Talk, a Sportsnet radio call-in show, earns its place with Field Access: Tyler Rogers, Santiago Espinal, Mark Budzinski. In it, one guest describes spending four to five hours before a series studying opposing pitchers for base-running chances.

Hebsy on Sports is complete, and its archive keeps its edge. In Hebsy On Sports 330, Mark Hebscher asks, "Why do people from BC hate people from Toronto so much, especially those in the media?" Toronto Mike, his producer, counters by asking whether a Vancouver-raised Hebsy might not feel the same. Hebsy On Sports-The Retirement Announcement, dated May 5, 2023, is where Hebscher tells him the show is over.

The Raptors' return

Basketball brought the good news. In The Toronto Raptors awesome turnaround season ends with 5-seed! Can they upset the Cavs? w/ Vivek Jacob, Sean Woodley of Locked On Raptors - Daily Podcast On The Toronto Raptors and his guest recall that ESPN projected 33 wins for a team that finished 46-36.

Pull Up Tre stays closer to the film. In RAPTORS LOSE TO CAVS - POST GAME REACTION - PULL UP TRE PODCAST, one host who was at the game describes being "the only one in enemy territory." The panel then examines how the Cavaliers built a wall in front of the rim.

Toronto Raptors Games carries the TSN 1050 radio calls. Near the end of Kings @ Raptors - 2nd Half - April 1st, 2026, DeMar DeRozan's Kings win in Toronto, and the call is "A heartbreaking, crushing loss for the Raptors."

Civic Toronto, from a campus and from the edges

The Final Word is the weekly news show from Met Radio, 1280 AM CJTM at Toronto Metropolitan University, and it does the plain work of showing up. The headlines in Parents Speak Out on Special Education at TDSB Special Education Advisory Committee Meeting include Bradford, as a mayoral candidate, objecting to a proposed $10 World Cup fan festival fee: "$10 might not sound like much at City Hall." Then speakers take the floor at the meeting, one arguing that "fairness does not mean sameness."

In TMU event sparks debate amid external investigation, Elliott Kelley covers an education-funding rally on the legislature's steps. The show reports on Max, an autistic child whose school day had been cut to half-days, who was struck and killed by a bus on his way home. It reports that the NDP said funding could have prevented his death, and that Doug Ford remained seated while ministers answered. Kelley approaches Max's father, Chris Simau, with condolences first. The account is brief and attributed, which is the right weight for it.

The 905er Podcast, presented by Roland Tanner and Joel MacLeod, looks at the region outside central Toronto. In What Does the 905 Look Like Without Malls?, the Toronto-based geographer Sean Marshall calls dead malls "an American phenomenon more than a Canadian phenomenon." He credits conservative owners such as pension funds. For the provincial picture, continue to the Ontario page.

Housing reaches these feeds mostly through the trade. Coffee Beans and Real Estate, hosted by Manny Andrade, talks to agents. Rethinking Real Estate Practices and Getting Beyond the Auto Emails is recorded by a window, with an advance apology for the traffic noise, and features guest Vito, in the business since 1988. It warns that buyers who put five or 10 percent down two to four years ago may own property worth less than they paid.

Stories, comics and the zoo

The fiction is rooted in specific lives. Hi Nay follows Mari Datuin, a Filipina immigrant from a babaylan (shaman) family. In Episode 78: Payaso (Clown) part 1, a narrator glimpses what seems to be a crumpled figure in a neighbour's junk-filled garden. Lost Gods follows Kweku Anansi, a member of the African diaspora making his adopted Toronto home.

Speech Bubble talks to the city's comics scene. In Jim Rugg, the guest describes filing Freedom of Information requests about the character Octobriana. Wild For Life, from the Toronto Zoo, explains in Wood Bison how keepers got the herd to walk through a chute voluntarily for vaccines.

Where to start

• For front-office drama: Talkin' Buds Leafs Show, Toronto Maple Leafs | Keith Pelley Addresses Media & Leaves Fans With More Questions Than Answers.
• If a slump has worn you down: Bat Flips and Maple Dips - A Toronto Blue Jays Podcast, BFMD 406 - Things Can't Get Much Worse, for injury detail plus permission to rest.
• For basketball optimism: Locked On Raptors - Daily Podcast On The Toronto Raptors, The Toronto Raptors awesome turnaround season ends with 5-seed! Can they upset the Cavs? w/ Vivek Jacob.
• For civic voices: The Final Word, Parents Speak Out on Special Education at TDSB Special Education Advisory Committee Meeting.
• For the regionally curious: The 905er Podcast, What Does the 905 Look Like Without Malls?

Begin with the Pelley episode. Then carry its question, who answers for a decision, into the school-board meeting on The Final Word.

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