Municipal election turnout across Canada tells a strange story, and John Wright of Canada Pulse Insights explains why entire towns are handing mayors a new term without a single other name on the ballot. The seats that shape daily life…
Every AI answer lately sounds a little too nice, and educator Mohit Rajhans argues that isn’t a glitch. It’s the design working exactly as intended, and it says less about the machine than it does about what humans actually respond…
Voice actor Hans Wackershauser explains why raising your volume by even a small amount on camera can ruin an otherwise perfect take, while the exact same energy would land fine on a theatre stage. The microphone, he says, plays by…
News broke of Peter Cullen’s death, and this conversation opens with what he meant to a generation raised on his voice, including a much softer character than the one most people associate with him. From there it turns into Throwback…
A potash tariff sounds satisfying, but Dalhousie food professor Sylvain Charlebois maps out who actually pays for it. By the end you will see why turning off the potash, the oil, and the electricity is nowhere near as simple as…
A $332 million fund meant to promote national unity in Quebec instead turned into fictitious invoices and payments for work that never happened, and this conversation traces why that story from the Gomery Commission still gets dragged into arguments today.…
Lake Ontario renamed to Lake America is the kind of headline built to get a reaction, and journalist Rob Breakenridge explains why the timing might matter more than the joke itself. While the trolling dominates headlines, something else has gone…
Dolly Parton’s death set off a week of strange entertainment stories, and film critic Richard Crouse walks through the strangest ones. One involves a song nobody will hear for two decades. The other involves a real house from a Batman…
Peter Cullen’s death has hit lifelong fans harder than most people expected, and this Throwback Thursday traces where that voice actually came from, starting with a piece of advice from his brother that shaped how he played Optimus Prime for…
Peter Cullen’s death has TFCon founder Colin Douglas reflecting on the man behind Optimus Prime, and the fallout of one decision Hasbro made in 1986 still shapes how studios write character deaths today. This one goes past the tributes into…
A simple question about hobbies people wish they’d start turns into something more revealing on this episode, as the crew catches themselves shooting down their own ideas before they’ve even said them out loud. One host admits to signing up…
Lindsay Broadhead and Jamie Ellerton join for a two-part conversation that starts light and turns serious fast, moving from personal hobbies straight into a breakdown of the latest Trump comments about Canada. A Hobby Nobody Saw ComingThe panel trades hobby…
Falk had no formal training before he started tattooing. What he used instead is the kind of detail that makes this story worth hearing on its own, before anything else about him even comes up. That same instinct to just…
Ali Velshi has spent years broadcasting in the United States as a proud Canadian, and this conversation asks him what that’s actually been like since trade tensions between the two countries started escalating. His answer covers both the surprising upside…
Back to school eye exams rarely make the list, but CNIB executive director Craig Peterson says skipping one can cost more than blurry vision. He lost his own vision at fifteen, and he ties that experience directly to a number…
