Canada’s submarine procurement finally has a plan, and Matt Gurney explains why getting there will still take most of a decade. He connects the announcement to a defense minister’s own words about shared crews and interoperability, and what that reveals…
A Portland teenager pulled Wilt Chamberlain’s 1972 NBA Finals warm-up jacket out of a Goodwill bin for four dollars, and it is now headed to Sotheby’s with an estimate as high as $250,000. Someone else had already picked it up…
Sobriety gets treated like a confession, and Jim Richards is tired of feeling like he owes anyone an explanation for ordering a non-alcoholic beer. Coming up on three years without a drink, he lays out what actually changed and why…
Wanting what you cannot have applies to more than diets and dream cars. Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch dig into why the person just out of reach so often becomes the one we cannot stop thinking about, and why that…
A six-year-old sample from asteroid Ryugu just confirmed all five major DNA building blocks, and Dr. Samantha Yammine breaks down why that finding matters more than the headlines suggest. It separates what the data actually shows from the more dramatic…
PlayStation discs are going away entirely by 2028, and Kris Abel makes the case that the industry is repeating a mistake music already made, minus the concerts and festivals that kept that transition from feeling like a total loss. Something…
Rocco Rossi has walked the Camino de Santiago 23 times since 2002, and what started as a way out of a corporate career he no longer believed in has become something he returns to every year. His new novel, Finding…
A good party isn’t about the location, it’s about a short list of ingredients that keep showing up at the ones people actually remember. A backyard fire on a mild summer night takes the top spot over any big event,…
Washing machine mold prevention starts with one habit almost nobody follows, leaving the door open after every load. Tech and DIY expert Andy Baryer breaks down the manual gasket cleaning most people skip, plus the yard work that keeps hedges…
Festival day drinking follows the same script no matter where in the country it happens, water and sunglasses in the morning, a Caesar by noon, full chaos by mid-afternoon. Living beside one of Calgary Stampede’s biggest party tents makes that…
Canada submarine defence spending just became real, with a deal that won’t deliver a single vessel for eight to ten years. The Monday study panel breaks down why the government went with a German partner over South Korea or Japan,…
Some jobs stick with you long enough to become writing a book of essays about. Alex Boyd worked a bookshop in the 1990s, the same kind of job George Orwell once described in the 1930s, and found that almost nothing…
Canadian car buying tariffs are reshaping which vehicles are actually worth the money this year, and the answer isn’t always the one buyers expect. Automotive journalist Lorraine Sommerfeld lays out which cars are genuinely built here, how to check a…
Canada submarine deal analysis from a military expert lands on an uncomfortable question: why did Canada pass on the faster, cheaper option? Richard Shimooka breaks down how South Korea offered quicker delivery, more production capacity, and a stronger partnership pitch,…
Canada Day landed on a Wednesday and somehow half the country took the whole week off. Shane and Ryan are both at their desks, mildly annoyed, and very much in the mood to talk about summer grievances. The conversation starts…
