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Rod Black has been the voice in the room for Canadian sports fans for decades. Cut to Black is the book that explains how he got there, and it turns out it’s not really about him. Rod is a TSN…

The show lands on Canada Day Eve with good news from three cities and a question worth sitting with: what if the most useful thing you can share today is something small? A first Colombian recipe attempt that smelled great.…

The good news tonight comes in three flavors. A Phoenix school resource officer who rented a movie theater for kids who’d never been, then turned to the adults in the room and asked why they weren’t doing the same. A…

Thirty percent of people don’t like cats. Only five percent feel that way about dogs. Rod Phillips has spent years figuring out why, and the answer goes back further than most people expect. Phillips, a historian at Carleton University and…

In Newfoundland, Canada Day doesn’t begin with fireworks. It begins with Memorial Day and the memory of a generation of young men sent over the top at Beaumont-Hamel, France, one hundred and ten years ago tomorrow. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment…

When Canada advanced further than anyone expected, one family decided the only response was to follow the team to Houston, no matter what it took to get there. The plan: resell tickets to a USA match in Seattle, lean on…

This conversation starts with Mark Carney admitting his own emissions targets will be missed and uses it as a way into a bigger pattern: decisions on 24 Sussex Drive and a submarine fleet contract that sat untouched since 2017 are…

Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are live and the box is real, but open it and there’s only a download code. No disc. No trade-in value. No physical copy. Ever. A tech columnist who argued against this exact model with…

A psychologist makes the case that the highs and lows of being a sports fan are not just entertainment, they are doing real work for your mental health. The conversation traces what happens physiologically when a game gets tense, why…

Film critic Richard Crouse builds a Canada Day weekend watch list from the ground up: three Canadian films, each with a drink to match. Goon pairs with a Bloody Caesar, invented in Calgary in 1969 and consumed by Canadians over…

What makes a good party is a question most people think they already know the answer to. This conversation suggests they don’t. From flood warnings in Calgary to a Cuban pig roast in a small Ontario village, the night shift…

Home maintenance tips that actually save money this summer start with knowing where your house is leaking money without you realising it. Andy Barrar of Handy Andy Media walks through the gaps that are quietly wrecking your cooling bill and…

Moving in together has a moment nobody warns you about. It’s not the argument or the negotiation. It’s a glance at a bookshelf. Ryan O’Donnell spotted that moment on Laura’s face during unpacking, and everything that followed is a more…

Federal housing policy rarely produces a clean answer, and the BC condo buyback program is no exception. The Monday study panel works through what the numbers actually mean: ten percent federal funding, ninety percent BC, and units that still price…

Vacation budgeting tips are easy to find and hard to follow, especially when the flights are already paid and the costs keep creeping up anyway. Anita Bruinsma of Clarity on Your Money works through what actually happens when the excitement…