Rocco Rossi had a corner office, a closing cheque in his pocket, and a life built on the idea that he who dies with the most toys wins, until an ad on a Toronto subway car cracked something open that…
A two and a half hour commute is the kind of thing that should end a relationship with a city before it starts. Instead, it’s the opening line of an actual love letter to Toronto, the honest, complicated kind that…
Some AI models behave differently the moment they realize they’re being tested, a pattern researchers call deceptive alignment. Andy Barrar of Handy Andy Media unpacks what that means ahead of a Calgary conference on defending Canada’s critical infrastructure, from the…
The companies warning the world that AI needs to slow down are the same ones still selling access to it. Matthew de Mota, research director at the Canadian Shield Institute, untangles how much of that warning is genuine and how…
Meal plans for a harvest crew. Diagnosing a broken combine. Auditing hockey ice time for an entire rural league. Lesley Kelly’s actual list of AI use cases doesn’t look like anything from a tech keynote, and that’s exactly the point.…
Ian Lee makes the case that taxes, not groceries or housing, are the actual biggest expense for working Canadians, and explains why that conversation almost never comes up compared to gas or grocery prices. Ian points to a specific example…
Jessica Moorhouse treats September like a financial reset point, the same way she once treated the start of a new school year. With just under four months left in the year, she explains why this window makes it easier to…
One Phone Call, Five Strangers Offering Help One call to a hotel front desk in Newfoundland was supposed to end at a corporate voicemail. Instead it turned into five or six people volunteering their own time and contacts, no hesitation,…
Superstition shows up in more places than black cats and broken mirrors. Shane runs through a long list of small, unconscious habits people carry every day, from picking lottery numbers based on birthdays to refusing to wash a lucky mug…
A US official is telling Canada to tone down its rhetoric, and Andrew Caddell has a specific list of reasons why that message rings hollow. He runs through Pete Hoekstra’s own past comments, including a profanity-laced tirade at the National…
One candidate wanted to face a Democrat in the general election. The path he allegedly chose to get there involved planting evidence on someone from his own party, and it did not go the way he planned. Forty thousand fans…
Long before the last kid moves out, Dr. Laurie Betito says the empty nest has already been happening in small doses for years. She traces how those early separations quietly shape how parents react when the real one finally arrives.…
This week’s watch list runs from a witch sequel with a devoted following to a medieval uprising and a rock reunion decades in the making. Steve Stebbing walks through what is actually worth your time this weekend, and what falls…
Jeffrey Rosenthal has a personal stake in this question. He was born on a Friday the 13th, and every time someone calls the date unlucky, it feels a little bit personal. So he did what a statistics professor does: he…
Ben Harrison explains what keeps people coming back to TIFF year after year, including attendees well into their seventies and eighties who treat it as an annual tradition. It isn’t really about the movies themselves, he says. It’s the friendships…
