Simon Fraser University just received a $40 million donation from the Stevens family to support its new medical school, opening this August. Erin Morantz, SFU’s Vice-President of Advancement and Alumni Engagement, joins to explain what a gift that size actually…
Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch join Date Night to untangle why so many people are surrounded by love and still feel lonely. The problem isn’t that love isn’t there. It’s that most people are busy performing it instead of building…
Canada missile defence has officially moved from background concern to stated priority. The Chief of Defence Staff named Russian missile technology as the country’s biggest threat, and Richard Shimooka, military expert and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, breaks down…
Canada is the ninth largest economy in the world and a senior member of the G7. Andrew Caddell thinks it’s time the country started acting like it, on trade and on the question of where its prime minister actually lives.…
Nobody needed any of this information. That’s exactly why it’s here. A cookie chain put a Nanaimo bar on their menu and filmed Americans trying to say the word. The mayor of Nanaimo has opinions about this. Europeans attending the…
This week’s picks come with a warning: if you bought any of them digitally, you might not have them as long as you think. Steve Stebbing has 4,100 movies on physical media and has been laughing off the “just go…
AI and kids in Canada is no longer a future problem. Mohit Rajhans says the rules are already changing, most parents don’t know it yet, and the confusion isn’t a sign something’s gone wrong. It’s the whole situation. The vomit…
There’s a six-year gap between when relationship problems start and when most couples finally ask for help. Dr. Laurie Betito has spent a career on the other side of that gap, and she wants to close it. Dr. Laurie is…
Digital ownership in Canada is mostly a polite fiction. You buy the movie, the game, the scale, the heated seat, and what you actually get is permission to use it until the company changes its mind. This conversation pulls the…
It’s Throwback Thursday and Shane, Ryan, and Noah dig into one of 1995’s defining fast food moments: the arrival of stuffed crust pizza and the competitive war that produced it. The story starts in 1958, when two college students borrowed…
It’s Throwback Thursday and the inflation conversation gets personal fast: in 1995, a large pepperoni pizza and a two-litre Coke ran twelve to fifteen dollars as a combo deal. Ground beef was $1.99 a pound. A big box of cereal…
Food inflation in Canada is running hotter than every other G7 country, and food professor Sylvain Charlebois says the reasons are closer to home than most Canadians want to admit. Charlebois breaks down what’s actually driving prices higher right now:…
Retail analyst Bruce Winder joins on Amazon Prime Day to break down what the numbers actually say about where Canadian consumers are right now and whether the deals are what they appear to be. Adobe is forecasting twenty-six billion dollars…
Columnist and commentator Rob Breakenridge joins for two stories: what King Charles’s voluntary tax disclosure actually reveals about royal finances, and what’s happening to the Corb Lund coal petition in Alberta. King Charles paid eleven million pounds in income tax…
Technology analyst Carmi Levy joins to talk about where restaurant automation is actually heading, and what gets lost when the entry-level job disappears from the equation. Robots are already in restaurants, following servers from kitchen to table, handling the physical…
