Diesel prices can reach your wallet even if you never touch a diesel pump. Dan McTeague helps you connect the fuel bill to groceries and heating, with different short-term forecasts for anyone deciding when to fill up. If overseas disruption…
Canadian Afghanistan veterans sometimes tell Dr. Andrew Burtch they were there but did nothing remarkable. He offers a way to hear what that modest account leaves out, and discover experiences that never reached the official record. After a friendly fire…
The pumpkin spice latte arrived in 2003, but does that match your memory of when it became unavoidable? Ed Conroy helps connect the drink’s early days to the boots, photos and fall rituals that followed. You might remember 2003 through…
Entertainment news gets personal with Richard Crouse, from interviewing a childhood comedy hero to sizing up Tom Cruise’s outrageous new role. Get a movie assessment and cocktail ideas for an unusual night. Twenty Televisions, Then John CleeseWatching Monty Python in…
Report from Iron Mountain claimed America could not afford peace. Dr. Lee Kuhnle shows you how to test a document that was a hoax even when its argument sounds plausible. How do you catch the moment a believable pattern starts…
The Canada trade war can look manageable on a national chart and devastating in a town losing 350 jobs. Matt Gurney helps you see why both can be true, and why the pace of the losses may decide what Canada…
As Canada faces a major shortage of family doctors – an estimated 20,000 by 203 – this powerful and moving collection of real-life stories explore what the discipline truly is, the challenges it faces, and what it can become in…
4.4 Million Canadians claim Irish heritage. The book ’50 Irish Lives in Canada’ written by by Dr. Eamonn McKee and Dr. Mark G. McGowan, highlights the enormous contribution to Canadian society since the first Irish immigrant landed on Canada’s shores…
Music discovery used to happen almost by accident. A radio station, a relative’s record collection, summer camp or some unexpected song could introduce you to something you’d never gone looking for. Has streaming made that experience better, or simply more…
DIY technology can make life easier, but Handy Andy Baryer has a few reasons to question whether every upgrade is actually progress. From YouTube’s expanding use of AI to homemade computers and battery tools, convenience can come with some unexpected…
NATO spending requires Canada to reach 3.5% of GDP by 2035, but Richard Shimooka sees a problem hidden inside that promise: you can’t instantly rebuild decades of missing defence capacity. More money doesn’t automatically produce more military capability. The temptation…
Canadian affordability sounds like an easy political target until someone has to decide what would actually lower a bill. Jimmy Zoubris and Andrew Caddell weigh competing arguments around diesel prices, tax relief and whether Canada’s political parties can produce practical…
Music discovery used to depend on radio, record stores, friends or simply hearing the right song somewhere. This is a story of how your streaming service can surface a decades-old track you didn’t know existed and somehow decide it belongs…
Cuba’s energy crisis is putting daily life under enormous pressure, but how did conditions become this severe? Julio Fonseca of the Canadian Network on Cuba describes the impact of U.S. sanctions and restrictions while arguing that the humanitarian consequences deserve…
Money decisions get harder when every option feels important. Jessica Moorhouse says there’s an uncomfortable contradiction hiding underneath many financial goals: we want more savings, less debt or better investments without wanting anything else in our lives to change. So…
