Cycling’s biggest race has seen doping scandals before, but this year’s cheating concern is different entirely, riders being checked for padded clothing designed to shave time through aerodynamics. It is one of three stories in this week’s roundup built for…
Steve Stebbing brings his weekend watch guide back with new movie releases and returning streaming shows, from a family thriller set in the Jurassic period to a biopic he ranks among the year’s best. His picks are built to cut…
Canada’s booze ban was supposed to be leverage in the trade war with the United States. Economist Moshe Lander explains why it may have done the opposite, and why Canadians drinking Oregon whites and Californian reds were never really the…
USA Government UFO file dumps keep landing, five tranches deep now, and writer Chrissy Newton breaks down why most people still aren’t paying attention. Some of it is distraction. Some of it is real. Both, she argues, can be true…
Big Hollywood is back, with 70 millimetre releases selling out theatres weeks ahead of opening weekend. Mohit Rajhans of connects that comeback to something happening at the exact same time, a wave of first-time filmmakers using AI and new…
The five love languages sound simple, until you realize you and your partner might not speak the same one. Dr. Laurie Betito breaks down what gifts, quality time, and words of affirmation reveal about how people give and receive love.…
South Park turns twenty-nine this year, and this Throwback Thursday looks back at 1997, the year it premiered, and the debate over whether it reshaped the shows around it. The story includes a South Park VHS tape kept on a…
Grocery prices keep shrinking, rising, and confusing shoppers, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois has real answers. The food economist behind the Food Professor Podcast explains why a smaller chocolate bar still costs the same, and what that says about everything else…
Wellness routines do not need a fresh calendar page to start, and nutritionist Alyssa Bauman lays out why the next food bite or decision made today matters more than waiting for Monday. Electrolyte powders get a real explanation here: how…
South Park’s music history gets a full walkthrough on this Throwback Thursday, from the Chef Aid soundtrack to a Lady Gaga cover that ended up as a playable track in the video game Rock Band. The clips get bolder from…
The Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony is only half the conversation with film critic Richard Crouse, who also breaks down why Judge Judy is retiring the gavel to her son and what Morgan Freeman just released. A Teenager Named BourdainThe film…
South Park in 1997 gets the full origin story from Ed Conroy who remembers watching it as an underground show buried in a Friday midnight slot with zero infrastructure behind it. Anyone curious why South Park still lands the way…
Ritesh Kotak explains why more countries are rethinking how dependent they are on American tech companies, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the products. He breaks down the operating system, application, and data layers that quietly…
Adult cartoon satire gets a full breakdown from TV critic Bill Brioux, who explains why a two-dimensional character saying something outrageous lands so differently than a real person saying the same thing. Bill walks through the mechanics behind South Park’s…
Canada’s trade negotiations take a strange turn when illegal firearms trafficking becomes a bargaining chip, and political commentator Rob Breckenridge unpacks why a new survey shows Canadians want it on the table. Ontario’s decision to cut off social assistance for…
