A small-town Ontario mayor walked into a thrift store and found something with his own face on it, built for exactly one purpose. He’s decided to keep it in his office instead of getting rid of it, which says more…
The way a couple was affectionate, or wasn’t, tends to resurface decades later in their own relationships. Dr. Laurie Betito explains how early modeling shapes adult patterns around intimacy, and why one partner always making the first move can quietly…
Steve Stebbing runs through this week’s new releases and makes the case for bringing back a kind of theater most people have forgotten existed. New Releases Worth a Look A true-story FBI thriller, a vertigo-inducing sequel about people trapped on…
Matchmaking sounds like a favour until someone gets hurt, and Jen Kirsch has watched it go wrong from every angle. Friends turned into third parties, blind dates built on nothing more than a shared taste in music. When does connecting…
Prediction markets are showing up inside Canadian banking apps, and Vincent Gregoire, Canada Research Chair in Finance and Technology at HEC Montreal, unpacks what changes once real money and real regulation get involved. The line between investing and gambling turns…
Where does AI trust actually start, and where does it stop. Mohit Rajhans has spent his career inside this tech and still isn’t sure where that line sits, whether it’s an autonomous car changing lanes in traffic or a chatbot…
Yesterday’s windstorm in Toronto left more than just chaos on the sidewalks. Stadium scaffolding built for an upcoming AC/DC show took real damage, and there’s cleanup work ahead before the concert can go on as planned. The storm talk gives…
Some retail pairings work and some quietly disappear. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, food economist and host of the Food Professor Podcast, walks through the ones that stuck, like Starbucks inside Western Canadian grocery chains and McDonald’s inside Walmart, and the ones…
The five second rule feels like something everyone has just always known, but Dr. Keith Warriner, microbiologist, traces its actual origin back centuries, through a Mongol emperor, a 1960s TV cook, and a decades-old novel, before it ever touched a…
1988 was the year CDs officially overtook vinyl records in sales, and a CBC report from that exact era laid out why listeners were making the switch, citing everything from surface noise to frequency range. The debate over which format…
Rob Breakenridge breaks down why Canadians keep learning about their own trade negotiations from American officials before their own prime minister says a word. A recent round of comments from a US cabinet member has become the dominant story in…
Richard Crouse rounds up three unexpected entertainment stories this week, starting with an actor best known for period drama who’s now dropping rap albums under a stage name most people have never heard. Matthew Crawley Is Now a RapperTom Hardy…
Ed Conroy, founder of Retro Ontario, makes the case for cassette tapes over CDs for one very specific reason that still holds up among certain music fans today. It is a small detail that says a lot about why physical…
Something about a needle in a groove still beats digital, at least according to Carmi Levy, who breaks down why vinyl sales have grown by double digits every single year despite streaming’s total dominance over the market. What gets lost…
Victoria Matiash traces the current wave of NHL player movement back to a single moment in 2022, when one star told his general manager exactly what he wasn’t willing to wait for anymore. She explains why that conversation reshaped how…
