Film critic Steve Stebbing lays out a full weekend of picks, spanning theatres, streaming, and one music documentary he calls unmissable. A Gold Heist Steve Compares to One of His Favourite Films Ever Steve dives into a Depression-era survival story…
Dr. Christine Palmay pushes back on a common assumption heading into fall respiratory season: that being young and healthy means vaccines don’t really matter. She explains why that risk is lower, not absent, and what changes once flu, COVID, and…
Money expert Barry Choi breaks down why car loans have stretched from five years to eight, and what that actually does to the total price of a vehicle once the interest adds up over that much longer. He also exposes…
AI strategist Mohit Rajhans raises a question most people never think to ask when a tool starts personalizing their work and their inbox: what actually happens to everything you’ve built once you try to detach from it. That same personalization…
Psychologist Dr. Laurie Betito breaks down why so many people quit dating apps, only to come back a few months later no matter how burned out they were the first time. The Gender Gap Nobody’s Talking About Dr. Laurie unpacks…
What was it like to work in a music store? Ryan remembers HMV all too well… Originally aired on2026-09-16
Pumpkin spice coffee turns thirty four this year, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois reveals it was never supposed to exist in the first place. It started as a marketing mistake at Starbucks, and sales have dropped five to ten percent since…
Mercury is shriveling up like a grape in the sun, a raisin! Dr. Sam breaks down why this is happening. GUEST: Dr. Samantha Yammine, PhD is a Neuroscientist turned Science Communicator better known as Science Sam Originally aired on2026-09-17
A friend hands over a card. Ten tapes, practically free, just don’t bother cancelling and nobody comes looking. That was the pitch, and millions of people took it without asking the one question that actually mattered. The company built an…
Columbia House once had sixteen million members across North America, and music expert Eric Alper explains how a penny-CD mail order club grew into a genuine billion dollar business. The scale of it is far bigger than the nostalgic joke…
The Alberta separation referendum arrives in just over a month, and broadcaster Rob Breakenridge lays out what a new university report says it would actually cost, so you know the real numbers before the vote. Behind the scenes, a leaked…
Richard Crouse previews Heart of the Beast, a survival thriller starring Brad Pitt as a stranded special forces officer fighting to survive the Alaskan wilderness, and reveals who Pitt himself says was actually the biggest name on set. Brad Pitt…
Columbia House recently shut down, and Ed Conroy finally explains the business model that kept it running for decades after everyone assumed it should have collapsed. It came to Canada in 1979, and the reason it worked has nothing to…
Small business taxes get treated like an abstract line item until Corinne Pohlmann of CFIB puts real numbers on what businesses pay just to keep an employee on payroll, whether or not the business turns a profit that year. She…
Your tax bill outweighs every other expense Canadians complain about, and new research backs that up. Shane and Ryan break down why the conversation around cost of living keeps missing the actual number one line item. Ryan expected a return…
