Burnout doesn’t always look like exhaustion. Sometimes it’s the swear word slipping out mid-argument, or every driver on the road suddenly seeming like an idiot. University of Toronto psychology professor Steve Joordens says stress and burnout run on two very…
YouTube long-form videos have quietly taken over Friday nights, starting with an almost three-hour video of a stranger driving through the Swiss Alps with nothing but road noise in the background. It sounds like nothing should happen in it, and…
That small coiled wire running down a TV broadcaster’s neck has a real purpose, and it is also exactly what caused one meteorologist to completely lose it on live television. A prank loop played through his earpiece left him fighting…
Duty free stores tariffs and falling cross-border travel are hitting hard, and this Friday roundup asks whether the sympathy actually matches the situation. Decades of guaranteed foot traffic and built-in tax advantages meet a very different argument once the tourism…
Coyote vs Acme almost never made it to theatres, and Steve Stebbing explains the strange decision behind that near miss, along with two other movies worth the weekend and three shows worth catching up on before fall premieres take over.…
Relationship repair starts long before the fight ends, and Dr. Laurie Betito breaks down why couples who say they’re “just drifting” are usually describing a buildup of small, unresolved moments rather than one big rupture. Saying sorry is only the…
Municipal election turnout across Canada tells a strange story, and John Wright of Canada Pulse Insights explains why entire towns are handing mayors a new term without a single other name on the ballot. The seats that shape daily life…
Every AI answer lately sounds a little too nice, and educator Mohit Rajhans argues that isn’t a glitch. It’s the design working exactly as intended, and it says less about the machine than it does about what humans actually respond…
Voice actor Hans Wackershauser explains why raising your volume by even a small amount on camera can ruin an otherwise perfect take, while the exact same energy would land fine on a theatre stage. The microphone, he says, plays by…
News broke of Peter Cullen’s death, and this conversation opens with what he meant to a generation raised on his voice, including a much softer character than the one most people associate with him. From there it turns into Throwback…
A potash tariff sounds satisfying, but Dalhousie food professor Sylvain Charlebois maps out who actually pays for it. By the end you will see why turning off the potash, the oil, and the electricity is nowhere near as simple as…
A $332 million fund meant to promote national unity in Quebec instead turned into fictitious invoices and payments for work that never happened, and this conversation traces why that story from the Gomery Commission still gets dragged into arguments today.…
Lake Ontario renamed to Lake America is the kind of headline built to get a reaction, and journalist Rob Breakenridge explains why the timing might matter more than the joke itself. While the trolling dominates headlines, something else has gone…
Dolly Parton’s death set off a week of strange entertainment stories, and film critic Richard Crouse walks through the strangest ones. One involves a song nobody will hear for two decades. The other involves a real house from a Batman…
Peter Cullen’s death has hit lifelong fans harder than most people expected, and this Throwback Thursday traces where that voice actually came from, starting with a piece of advice from his brother that shaped how he played Optimus Prime for…
