Space movies like Project Hail Mary do not come around often and the box office proved it. The biggest opening day for an original film in years. Sold out on the first weekend before some people could get tickets. So here is the list of what holds up while you wait for your seat. The…
What to watch this weekend starts with Morgan Freeman narrating a visually stunning dinosaur documentary on Netflix called The Dinosaurs. Ryan O’Donnell has confirmed he would listen to Morgan Freeman narrate essentially anything, which is a reasonable position to hold, and this one is actually great. The Murdochs is the other recommendation and it is…
Money and relationships break down the same way every time: two people who never had the conversation discover they are not on the same page and by then it has been years. Dr. Laurie Betito says talking about money carries the same taboo as talking about sex and most couples treat it the same way,…
Declining mental health in Canada has a specific number attached to it now. Statistics Canada measured how many people reported feeling happy and interested in life. In 2015 it was 78 percent. By 2024 it had fallen to 61 percent. That is not a small shift. One in five Canadians was struggling with emotional health…
AI agents on your computer are already here and the checkbox most people ignore is the one that decides whether it touches one folder or everything you own. Mohit Rajhans has been watching this from the inside and his concern is not that the technology is bad. It is that the safety infrastructure around it…
Staged car collisions in Canada are up 400 percent and the friendly wave is one of the most common setups. Someone stops. They wave you out of the parking spot or through the intersection. You pull forward because a human being told you it was safe. Their partner hits you. And because you entered a…
Grocery store refund stories have a threshold moment and this one involves potato peelings. Tony cooked the potato. Then he checked the receipt. The price was wrong. He had no potato left, only the peelings, so he took the peelings back to the store as evidence and came home with 90 cents. The workers are…
Meal kit delivery versus groceries is a math problem until you go back through the weeks and find the ordering-in receipts. Three meals plus lunch supplies for $200 at the grocery store. Every ingredient used. Zero delivery orders that week. Clean. Then the honest comparison: on meal kit weeks, once or twice a week, about…
Maple washing is what happens when a grocery store uses the maple leaf to raise prices on a product that is not Canadian. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois has seen it in person: oranges labeled as Canadian, manager apologizes, next day the same shelf has the same oranges correctly labeled as Egyptian and priced 15 percent lower.…
Alberta referendum votes on October 19th are drawing a line that will be hard to ignore once it is drawn. Immigration. Constitutional reform. Separation on the table. Rob Breakenridge interviewed Danielle Smith this week and the question sitting underneath all of it was whether Alberta’s allies in this conversation exist in other provinces, and whether…
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