The Pablo Escobar and El Mencho comparison lands differently once you hear the Colombia data. Violence dropped significantly after Escobar was killed in 1993. That is true. Colombia’s cocaine exports are now four or five times higher than they were at the time. Also true, and it complicates the whole story. Jean Daudelin’s explanation: killing…
Movie tourism just turned your watchlist into a travel bucket list. You can rent the actual cottage from Heated Rivalry on Airbnb right now for $248.10 a night in Muskoka, and that price is almost certainly 10 times lower than it should be. Downton Abbey’s filming location became one of Britain’s top tourist attractions the…
Canadian TV nostalgia for Electric Circus hits different when you realize nobody in charge thought it should work. You got an invite, you paid your own way to Toronto, you showed up at those garage doors on Queen Street, and the camera found you. No filter. No preview. No control. The budget was essentially nothing.…
Buggy software frustrates you, and the people who shipped it felt the same way when they sent it. You open your new laptop and a folder flickers, disappears, comes back wrong. You do the update and something that worked yesterday stops working. This isn’t your device aging out. This is a decision someone made before…
AI and job satisfaction are moving in opposite directions and most workplaces haven’t noticed yet. You finish the day having produced more than you ever could alone. You also finish it without the feeling that you did anything. A Harvard research study called the Progress Principle found that people who feel they accomplished something each…
Letters to your kids about who they are before you have to leave them. You’ve probably thought about it. Maybe you started. Sunny Dhillon started writing his because a racist incident at a playground in Ottawa scared his daughter in kindergarten, and he knew exactly what she was about to carry. When Sunny was growing…
CIA secret operations history has a documented file titled Happy Days. It’s 1959. Indonesia. The CIA wants to discredit a foreign leader named Sukarno, so they find a lookalike, film a fake sex tape, screen it internally, and conclude that nobody will believe it. The operation that was too unbelievable even for a propaganda campaign…
Youth career advice usually sounds like a plan. Tony Chapman’s version starts earlier and goes somewhere different. His mom rented him the pitcher for his lemonade stand, made him calculate profit margins on Kool-Aid concentrate, figure out how many cups per glass, and walk to the park where it was sunny before she’d let him…
Career college in Canada has a number most people haven’t heard and it’s worth stopping on. 71% of graduates go directly into a field related to their training. The average student is in their 30s, has children, and is making a deliberate choice to retrain, not falling back on something. One to five o’clock every…
Canadian athlete funding is worth having and both people in this conversation agree on that. What they don’t agree on is whether the ask being made right now deserves to be taken seriously. Two days after Milan Cortina ended, the Canadian Olympic Committee called for more money. Jamie Ellerton’s read: cheap and lazy. The last…
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