The companies warning the world that AI needs to slow down are the same ones still selling access to it. Matthew de Mota, research director at the Canadian Shield Institute, untangles how much of that warning is genuine and how…
Meal plans for a harvest crew. Diagnosing a broken combine. Auditing hockey ice time for an entire rural league. Lesley Kelly’s actual list of AI use cases doesn’t look like anything from a tech keynote, and that’s exactly the point.…
Ian Lee makes the case that taxes, not groceries or housing, are the actual biggest expense for working Canadians, and explains why that conversation almost never comes up compared to gas or grocery prices. Ian points to a specific example…
Jessica Moorhouse treats September like a financial reset point, the same way she once treated the start of a new school year. With just under four months left in the year, she explains why this window makes it easier to…
One Phone Call, Five Strangers Offering Help One call to a hotel front desk in Newfoundland was supposed to end at a corporate voicemail. Instead it turned into five or six people volunteering their own time and contacts, no hesitation,…
Superstition shows up in more places than black cats and broken mirrors. Shane runs through a long list of small, unconscious habits people carry every day, from picking lottery numbers based on birthdays to refusing to wash a lucky mug…
A US official is telling Canada to tone down its rhetoric, and Andrew Caddell has a specific list of reasons why that message rings hollow. He runs through Pete Hoekstra’s own past comments, including a profanity-laced tirade at the National…
One candidate wanted to face a Democrat in the general election. The path he allegedly chose to get there involved planting evidence on someone from his own party, and it did not go the way he planned. Forty thousand fans…
Long before the last kid moves out, Dr. Laurie Betito says the empty nest has already been happening in small doses for years. She traces how those early separations quietly shape how parents react when the real one finally arrives.…
This week’s watch list runs from a witch sequel with a devoted following to a medieval uprising and a rock reunion decades in the making. Steve Stebbing walks through what is actually worth your time this weekend, and what falls…
Jeffrey Rosenthal has a personal stake in this question. He was born on a Friday the 13th, and every time someone calls the date unlucky, it feels a little bit personal. So he did what a statistics professor does: he…
Ben Harrison explains what keeps people coming back to TIFF year after year, including attendees well into their seventies and eighties who treat it as an annual tradition. It isn’t really about the movies themselves, he says. It’s the friendships…
At this year’s festival season, Mohit Rajhans noticed something that does not quite add up. Filmmakers are warning about how dangerous AI technology could be, while using it at the same time to make the projects they are most excited…
Twenty five years after September 11th, the hosts compare notes on where they were that morning, and the gap between those old enough to remember it and those who were not born yet. One documentary estimate puts a number on…
Food inflation is coming, but not for the reason most people assume. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois breaks down a quiet, unwritten pricing rule grocers follow every year, and why the months right before and after it hit the hardest at checkout.…
