Canada-US trade talks fell apart last week, and Matt Gurney says the government’s response reveals a much older problem than this one negotiation. He walks through why Ottawa treats information as something to protect rather than share, and why Canadians…
A stranger’s cute baby video should not have been controversial. Bob Addison left one comment on it anyway, and within hours people who have never met him were calling him a Karen and telling him to calm down. What did…
A funeral is not supposed to be the best thing you attend all year, and yet that is exactly how Shane describes this one, for a 92 year old great uncle, capped off by two of the most remarkable speeches…
A milk carton, some string, and a plan borrowed straight from a cartoon coyote. That’s how Andy tried to trap a squirrel that wouldn’t leave his yard alone, and the outcome says a lot about exactly how far these animals…
A country with million dollar missiles is getting hit back by drones that cost a fraction of that, and Richard Shimooka explains why that gap is reshaping what modern warfare actually looks like. The math used to make sense. It…
Canada pulled out of trade talks with the United States this weekend rather than accept a bad deal, and Lesley Kelly and Jimmy Zoubris reacted from opposite directions before landing somewhere unexpected. Lesley admits she felt punked reading the headlines…
Trade headlines and tariff threats have a way of making everyone want to check their bank balance at 2am, and Anita Bruinsma explains why this particular wave of uncertainty feels a lot like one Canadians already lived through and got…
A prime minister stood up this weekend and said Canada had done nothing wrong in these trade talks. That claim gets tested against the same government’s own record on military spending and energy investment, and the gap between the talking…
Ryan O’Donnell tries to convince Shane that his excitement for Christmas and Ryan’s love of Magic the Gathering are basically the same nerdy habit, and Shane is not having it, kicking off a debate that somehow lands on a much…
A power deal signed in the 1960s looked reasonable to both sides at the time. Then oil prices moved, and one province found a way to multiply its profits tenfold while the other kept collecting the exact same twenty million…
If you have ever sat on hold trying to cancel something you no longer want, this one is going to make your blood boil in a way you did not expect. It starts small, a gym that will not let…
Steve Stebbing has a theory he tests twice this week, once on a low budget thriller and again on a big budget superhero series. The verdict might surprise you. Three New Releases and the Film That Proves the PointA sixth…
Single motherhood by choice looks nothing like the stereotype, and the fertility numbers behind it are more urgent than most people think. Dr. Ashley Guttman lays out why so many Canadian families now start with one parent by design, and…
Math skills are quietly changing now that AI can prove research-level problems that professional mathematicians spent decades trying to solve on their own. Trefor Bazett looks at what’s gained, and what quietly gets lost, when a calculation that used to…
The AI communication problem starts long before you open the app, according to Mohit Rajhans. Most organizations are handing employees tools without any real plan, and by the end of this conversation you’ll know why so many of those tools…
