Pumpkin spice coffee turns thirty four this year, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois reveals it was never supposed to exist in the first place. It started as a marketing mistake at Starbucks, and sales have dropped five to ten percent since…
Mercury is shriveling up like a grape in the sun, a raisin! Dr. Sam breaks down why this is happening. GUEST: Dr. Samantha Yammine, PhD is a Neuroscientist turned Science Communicator better known as Science Sam Originally aired on2026-09-17
A friend hands over a card. Ten tapes, practically free, just don’t bother cancelling and nobody comes looking. That was the pitch, and millions of people took it without asking the one question that actually mattered. The company built an…
Columbia House once had sixteen million members across North America, and music expert Eric Alper explains how a penny-CD mail order club grew into a genuine billion dollar business. The scale of it is far bigger than the nostalgic joke…
The Alberta separation referendum arrives in just over a month, and broadcaster Rob Breakenridge lays out what a new university report says it would actually cost, so you know the real numbers before the vote. Behind the scenes, a leaked…
Richard Crouse previews Heart of the Beast, a survival thriller starring Brad Pitt as a stranded special forces officer fighting to survive the Alaskan wilderness, and reveals who Pitt himself says was actually the biggest name on set. Brad Pitt…
Columbia House recently shut down, and Ed Conroy finally explains the business model that kept it running for decades after everyone assumed it should have collapsed. It came to Canada in 1979, and the reason it worked has nothing to…
Small business taxes get treated like an abstract line item until Corinne Pohlmann of CFIB puts real numbers on what businesses pay just to keep an employee on payroll, whether or not the business turns a profit that year. She…
Your tax bill outweighs every other expense Canadians complain about, and new research backs that up. Shane and Ryan break down why the conversation around cost of living keeps missing the actual number one line item. Ryan expected a return…
A stalled trade deal with the United States gets reframed here as something other than a loss. Jamie Ellerton argues Canadians have been treating a shrinking relationship with the US as the new ceiling on what’s possible, when it might…
A few years ago Nike could do no wrong, landing every collaboration and dominating sneaker culture. Shane and Ryan explain how quickly that changed, and just how steep the fall has actually been. Part of it traces back to a…
Tony Chapman breaks down why Canadian sports stars keep signing with American teams once free agency hits, and it isn’t only about the paycheque. He walks through how currency, cross-border taxes, and something harder to quantify, the pull toward playing…
Dr. Lee Kuhnle calls himself a skeptic, but a night spent stargazing with his young son left him with an experience he couldn’t fully explain. That moment sent him looking for actual math behind the question of alien life, and…
Tax fairness gets personal when Jared A. Walker explains why someone who inherits five million dollars can pay less tax than someone earning it paycheque by paycheque. He calls it a rigged structure, and the reason has nothing to do…
A phone notification during a work meeting nearly brought someone to tears tonight, over a video game that’s been sitting untouched for more than a decade suddenly getting a second life out of nowhere. That reaction leads into a real…
