AI in Canadian prisons is no longer hypothetical. Correctional Service Canada has handed $123,000 to Accenture to pilot the use of artificial intelligence in writing criminal profile reports, the foundational documents that shape how inmates are managed, what programs they…
Alberta separatists have a long memory for grievances and a short one for results. Matt Gurney, editor at Read the Line, brings a new piece arguing that Alberta conservatives have been one of the most effective political forces in Canadian…
Canadian consumer choices rarely get challenged from the inside, and that is exactly the problem. This conversation starts with recycling bags in Merrickville and ends up somewhere much bigger: why do Canadians keep accepting the options they are handed instead…
First time travel to a tropical destination has a way of dismantling opinions held for years, and Ryan O’Donnell arrived in Cabo San Lucas with a full set of them. He wanted experiences, not a beach chair. He wanted castles…
Home maintenance tips don’t get more overlooked than this one: draining your hot water tank once or twice a year could add years to its life, and almost nobody does it. Andy Baryer from HandyAndyMedia.com learned this the hard way…
Canadian car market selection has never really been a choice, and automotive journalist Lorraine Sommerfeld from lays out exactly why: Canada represents roughly ten percent of the US market, which means whatever America wants, Canada gets. The conversation starts…
Canadian content streaming funding has been a fight Canadian broadcasters have been losing for years, and the Monday panel digs into exactly what just happened: the CRTC ordered foreign streaming services to contribute to the Canada Media Fund, the government…
Divorce and child expenses are supposed to be settled in the separation agreement, but financial planner Anita Bruinsma says that document only takes you so far. What it cannot anticipate is the horseback riding hobby, the $300 hockey stick, or…
If you’ve ever wondered what you’d actually find if you stopped running from yourself, a darkness retreat is the most direct answer available. No light. No sound. No scroll. No signal that you’re doing it right. Just you, and whatever…
The middleman is gone. The manager who mentored the new hire, the salesperson with the Rolodex, the person who connected the question to the right answer. That role has been cut from business, from retail, and now from the conversation…
Trump has faced legal setbacks on tariffs. Forced labour as a justification for new trade measures has never appeared before in Canada-US negotiations. Andrew Caddell says it is a backdoor: a way to keep pressure on Canada and limit trade…
Six things are competing for your weekend. Three in theatres. Three on streaming. Steve Stebbing has seen all of them and has a clear order of priority. The Wayans Brothers, He-Man, and a Paul Rudd Music Drama Walk Into a…
AI can draft a resume. It can help translate one career into the language of another. What it cannot do, according to career development leader Candy Ho, is connect the dots of a life and help someone talk about themselves…
Social media does not show relationship conflicts, insecurity, ordinary bodies, or real intimacy. It shows curated vacations, idealized bodies, and romantic gestures. Dr. Laurie Betito calls it the comparison trap: measuring your actual relationship against someone else’s highly edited reality,…
Canada’s national AI strategy is optimistic, overdue, and built on a premise Vass Bednar says is materially incorrect: that low public trust in AI is a literacy problem that more access will fix. Bednar argues trust is low because the…
