The clip economy is not just about shorter videos. It is about a generation forming opinions, making arguments, and consuming news from content that has been stripped of everything that makes it accurate. Mohit Rajhans calls it the clip economy:…
The Price is Right changed hosts in 2007 for the first time in over thirty years, and a man from Grand Prairie, Alberta made it memorable for Canadians before the year was out. Patrice Massa missed his showcase bid by…
Canadian baby formula prices are up 70% in five years. There are still shortages. And the only plant producing baby formula in Canada ships most of what it makes to China and the United States. That plant cost $380 million…
Protein added to chips. Protein added to milk that already has protein. A Costco chocolate milk that flies off the shelves. The marketing is working, but the nutrition math is messier than the labels suggest. Alyssa B from cuts…
Alberta’s Premier put a number on separation this week: $170 billion in federal debt as Alberta’s opening share, before accounting for everything the federal government currently handles. Rob Breakenridge says a new poll shows more Canadians now view Alberta leaving…
In 2007, Stephen Harper was leading a conservative minority government, George W. Bush was in his second term, and Afghanistan was dominating the news. Politicians were speaking about Arctic sovereignty without calling each other names. Nothing was done about it…
The Price is Right is the definition of game show in most people’s heads, and according to BuzzerBlog’s Cory Anotado, that didn’t happen by accident. Hidden inside Cliffhangers, one of the show’s most dramatic pricing games, is a trick Bob…
Canadian films are landing at the box office, and the question nobody expected to be asking is whether this country is ready to actually celebrate the people who made them. The Knight Who Should Be LutherKing Charles tapped Idris Elba…
Internet memes turned 2007 into year zero — and the evidence starts with a cat, a cheeseburger, and intentionally terrible spelling. Ed Conroy connects the cultural nostalgia of Bob Barker’s final Price Is Right era to the moment the internet…
Bob Dylan is 85 and just announced more tour dates. The Beach Boys are out with Mike Love at 85. Paul Simon is 84, Randy Bachman is 82, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton are both 80. They are all on…
The optimization industry needs one thing before it can sell you anything: your belief that you are not enough. Tony Tedesco has decided not to provide it. Tony talks through what actually earns his attention in a feed built to…
Canada economy recession talk is landing at the same moment a beloved discount chain is rising from the ashes of Hudson’s Bay. The hosts are not sure that is a coincidence. Zellers, Loyalty Points, and the Nostalgia Economy A Quebec…
Oil inventories are at historic lows. Demand is strong. The price keeps dropping. Dan McTeague says the futures market is being driven by headlines, not reality, and the pain at the pump is far from over. Dan breaks down why…
Zellers relaunch Canada has two new Ontario locations and a plan to go national slowly. Bruce Winder has questions about whether slowly is fast enough. Bruce traces the structural challenges facing the new Zellers: limited buying power at three locations,…
Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most surveilled properties on earth. Dr. Lee Kuhnle wants to know why the footage never quite delivers. Lee walks through decades of ownership, research, and television production, including the defence-funded program that quietly paid…
