1998 nostalgia hits differently once someone points out that it was actually the last safe year. Google arrived. Email became something everyone had. Cell phones showed up in pockets that had never held one before. And none of the bad…
Yes people leadership is what happens when the person in charge stopped needing to be challenged a long time ago. Nobody is going to stop you. That is exactly the problem. What does genuine help look like when the person…
Liberal majority government is new enough that the cabinet has barely unpacked, and it has already put a gas tax cut on the board and a Conservative caucus that cannot stop bleeding members. Mark Carney called it a new government.…
Too much stuff is a cycle, and the embarrassing part is how fast it closes. Five truckloads to the dump. An online auction. Everything gone. Moved from Calgary to Ottawa with a bed, some clothes, and a computer. Two years…
Plastic container safety gets worse every time you do the responsible thing. Every wash. Every microwave cycle. Every time you rinse it out and put it back in the cupboard because it still looks fine. There is a man with…
AI love bombing feels different from a friend agreeing with you. A friend you can discount. They like you. They are on your side. A machine has no side. And when it tells you that you are right, it feels…
Nuclear weapons control rests, constitutionally, with one person. In 1969 that person was drunk, incensed, and on the phone to the Joint Chiefs ordering a strike on North Korea. Is a patriot someone who follows the law or someone who…
Artemis mission photographs showed the far side of the moon with Earth in the background. They looked like a science fiction film. The astronauts said exactly that. A neuroscientist had the livestream running for ten straight days and barely slept…
Cancer treatment advances have changed what a diagnosis means, and most of us haven’t updated our mental model for it. Cancer was in dinosaur bones. It is as old as life itself, and it will not be fixed with a…
Good News Tuesday lands on a week that opened with a 3.9 earthquake near Ottawa and somehow still found four stories worth stopping for. A 90-year-old Ottawa woman celebrated her birthday with a CrossFit workout. Not a walk. Not a…
A random act of kindness arrived in a hot pink envelope at a CTV newsroom during a federal by-election special. It sat unopened all day. She assumed it was hate mail. Her producer finally cracked it open at eleven at…
Canadian government accountability is the question underneath a majority nobody seems to be celebrating. Mark Carney got his sweep, two floor crossers pushed him over the line, and the Prime Minister can now take a day off without bringing everything…
Buffalo Sabres playoffs are back, and they came prepared. The last time Buffalo made the postseason, Stephen Harper was Prime Minister, Minecraft had just launched, and homes cost $365,000. Fourteen years is a long time to wait. It is also…
Google Gemini personal intelligence is available in Canada starting today, and the thing it knows about you when switched on is genuinely surprising. It reads Gmail. It scans photos. It tracks YouTube and search history. It found a licence plate…
The Strait of Hormuz is thirty kilometres wide and it has held the world hostage before. Not since 1979. Since 1901, when a foreign company was handed three quarters of Iran’s land and told to take whatever oil it could…
