It’s Throwback Thursday and the inflation conversation gets personal fast: in 1995, a large pepperoni pizza and a two-litre Coke ran twelve to fifteen dollars as a combo deal. Ground beef was $1.99 a pound. A big box of cereal…
Food inflation in Canada is running hotter than every other G7 country, and food professor Sylvain Charlebois says the reasons are closer to home than most Canadians want to admit. Charlebois breaks down what’s actually driving prices higher right now:…
Retail analyst Bruce Winder joins on Amazon Prime Day to break down what the numbers actually say about where Canadian consumers are right now and whether the deals are what they appear to be. Adobe is forecasting twenty-six billion dollars…
Columnist and commentator Rob Breakenridge joins for two stories: what King Charles’s voluntary tax disclosure actually reveals about royal finances, and what’s happening to the Corb Lund coal petition in Alberta. King Charles paid eleven million pounds in income tax…
Technology analyst Carmi Levy joins to talk about where restaurant automation is actually heading, and what gets lost when the entry-level job disappears from the equation. Robots are already in restaurants, following servers from kitchen to table, handling the physical…
Film critic Richard Crouse joins for two conversations covering the week’s biggest entertainment stories and a pair of cocktails built for a superhero movie night. A Single Line of Code Nearly Killed PixarToy Story 5 just posted the second biggest…
Historian and Retro Ontario founder Ed Conroy joins to trace the stuffed crust pizza back to 1995, the celebrity fast food wars that produced it, and why the nostalgia for that era says more about being a kid than it…
You miss Pizza Hut. You’d go back. You just wouldn’t go back next week. Ryan O’Donnell thinks that’s the whole problem, and that he’s seen it before. The parallel he draws is not about food. It’s about what convenience does…
That device Ishmael Kone was holding on the stretcher after breaking his leg at the FIFA tournament wasn’t a vape pen. It’s called the green whistle, and it’s a medical pain tool that more people probably wish they’d had when…
Green whistle pain relief became the most searched phrase the moment Ishmael Kone waved from a stretcher mid-exit at the FIFA tournament, and Dr. Mitch Schulman, emergency room physician and chief medical correspondent for CTV, is here to explain exactly…
Conflict of interest in Canadian politics is back in the conversation, and Jamie Ellerton and John Tory Jr. are here to sort out what it means when the Prime Minister has been recused from 17 deliberations and nobody’s saying exactly…
FIFA World Cup 2026 is putting Canada on the world stage, and the cost is real: BC alone is on the hook for up to $114 million after revenue offsets, and a two-hot-dog-two-pop combo just got discounted to $51.75. The…
Soviet espionage during the Cold War was not paranoia. It was infrastructure, and Lee Kuhnle lays out exactly what that looked like from the inside. Kim Philby was recruited as a journalist in the 1930s, embedded himself in British intelligence…
Sports dating Toronto is having a moment, and Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch are here to explain why major sporting events are doing something dating apps have never figured out. Sociologists call it collective effervescence: strangers sharing the same emotion…
FIFA World Cup Canada is handing brands a masterclass in constraint-as-opportunity, and Tony Chapman says most of them are missing it. The organizations spending millions on stadium naming rights are watching those names disappear for the duration of the tournament.…
