In 2005 pop culture, you logged on, checked your email, and turned the computer off at the end of the day. Ed Conroy knows exactly when that era ended, and what ended it. YouTube launched that year, and before it,…
WKRP in Cincinnati, the fictional radio station from the classic CBS sitcom, is now a real station in Cincinnati, playing the same adult hits format the show’s characters once pretended to broadcast. Also real: a 38-year-old man from Sylvan Lake,…
Self-checkout ethics are more complicated than most people admit, and the conversation starts with a twenty-year-old monster truck confession. Ryan O’Donnell took a toy called Flash Fire from his friend Brady’s birthday party at approximately age six. He felt immediately…
Alberta separatism is in the news. Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead both question how much of it is Albertans and how much of it is being fed from outside the country. Lindsay Broadhead puts a number on baseline opposition: eight…
Self-checkout theft is not one conversation. The listener texts make that clear. A Brampton man allegedly swapped $97 baby formula for items priced under a dollar at four stores within an hour. Nearly $1,000 in product. Seven fraud charges. That…
Ted Turner passed away at 87. Bill Brioux says he was a yachtsman who won the America’s Cup, a broadcaster who turned small TV stations into a media empire, and a conservationist who ended up owning more than two million…
Conspiracy theories feel new because we encounter them in the moment. Dr. Lee Kuhnle says most of them are not new at all. The COVID and 5G network conspiracy had a near-identical version with H1N1 and 4G, and before that…
Tax planning Canada requires one uncomfortable truth to land first: CRA operates on a reverse onus. You have to prove them wrong, not the other way around. Evelyn Jacks says most people miss that, and most people also miss that…
K economy Canada is not a prediction. Tony Chapman says it is the current state, and the middle is disappearing faster than most people are willing to acknowledge. The K is the shape of it: upper bar thriving, lower bar…
AI medicine comes in two versions and most people are using the wrong one when they are sick at midnight. Specialist AI in oncology, antibiotic resistance research, and pandemic prevention is genuinely promising. Greg Fish writes about all of it.…
Good News Tuesday has a theory behind it: talk about good news and you find more of it. Cinco de Mayo on a Taco Tuesday is already a good start. Three strangers walking past a house in Merrickville stopped, walked…
Canada’s trade surplus is real and Matt Gurney will take it. He just wants to be honest about what it is: a bounce from external conditions, not a sign that the structural problems are solved. The economy is showing resilience…
Mental health week lands in early May for a reason. Pete Bombacci says suicide rates are highest in the spring, not at Christmas, and the social pressure that comes with warming temperatures is one of the leading contributors most people…
Motorcycle fuel economy is not something most people think about. Ryan O’Donnell did, and the numbers surprised him. Motorcycles average between 30 and 60 miles per gallon. Some models reach 100 MPG. A Honda Civic from 2023 to 2026 sits…
NHL draft lottery day handed Toronto the number one pick and a decision to make, all on the same afternoon. The Maple Leafs are expected to select Gavin McKenna with the top pick. That news arrives alongside reports from The…
