Dating after 50 puts a question on the table that nobody talks about out loud: is this chemistry, or is this indigestion? Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco sat with that question, and the answer is more honest than most people expect. What would it mean to realize the reason dating feels hard right now is…
Why we complain is rarely the story we tell ourselves about it. Leadership consultant Rachel Levy draws the line between the complaint you can hear and the one underneath it, and that second one is where the real conversation lives. What is it like to be in a room where someone is filling up with…
Spring break with a teenager and Bob Addison’s plan was simply: call it an adventure day. One rainy Vancouver Thursday later, there were axolotls, a Pink Floyd laser show in the planetarium, and a symphony that may or may not have been entirely drug-free. What does it feel like when a kid who just discovered…
DIY household hacks this useful are already sitting in your bathroom cabinet and kitchen drawer, waiting. Two things most people use for exactly one purpose. Both of them capable of considerably more. **The Garden Trick You Already Own** Irish Spring grated around a raised garden bed keeps rabbits, deer, and squirrels away on scent alone.…
Talking to strangers statistically works out better than anyone walking into it believes it will. Three hundred participants. A week-long scavenger hunt built around daily stranger approaches. The expected rejection rate versus the actual rejection rate is the kind of gap that makes you rethink a lot of small decisions. Something shifts when the barrier…
Stepping into a stranger’s conversation about vaccines in 2025 should have gone badly. The bartender doing the teasing was expected to get defensive. Instead he asked a genuine question. That gap between the expected reaction and the actual one is the whole conversation. There is something disorienting about watching a topic that ended relationships for…
LaGuardia Air Canada crash investigators are working through wreckage after the crash, and the question at the centre of it is a direct one. The plane landed. Why was there a fire truck in its path? Two Air Canada Jazz pilots died in the crash. Passengers helped each other escape and multiple remain in hospital.…
Project Hail Mary science hides something real that the movie barely touches, and Dr. Elaina Hyde found it. The microbes proposed for Venus’s atmosphere, the ice pockets theorized on the moon, these exist in science papers, not just screenplays. The fiction is almost the boring part. There’s something disorienting about learning that the strangest details…
Hospital-acquired infections affect 200,000 Canadians every year and kill 12,000 of them. These aren’t people who arrived critically ill. These are people who went in for something and picked up a superbug that antibiotics cannot touch. The cleanest-looking room in the building can still be carrying Clostridium difficile 90 days after the last infected patient…
Iran conflict costs are landing on a Saskatchewan farm before the planting season even starts. Trump said he’ll keep bombing for fun. The markets moved when he hinted at negotiations. The diesel bill didn’t. What It Costs When the World Stays Unstable Across the farm, this is the highest fuel and fertilizer on record, set…
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