Canada’s sovereign investment fund is the latest answer to a question the country keeps getting wrong. While federal officials announced a port expansion in Montreal, a bridge sustaining the Port of Vancouver collapsed because no one had maintained it. Matt…
John Garrett was the broadcaster who answered a desperate call with 20 minutes to airtime and asked no questions. He passed away suddenly this week. Bob Addison tells it straight. It was 8:45, the show started at 9:06, and Addison…
Spring yard tips and a cybercrime bounty program make for an unlikely pairing, but both come down to the same idea: things you already have access to are more useful than you think. Your Orange Peel Is Working Harder Than…
What makes you feel at home is the question that opened a conversation this week, and it started with a priest named Father Paul from Tanzania standing in a park with the sun on his face saying, today I can…
The NASA Artemis Lego set keeps selling out, and the conversation it opened is about something bigger than a model on a shelf. The hosts ask what happened to science as something you bring home and do yourself. The specific…
Online shopping fraud in Canada hit approximately $640 million in 2024, and Bruce Winder says the vector is not always an obvious scam. Sometimes it is a website that looks exactly like the one you meant to visit. A convincing…
Diesel fuel prices are already painful for Canadian truck operators, and Dan McTeague says the number people are watching at the pump is not the number that tells the real story. The supply that kept prices stable is gone and…
Car dealerships have survived a hundred years of disruption, but Lorraine Sommerfeld says their reputations have taken a serious hit since the pandemic and consumers are increasingly choosing to just stay away. The frustration is not really about the car.…
Alpine divorce is the term circulating online for something that is not a divorce at all. Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch say it is abandonment with a trendy name, and the conversation it opens is about what a partner does…
Canada’s new $25 billion sovereign wealth fund was announced today, and the panel’s first question is the one nobody in Ottawa is rushing to answer: who gets to the front of the line? The Investment Canada Needs and the History…
Trail camera surveillance has become a break-and-enter tool, and the reason it works is the same reason it is hard to detect. Mark Mendelson says criminals are not parking on your street anymore. They are already in your tree. Camouflaged…
AI in everyday life is no longer something you opt into. Mohit Rajhans makes the case that it arrived through your last app update, and most people have no idea it is already at the table. WhatsApp. Instagram. Facebook. The…
The Game Boy turns 36 this year, and the throwback is not just about the hardware. It is about what changed the moment a screen showed up in the back seat of the family car. Before handheld gaming, road trips…
Canada US trade negotiations are at a crossroads, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says the messaging coming out of Ottawa is conflicting enough to be a problem on its own. Mexico has overtaken Canada as the top US trading partner in…
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to ask what actually changed the moment handheld gaming arrived in the back seat of the family car. Carmi Levy has a clear answer: we gained peace, and we lost the window. Before…
