From wildflower yards to self-cleaning robot vacuums, this week’s DIY conversation goes places you won’t expect. The neighbours want a perfect lawn. The bees want you to stop. Chaos gardening is the TikTok trend where you scatter wildflower seeds and…
A new study on stress and memory just landed — and it reframes what’s actually happening in your brain when you blank at the worst possible time. The research shows that acute stress doesn’t just make recall harder. It limits…
A technical recession, a denied emergency debate, and a prime minister who promised less red tape. The Monday panel takes stock of where things actually stand. Showing up is not the same as delivering. Mark Carney visited a Toronto synagogue…
Before the price increase, young Canadians were already skipping condoms. Now the math gets harder. Let’s Stop AIDS surveys young people across Canada every year. The numbers from the most recent Sex Lives Report are not what most people expect:…
Swiping past someone because their profile opens with a political slogan is now a dating strategy — and it might be the rational one. Tony Tedesco does it. Not because he disagrees, but because leading with that energy is a…
Toronto Police just pulled three and a half million dollars worth of counterfeit jerseys out of a west-end warehouse, and the story of how it happened says more about who runs this city right now than the bust itself. It…
Thrift store summer is not a trend. It is a rational response to the cost of everything right now. Eighty-three percent of Albertans say thrifting makes economic sense given current conditions, and Habitat for Humanity Restore locations in Calgary are…
Friday night news that earns its place at the table: a truck driver hauled a trailer from Embrun to Ottawa missing ten of its twelve wheels, with no brakes and an unsecured fastener on the two that remained. He was…
Claude Lemieux death hit Quebec like a loss in the family. Because for francophones across the province, that is exactly what it was. Andrew Caddell was in Kamaraska when the news landed. He describes watching Lemieux carry the torch into…
Love as a verb is not a metaphor. According to Dr. Laurie Betito, it is the only definition that actually sustains a relationship. Saying I love you is easy. The actions behind it, reliability, consistency, listening, showing up during the…
What to watch this weekend starts with a nineteen-year-old YouTuber who turned an internet horror phenomenon into a feature film for A24. Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, drops a furniture store owner into an infinite maze of yellow rooms and…
Canada AI policy has a tell. The country boasts about what it is going to do. It does not yet have victories to boast about. Mohit Rajhans lays out what is actually missing: no unified national framework, no track record…
Critical thinking is not a soft skill. It is the skill. And right now, something is eroding it in a generation that never learned to live without AI. Dr. Perry Adler has spent decades working with teenagers. What he is…
Canadian comedy shows anchor Throwback Thursday 2001, and the hosts want to know which ones belong on the list. Trailer Park Boys, Shoresy, Kids in the Hall, Red Green, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes are all in the conversation.…
Food safety is the subject and it starts with pizza pops. Two outbreaks in three years: one E. coli, one salmonella. Dr. Keith Warriner explains how something most people assume is safe to cook at home went wrong twice. The…
