The Canadian grocery rebate hits accounts this week and the gas tax comes off the pump. September is when one of those reverses, and the gap between now and then is exactly the size of a summer road trip. Good…
Disney Infinity Vision is the new premium format launching the same weekend as Avengers Doomsday. The full announcement is laser projection and premium audio. No other specifications have been confirmed. Dune Part III has the IMAX contract. What does it…
Welfare check calls go unanswered for a lot of reasons. In Ohio, the reason was a 91-year-old in her bedroom trying to beat her record. Police radioed it in. Nobody thought to ask which game. In Toronto, Drake filed the…
PDA in relationships is where two completely different upbringings end up in the same parking lot. One person reaches. The other one doesn’t. And somehow that ten seconds does more damage than anything else that happened that day. What does…
Kids using AI to get answers at school. Cheating, or just faster at figuring it out than the adults who wrote the rules? The guardrails are gone, and nobody agrees on who puts them back. There’s a thing about the…
New car prices in Canada are up almost 60% in six years, and Lorraine Sommerfeld says that number didn’t just change what people can afford. It changed how they feel about cars. Walking through a lot used to mean dreaming.…
What the moon can teach us is the part of our own story we cannot find anywhere down here, because this planet erased it. Every earthquake, every ocean, every million years of weather. The very forces keeping us alive have…
Pokemon throwback Thursday 1998 starts with a confession. The spelling on the show document said P-O-K-E-M-A-N. It has said that since 1998. Pokemon means pocket monsters. Mon means monster. For twenty-seven years, the pronunciation has been pocket dudes. Just guys…
MuchMusic is gone long enough now that people are finally understanding what it was. That is Bill Welychka’s theory and ten years of book signings have confirmed it. You need distance from something before you can really feel the weight…
Surveillance pricing grocery stores are not a future problem. Tests in the United States put 20 people in the same room buying the same product at the same time and found they paid different prices. Not because of a sale.…
Fashion labels teenagers claim as identity had to arrive from somewhere, and Bob Addison watched it happen in real time. One kid in Trail, BC came back from Portland in 1976 with the first Nikes anyone in that schoolyard had…
Pokemon card game competitive play has a world championship, a global tournament circuit, and kids making tens of thousands of dollars. Most adults still think it is a cartoon with some stuffies attached. Both of those things are true at…
Canadian NHL playoffs are here and the Oilers have been handed the simplest possible test going in. One point. Against the worst team in the entire league. The fact that Rob Breakenridge is nervous about it is either a bad…
1998 throwback Thursday lands on a year that felt safe and new at the exact same time. The Discman was still in your bag. Blockbuster still had a line on Friday night. Gas was 50 cents a litre. And Google…
Little Lorraine is a real place. Sixty people. A mine that exploded. A fishery that dried up. And then a man called Uncle Huey came back to town with a lobster boat and an offer of work for anyone who…
