Alberta separatism is the subject and the Premiers’ Conference in Manitoba just gave it a flashpoint. Danielle Smith and Wab Kinew had an exchange that nobody in the room expected. The court ruling that killed the separatist petition hinges on…
Throwback Thursday 2001 and the best Canadian comedy shows debate is louder than it sounds. Corner Gas has a case. So does SCTV. So does something from Calgary that only rock radio people from that era fully understand. There is…
Chicken prices in Canada are about to get worse. Sylvain Charlebois visited a processing plant today and had lunch with the CEO. They ate chicken. Two hundred and fifty chickens are harvested per minute at this facility. Canada’s supply management…
Trailer Park Boys reaches 182 countries on Netflix. Randy’s Cheeseburger Picnic Comedy Tour reaches 14 cities across Ontario and Quebec this summer. Pat Roach is driving between them in an RV. The show includes TPB trivia, cheeseburger picnic contests, songs,…
Montreal Canadiens playoffs took an unexpected turn before anyone predicted them happening at all. Victor Findlay has called every game of this run in English on TSN Radio Montreal and still finds it hard to believe. In December 2024 the…
Entertainment news covers a boffo return to movie theatres, the first James Bond video game in over a decade, and a new Dustin Hoffman film about a piano tuner who becomes a safe cracker. Bond Has a New Video Game.…
Canadian comedy history runs deeper than most people realise. Ed Conroy has a working theory about two parallel traditions running since 1970, and Trailer Park Boys sits at the end of one of them. The first tradition is hoser comedy,…
Online shopping returns take a strange turn in tonight’s opener. A woman ordered five-hundred-dollar jeans from Holt Renfrew. The store sent the wrong pair. She sued for three hundred and thirty dollars in compensation for the inconvenience of completing the…
AI subscription costs are changing and not in the direction anyone hoped. The pay-by-workload model is replacing the all-you-can-eat subscription, and it looks a lot like the early internet. Carmi Levy maps the problem precisely. You replace a fifty-thousand-dollar human…
Punk rock and its community are the subject, and the perspective comes from someone who has been in it for forty-six years. Paul Gott started the Montreal band the Ripcordz in 1980 thinking he was already too old for it.…
Online shopping returns open the conversation and land somewhere unexpected. The Holt Renfrew jeans story, five hundred dollars, wrong pair sent, three hundred and thirty dollars in compensation sought in court, is the starting point. The real argument underneath it…
UFO orbs are the subject and the newly released US government files go back further than most people realize. The phenomenon predates flying saucers by years. WWII Allied pilots called them Foo Fighters: strange lights and orbs following aircraft over…
Artificial general intelligence is what AI companies say they are building. Engineered super children are Silicon Valley’s plan for when that AI takes over. Greg Fish explains why both ideas have the same problem. CRISPR can edit one gene at…
Canada military procurement made a move this week. Canada is looking to buy a surveillance plane built on a Bombardier airframe with Saab technology. Richard Shimooka says the purchase could be scrapped. The US asked Canada to stop borrowing American…
Heavy metal community is the subject and the argument is simple. The music sounds aggressive. The culture is not. Ryan O’Donnell has been to hundreds of shows and never seen a mosh pit that did not stop when someone fell.…
