SMS blasters are industrial-grade cybercrime tools manufactured and sold specifically to compromise phones at scale. Rob Beggs says one is enough to take out the real cell towers in a parking lot and replace them without anyone noticing. The text…
Tax refund season has a predictable problem: the money gets spent mentally before it ever arrives. Jessica Moorhouse says writing it down before it lands changes the outcome. Her ratio is 80 to 90 percent toward something responsible and 10…
Federal public servant wages are at the centre of a fight that Andrew Caddell says tells you something about where the government’s priorities actually are. A New Governor General and a Wage War Mark Carney is expected to announce a…
Star Wars Day lands on a Friday and Ryan O’Donnell has a theory he has been sitting with since he was a kid. The best peanut butter and jelly sandwich is your recipe. You could have an objectively better sandwich…
The corn flake was an accident. Tony Chapman says what Kellogg’s built from that accident was one of the most effective kid marketing systems ever put on a grocery store shelf. Cereal was shelved at grocery cart height on purpose.…
BC gas prices have been above $2 a litre for a long time. Ryan Price says watching Ontario treat $1.75 as a crisis has been an experience. Victoria sits at $2.12 for regular gasoline, a number Ryan Price says reflects…
The Strait of Hormuz carried 20 million barrels of oil per day before the war. Ian Wereley says that number is down 95%, and the knock-on effects are landing everywhere from hospital supply rooms to farm fields. The strait moves…
May 1st is the start of summer movie season and Steve Stebbing says the lineup is already delivering. Three Movies, One Very Strong Warning Devil Wears Prada 2 reunites Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci and Steve…
Love bombing is not about the gifts or the attention. Dr. Laurie Betito says it is about the motive and the pattern behind them. Someone coming on fast with intense affection, constant praise, promises, and grand gestures early in a…
Vitals is a solo show running May 2 to 10 at Factory Theatre in Toronto, and Dr. Janet McMordie says the question at the centre of it is one medicine does not answer well enough. The show follows Anna, a…
Heart cancer is so rare it shows up in less than 1% of autopsies. Cancer cells pass through the heart constantly. Dr. Samantha Yammine says scientists have finally found a clue about why it almost never takes hold there. A…
A McGill University study on young people aged 17 to 23 and their relationship with AI stopped Mohit Rajhans cold. He says the adults in the room have been having the wrong conversation. The study is not showing a generation…
Comfort movies are not about quality. They are about the feeling you already know is coming before you press play. The hosts break down what actually makes a movie feel like a warm hug: the director who casts the same…
Seasonal allergies affect up to 20% of the population. Moshe Ben-Shoshan says a lot of people who think they have them do not, and the difference between an allergy and an intolerance changes everything about how you treat it. True…
Grocery prices have not dropped. But Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says Canadians have stopped being caught off guard by them, and that shift matters. The panic that defined grocery shopping four years ago has given way to something different. Dr. Sylvain…
