Divorce finances start with a separation agreement and end somewhere much more expensive. The legal framework splits assets fairly. Fair and affordable turn out to be two different things. The family home is where this lands hardest. One parent keeps…
Canadian expressions are invisible until someone from outside names them. With F1 weekend pulling visitors into Montreal from around the world, the hosts asked the question: what do we say that sounds completely normal to us and completely baffling to…
Alberta’s separation talk is getting louder, and a man who organized Quebec’s 1980 referendum is watching closely. Andrew Caddell has seen this before. The phrases are familiar. The math is not. He organized on the ground and found the people…
Three weird news stories make up this episode, and each one gets worse the more you think about it. A Texas man drove a Cybertruck into a lake. His citation was for not having a boat licence. A Michigan couple’s…
What to watch this weekend covers six picks and a real argument: whether audiences have been permanently conditioned out of blockbuster excitement, with a new Star Wars in theatres as the test case. Horror on the Highway and a Heist…
Humans in the loop only works as a safeguard if the humans know they are in one. Right now, across industries, most of them do not. Mohit Rajhans points to a coffee chain that pulled its AI automation entirely after…
Canada has an airport drug smuggling problem, and it starts with the people loading your bags. Avery Haines found that corrupt employees have been switching bag tags, routing narcotics through the luggage of ordinary travelers who have no idea. Sixteen…
iCloud phishing scams are targeting Canadians with messages so convincing they fooled a cybersecurity analyst’s own mother. The pitch is simple: your storage is full, pay four dollars or lose your photos. One click hands scammers your account, your contacts,…
1983 brought Mario, the chicken nugget, and the Swatch Watch. A trivia game on air reveals all of them and gets one answer spectacularly wrong. The clues come one at a time: shoulder pads as the worst fashion trend, Ford…
Swatch watch saved the Swiss watch industry in 1983. Forty-plus years later, a Swatch collaboration just made an Audemars Piguet accessible to mere mortals. A Royal Oak from Audemars Piguet starts at $35,000 Canadian and you cannot just walk into…
Food policy expert Sylvain Charlebois explains how extended producer responsibility fees are adding hidden costs to grocery prices. He speaks with Shane Hewitt on Shane Hewitt & The Nightshift about how these fees are passed on to consumers. Connect with…
Food inflation in Canada has a hidden driver nobody is talking about. Ontario just charged food manufacturers a billion dollars through it. You are paying that bill. The Extended Producer Responsibility fee was designed to push the food industry toward…
Polymarket lets you bet on wars, missile strikes, and how many soldiers will die. A finance professor says it is gambling, not a market, and the difference matters. Vincent Grégoire, Canada Research Chair in Finance and Technology at HEC Montréal,…
Alberta separation is no longer just a whisper. A court-blocked petition, a rushed committee meeting, and a premier’s televised address are all arriving at once. Rob Breakenridge says the court stepped in last week and killed the separatist petition, leaving…
Swatch watch was born in 1983. In 2026, people are lining up at 5am at malls across Canada to buy one they could just wait for. The Swatch collaboration with Audemars Piguet produced a $560 Canadian pocket watch. It is…
