Pellet smoker season is here, and whether you’re new to the grill or years in, there are fundamentals most people skip. Ted Reader has been cooking over live fire his whole life. He’s got the tips that change everything. The…
Volcanoes in Canada last erupted 150 years ago. That fact should not be as reassuring as it sounds. George Kourounis makes his living inside craters and has thoughts on the difference between dormant and quiet. He has been on ropes…
Alberta pipeline talks are coming to a head, with a major announcement expected that will test whether what has been promised has anything behind it. The Prime Minister is arriving in Alberta to stand alongside Premier Danielle Smith and announce…
Montreal Grand Prix weekend is coming, and one particular group of workers is planning not to show up for it. According to the Montreal Gazette, exotic dancers in the city are planning to walk off the job on one of…
Stephen Colbert is leaving CBS on May 21st, comedy is under a microscope, and there is a horror movie in theaters right now that arrives from a completely unexpected direction. Comedy’s Hardest SecretThe Kevin Hart roast is the entry point,…
Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, and it did not blow its top. It blew its side, and the wall of water and debris that followed changed everything for everyone below it. In Canada, ash fell on cars…
Canadian community does not always look the way you expect it to. Sometimes it is 21 men eating eggs at seven in the morning on garbage day, no agenda, no minutes, just life. The group has been running for 17…
Gambling advertising in Canada is targeting the demographic least equipped to resist it. Steve Joordens explains exactly why, and what two bills in Parliament are trying to do about it. The brain science matters here. The limbic system, which chases…
Canadian life satisfaction is measuring something real and its provincial variation tells a more complicated story than any single headline can carry. The Astronauts Came Back. The Panel Asks Who Should Be Doing the Listening.The Artemis astronauts met Canada’s Prime…
Declassified UFO files released by the Pentagon on May 8th look explosive on the surface. Nathan Radke spent the better part of his weekend reading through them and came back with something more complicated. The 162 files from the FBI,…
Sports betting did not arrive to replace gambling. It arrived to replace the word. One listener’s text put a fine point on it: kids watching sports with their parents should be picking up lessons about teamwork, not learning what a…
Contagious yawning remains one of the most studied and least understood reflexes in human biology. A new finding about yawning in the womb just made the mystery harder to explain. Thirty-eight pregnant women at 28 to 32 weeks watched videos…
Quantum computers could break the encryption protecting every cryptocurrency on the planet. That is not a distant theory. It is an active scramble. Blockchains link transactions through cryptographic algorithms built on large prime numbers. A quantum computer does not brute…
Dunkin’ Donuts Canada is happening: a master franchise has been secured with plans to open one location per week up to 200. Tony Chapman has questions. The operator already owns Second Cup and Milestones. Chapman’s read: look at how Second…
Alberta voter data leak is the story Matt Gurney says everyone is trying to minimize. The fake names baked into the voter list have already identified who did it. What happened next is the problem. The “it’s just a phone…
