How conspiracy theories spread is the question Dr. Lee Kuhnle has been building a career around, and the answer is less about deception than about distance from the original idea. He calls it metaphor drift: the gap that opens up…
Weird news stories today do not get much better than a rapper placing a massive block of ice in downtown Toronto for an album launch and the city spending 16 hours melting it. Toronto Fire was called. The mayor backed…
Recycling habits in Canada are not a national conversation. They are twelve separate provincial arguments, and Bob Addison from Surrey is ready to have all of them. BC gives you a deposit back on cans, milk jugs, and wine bottles.…
Digital evidence and justice have a complicated relationship, and Tyler Hatch has spent a career inside that gap. The footage exists. The screenshot exists. The court sees something completely different from what everyone else sees, and that disconnect is not…
Why people are meaner online has a cleaner answer than most people want to admit. Greg Fish ran the experiment himself: three months of deliberately aggressive posts on social media, taking bait, going for the gut punch. A million views…
Volunteering in Canada powers things most people take entirely for granted. Community events, sports leagues, hospital visits, search and rescue. Dr. Megan Conway says 24 million Canadians are part of that in some form. She also says the habit is…
Uplifting news stories Canada doesn’t always look like headlines. Sometimes it looks like a Vancouver man sitting across from the mother of the stranger whose liver kept him alive. Sometimes it’s a sweater knitted one playoff game at a time…
Good news stories in Canada live in the spaces most people aren’t looking. Ryan O’Donnell found his in an IMAX seat, watching a film from 2008 that somehow hit harder in 2026 than it ever did before. Shane found his…
Canadian drone industry experts will tell you Canada is behind. Richard Shimooka will tell you exactly how far, and it is not a comfortable number. There is a version of Canada that orders parts and figures it out as it…
Headphones and human connection turn out to be in direct competition, and most people have already picked a side without realizing it. Ryan O’Donnell took his off at a medical clinic and ended up in two conversations he never expected,…
Canadian electricity rates are among the lowest in the world. That does not mean your bill is easy to understand or easy to reduce. Pierre-Olivier Pineau has a specific reason for that: the poles and the wires that deliver electricity…
Depression intervention tools that take ten minutes and live at a free link are not a silver bullet. Benji Kaveladze will tell you that clearly. A 4% average reduction in depression a month after a single session is also not…
Canadian certainty expectations are at the centre of every political conversation right now, and Matt Gurney says that’s exactly the problem. Not the uncertainty itself. The expectation that certainty was ever something you could count on. What does it feel…
Humanoid robots in 2026 just ran a half marathon faster than the human world record for the same distance. Last year one robot finished in two hours and forty minutes. This year Lightning, built by a smartphone company, did it…
Making friends after 50 sounds like something that quietly stops being possible. Then Shane moved to a small town, started going out on weekends, and keeps meeting people he actually likes. Turns out the barrier was never the age. What…
