Aging water infrastructure under your city is running on borrowed time, and you would never know it from your tap. You turn it on, water comes out, and that feels like proof that someone has it handled. But in Calgary…
Vertical vegetable gardening and growing from seed will quietly make you the most interesting gift-giver in your neighbourhood. You put 64 seeds in a tray in January. By spring you have more plants than your yard can hold, more than…
The doomsday clock hitting 85 seconds to midnight is the kind of fact that lands hard and then disappears into the noise. You file it somewhere between knowing you should care and not knowing what you’d do about it anyway.…
Social media doom scrolling used to mean wasting time. Now it means being marketed at by people you never followed, on behalf of products you never asked about, in a feed that looks nothing like what you signed up for.…
Oil price volatility in Canada puts you in a strange position every time you fill up. You pay more at the pump and somewhere in the federal math, the country collects more too. High oil means bigger equalization payments flowing…
The $200,000 Fuel Bill and the $30 Grocery Run Gas prices impact on farmers this week is the reason your grocery bill jumped $30 without a single change to what you bought. You felt it at the pump. The farmer…
Financial panic investing has a trigger and right now you’re surrounded by them. The gas price on the sign jumped overnight. The news is about oil and conflict and markets. Everything on your screen is red. And somewhere in the…
Millennial party culture has a specific before and after and you lived through both sides of it. Before: Project X was in theatres, G6 was on every speaker, and the whole cultural message was that a real night out required…
Iran war unconditional surrender sounds decisive until you ask what comes after. You are watching a conflict that has been building for fifty years, funded by a regime that paid for the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas…
Shane Rants:Canadian energy self-sufficiency has an argument and right now you are paying it every time you fill up. Diesel was $1.20 a litre not long ago. This week it crossed $1.99 in parts of Ottawa. The Strait of Hormuz,…
Vegas flamingo kidnapping is a sentence that exists now, and the man responsible is Canadian, which honestly tracks. You lose at poker, you walk the casino floor, you enter the habitat, and you leave with a live bird named Peachy…
Phone ruining relationships has a clinical name now and you have probably done it this week. Phubbing is phone snubbing, the moment you reach for your screen while someone who loves you is sitting right there. It has been linked…
MOVIES: Pixar Is Back and Frankenstein Has Dance Sequences New movies this weekend include a Pixar film that the people who wrote Pixar off are going to have to reckon with. You put a human consciousness into an animatronic beaver…
Meditation brain science just found something that had never been recorded before and it changes the case for why any of this matters. Every night while you sleep, your brain runs a cleaning cycle, flushing out the protein buildup and…
Ultra processed foods are changing what you eat without you noticing. You order french fries thinking you’re getting a potato. You’re getting up to 30 ingredients: preservatives, citric acid, chemical fillers, all cooked in oil that’s been sitting for days.…
