Canada US trade negotiations are at a crossroads, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says the messaging coming out of Ottawa is conflicting enough to be a problem on its own. Mexico has overtaken Canada as the top US trading partner in…
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to ask what actually changed the moment handheld gaming arrived in the back seat of the family car. Carmi Levy has a clear answer: we gained peace, and we lost the window. Before…
Canada trade talks with the United States are stuck in a holding pattern, and Rob Breakenridge says the bigger problem is that nobody has defined the end game. Trump is calling his own deal a ripoff. There is no clear…
Throwback Thursday lands in 1989, and the gap between then and now is either comforting or devastating depending on what you look at first. The Game Boy launched. The Canadian Space Agency was officially created. And the average Canadian home…
Decluttering is not a weekend project. Megan Golightly says it is a mindset shift, and once it clicks, you cannot unlearn it. The hard part is not the stuff. It is the voice in your head that has been defending…
Michael Jackson’s biopic is in theatres now, and whether it deserves the praise depends entirely on what you want from it. Meanwhile, a UK judge just called Amy Winehouse’s father an unreliable witness, and two names got cut from a…
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to talk about something that keeps coming up in conversations about 1989: the things you had to earn before anyone handed them to you. Ed Conroy argues that generation didn’t just play differently,…
Perception and storytelling are the same mechanism, and both of them drift. Shane Hewitt makes the case that the game of telephone is not just a party game. It is the operating system running underneath every conversation, every memory, and…
Canada-US trade is being negotiated against a backdrop of a premier’s private jet controversy, airline consolidations, and a summer travel season that is starting to feel less certain by the week. Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead have different reads on…
Relationship drift does not announce itself. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco have a name for where it ends up: roommates. Not a blowup, not a betrayal. Just two people sharing a couch, sharing Wi-Fi, sharing a show neither of them…
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…
