A viral ranking of famous TV and movie dogs sorts every legendary pup into five tiers, from certified greats to outright failures, and Bob Addison isn’t buying half the placements. Listeners get a rapid-fire argument over which beloved dogs got…
Matt Gurney has a theory that doesn’t sit well with most people: Canada’s problems mostly aren’t about the United States at all. He and Shane dig into the idea that whoever is in the White House can only exploit weaknesses…
Imagine you’re trapped under rubble after an earthquake, injured, and the first thing that reaches you is a cockroach wearing a tiny electronic backpack, followed by a second one carrying a hypodermic needle loaded with medicine, all part of a…
Most stress isn’t the workload. It’s the story a person tells about the workload, and a researcher who studies wellbeing explains why the exact same amount of “too much” can either feel exciting or feel like drowning, depending entirely on…
Flight searches, hotel bookings, and car rentals are all spiking this long weekend, and one Canadian airport alone is moving tens of thousands of people a day. The data paints a clear picture of exactly when not to travel. There…
A jobs report that was supposed to show growth instead wiped out tens of thousands of positions in a single month, and Andrew Caddell says the real story isn’t the headline number, it’s what’s actually being measured underneath it. Trade…
A small-town Ontario mayor walked into a thrift store and found something with his own face on it, built for exactly one purpose. He’s decided to keep it in his office instead of getting rid of it, which says more…
The way a couple was affectionate, or wasn’t, tends to resurface decades later in their own relationships. Dr. Laurie Betito explains how early modeling shapes adult patterns around intimacy, and why one partner always making the first move can quietly…
Steve Stebbing runs through this week’s new releases and makes the case for bringing back a kind of theater most people have forgotten existed. New Releases Worth a Look A true-story FBI thriller, a vertigo-inducing sequel about people trapped on…
Matchmaking sounds like a favour until someone gets hurt, and Jen Kirsch has watched it go wrong from every angle. Friends turned into third parties, blind dates built on nothing more than a shared taste in music. When does connecting…
Prediction markets are showing up inside Canadian banking apps, and Vincent Gregoire, Canada Research Chair in Finance and Technology at HEC Montreal, unpacks what changes once real money and real regulation get involved. The line between investing and gambling turns…
Where does AI trust actually start, and where does it stop. Mohit Rajhans has spent his career inside this tech and still isn’t sure where that line sits, whether it’s an autonomous car changing lanes in traffic or a chatbot…
Yesterday’s windstorm in Toronto left more than just chaos on the sidewalks. Stadium scaffolding built for an upcoming AC/DC show took real damage, and there’s cleanup work ahead before the concert can go on as planned. The storm talk gives…
Some retail pairings work and some quietly disappear. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, food economist and host of the Food Professor Podcast, walks through the ones that stuck, like Starbucks inside Western Canadian grocery chains and McDonald’s inside Walmart, and the ones…
The five second rule feels like something everyone has just always known, but Dr. Keith Warriner, microbiologist, traces its actual origin back centuries, through a Mongol emperor, a 1960s TV cook, and a decades-old novel, before it ever touched a…
