Throwback Thursday 2003 hits on the actual date: March 19th, when America announced the Iraq invasion. Gas was 80 cents a litre. A Toronto house cost $293,000. Two presidential audio clips play back to back tonight, and the one from 2003 is the one that wins the room. SARS was weeks from placing Toronto on…
MAID Alberta restrictions are moving while the federal government is still working out what to do. Alberta is blocking mental illness as a qualifying condition and shifting the onus so doctors cannot be the ones to raise it. Two governments, one issue, no alignment yet. The question Rob Breakenridge keeps returning to is whether the…
NHL player social media is now a 24-hour surveillance operation and the results are exactly what you would expect. NHL Follow Tracker monitors over 700 players’ personal Instagram accounts daily, logging every follow and unfollow. Olin Zellweger unfollowed Austin Matthews, Clayton Keller, and Jack Eichel one day after the US men’s team won gold. Evgeny…
Iraq War lessons from 2003 are back on the table tonight, and the conversation does not land softly. This week marks the anniversary of the invasion. Listeners are texting in to say George W. Bush looks reasonable by comparison to what is happening now. That is where the bar sits. The 2003 coalition was the…
867-5309 became a cancer helpline. Richard Crouse has the story, and it changes the way you hear that song. Tommy Heath turned that number into a free line connecting anyone touched by cancer to trained professionals, because it’s already ringing in everyone’s memory. Entertainment Stories Nobody Saw ComingSean Penn skipped the Oscars for Ukraine, and…
Anti-war apathy is the thing historians notice first. In 2003 the marches started before the bombs did. Main streets shut down. Embassies closed. This anniversary lands with a conflict being called potentially more dangerous, and almost no one in the street. The Oscars came and went this year without a single reference to war. In…
Canadian food prices are about to move again, and the shift started long before anything reached a shelf. The industrial carbon tax rises to $110 on April 1st. It covers fertilizers, refrigeration, food processing, and the full cold chain. The retail portion went to zero. The industrial portion did not. The ham marked on sale…
Conspiracy theories, according to research, are believed by about 80 percent of people. Not the fringe. Not the outliers. Most people. The interesting part is what looking at the actual list does to the word conspiracy. Planned obsolescence showed up on the list. So did the idea that women’s clothing skips pockets deliberately because fashion…
Fake online reviews tell you less than you’d think, and the surveys that were supposed to fix the problem are built the same way. Before a one-star answer makes it anywhere public, a business can subscribe to a system that reroutes it. Good ratings post. Bad ones get managed. The feedback you never saw might…
Online reviews have a tell. When a TikTok video uses the word “obsessed,” that is the giveaway. Add “epic.” Add the California Valley accent delivered like you are already close friends. The sponsored label sits in the corner of the screen every time. Most people scroll past it. What does it cost to trust nothing…
Thank you for your interest in having Shane Hewitt join your event/podcast as a guest. Please complete the information below. We will respond within 24 hours.
