1998 throwback Thursday lands on a year that felt safe and new at the exact same time. The Discman was still in your bag. Blockbuster still had a line on Friday night. Gas was 50 cents a litre. And Google…
Little Lorraine is a real place. Sixty people. A mine that exploded. A fishery that dried up. And then a man called Uncle Huey came back to town with a lobster boat and an offer of work for anyone who…
New album release day driving deaths tracked in a Harvard study are linked to the ten biggest album drops between 2017 and 2022. Traffic fatalities rose nearly 15 percent on those days. The culprit was not weather. Not alcohol. Unlocking…
1998 nostalgia hits differently once someone points out that it was actually the last safe year. Google arrived. Email became something everyone had. Cell phones showed up in pockets that had never held one before. And none of the bad…
Yes people leadership is what happens when the person in charge stopped needing to be challenged a long time ago. Nobody is going to stop you. That is exactly the problem. What does genuine help look like when the person…
Liberal majority government is new enough that the cabinet has barely unpacked, and it has already put a gas tax cut on the board and a Conservative caucus that cannot stop bleeding members. Mark Carney called it a new government.…
Too much stuff is a cycle, and the embarrassing part is how fast it closes. Five truckloads to the dump. An online auction. Everything gone. Moved from Calgary to Ottawa with a bed, some clothes, and a computer. Two years…
Plastic container safety gets worse every time you do the responsible thing. Every wash. Every microwave cycle. Every time you rinse it out and put it back in the cupboard because it still looks fine. There is a man with…
AI love bombing feels different from a friend agreeing with you. A friend you can discount. They like you. They are on your side. A machine has no side. And when it tells you that you are right, it feels…
Nuclear weapons control rests, constitutionally, with one person. In 1969 that person was drunk, incensed, and on the phone to the Joint Chiefs ordering a strike on North Korea. Is a patriot someone who follows the law or someone who…
Artemis mission photographs showed the far side of the moon with Earth in the background. They looked like a science fiction film. The astronauts said exactly that. A neuroscientist had the livestream running for ten straight days and barely slept…
Cancer treatment advances have changed what a diagnosis means, and most of us haven’t updated our mental model for it. Cancer was in dinosaur bones. It is as old as life itself, and it will not be fixed with a…
Good News Tuesday lands on a week that opened with a 3.9 earthquake near Ottawa and somehow still found four stories worth stopping for. A 90-year-old Ottawa woman celebrated her birthday with a CrossFit workout. Not a walk. Not a…
A random act of kindness arrived in a hot pink envelope at a CTV newsroom during a federal by-election special. It sat unopened all day. She assumed it was hate mail. Her producer finally cracked it open at eleven at…
Canadian government accountability is the question underneath a majority nobody seems to be celebrating. Mark Carney got his sweep, two floor crossers pushed him over the line, and the Prime Minister can now take a day off without bringing everything…
