Young people and money is a conversation that usually starts with what to open. Anita Bruinsma says the more important conversation is what happens after. Most people open their TFSA, make the contribution, and stop. The money sits earning 0.2…
Vancouver Canucks are the worst team in the NHL and Bob Addison sent notes about celebrity sandwich marketing. The notes were not consulted. The conversation went to egg salad smelling bad, old men at assisted living stealing chocolate chip cookies…
Artemis 2 distance record broke the Apollo benchmark yesterday and the voices that marked it were both Canadian. Jeremy Hansen spoke from the capsule. Jenny Gibbons from Calgary, astronaut and current Capcom voice of NASA, was Houston on the ground.…
Jeremy Hansen astronaut story starts on a farm outside London, Ontario. He found circuit breakers in the barn and used them as switches in his treehouse. He called it a spaceship. He explored space in his imagination until he was…
Not-for-profit grocery stores are coming to Toronto and the NDP wants 50 of them across the country. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois was in a university classroom 15 years ago when a student suggested nationalizing food distribution and the whole room laughed.…
Artemis 2 mission update arrives from an astronomer who did not sleep well the night of the launch. The spacecraft launched April 1st, troubleshot a toilet light on April Fools Day as its first legitimate problem in orbit, and then…
Artemis 2 launch emotional reaction is where Jen Gerson’s column began. She watched the launch with her family. Her husband got emotional and tried not to show it. Her nine-year-old said that is cool. She sat down to figure out…
Mark Carney Alberta MOU deadline was April 1st and it was missed. Rob Breakenridge says the frustration from the Business Council of Alberta this week is the same frustration building across the country: the prime minister’s brand was built on…
Apollo 11 1969 throwback lands on the week Artemis 2 launched and the comparison is impossible to resist. An estimated 600 million people crowded around televisions on one channel at one moment to watch Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk…
Nickelback made a four-minute movie with Megan Thee Stallion promoting Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos. It is real. It cost about thirty dollars a bag and is available in Canada through exotic candy stores. The Pickleback is here. The same…
The Drama movie review comes with one warning from Richard Crouse: do not Google the twist before you watch. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple in the week before their wedding. They invite another couple over. Someone suggests the…
What makes an artist Canadian is the question Richard Crouse is putting to his new podcast Entertainment Is Broken after Justin Bieber and Tate McCrae skipped the Junos despite major nominations. His argument is that if your career is built…
1969 history has two halves that barely belong in the same year. The first half gives you Apollo 11 and Woodstock. The second gives you the Manson murders and Altamont, where the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels as security…
Artemis 2 launched today and for one person watching, the last time a space launch was watched all the way through was 1986. Crisscross applesauce on a library floor in grade six. The angles looked familiar tonight and the breath…
Artemis 2 launch reaction is the kind of thing that surprises you. Lindsay Broadhead did not expect what she felt watching it. Jamie Ellerton remembered a vague imprecise memory from the late nineties and a Canadian connection that may or…
