Meal kit delivery versus groceries is a math problem until you go back through the weeks and find the ordering-in receipts. Three meals plus lunch supplies for $200 at the grocery store. Every ingredient used. Zero delivery orders that week.…
Maple washing is what happens when a grocery store uses the maple leaf to raise prices on a product that is not Canadian. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois has seen it in person: oranges labeled as Canadian, manager apologizes, next day the…
Alberta referendum votes on October 19th are drawing a line that will be hard to ignore once it is drawn. Immigration. Constitutional reform. Separation on the table. Rob Breakenridge interviewed Danielle Smith this week and the question sitting underneath all…
1995 Canada had a finance minister who went on Canada AM and took unscreened phone calls from Canadians about his budget cuts. Paul Martin sat there and answered them. Jean Chrétien was on CBC making a personal plea for national…
Tragically Hip Saturday Night Live 1995 started with Gord Downie walking out and saying the wrong first lyric. Instead of fabulously rich he said tragically hip because he could hear Dan Aykroyd introducing them in his head. The band had…
Tragically Hip music has a way of arriving late for some people. Not because the songs changed but because the listener did. Ryan O’Donnell grew up hearing his dad scream the lyrics at house parties and filed it under parents’…
Movie theater comeback stories do not usually start with a $500,000 Canadian horror film made by people nobody has heard of yet. This one does, and Richard Crouse hosted the premiere. The Theaters Were Not the ProblemUndertone cost $500,000 and…
Hollywood leading men are disappearing and Ed Conroy has a specific way of putting it: when Clooney and DiCaprio and Pitt are gone, where is the new Paul Newman? Brad Pitt was voted Sexiest Man Alive in 1995. Ed Conroy’s…
Gambling on yourself is the one bet most people will not take. A slot machine run by a casino with odds set against you? Fine. A sports app with a two-second deposit and no closing time? Apparently also fine. But…
Sports betting in Canada is now in the broadcast, embedded in the commentary before the game even starts. Jamie Ellerton takes out a hundred dollars, wins it back, and walks. Lindsay Broadhead will not start at all. Neither of them…
Hannah Montana turns 20 this year, and the kids who came home from school and put it on are now the doctors, the managers, the people running things. Katelyn Thomas was 12 when it started. She is now a reporter,…
Whistleblower versus leaker is not just a legal category. It is the question of who gets to decide what the public is allowed to know, and whether the people drawing that line can be trusted to draw it in the…
By the Power of Grayskull versus the Biggest Pop Star in the World. Generational TV shows tell you everything about who raised a generation and how. In 1985, it was the Smurfs hiding from Gargamel and He-Man holding a sword…
Gambling addiction signs start long before anyone loses everything. Melissa Toney-Williams names the quiet ones: missing social events, hiding what you are spending, chasing losses you have not admitted to yet. Most people picture the end of the story. These…
AI replacing jobs is already happening, but Tony Chapman says the mechanism is not what most people think. It is not that AI arrived and took over. It is that most people handed it the wheel and called that productivity.…
