What to watch this weekend includes a film written by the writer of Seven, loaded with aesthetic and atmosphere, that Steve Stebbing says feels hollow at its center. You’re drawn in by the red-filtered cinematography and the serial killer in…
AI data privacy is built on promises nobody can verify, and you’ve already accepted those terms. You pay a monthly subscription to feed your ideas, your business data, your writing into a system that will, when pushed correctly, reveal behavioral…
Police body worn cameras are in your city, on the officers you interact with, recording everything. In Canada, if you want to see footage that documents you, you file a freedom of information request and wait. The officer who recorded…
AI mental health support is built around user satisfaction, and that’s exactly the problem. You open ChatGPT at 2am, type out what’s wrong, and it listens. It validates. It never pushes back. A therapist optimizing for your satisfaction the way…
The toonie’s 30th anniversary lands this week, and the coin’s origin story has a detail most people missed. The $2 bill was officially withdrawn on February 16, 1996, three days before the coin debuted. The government’s reasoning: coins last longer…
Food inflation Canada recorded in January was 7.3%, and yes, the GST holiday makes that number look worse than it is. So Dr. Charlebois did the math without it. Remove the holiday effect entirely and you land at 6.2 to…
Toonie buying power in 1996 is the kind of throwback that starts as a fun memory and lands somewhere genuinely uncomfortable. You walked into McDonald’s with two dollars and came out with three hamburgers. You grabbed a large Tim Hortons…
The US military buildup aimed at Iran is the largest in over 20 years, and the strangest thing about it might be how little noise it’s making. You’d expect a deployment of this scale to dominate the conversation, but there’s…
Coin collecting in Canada has a secret hiding inside every Coinstar machine at every Walmart in the country. You dump your change in, the machine rejects certain coins because of their weight and calibration, and you pocket them as useless…
Manual transmission cars are still out there and they solve a problem you didn’t know you had. You can’t steal one if you don’t know how to drive it, and you can’t look at your phone while you’re driving it.…
Prince Andrew’s arrest is being absorbed through the Epstein lens because that’s the story most people already have in their heads, but the actual charge is something more specific and in some ways more provable. Misconduct in public office means…
Elvis Presley concert film EPIC starts with a question you’ve never thought to ask: what happened to 68 boxes of footage locked in a Kansas salt mine? You already know the Vegas Elvis, the jumpsuits, the karate kicks, the cape…
Nostalgia collecting has a price tag now, and you didn’t put it there. You gave away the toys, tossed the hockey cards, donated the comics, thinking none of it mattered. Then eBay showed up and strangers started pricing your childhood…
Celine Dion Instagram is what it actually takes to break a 30% phone reduction streak. She posts still images to TikTok, which experts would tell you is exactly wrong. She carries a microphone in her purse on standby because she…
Crossing the floor in Canada: your elected representative just did it, three months after announcing he was leaving politics to spend time with family. Now he holds a brand new title, “special advisor to the Prime Minister,” and nobody in…
