Ozempic food industry changes hit Canadian wallets in unexpected ways. Generic weight-loss drugs arrive January 4 at one-third the cost. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois explains why pet food now competes with Ozempic for household budgets. Seventeen million Canadian households own pets.…
Weird news stories pile up when you’re not paying attention. A Toronto sex shop gets a mysterious package back from the US government. Inside: returned products and a letter from officials saying they can’t deliver to Bahrain. Specifically, to a…
The Panama invasion of 1989 didn’t end the way anyone expected. Twenty-seven thousand American troops surrounded one dictator hiding in the Vatican embassy. It took weeks of blasting rock music and a military siege to force Manuel Noriega’s surrender. Craig…
Panama invasion 1989 ended with Manuel Noriega’s surrender in January 1990. Thirty-five years later, Venezuela headlines trigger the same questions. How similar are these moments? What playbook keeps repeating? Shane and Ryan examine the December 1989 invasion that forced Noriega…
Best compilation albums of the 90s became the definitive way to discover music. Your friend’s car had at least three. Your older sibling’s bedroom had a stack of them. But which one actually deserved the throne? Shane and Ryan compare…
AI influencers are making 46% of social media users uncomfortable, and marketing expert Tony Chapman says that discomfort is justified. Fake fitness ads promise six-packs in 28 days with AI-generated bodies. Seniors are losing money to voice-cloning scams that sound…
Canadian Oil Industry Relevance: Why Energy Discounts and Pipeline Delays Threaten Canada’s Future Canadian oil sells at a discount to American buyers, and pipeline delays keep pushing the country further behind. Lindsay Broadhead and Jamie Ellerton debate whether Canada is…
Toronto appointed a traffic czar to fix the worst traffic congestion in North America. Montreal and Vancouver are close behind. Automotive journalist Lorraine Sommerfeld questions whether this is real change or political theater—and why Doug Ford’s control over Toronto’s municipal…
You hate what you see in your feed. The outrage bait, the conspiracy theories, the content designed to make you angry enough to engage. But you keep scrolling. Welcome to 4chan—it just doesn’t call itself that anymore. Greg Fish, a…
Simulation theory went from ancient philosophy to viral social media conspiracy. Philosopher Nathan Radke explains why people post “glitches in the matrix” videos claiming our universe is a computer simulation—and how this 2,000-year-old thought experiment is creating dangerous real-world consequences…
Deja vu so intense a listener predicted three strangers walking out of a bar by name, in exact order. Grumpy Rob stands outside a Quebec bar decades ago, yells “I’m having a deja vu,” then calls out who’s coming next.…
Ontario’s salary transparency law (previously and similarly in BC and Maritimes) just forced every employer to show their hand. Job postings under $200,000 must now include pay ranges and that means you can finally see what companies are willing to…
Deja vu happens 5-6 times yearly for Ryan O’Donnell, but Shane Hewitt experienced something stranger: a recurring dream about breathing underwater that repeated for years until one scuba diving lesson made it stop forever. He dreamed it so often he…
Volunteering two to four hours weekly slows cognitive decline by 15 to 20 percent, according to data from 31,000 adults. Dr. Samantha Yammine, neuroscientist, explains why researchers are stumped by their own findings. The study controlled for wealth, education, physical…
Adam Sorenson beat stage 4 brain cancer at 13 using an extreme ketogenic diet and metabolic approach. He stayed in remission for 10 years, unheard of for glioblastoma multiforme, the same cancer that killed Gord Downie and Neil Peart. When…
