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…
Pokemon card investment just set a world record. Logan Paul sold a single card for $16 million US. A Wayne Gretzky rookie card, one of the most famous in history, sold in 2022 for just under $4 million. A Mickey…
Data sovereignty asks a question that feels simple until you sit with it: was the consent you gave to share your data actually informed? You joined social media for your own reasons, and somewhere along the way those posts became…
Obama’s ‘aliens’ comment went viral when he said “they’re real, but I haven’t seen them” on a podcast rapid fire round. You saw the clip. Everyone did. And it looked like disclosure, like a former president finally confirming what conspiracy…
Alien life might be a question you’ve never thought to ask about yourself. Every atom of oxygen you breathe had to pass through a supernova to exist. Stars exploded to build you. That’s not poetic license, that’s physics, and once…
Shopping your mortgage at renewal could be the most valuable hour you spend this year. Your bank sends a number, and it looks reasonable. But the broker you call has access to lenders and specials that never show up at…
