York University astronomer Elaina Hyde joins to explain why tonight’s Perseid meteor shower is worth staying up for, and why the conditions line up so rarely. She traces the shower back to debris left by comet Swift-Tuttle, last seen up…
Ryan puts Shane through a round of pirate trivia to find out whether he could have actually made it as crew, or whether he’d have been walking the plank by the second question. It starts simple, port versus starboard, and…
Nathan Radke wanted to test a theory: that the fear behind conspiracy stories comes from the brain filling in gaps when there isn’t enough information. Sailing into Lake Ontario’s Marysburgh Vortex at night gave him a firsthand demonstration he wasn’t…
Is it 50-50, or is it 100-100? Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco take on one of the more contested ideas in relationships, whether a partner can actually show up fully without keeping something of their own life intact outside it.…
A clothing company shot what looked like a two hundred thousand dollar Monaco campaign, cigarette boats and all, without a single real model. Tony Chapman uses that story and the recent Suzy Shier backlash to unpack why AI generated advertising…
Greg Fish walks through new research showing chatbots may be doing something researchers didn’t think was possible, shifting people’s political preferences even when their party identity feels fixed. He starts with a Japanese study where voters talking to chatbots suddenly…
Every Good News Tuesday starts the same way: real listener stories, some big, most small. This week opens with a Calgary skate shop owner who walked out to his car for a nail and some zip ties rather than sell…
Good News Tuesday rounds up the stuff worth knowing about, starting with a real shift for anyone who has ever sat in a passport office watching a number that never seems to move. Online renewals are expanding this year, though…
Canada has eight days before new US tariffs land, and the response so far raises hard questions. Columnist Matt Gurney breaks apart what a real climb down would look like, and why one Toronto by-election says more about Ottawa’s nerve…
Mike Le Couteur expected the usual little brother treatment when he started asking ordinary Americans what they thought about the state of Canada US relations. What he got instead, on a hot day outside the US Capitol, was a lot…
Most Canadians assume there is one correct way to retire a worn out flag, and Nick McCarthy says the real answer surprises almost everyone who hears it. He runs marketing and community outreach at Beechwood Cemetery, where a program most…
Bob Addison called in from the side of a highway in Medicine Hat, mid road trip through four provinces in two days, to talk about the part of the journey that actually mattered. He is reconnecting with his birth family…
South Korea has one of the worst parking shortages in the world, and Kris Abel explains the strange, genuinely clever fix Hyundai came up with. A flat robot slides underneath a parked vehicle, lifts it off the ground, and carries…
Canada and the American Civil War are more connected than most Canadians realize, and a new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum called Close to Conflict lays out exactly how. Dr. Tim Foran walks through what that connection looked like,…
Canadian snacks get put to the test this week, and not by Canadians. A pair of American snack reviewers work their way through a care package of Canadian classics, and the reactions land somewhere between confusion and genuine love. The…
