Weird news stories today do not get much better than a rapper placing a massive block of ice in downtown Toronto for an album launch and the city spending 16 hours melting it. Toronto Fire was called. The mayor backed the decision. A fan arrived with a sledgehammer. Drake’s album drops May 15th and everyone in Toronto knows it.

Prego, the pasta sauce company, is also now in the listening device business. A small recorder for your dinner table captures family conversations on a memory card. It launched April 1st. That date is doing a lot of work in this story.

Australia just added a 35-year-old arrest clip to their national film and sound archive. The question now is which Canadian moment belongs in ours.

Topics: weird news stories today, Drake ice block Toronto, Prego dinner table recorder, Australia meme national archive, Canadian meme

Originally aired on2026-04-22