Shane Hewitt https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Blog layout 1 Hello NEW – The 18% Default: How the Payment Screen Changed the Tipping Conversation What’s On Your Mind, Elias Makso? Quebec Tried to Fix Tipping and broke it SHIFTHEADS: What a Hospitality Professor Actually Thinks About Your 20% Tip ICYMI What to Watch This Weekend: The Movie That Could Change Awards Season for Horror Shiftheads – Secrets, Privacy, and White Lies: A Clinical Psychologist on What’s Killing Your Relationship ICYMI – The Rogue Tool Problem: What Happens When Employees Go Off-Script With AI Are We Leaving Boys Behind? A Mental Health Educator on What’s Going Wrong Peptides Are Real. The Science Behind Most of What’s Online Isn’t NEW: The Old Farts Had a Seat Open & Shane Sat Down The Art of Screwing Up a Good Barbecue SHIFTHEADS: Shake Shack Is Leaking. Dunkin’ Thinks Now Is the Time NEW – Vancouver, Vancouver, This Is It: The Mount St. Helens Story Shiftheads – One Year Later: The Alberta Pipeline Promise and the Referendum That Just Hit a Wall ICYMI – Canada Is on the Ring of Fire. Here’s Why the Silence Is Misleading Should Canada ban gambling ads? Expert breaks it down ICYMI – Fox Steals Hot Dogs, Montreal Strippers Strike, and You Can Legally Own a Cannon Mount St. Helens, Bigfoot, and the Miners Who Were Never the Same NEW: Stephen Colbert Is Leaving + Booze and Reviews of Obsession Movie SMART SPEAKERS – Canadian Life Satisfaction, the Alberta Data Breach, and the Small Things That Change Everything Did UFO files prove aliens? The Aztec hoax NEW Target Kids: Gambling Advertising, and Brain Development Dr. Mansingh on stress, joy and burnout risk Too Much Smoke Is the Enemy: Ted Reader’s Barbecue Fundamentals Butterflies signal climate change warning The Luke Skywalker Card Worth $687,000 and the Week in Tech With Kris Abel SHIFTHEADS: 162 Declassified UFO Files: What’s Real, What’s a Hoax, and What Nobody Can Explain NEW: Good News Tuesday: How Finding the Good Is Itself the Good News Finding the Good, Even Inside the Bad + Tulips SHIFTHEADS: It’s Not The Same as a Phone Book: Matt Gurney on the Alberta Voter Data Leak Blue Dot Fever: Why Concert Tickets Are Priced for a Market That No Longer Exists NEW – Take Me to Church: Kelly Alexander on What Actually Makes a Concert Worth Attending ICYMI – Bob Addison on the FIFA World Cup: Great Sport, Ugly Business Sports Betting Is Just the New (less scary) Word for Gambling Federico Riva on Why Butterfly Decline Is a Canary in Canada’s Coal Mine Joy Is Not Something You Find: Dr. Sohan Mansingh on Stress and the Nervous System When Quantum Computers Break Everything Including Your Money NEW: Life Stretching, Quiet Quitting, and Why We Keep Naming Things Instead of Fixing Them ICYMI – AI at Home, AI in Ottawa: What Works and What’s Missing SHIFTHEADS: Life Stretching, the McMansion, and the Numbers Nobody Wants to Talk About The Second Time Home Buyers No Policy Reaches The Forever Home Is a Myth. Here’s How to Actually Buy One. ICYMI – Never Having to Ask: The Hidden Test Nobody Announced NEW – The Legal Definition of Foreign Interference Is Not What You Think Driverless Cars Are Closer to Canada Than You Think NEW – Why Is Yawning Contagious? Dr. Samantha Yammine on the Study That Made Things Weirder ICYMI – Dunkin’ Donuts Canada: Tony Chapman Makes the Case Against the 200-Location Bet Why the Canadian War Museum Matters So Much Did OpenAI Break Canadian Privacy Laws?