This conversation starts with Mark Carney admitting his own emissions targets will be missed and uses it as a way into a bigger pattern: decisions on 24 Sussex Drive and a submarine fleet contract that sat untouched since 2017 are…
Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are live and the box is real, but open it and there’s only a download code. No disc. No trade-in value. No physical copy. Ever. A tech columnist who argued against this exact model with…
A psychologist makes the case that the highs and lows of being a sports fan are not just entertainment, they are doing real work for your mental health. The conversation traces what happens physiologically when a game gets tense, why…
Film critic Richard Crouse builds a Canada Day weekend watch list from the ground up: three Canadian films, each with a drink to match. Goon pairs with a Bloody Caesar, invented in Calgary in 1969 and consumed by Canadians over…
What makes a good party is a question most people think they already know the answer to. This conversation suggests they don’t. From flood warnings in Calgary to a Cuban pig roast in a small Ontario village, the night shift…
Home maintenance tips that actually save money this summer start with knowing where your house is leaking money without you realising it. Andy Barrar of Handy Andy Media walks through the gaps that are quietly wrecking your cooling bill and…
Moving in together has a moment nobody warns you about. It’s not the argument or the negotiation. It’s a glance at a bookshelf. Ryan O’Donnell spotted that moment on Laura’s face during unpacking, and everything that followed is a more…
Federal housing policy rarely produces a clean answer, and the BC condo buyback program is no exception. The Monday study panel works through what the numbers actually mean: ten percent federal funding, ninety percent BC, and units that still price…
Vacation budgeting tips are easy to find and hard to follow, especially when the flights are already paid and the costs keep creeping up anyway. Anita Bruinsma of Clarity on Your Money works through what actually happens when the excitement…
Simon Fraser University just received a $40 million donation from the Stevens family to support its new medical school, opening this August. Erin Morantz, SFU’s Vice-President of Advancement and Alumni Engagement, joins to explain what a gift that size actually…
Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch join Date Night to untangle why so many people are surrounded by love and still feel lonely. The problem isn’t that love isn’t there. It’s that most people are busy performing it instead of building…
Canada missile defence has officially moved from background concern to stated priority. The Chief of Defence Staff named Russian missile technology as the country’s biggest threat, and Richard Shimooka, military expert and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, breaks down…
Canada is the ninth largest economy in the world and a senior member of the G7. Andrew Caddell thinks it’s time the country started acting like it, on trade and on the question of where its prime minister actually lives.…
Nobody needed any of this information. That’s exactly why it’s here. A cookie chain put a Nanaimo bar on their menu and filmed Americans trying to say the word. The mayor of Nanaimo has opinions about this. Europeans attending the…
This week’s picks come with a warning: if you bought any of them digitally, you might not have them as long as you think. Steve Stebbing has 4,100 movies on physical media and has been laughing off the “just go…
