Adult cartoon satire gets a full breakdown from TV critic Bill Brioux, who explains why a two-dimensional character saying something outrageous lands so differently than a real person saying the same thing. Bill walks through the mechanics behind South Park’s…
Canada’s trade negotiations take a strange turn when illegal firearms trafficking becomes a bargaining chip, and political commentator Rob Breckenridge unpacks why a new survey shows Canadians want it on the table. Ontario’s decision to cut off social assistance for…
The Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony is only half the conversation with film critic Richard Crouse, who also breaks down why Judge Judy is retiring the gavel to her son and what Morgan Freeman just released. A Teenager Named BourdainThe film…
South Park in 1997 gets the full origin story from Ed Conroy who remembers watching it as an underground show buried in a Friday midnight slot with zero infrastructure behind it. Anyone curious why South Park still lands the way…
Ritesh Kotak explains why more countries are rethinking how dependent they are on American tech companies, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the products. He breaks down the operating system, application, and data layers that quietly…
A pair of vintage nightstands from Smiths Falls came with more than just furniture. Tucked inside was a decades-old handwritten note prescribing a medication for restless leg syndrome, and it sent Shane Hewitt down a research hole that turned into…
Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead break down why Canada’s trade standoff with the US has swallowed the news cycle this summer, and what it actually means as the August 19th deadline approaches. Jamie explains why both government and opposition have…
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…
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…
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…
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…
