FIFA World Cup 2026 is putting Canada on the world stage, and the cost is real: BC alone is on the hook for up to $114 million after revenue offsets, and a two-hot-dog-two-pop combo just got discounted to $51.75. The…
Soviet espionage during the Cold War was not paranoia. It was infrastructure, and Lee Kuhnle lays out exactly what that looked like from the inside. Kim Philby was recruited as a journalist in the 1930s, embedded himself in British intelligence…
Sports dating Toronto is having a moment, and Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch are here to explain why major sporting events are doing something dating apps have never figured out. Sociologists call it collective effervescence: strangers sharing the same emotion…
FIFA World Cup Canada is handing brands a masterclass in constraint-as-opportunity, and Tony Chapman says most of them are missing it. The organizations spending millions on stadium naming rights are watching those names disappear for the duration of the tournament.…
Software engineer burnout is the reason your app looked different this morning and nobody on the team can explain why it changed. Greg Fish of Cyberpunk Survival Guide has spent years inside the industry watching companies ship work not because…
Good News Tuesday runs on the idea that good news makes more good news. Tonight it also runs on swearing. Dr. Robin Hanley DeFoe’s research says dropping a casual expletive, not at anyone, just into the void, can block pain…
Good News Tuesday goes coast to coast this week, and the stories range from eleven hundred pounds to a cup of tea at a library table. The throughline is the same: simple things done with intention tend to matter more…
Myles Dininio is running nearly eight thousand kilometers across Canada to raise funds for CAMH, and when this conversation happened he was somewhere near Agawa Bay in northern Ontario, just past the halfway mark. He stopped running long enough to…
Less than twenty-four hours before Canada faced Switzerland, Kyle Horner called in from Windsor, Ontario, right on the American border, to talk about what this World Cup run is doing to a country that isn’t used to winning at football.…
Sixty thousand people in red at a Canada World Cup soccer match will do something to you, even if you’re normally a late arriver who avoids crowds. Bob Addison, co-host of the Uncle Bob’s Bits segment, was there, and he’s…
A shooting in a Montreal Jewish grocery store. A high-speed pursuit ending in gunfire in Calgary. An MP targeted in Saskatchewan. What links them isn’t ideology, it’s the moment after, when the internet fills the silence with certainty. Matt Gurney,…
Kris Abel, tech and entertainment commentator at krisabel.com, covers three things this week that actually earned the attention. The Sennheiser Accentum Clip launches July 23rd in Canada, before the US gets it, at $270. It clips around the ear instead…
Entrepreneur and investor Arlene Dickinson makes the case that what Canadians need most right now isn’t a new plan — it’s the belief that they already have what it takes to execute one. Dickinson traces how curiosity became her operating…
Calgary mayor Jeremy Farkas put out a video during Stampede and dropped some language that got attention. The swearing was the hook. The issue underneath it is real and a lot more specific than noise complaints. Ryan O’Donnell lives three…
Most people have no idea what they’re spending until the statement arrives. Cash fixes that — which is exactly why almost nobody uses it anymore. Shane and the team open the week with a conversation about what happens when you…
