Canadian films are landing at the box office, and the question nobody expected to be asking is whether this country is ready to actually celebrate the people who made them. The Knight Who Should Be LutherKing Charles tapped Idris Elba…
Internet memes turned 2007 into year zero — and the evidence starts with a cat, a cheeseburger, and intentionally terrible spelling. Ed Conroy connects the cultural nostalgia of Bob Barker’s final Price Is Right era to the moment the internet…
Bob Dylan is 85 and just announced more tour dates. The Beach Boys are out with Mike Love at 85. Paul Simon is 84, Randy Bachman is 82, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton are both 80. They are all on…
The optimization industry needs one thing before it can sell you anything: your belief that you are not enough. Tony Tedesco has decided not to provide it. Tony talks through what actually earns his attention in a feed built to…
Canada economy recession talk is landing at the same moment a beloved discount chain is rising from the ashes of Hudson’s Bay. The hosts are not sure that is a coincidence. Zellers, Loyalty Points, and the Nostalgia Economy A Quebec…
Oil inventories are at historic lows. Demand is strong. The price keeps dropping. Dan McTeague says the futures market is being driven by headlines, not reality, and the pain at the pump is far from over. Dan breaks down why…
Zellers relaunch Canada has two new Ontario locations and a plan to go national slowly. Bruce Winder has questions about whether slowly is fast enough. Bruce traces the structural challenges facing the new Zellers: limited buying power at three locations,…
Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most surveilled properties on earth. Dr. Lee Kuhnle wants to know why the footage never quite delivers. Lee walks through decades of ownership, research, and television production, including the defence-funded program that quietly paid…
Optimization culture sold itself as a tool. Tony Chapman says it became a weapon, and the target is your sense of worth. Tony draws a direct line from fear-based marketing to the anxiety that now runs through everyday decisions about…
Black hole TON 618 looks beautiful in the viral image. Greg Fish wants to talk about what it would actually do to the clouds, the oceans, and everything in between. Greg breaks down why a black hole produces more light…
Six-year-olds who could not tell time. A baseline test confirming it. Then two sessions with performance visual artists teaching through play and joy. Every child could tell the time. Every child moved up an attainment bracket. Dr. Jacqueline Harding ran…
Children laughter and play turn out to be building something permanent. The Saturday morning forts, the trunk full of random props that turned into a pirate ship, the Roadrunner that never got caught. None of it was wasted time. Tony…
Jacqueline Harding tells Shane Hewitt that classrooms built on joy, creativity, and laughter are more effective than fear-based teaching models. She argues that hopeful learning environments benefit both teachers and students and are key to long-term success in schools. Connect…
Good news Tuesday Canada brings Krista Richard out of Moncton, New Brunswick, where her Bikes and Trikes for Everyone program has put wheels under thousands of kids over 14 years. She collects them, fixes them, and sends them out the…
Ottawa nostalgia and urban development collide when the place that held your childhood firsts starts coming down by machine. Stefan Keyes grew up in Ottawa’s West End, close enough to walk to Westgate Shopping Centre. He watched his first movie…
