Three robots walked into the show tonight – all of them fun. One is in a university cafeteria doing something 2.5 million times that humans have never quite managed to do consistently. One is in a litter box, quietly learning…
A Canadian peacekeeper deploys to Croatia in 1993 to separate armies that want nothing to do with peace. He comes home carrying wounds nobody can see. Decades later, a daughter he never knew existed makes her way across the country…
Canada is technically in a recession and the prime minister won’t say the word. Matt Gurney thinks the more important conversation is the one hiding underneath it. For years, the answer to flat economic productivity was simple: put more people…
Bob Addison went back to read the label on a six-foot Canada Day flag at Costco. Made in Canada, imported fabric, pole and bracket from China. Fifty dollars. The irony runs deeper when you consider Canada probably sold them the…
Counterfeit sports jerseys are everywhere, and the reasons people buy them are more complicated than the law makes room for. The conversation draws a hard line between two kinds of fakes. A counterfeit Rolex or a fake designer bag is…
From wildflower yards to self-cleaning robot vacuums, this week’s DIY conversation goes places you won’t expect. The neighbours want a perfect lawn. The bees want you to stop. Chaos gardening is the TikTok trend where you scatter wildflower seeds and…
A new study on stress and memory just landed — and it reframes what’s actually happening in your brain when you blank at the worst possible time. The research shows that acute stress doesn’t just make recall harder. It limits…
A technical recession, a denied emergency debate, and a prime minister who promised less red tape. The Monday panel takes stock of where things actually stand. Showing up is not the same as delivering. Mark Carney visited a Toronto synagogue…
Before the price increase, young Canadians were already skipping condoms. Now the math gets harder. Let’s Stop AIDS surveys young people across Canada every year. The numbers from the most recent Sex Lives Report are not what most people expect:…
Swiping past someone because their profile opens with a political slogan is now a dating strategy — and it might be the rational one. Tony Tedesco does it. Not because he disagrees, but because leading with that energy is a…
Toronto Police just pulled three and a half million dollars worth of counterfeit jerseys out of a west-end warehouse, and the story of how it happened says more about who runs this city right now than the bust itself. It…
Thrift store summer is not a trend. It is a rational response to the cost of everything right now. Eighty-three percent of Albertans say thrifting makes economic sense given current conditions, and Habitat for Humanity Restore locations in Calgary are…
Friday night news that earns its place at the table: a truck driver hauled a trailer from Embrun to Ottawa missing ten of its twelve wheels, with no brakes and an unsecured fastener on the two that remained. He was…
Claude Lemieux death hit Quebec like a loss in the family. Because for francophones across the province, that is exactly what it was. Andrew Caddell was in Kamaraska when the news landed. He describes watching Lemieux carry the torch into…
Love as a verb is not a metaphor. According to Dr. Laurie Betito, it is the only definition that actually sustains a relationship. Saying I love you is easy. The actions behind it, reliability, consistency, listening, showing up during the…
