Online shopping returns open the conversation and land somewhere unexpected. The Holt Renfrew jeans story, five hundred dollars, wrong pair sent, three hundred and thirty dollars in compensation sought in court, is the starting point. The real argument underneath it…
UFO orbs are the subject and the newly released US government files go back further than most people realize. The phenomenon predates flying saucers by years. WWII Allied pilots called them Foo Fighters: strange lights and orbs following aircraft over…
Artificial general intelligence is what AI companies say they are building. Engineered super children are Silicon Valley’s plan for when that AI takes over. Greg Fish explains why both ideas have the same problem. CRISPR can edit one gene at…
Canada military procurement made a move this week. Canada is looking to buy a surveillance plane built on a Bombardier airframe with Saab technology. Richard Shimooka says the purchase could be scrapped. The US asked Canada to stop borrowing American…
Heavy metal community is the subject and the argument is simple. The music sounds aggressive. The culture is not. Ryan O’Donnell has been to hundreds of shows and never seen a mosh pit that did not stop when someone fell.…
Good News Tuesday lands on one story that earns the name more than most. A six-year-old named Levi has leukemia and could not be surrounded by people for his birthday. His family posted about it on TikTok. A thousand people…
Kids recess in Canada has no legal protection. No legislation. Some schools have it. Some do not. A researcher who has been in this field for twenty-five years says that matters more right now than it ever has. The mental…
Parenting adult kids is the subject and it starts with a phone call. Your daughter says she might come visit. The answer to might is just tell me when. Jerry Agar’s daughter is an athletic therapist touring North America with…
Kids metal music has a home and it is called Howdytoons. Mike Whitla started writing heavy songs about dinosaurs for his young children in 2010, realised the words brachiosaurus were basically already a song, and kept going until there were…
Kids learning music rarely goes the way anyone plans. Bob Addison’s son had never touched an instrument until September. It was mandatory. None of that matters now. The bass clarinet was not the cheapest option. He picked it, practiced until…
Canada right track is the question one year out from the election. Matt Gurney’s assessment is that we are more or less where he worried we would be. A poll showing almost half of Canadians think things are going well…
Tech news this week includes a digital Ozzy Osbourne available for commercial licensing, a Ferrari that looks like an Apple product, and a Canadian breakthrough in early skin cancer detection. HyperReal, the company behind the Tupac hologram, partnered with the…
Canadian innovation has a cost problem almost nobody talks about. Not the cost of building things, but the cost of giving them away after they work. Jim Balsillie’s argument is pointed: Canadian policy is captured by foreign corporate interests and…
The Sears catalog is having a moment online and it opened up something bigger. The difference between what shopping used to feel like and what it has become. Physical department stores had escalators and sandwich bars and crowds and something…
DIY and tech tips cover a lot of ground this week, from what to do with grass clippings to what is quietly running inside the AI toy your kid wants. The Spring Yard Tips Worth Knowing Before the Season Gets…
