Canadian politics commentator Rob Breakenridge joins the Canada Day long weekend to make a distinction most people skip: the country is not the same thing as the people running it, and one can be worth celebrating while the other deserves…
Food professor Sylvain Charlebois has real-time grocery data for Canada Day weekend, and the news is mixed depending on what’s on your grill. Ground beef, pork chops, and chicken breasts are all up this year. Strawberries and blueberries are more…
Entertainment journalist Richard Crouse of joins for two conversations that together cover everything worth knowing about pop culture right now — from Canada’s biggest honour going to one of its most beloved exports, to a new comedy that Richard…
Flipping the script, going against the grain and breaking away from the norm. Dungeons and Dragons was crucial in setting up the counter culture of the 80s and 90s. And it started in 1974! Guest: Ed Conroy Originally aired on2026-07-02
Dungeons and Dragons for beginners sounds like a rulebook problem. Dean McKinnon says it’s actually a playing pretend problem, and once you solve that one, everything else opens up. Dean is a professional Dungeon Master who runs eleven campaigns a…
Cycling around the world qualifies for a Guinness World Record, and until recently the oldest person to hold it was 56. Mark Herbst looked at that number at age 69, decided it was beatable, and spent the next chapter of…
Rod Black has been the voice in the room for Canadian sports fans for decades. Cut to Black is the book that explains how he got there, and it turns out it’s not really about him. Rod is a TSN…
The show lands on Canada Day Eve with good news from three cities and a question worth sitting with: what if the most useful thing you can share today is something small? A first Colombian recipe attempt that smelled great.…
The good news tonight comes in three flavors. A Phoenix school resource officer who rented a movie theater for kids who’d never been, then turned to the adults in the room and asked why they weren’t doing the same. A…
Thirty percent of people don’t like cats. Only five percent feel that way about dogs. Rod Phillips has spent years figuring out why, and the answer goes back further than most people expect. Phillips, a historian at Carleton University and…
In Newfoundland, Canada Day doesn’t begin with fireworks. It begins with Memorial Day and the memory of a generation of young men sent over the top at Beaumont-Hamel, France, one hundred and ten years ago tomorrow. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment…
When Canada advanced further than anyone expected, one family decided the only response was to follow the team to Houston, no matter what it took to get there. The plan: resell tickets to a USA match in Seattle, lean on…
This conversation starts with Mark Carney admitting his own emissions targets will be missed and uses it as a way into a bigger pattern: decisions on 24 Sussex Drive and a submarine fleet contract that sat untouched since 2017 are…
Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are live and the box is real, but open it and there’s only a download code. No disc. No trade-in value. No physical copy. Ever. A tech columnist who argued against this exact model with…
A psychologist makes the case that the highs and lows of being a sports fan are not just entertainment, they are doing real work for your mental health. The conversation traces what happens physiologically when a game gets tense, why…
