Food policy expert Sylvain Charlebois explains how extended producer responsibility fees are adding hidden costs to grocery prices. He speaks with Shane Hewitt on Shane Hewitt & The Nightshift about how these fees are passed on to consumers. Connect with…
Food inflation in Canada has a hidden driver nobody is talking about. Ontario just charged food manufacturers a billion dollars through it. You are paying that bill. The Extended Producer Responsibility fee was designed to push the food industry toward…
Polymarket lets you bet on wars, missile strikes, and how many soldiers will die. A finance professor says it is gambling, not a market, and the difference matters. Vincent Grégoire, Canada Research Chair in Finance and Technology at HEC Montréal,…
Alberta separation is no longer just a whisper. A court-blocked petition, a rushed committee meeting, and a premier’s televised address are all arriving at once. Rob Breakenridge says the court stepped in last week and killed the separatist petition, leaving…
Swatch watch was born in 1983. In 2026, people are lining up at 5am at malls across Canada to buy one they could just wait for. The Swatch collaboration with Audemars Piguet produced a $560 Canadian pocket watch. It is…
Star Wars is back on the big screen, and so is a fight over who gets to tell your story when you’re famous. Nobody Told Billy Joel the Movie Was HappeningStephen Colbert is leaving with class, according to Richard Crouse,…
Swatch watches turned a timekeeping device into a fashion statement. Ed Conroy had three or four lined up on his desk in grade three and felt like a high roller. Post-COVID, every kid at a high school exit looks the…
A million dollars used to change everything. One Survivor winner turned theirs into $50,000 of debt. A CTV News piece tracking what Survivor winners did with their prize money put the question on air. Audience texts came fast: pay off…
Airport security workers were arrested by the RCMP for swapping bag tags with drug shipments. The W5 investigation is only the beginning of the conversation. What a Million Dollars Actually Buys You The million-dollar question gets specific answers on air.…
Spy gifts aren’t a conspiracy theory. A coin, a carved eagle, or a lanyard can all carry tracking devices. The White House delegation to China reportedly kept all received gifts separate rather than bringing them home. Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former…
COINTELPRO is one of the largest government surveillance programs in American history. A group of ordinary people found the proof by picking the locks. The Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI spent months preparing a break-in at a Pennsylvania field…
A million dollars won on Survivor, and Danny Boatwright spent $10,000 of it on a new hip for his dog. He calls it the best money he ever spent. Season 3 winner Ethan Zohn co-founded Grassroot Soccer after two former…
AI resume screening is not the reason your application disappeared. But what’s actually blocking you is almost worse. Shelley Billinghurst surveyed Canadian employers and found over 80% are not using AI to filter candidates at the front end. Kim Wilkinson…
Nihilism says nothing is special. Greg Fish says that is the most freeing idea in philosophy, and the most misunderstood. Greg Fish argues that the real source of depression and anxiety is not nihilism but the opposite: the belief that…
Ozempic side effects are starting to tell a story that the billions of dollars in prescriptions written haven’t caught up to yet. Tony Chapman has been paying attention. The drug eats into bone mass and muscle mass, Chapman says, and…
