FIFA World Cup Canada is handing brands a masterclass in constraint-as-opportunity, and Tony Chapman says most of them are missing it. The organizations spending millions on stadium naming rights are watching those names disappear for the duration of the tournament.…
Software engineer burnout is the reason your app looked different this morning and nobody on the team can explain why it changed. Greg Fish of Cyberpunk Survival Guide has spent years inside the industry watching companies ship work not because…
Good News Tuesday runs on the idea that good news makes more good news. Tonight it also runs on swearing. Dr. Robin Hanley DeFoe’s research says dropping a casual expletive, not at anyone, just into the void, can block pain…
Good News Tuesday goes coast to coast this week, and the stories range from eleven hundred pounds to a cup of tea at a library table. The throughline is the same: simple things done with intention tend to matter more…
Myles Dininio is running nearly eight thousand kilometers across Canada to raise funds for CAMH, and when this conversation happened he was somewhere near Agawa Bay in northern Ontario, just past the halfway mark. He stopped running long enough to…
Less than twenty-four hours before Canada faced Switzerland, Kyle Horner called in from Windsor, Ontario, right on the American border, to talk about what this World Cup run is doing to a country that isn’t used to winning at football.…
Sixty thousand people in red at a Canada World Cup soccer match will do something to you, even if you’re normally a late arriver who avoids crowds. Bob Addison, co-host of the Uncle Bob’s Bits segment, was there, and he’s…
A shooting in a Montreal Jewish grocery store. A high-speed pursuit ending in gunfire in Calgary. An MP targeted in Saskatchewan. What links them isn’t ideology, it’s the moment after, when the internet fills the silence with certainty. Matt Gurney,…
Kris Abel, tech and entertainment commentator at krisabel.com, covers three things this week that actually earned the attention. The Sennheiser Accentum Clip launches July 23rd in Canada, before the US gets it, at $270. It clips around the ear instead…
Entrepreneur and investor Arlene Dickinson makes the case that what Canadians need most right now isn’t a new plan — it’s the belief that they already have what it takes to execute one. Dickinson traces how curiosity became her operating…
Calgary mayor Jeremy Farkas put out a video during Stampede and dropped some language that got attention. The swearing was the hook. The issue underneath it is real and a lot more specific than noise complaints. Ryan O’Donnell lives three…
Most people have no idea what they’re spending until the statement arrives. Cash fixes that — which is exactly why almost nobody uses it anymore. Shane and the team open the week with a conversation about what happens when you…
AI-generated content has gotten good enough that most people scrolling past it have no idea — and tech and DIY expert Andy Baryer argues the brands using it secretly are taking a risk that transparent ones aren’t. Andy traces how…
Bank fees, ATM limits, and a marketplace transaction that required three separate e-transfers to produce four hundred dollars in cash. The cashless future has a cost, and it’s not always obvious until you need actual bills in your hand. Shane…
Three police officers down across three provinces on the same Monday. Lesley Kelly and Jimmy Zoubris open the week by acknowledging what that costs before the panel moves into the policy questions that follow. Bill C-14 gives police more tools…
