Leisure guilt is the reason you cancel plans and then spend the whole weekend feeling like you ruined something. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco dig into why saying no to a date because you’d rather do nothing might actually be…
A tech news roundup opens with word that Samsung is heading into humanoid robot production, starting with industrial models before the company looks at bringing robots into everyday homes. The timing lines up with Samsung’s own unpacked event unveiling its…
Grief and poetry rarely get compared to a box of crayons, but that’s exactly the shape Molly Peacock gives it in her new collection. She built the book around the idea that loss isn’t one colour, and if you’ve ever…
A soccer fandom conversation opens with a confession: thirty million Canadians watched the World Cup, many for the first time paying close attention to a sport this country usually shrugs off. What hooked the interest wasn’t the rules so much…
A World Cup final that ran a hundred and fifteen minutes before either team scored, and one side never managed a single shot on net the entire match. Spain’s overtime winner caps off a game that looked nothing like the…
A backyard trellis turns a runaway squash vine into an overhead harvest, and a phone company still hasn’t solved the crease running down the middle of its foldable screen. Two very different problems, both waiting on a fix. The Squash…
A night meant to be spent watching a friend’s first open mic set turns into something else entirely: the sudden, terrifying thought that maybe stand-up is doable after all. Thirty people, a Monday night, and one performer with confidence that…
Fifty percent tariffs on Canadian alcohol and dairy land with a thirty day deadline attached, and the timing traces straight back to an awkward World Cup trophy photo that didn’t go the American president’s way. Trump, Tariffs, and the World…
Car theft technology finally got a real answer when Ford introduced Start Inhibit, a built-in immobilizer that stops a stolen key from starting your vehicle. Lorraine Sommerfeld from lays out why this matters if you’ve ever wondered whether your…
Little House on the Prairie true story details rarely match what actually happened to the Ingalls family, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum’s Julien Nolan lays out exactly where the two split. Some of the biggest moments on screen, it…
An AI lying on camera is one thing. Watching someone talk it into a crime is another. A YouTuber set up three AIs on three phones and asked them to count to one hundred together, then pushed one of them…
California burns and Canada sends planes. Canada burns and the US threatens tariffs. Andrew Caddell digs into that double standard, plus the human causes behind fires most people assume are just bad luck, a barbecue that got away from someone,…
The Large Hadron Collider is going dark, and it is not the ending it sounds like. Dr. Samantha Yammine walks through what a decade-old Higgs boson discovery has to do with the way your own brain gets imaged, and why…
A three-hour Nolan epic, a Canadian coming-of-age drama gone taboo, and a reunion sketch pitch disguised as a dinner party. Steve Stebbing breaks down what is actually worth the runtime this weekend, plus the streaming picks worth queueing up after.…
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini are not interchangeable, and the one you default to says more about what you actually need than you think. Mohit Rajhans runs the comparison through a Mac versus PC lens, and by the end you will…
