Social media does not show relationship conflicts, insecurity, ordinary bodies, or real intimacy. It shows curated vacations, idealized bodies, and romantic gestures. Dr. Laurie Betito calls it the comparison trap: measuring your actual relationship against someone else’s highly edited reality, then wondering why yours falls short. The Highlight Reel Affecting Your Expectations Social media shapes…
The clip economy is not just about shorter videos. It is about a generation forming opinions, making arguments, and consuming news from content that has been stripped of everything that makes it accurate. Mohit Rajhans calls it the clip economy: a media environment where a four-minute subway hot take and a 45-minute expert interview compete…
Canada’s national AI strategy is optimistic, overdue, and built on a premise Vass Bednar says is materially incorrect: that low public trust in AI is a literacy problem that more access will fix. Bednar argues trust is low because the product came to market too early, makes promises it cannot keep, and operates without the…
The Price is Right changed hosts in 2007 for the first time in over thirty years, and a man from Grand Prairie, Alberta made it memorable for Canadians before the year was out. Patrice Massa missed his showcase bid by one dollar. The Throwback Thursday conversation digs into what that means, what he walked away…
Protein added to chips. Protein added to milk that already has protein. A Costco chocolate milk that flies off the shelves. The marketing is working, but the nutrition math is messier than the labels suggest. Alyssa B from http://Nourished.ca cuts through the noise with a number: one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight is…
Canadian baby formula prices are up 70% in five years. There are still shortages. And the only plant producing baby formula in Canada ships most of what it makes to China and the United States. That plant cost $380 million to build. Canadian taxpayers confirmed at least $48 million of that. The company that owns…
Alberta’s Premier put a number on separation this week: $170 billion in federal debt as Alberta’s opening share, before accounting for everything the federal government currently handles. Rob Breakenridge says a new poll shows more Canadians now view Alberta leaving as more damaging to the economy than Quebec leaving. The math is starting to land….
In 2007, Stephen Harper was leading a conservative minority government, George W. Bush was in his second term, and Afghanistan was dominating the news. Politicians were speaking about Arctic sovereignty without calling each other names. Nothing was done about it then either. The average Canadian home cost $300,000. Weekly groceries ran $140 to $170. Gas…
The Price is Right is the definition of game show in most people’s heads, and according to BuzzerBlog’s Cory Anotado, that didn’t happen by accident. Hidden inside Cliffhangers, one of the show’s most dramatic pricing games, is a trick Bob Barker built in specifically for loyal viewers. The first item runs around $25, the second…
Bob Dylan is 85 and just announced more tour dates. The Beach Boys are out with Mike Love at 85. Paul Simon is 84, Randy Bachman is 82, Rod Stewart and Eric Clapton are both 80. They are all on the road this summer, and concert ticket prices for all of them keep climbing. Music…