Humanoid robots in 2026 just ran a half marathon faster than the human world record for the same distance. Last year one robot finished in two hours and forty minutes. This year Lightning, built by a smartphone company, did it…
Making friends after 50 sounds like something that quietly stops being possible. Then Shane moved to a small town, started going out on weekends, and keeps meeting people he actually likes. Turns out the barrier was never the age. What…
DIY home upgrades have a way of starting with something you forgot you owned. Andy Baryer found a monitor so old it had no HDMI port. It’s now a streaming TV. The garden runs on a timer. The front door…
Ad creep in sports has officially eaten the event. Four hours of WrestleMania. Eighty-two minutes of wrestling. If you paid $500 for a seat in Las Vegas this weekend, the ads ran on the Jumbotron above you anyway. Imagine paying…
High above the ground, communication isn’t optional—it’s survival. So why are pilots sometimes joking on the very frequency designed for emergencies? John Tory Jr. breaks down what’s actually happening on aviation’s “guard frequency,” the channel monitored by pilots, air traffic…
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has turned a 53-kilometre waterway into the most consequential question in global energy. One to three ships are transiting it daily. It used to be 130. Imagine the gap between knowing something can happen and…
Financial anxiety hits different when every headline feels like evidence that it’s all out of your hands. But the part that’s actually in your hands is bigger than the market right now, and it’s got nothing to do with what…
Hockey loyalties collide, but that’s just the warm-up. This conversation moves from playoff passion to something far more personal—why making friends as an adult feels unexpectedly hard. Jimmy Zubris and Lesley Kelly bring sharp perspective and lived experience, balancing rivalry…
Cheating on tests used to have a clear definition. A binder on the floor in fourth grade, pages turned with two feet, and Dorothy across the aisle who saw the whole thing. That one had an obvious answer. The pandemic…
The Canadian grocery rebate hits accounts this week and the gas tax comes off the pump. September is when one of those reverses, and the gap between now and then is exactly the size of a summer road trip. Good…
Disney Infinity Vision is the new premium format launching the same weekend as Avengers Doomsday. The full announcement is laser projection and premium audio. No other specifications have been confirmed. Dune Part III has the IMAX contract. What does it…
Welfare check calls go unanswered for a lot of reasons. In Ohio, the reason was a 91-year-old in her bedroom trying to beat her record. Police radioed it in. Nobody thought to ask which game. In Toronto, Drake filed the…
PDA in relationships is where two completely different upbringings end up in the same parking lot. One person reaches. The other one doesn’t. And somehow that ten seconds does more damage than anything else that happened that day. What does…
Kids using AI to get answers at school. Cheating, or just faster at figuring it out than the adults who wrote the rules? The guardrails are gone, and nobody agrees on who puts them back. There’s a thing about the…
New car prices in Canada are up almost 60% in six years, and Lorraine Sommerfeld says that number didn’t just change what people can afford. It changed how they feel about cars. Walking through a lot used to mean dreaming.…
