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…
Good News Tuesday delivers rare validation that the suspicious-looking settlement email was actually legitimate, and $50 in bread money just landed in a co-host’s account. The Canadian bread price-fixing class action against major grocery chains has started paying out, and…
Smart contact lenses are in prototype, gardening pros have a trick nobody ever taught you, and the term glass holes is back. A tech and DIY expert connects all of it. **He Started Playing Guitar Because of Ritchie Valens. His…
Good News Tuesday reaches into the remarkable with a dog missing for two years, a wild bird that found its human, and a host who cannot wait for the visit months in the making. Joel bought a bulldog at 19…
Canada military spending has been inadequate for so long that a defence analyst says the country won’t have meaningful new capability until 2035. Richard Shimooka says the US pause on the Permanent Joint Board of Defense is less alarming than…
ChatGPT bank account access is rolling out to select US users, and a tech journalist says Canada is next. His breaking news on next-gen Google Glass is the other story to watch this week. Kris Abel covers OpenAI’s move to…
Classic cars are about more than chrome and horsepower, and an automotive journalist says the ones that make people pull over are the ones attached to a memory. Lorraine Sommerfeld says a Gremlin club and a Nova club both exist,…
Snowbirds Tutor jets have one season of flying left after this one, and a pilot says the years between the last Tutor flight and the replacement arriving could stretch well into the next decade. John Tory Jr. says the world’s…
Birth family connections don’t always start with a meeting, and a radio contributor says the phone call that changed his life happened almost twenty years ago. Bob Addison says he is adopted and found out about his birth family only…
Canada defence spending has been a broken promise for decades, and a political journalist says the US pausing a joint defence board is just the beginning of what’s coming. Matt Gurney says the Permanent Joint Board of Defense, a Canada-US…
Tipping culture has a word problem. The receipt says gratuity. The machine says 18. Somewhere between those two things, the meaning changed. The hosts dig into what it means when muscle memory sends you to 18% because that’s where 15%…
