AI love bombing feels different from a friend agreeing with you. A friend you can discount. They like you. They are on your side. A machine has no side. And when it tells you that you are right, it feels…
Nuclear weapons control rests, constitutionally, with one person. In 1969 that person was drunk, incensed, and on the phone to the Joint Chiefs ordering a strike on North Korea. Is a patriot someone who follows the law or someone who…
Artemis mission photographs showed the far side of the moon with Earth in the background. They looked like a science fiction film. The astronauts said exactly that. A neuroscientist had the livestream running for ten straight days and barely slept…
Cancer treatment advances have changed what a diagnosis means, and most of us haven’t updated our mental model for it. Cancer was in dinosaur bones. It is as old as life itself, and it will not be fixed with a…
Good News Tuesday lands on a week that opened with a 3.9 earthquake near Ottawa and somehow still found four stories worth stopping for. A 90-year-old Ottawa woman celebrated her birthday with a CrossFit workout. Not a walk. Not a…
A random act of kindness arrived in a hot pink envelope at a CTV newsroom during a federal by-election special. It sat unopened all day. She assumed it was hate mail. Her producer finally cracked it open at eleven at…
Canadian government accountability is the question underneath a majority nobody seems to be celebrating. Mark Carney got his sweep, two floor crossers pushed him over the line, and the Prime Minister can now take a day off without bringing everything…
Buffalo Sabres playoffs are back, and they came prepared. The last time Buffalo made the postseason, Stephen Harper was Prime Minister, Minecraft had just launched, and homes cost $365,000. Fourteen years is a long time to wait. It is also…
Google Gemini personal intelligence is available in Canada starting today, and the thing it knows about you when switched on is genuinely surprising. It reads Gmail. It scans photos. It tracks YouTube and search history. It found a licence plate…
The Strait of Hormuz is thirty kilometres wide and it has held the world hostage before. Not since 1979. Since 1901, when a foreign company was handed three quarters of Iran’s land and told to take whatever oil it could…
Wrongful conviction in Canada is still new information to most people who hear it, even after documentaries, headlines, and high-profile cases. Kelly Lauzon has been teaching it for over a decade and says it never stops being the first time…
Public displays of affection have an unspoken line that nobody can define until someone crosses it in front of them. Handholding is fine. One good airport kiss is fine. What happened at the Montreal airport was apparently not fine and…
A Canadian majority government was already taking shape before anyone voted tonight. John Moore from Newstalk 1010 is one of the people who has been watching it happen in real time and he is not surprised by any of it.…
Spring home maintenance has a way of starting small and getting expensive fast. Handy Andy Baryer went up to clean his parents’ gutters and came back down with news nobody wanted: the roof is soft, a roofer is coming, and…
Public displays of affection have a line nobody can draw until someone crosses it right next to them. That happened on a dance floor in Calgary. Blue Monday was playing. The couple in question were at least in their late…
