Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, and it did not blow its top. It blew its side, and the wall of water and debris that followed changed everything for everyone below it. In Canada, ash fell on cars…
Canadian community does not always look the way you expect it to. Sometimes it is 21 men eating eggs at seven in the morning on garbage day, no agenda, no minutes, just life. The group has been running for 17…
Gambling advertising in Canada is targeting the demographic least equipped to resist it. Steve Joordens explains exactly why, and what two bills in Parliament are trying to do about it. The brain science matters here. The limbic system, which chases…
Canadian life satisfaction is measuring something real and its provincial variation tells a more complicated story than any single headline can carry. The Astronauts Came Back. The Panel Asks Who Should Be Doing the Listening.The Artemis astronauts met Canada’s Prime…
Declassified UFO files released by the Pentagon on May 8th look explosive on the surface. Nathan Radke spent the better part of his weekend reading through them and came back with something more complicated. The 162 files from the FBI,…
Sports betting did not arrive to replace gambling. It arrived to replace the word. One listener’s text put a fine point on it: kids watching sports with their parents should be picking up lessons about teamwork, not learning what a…
Contagious yawning remains one of the most studied and least understood reflexes in human biology. A new finding about yawning in the womb just made the mystery harder to explain. Thirty-eight pregnant women at 28 to 32 weeks watched videos…
Quantum computers could break the encryption protecting every cryptocurrency on the planet. That is not a distant theory. It is an active scramble. Blockchains link transactions through cryptographic algorithms built on large prime numbers. A quantum computer does not brute…
Dunkin’ Donuts Canada is happening: a master franchise has been secured with plans to open one location per week up to 200. Tony Chapman has questions. The operator already owns Second Cup and Milestones. Chapman’s read: look at how Second…
Alberta voter data leak is the story Matt Gurney says everyone is trying to minimize. The fake names baked into the voter list have already identified who did it. What happened next is the problem. The “it’s just a phone…
Dunkin’ Donuts is coming back to Canada, a Canadian chain is bringing it in, and the team has thoughts on what this does to the Starbucks and Tim Hortons of the world. The opening question is what actually makes a…
Good news Tuesday comes from a simple observation: the bad is loud and the good needs to be found. Two stories this week prove the finding is worth the effort. The first: a pair of adult kids, 19 and 21,…
Blue dot fever is the new term for half-empty arenas and cancelled concerts. The data behind it is specific and the team has the numbers. Concert ticket prices for the top 100 global tours went up 37.2 percent between 2019…
What makes a good concert is a question Kelly Alexander answers with a specific recent example. The show felt, she says, like being taken to church. Nothing about that had to do with the lighting cues. The artist was genuinely…
Star Wars trading cards were fun in 1977. One of them just sold at auction for $687,500. The seller did not have the Canadian bilingual version with nicks. Kris Abel has the Luke Skywalker card, the first in the 1977…
