Apollo 11 1969 throwback lands on the week Artemis 2 launched and the comparison is impossible to resist. An estimated 600 million people crowded around televisions on one channel at one moment to watch Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk…
Nickelback made a four-minute movie with Megan Thee Stallion promoting Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos. It is real. It cost about thirty dollars a bag and is available in Canada through exotic candy stores. The Pickleback is here. The same…
The Drama movie review comes with one warning from Richard Crouse: do not Google the twist before you watch. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple in the week before their wedding. They invite another couple over. Someone suggests the…
What makes an artist Canadian is the question Richard Crouse is putting to his new podcast Entertainment Is Broken after Justin Bieber and Tate McCrae skipped the Junos despite major nominations. His argument is that if your career is built…
1969 history has two halves that barely belong in the same year. The first half gives you Apollo 11 and Woodstock. The second gives you the Manson murders and Altamont, where the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels as security…
Artemis 2 launched today and for one person watching, the last time a space launch was watched all the way through was 1986. Crisscross applesauce on a library floor in grade six. The angles looked familiar tonight and the breath…
Artemis 2 launch reaction is the kind of thing that surprises you. Lindsay Broadhead did not expect what she felt watching it. Jamie Ellerton remembered a vague imprecise memory from the late nineties and a Canadian connection that may or…
Jeremy Hansen space launch is something Kris Abel has been waiting for since he met Hansen years before the mission existed. They did simulations together. Kris Abel planted a thought in his head about the 1965 Gemini astronaut who snuck…
Alien conspiracy theories in 2025 are moving fast and Nathan Radke, who teaches this for a living, has been tracking all of it. The US government registered alien.gov. An Air Force general with Wright-Patterson ties went missing six days after…
Trump Iran war speech ran tonight and Matt Gurney’s first observation was this: when a president goes on national television in primetime to reassure his own base that gas prices will come down and this is not going to be…
Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is going around the moon on Artemis 2 and Rachel Ward-Maxwell, who studies space for a living, is nervous. The astronauts are not. They have spent years preparing for this, they understand what they are flying…
Shane Hewitt discusses whether recent fines totalling about $47,000 are meaningful penalties for billion‑dollar grocery chains. While the amount is small compared to corporate revenues, Hewitt argues the real value lies in forcing public attention, transparency and accountability. The segment…
International Whiskey Day lands on a Friday this year and World Theatre Day is today too, which means you can go to the theatre and drink whisky and technically be celebrating two things at once. Ryan O’Donnell would like it…
Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau’s English-only statement after two pilots died had a problem that had nothing to do with language. It had to do with order. The names should have come first. Andrew Caddell says the criticism of Rousseau…
Canadian whisky has been reaching past its reputation and most people have not noticed yet. Stephen Beaumont says Canada is currently the most exciting whisky market on the planet, beating Ireland for that title, and the evidence runs from Crown…
