Ask Jeeves shut down May 1st. Kris Abel says it was built around the same idea that AI is now executing, asking questions and getting answers, but it ran out of runway before the technology caught up to the concept.…
May the 4th landed on a Friday this year and Ryan O’Donnell spent it exactly the way you would expect: three films deep by the time the show aired, running them as background noise the way most people run music.…
Spring gardening has a temperature threshold Andy Baryer treats as non-negotiable: nighttime lows need to reach 10 degrees Celsius before tomatoes, peppers, or squash go in the ground. When to Plant and How to Harden Metro Vancouver hit 25 degrees…
Summer travel planning in 2026 requires a different checklist than it used to, and Barry Choi has gone through it. Flight cancellations tied to jet fuel concerns are real, but Barry Choi says airlines are cutting unprofitable domestic routes well…
Everyone has a thing. The question is when to show it to someone new, and Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch do not entirely agree on the answer. Tony Tedesco’s framework is signal, not data: hint at the thing without diving…
SMS blasters are industrial-grade cybercrime tools manufactured and sold specifically to compromise phones at scale. Rob Beggs says one is enough to take out the real cell towers in a parking lot and replace them without anyone noticing. The text…
Tax refund season has a predictable problem: the money gets spent mentally before it ever arrives. Jessica Moorhouse says writing it down before it lands changes the outcome. Her ratio is 80 to 90 percent toward something responsible and 10…
Federal public servant wages are at the centre of a fight that Andrew Caddell says tells you something about where the government’s priorities actually are. A New Governor General and a Wage War Mark Carney is expected to announce a…
Star Wars Day lands on a Friday and Ryan O’Donnell has a theory he has been sitting with since he was a kid. The best peanut butter and jelly sandwich is your recipe. You could have an objectively better sandwich…
The corn flake was an accident. Tony Chapman says what Kellogg’s built from that accident was one of the most effective kid marketing systems ever put on a grocery store shelf. Cereal was shelved at grocery cart height on purpose.…
BC gas prices have been above $2 a litre for a long time. Ryan Price says watching Ontario treat $1.75 as a crisis has been an experience. Victoria sits at $2.12 for regular gasoline, a number Ryan Price says reflects…
The Strait of Hormuz carried 20 million barrels of oil per day before the war. Ian Wereley says that number is down 95%, and the knock-on effects are landing everywhere from hospital supply rooms to farm fields. The strait moves…
May 1st is the start of summer movie season and Steve Stebbing says the lineup is already delivering. Three Movies, One Very Strong Warning Devil Wears Prada 2 reunites Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci and Steve…
Love bombing is not about the gifts or the attention. Dr. Laurie Betito says it is about the motive and the pattern behind them. Someone coming on fast with intense affection, constant praise, promises, and grand gestures early in a…
Vitals is a solo show running May 2 to 10 at Factory Theatre in Toronto, and Dr. Janet McMordie says the question at the centre of it is one medicine does not answer well enough. The show follows Anna, a…
