Michael Jackson’s biopic is in theatres now, and whether it deserves the praise depends entirely on what you want from it. Meanwhile, a UK judge just called Amy Winehouse’s father an unreliable witness, and two names got cut from a…
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to talk about something that keeps coming up in conversations about 1989: the things you had to earn before anyone handed them to you. Ed Conroy argues that generation didn’t just play differently,…
Perception and storytelling are the same mechanism, and both of them drift. Shane Hewitt makes the case that the game of telephone is not just a party game. It is the operating system running underneath every conversation, every memory, and…
Canada-US trade is being negotiated against a backdrop of a premier’s private jet controversy, airline consolidations, and a summer travel season that is starting to feel less certain by the week. Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead have different reads on…
Relationship drift does not announce itself. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco have a name for where it ends up: roommates. Not a blowup, not a betrayal. Just two people sharing a couch, sharing Wi-Fi, sharing a show neither of them…
How conspiracy theories spread is the question Dr. Lee Kuhnle has been building a career around, and the answer is less about deception than about distance from the original idea. He calls it metaphor drift: the gap that opens up…
Weird news stories today do not get much better than a rapper placing a massive block of ice in downtown Toronto for an album launch and the city spending 16 hours melting it. Toronto Fire was called. The mayor backed…
Recycling habits in Canada are not a national conversation. They are twelve separate provincial arguments, and Bob Addison from Surrey is ready to have all of them. BC gives you a deposit back on cans, milk jugs, and wine bottles.…
Digital evidence and justice have a complicated relationship, and Tyler Hatch has spent a career inside that gap. The footage exists. The screenshot exists. The court sees something completely different from what everyone else sees, and that disconnect is not…
Why people are meaner online has a cleaner answer than most people want to admit. Greg Fish ran the experiment himself: three months of deliberately aggressive posts on social media, taking bait, going for the gut punch. A million views…
Volunteering in Canada powers things most people take entirely for granted. Community events, sports leagues, hospital visits, search and rescue. Dr. Megan Conway says 24 million Canadians are part of that in some form. She also says the habit is…
Uplifting news stories Canada doesn’t always look like headlines. Sometimes it looks like a Vancouver man sitting across from the mother of the stranger whose liver kept him alive. Sometimes it’s a sweater knitted one playoff game at a time…
Good news stories in Canada live in the spaces most people aren’t looking. Ryan O’Donnell found his in an IMAX seat, watching a film from 2008 that somehow hit harder in 2026 than it ever did before. Shane found his…
Canadian drone industry experts will tell you Canada is behind. Richard Shimooka will tell you exactly how far, and it is not a comfortable number. There is a version of Canada that orders parts and figures it out as it…
Headphones and human connection turn out to be in direct competition, and most people have already picked a side without realizing it. Ryan O’Donnell took his off at a medical clinic and ended up in two conversations he never expected,…
