Financial panic investing has a trigger and right now you’re surrounded by them. The gas price on the sign jumped overnight. The news is about oil and conflict and markets. Everything on your screen is red. And somewhere in the…
Millennial party culture has a specific before and after and you lived through both sides of it. Before: Project X was in theatres, G6 was on every speaker, and the whole cultural message was that a real night out required…
Iran war unconditional surrender sounds decisive until you ask what comes after. You are watching a conflict that has been building for fifty years, funded by a regime that paid for the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas…
Shane Rants:Canadian energy self-sufficiency has an argument and right now you are paying it every time you fill up. Diesel was $1.20 a litre not long ago. This week it crossed $1.99 in parts of Ottawa. The Strait of Hormuz,…
Vegas flamingo kidnapping is a sentence that exists now, and the man responsible is Canadian, which honestly tracks. You lose at poker, you walk the casino floor, you enter the habitat, and you leave with a live bird named Peachy…
Phone ruining relationships has a clinical name now and you have probably done it this week. Phubbing is phone snubbing, the moment you reach for your screen while someone who loves you is sitting right there. It has been linked…
MOVIES: Pixar Is Back and Frankenstein Has Dance Sequences New movies this weekend include a Pixar film that the people who wrote Pixar off are going to have to reckon with. You put a human consciousness into an animatronic beaver…
Meditation brain science just found something that had never been recorded before and it changes the case for why any of this matters. Every night while you sleep, your brain runs a cleaning cycle, flushing out the protein buildup and…
Ultra processed foods are changing what you eat without you noticing. You order french fries thinking you’re getting a potato. You’re getting up to 30 ingredients: preservatives, citric acid, chemical fillers, all cooked in oil that’s been sitting for days.…
AI disinformation looks different depending on where you are standing and your version of this conflict is almost certainly not the same as anyone else’s. The feed was personalised to keep you engaged. The algorithm doesnot care whether what it…
Posthumous music releases have always forced you to decide how you feel about something the artist never got to approve. You played Life After Death knowing Biggie was 24 when he died and never heard it finished. You decided it…
Quebec cheese curd designation is about geography, not quality, and that gap is where things get interesting. You have bought corn on the cob labeled from Neuville that came from all over the province. You paid extra for the story.…
1997 Canada nostalgia stops being fun right about when the budget comes out. You pull up Paul Martin’s federal budget from that year and he is talking about balance and support for students and families. The date says 29 years…
Alberta oil revenue swings don’t just move the economy. They move the entire political conversation, and last week’s deficit just became this week’s windfall because a conflict broke out and oil prices moved. You watched the same thing happen during…
Biggie Smalls’ legacy runs deeper than the music, and you’ve been living inside its business model for 30 years without knowing it. You know the drive-by in Los Angeles. You know the East Coast rivalry. What you probably haven’t connected…
