Some stories you didn’t need to know today start with a parking ticket and end up somewhere nobody expects. A Toronto driver who knew she’d stopped at the sign went looking for proof instead of just paying the fine, and…
Weekend streaming picks from Steve Stebbing start with a question he can’t shake: why remake Moana shot for shot with the same lead singing the same songs, only a decade later and with worse reviews. He counters with two picks…
A Meta data center Alberta project worth thirteen billion dollars sounds like a win for Canadian business, but Emily Osborne makes the case for why the price tag is the least important number in the story. Osborne breaks down the…
AI search summaries are quietly replacing the second, third, and fourth sources you used to check before trusting an answer. Mohit Rajhans lays out how a single Gemini query can bury the truth of a story under one linked opinion…
Signs your partner is cheating rarely show up as one dramatic clue, and Dr. Laurie Betito spends this conversation drawing the line between suspicion and proof. A guarded phone or a sudden change in routine can mean betrayal, or it…
Drive-thru culture is getting a real-time reaction this summer, as Europeans in town for the World Cup post themselves discovering it for the first time. One video shows a woman getting out of her car at the window, certain a…
Some people still insist a CRT television shows colour that no flat screen can replicate, and tech expert Carmi Levy says it is the same instinct that keeps vinyl records and cassette mixtapes alive. He walks through exactly what made…
Bonnie Tyler has died at seventy five, and music commentator Eric Alper traces the accident that built her voice: a doctor’s order for six weeks of silence, and one scream of frustration that changed everything. What follows is the real…
Before his last episode aired, Ernie Coombs recorded a farewell message to the crew behind thirty two years of Mr. Dress Up, a moment that anchors this look back at 1996. The same year, Donovan Bailey won gold in the…
A cocktail everyone associates with Hawaii was actually invented in Oakland, and Richard Crouse has the recipe along with his verdict on the Moana live action remake. Before that, he digs into a Madonna song fans are convinced is about…
Mr. Dress Up ran for thirty two years, and historian Ed Conroy says Ernie Coombs and puppeteer Judith Lawrence built entire episodes with no script at all. Ed contributed vintage television equipment and previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage to a new…
Fast food value meals only look like a deal. Food professor Sylvain Charlebois lays out the seventeen minute rule behind them: the average person sits comfortably for seventeen minutes, so McDonald’s built its old plastic chairs to move you out…
An eight piece bucket at KFC runs thirty four dollars in Canada right now, and the family size version tops seventy five. Shane Hewitt & the Nightshift went hunting for where fast food still counts as a deal, using a…
Three major announcements landed in Alberta within days of each other, and broadcaster Rob Breakenridge breaks down what is actually behind them. A new pipeline to BC, talk of one from Alberta to Ontario, and a thirteen billion dollar Meta…
Most affordable mortgage city in Canada is not a Toronto or Vancouver question, and it is not even close to one. A fresh Royal LePage ranking puts the country’s most affordable spots somewhere entirely different, working through mortgage aggregate prices…
