The agency that insures Canadian mortgages just paid out thirty two million dollars in staff bonuses. The people footing that bill are the same ones struggling to qualify for a mortgage in the first place. Jamie Ellerton, founding partner at…
Career myths convince people they get one shot at everything: wrong major, wrong first job, and that’s the whole story decided. Candy Ho, a CERIC board member, makes the case that a summer job is closer to free training than…
World Cup fan celebrations are the actual show this tournament, the games are just the excuse. If the sport itself has never made sense, this is the entry point that finally clicks: not the offside rule, but the noise a…
Marketing scarcity gets tested against a real example: a wedding with no leaked photos, no outside editor, and twenty six million dollars already routed to charity before the criticism could show up. Tony Chapman, host of Chatter That Matters, treats…
Canada World Cup travel plans do not usually involve selling tickets to one game so you can afford tickets to another, but that is exactly the math Bob Addison worked out when Canada advanced to Houston. Three seats to an…
Something happens to a manager who spends all day getting agreed with. Greg Fish, a computer scientist behind Cyberpunk Survival Guide, lays out why the people running the meeting are more likely than anyone underneath them to fall into what…
The Great Lakes Triangle has claimed roughly six thousand ships and hundreds of planes, and Nathan Radke explains why the losses feel supernatural even when they are not. His book Uncover Up spent a decade tracing how ordinary people get…
Good News Tuesday runs on stories sent in by listeners and a text line that keeps the good ones coming, and this week the good news starts with a 139-year-old former church rectory brought back to life one room at…
Good News Tuesday runs on stories sent in by listeners through a dedicated text line, and this week starts with Kyle Lowry set to sign a one-day contract so he can officially retire as a Toronto Raptor, with his number…
Canada’s submarine procurement finally has a plan, and Matt Gurney explains why getting there will still take most of a decade. He connects the announcement to a defense minister’s own words about shared crews and interoperability, and what that reveals…
A Portland teenager pulled Wilt Chamberlain’s 1972 NBA Finals warm-up jacket out of a Goodwill bin for four dollars, and it is now headed to Sotheby’s with an estimate as high as $250,000. Someone else had already picked it up…
Sobriety gets treated like a confession, and Jim Richards is tired of feeling like he owes anyone an explanation for ordering a non-alcoholic beer. Coming up on three years without a drink, he lays out what actually changed and why…
Wanting what you cannot have applies to more than diets and dream cars. Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch dig into why the person just out of reach so often becomes the one we cannot stop thinking about, and why that…
A six-year-old sample from asteroid Ryugu just confirmed all five major DNA building blocks, and Dr. Samantha Yammine breaks down why that finding matters more than the headlines suggest. It separates what the data actually shows from the more dramatic…
PlayStation discs are going away entirely by 2028, and Kris Abel makes the case that the industry is repeating a mistake music already made, minus the concerts and festivals that kept that transition from feeling like a total loss. Something…
