Small moments carry more weight than most people realize, according to Dr. Laurie Betito, and missing them is easier than it sounds. A slightly different phrase, a slightly different response, and a connection either lands or disappears without either person…
A new system promises reserved concert tickets to a band’s biggest fans, and on paper it sounds like a fix for years of ticket buying frustration. Then you start asking how “biggest fan” actually gets measured, and the whole thing…
Only a fraction of the American dairy products Canada agreed to let in under a major trade deal ever actually crossed the border, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois has the numbers to prove it, numbers that reframe who’s really responsible for…
Imagine buying a brand new car, sitting in that fresh leather smell, turning the key, and getting a commercial before the engine even starts. Tony Chapman lays out exactly why that scenario is closer to reality than anyone would like…
Ten years should feel like ten years. This one doesn’t. A concert that brought an entire country to a stop gets remembered here in specific, personal detail, right down to the moment everyone realized Gord Downie was performing through an…
A pipeline gets announced as a big win in trade talks. Except it might already have been built, under a different name, months before anyone in Washington started taking credit for it. Rob Breakenridge sorts out what’s real here and…
AI generated clips of Robin Williams have been flooding the internet for years, and his own children just decided they’ve had enough, reviving an Instagram account that sat untouched for over a decade. Richard Crouse explains what they’re trying to…
Ten years ago, a band said goodbye and actually meant it, and Ed Conroy explains why that almost never happens in music. Most farewell tours are a marketing device. This one wasn’t, and the reason why cuts right to the…
Ten years on, Gord Sinclair still remembers exactly what was going through his mind as that final tour began in Victoria, before anyone knew if the band could finish what they’d set out to do. He talks about it now,…
A man enters the wrong pin at checkout, gets declined, tries again, and on the third failed attempt the terminal lets him through anyway, just sign here. Ritesh Kotak explains exactly how that happens and why most people have no…
There is a specific, researched reason your body laughs at a joke that just bombed in front of you, and it has almost nothing to do with whether the joke was actually funny. Once you hear the explanation, you will…
Everyone is calling it a trade deal, but Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead aren’t buying it yet, and by the end of this conversation you will understand exactly why a three-day window changes everything. A night at a professional basketball…
A Blue Jays game turned into a viral moment when Liz McGuire took a 110 mile an hour foul ball to the face, and she has zero regrets about how she was holding her beer that night. Two years later,…
Shane got passed on the shoulder of a sixty kilometer road in Ottawa by a guy on a scooter, and that one moment sends this conversation with Ryan O’Donnell into just how fast these things have gotten and how little…
Prediction markets are now live in Canada, letting you bet real money on questions like whether Canadian trips to the US will rise or fall, using the exact same account as your retirement savings. Vincent Gregoire unpacks what that means…
