Feature: Riveted by Jim Davies

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. Ontario gives you nothing. Alberta throws it all in one bin and sorts it somewhere…

Humanoid robots in 2026 just ran a half marathon faster than the human world record for the same distance. Last year one robot finished in two hours and forty minutes. This year Lightning, built by a smartphone company, did it in fifty minutes. The human record was fifty-two. Forty percent of the three hundred robots…

Food delivery exploded — and now so has the cost. In this episode, Ryan O’Donnell walks through a side-by-side cost breakdown of groceries, meal kits, and pre-made meals, showing how easy it is to spend over $800 a month on food without even realizing it. Shane Hewitt adds real-world insight on time, travel, and what…

Retail Analyst Bruce Winder joins Shane Hewitt to discuss the current state of retail and explores several key themes. A proposed initiative to remove taxes from secondhand goods in Canada is debated, highlighting potential benefits like boosting small businesses, promoting a circular economy, and reducing reliance on international markets. The conversation then shifts to the…

Imagine a world where trees light city streets and plants glow naturally in the dark. Shane Hewitt and Dr. Samantha Yammine (Science Sam) explore groundbreaking MIT research that merges nanotechnology with plant biology to create phosphorescent plants.They unpack how nanoparticles enable plants to store and release light, why this could reduce plastic waste, and what…