The Superstitions You Don't Even Know You Have

Superstition shows up in more places than black cats and broken mirrors. Shane runs through a long list of small, unconscious habits people carry every day, from picking lottery numbers based on birthdays to refusing to wash a lucky mug during a winning streak. New research is also challenging the…

NEW - Tone it Down or Tone Deaf? Hypocrisy Behind Pete Hoekstra

A US official is telling Canada to tone down its rhetoric, and Andrew Caddell has a specific list of reasons why that message rings hollow. He runs through Pete Hoekstra's own past comments, including a profanity-laced tirade at the National Gallery and a claim that a billion dollar bridge deal Can…

Inside Copy: How To Sabotage Your Own Party's Candidate?

One candidate wanted to face a Democrat in the general election. The path he allegedly chose to get there involved planting evidence on someone from his own party, and it did not go the way he planned. Forty thousand fans at a recent Blue Jays road game briefly forgot about the score entirely, dis…

A Weekend Watch List for Witches, Rebels, and Gamers

This week's watch list runs from a witch sequel with a devoted following to a medieval uprising and a rock reunion decades in the making. Steve Stebbing walks through what is actually worth your time this weekend, and what falls short of it. Sandra and Nicole Are Back, But Is the Sequel Better? P…

ICYMI - What Happens to a Marriage When the Kids Leave

Long before the last kid moves out, Dr. Laurie Betito says the empty nest has already been happening in small doses for years. She traces how those early separations quietly shape how parents react when the real one finally arrives. **Using the Transition to Reset a Relationship** Dr. Betito expl…

The AI Contradiction Playing Out at This Year's Film Festivals

At this year's festival season, Mohit Rajhans noticed something that does not quite add up. Filmmakers are warning about how dangerous AI technology could be, while using it at the same time to make the projects they are most excited about. That tension runs straight into a real fight happening in…

Shiftheads - TIFF Opening Weekend: Why Some People Go To The Same Film Festival For Decades

Ben Harrison explains what keeps people coming back to TIFF year after year, including attendees well into their seventies and eighties who treat it as an annual tradition. It isn't really about the movies themselves, he says. It's the friendships and conversations that only happen once a year, on …

Unlucky? He Was Born on Friday the 13th, So He Ran the Numbers

Jeffrey Rosenthal has a personal stake in this question. He was born on a Friday the 13th, and every time someone calls the date unlucky, it feels a little bit personal. So he did what a statistics professor does: he got access to a massive database of unexpected deaths from the Ontario coroner's o…

Half of Us Won't Remember 9/11 by the 2030s

Twenty five years after September 11th, the hosts compare notes on where they were that morning, and the gap between those old enough to remember it and those who were not born yet. One documentary estimate puts a number on how fast that gap is growing. Life before that day looked different in way…

NEW - The Non-Written Rule Jacking Up Your Grocery Bill

Food inflation is coming, but not for the reason most people assume. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois breaks down a quiet, unwritten pricing rule grocers follow every year, and why the months right before and after it hit the hardest at checkout. Tariffs on booze are reshaping more than the liquor aisle. Ch…