The Science of Swearing is Some Very Good News

Good News Tuesday runs on the idea that good news makes more good news. Tonight it also runs on swearing. Dr. Robin Hanley DeFoe's research says dropping a casual expletive, not at anyone, just into the void, can block pain receptors and reset the nervous system. A French tennis player proved it in…

NEW - Good News Tuesday! Good News, Big Fish, Bigger Ideas

Good News Tuesday goes coast to coast this week, and the stories range from eleven hundred pounds to a cup of tea at a library table. The throughline is the same: simple things done with intention tend to matter more than anyone expects. A Chilliwack-based fishing crew pulled an eleven-and-a-half-…

SHIFTHEADS: Running Canada for Mental Health, One Step at a Time

Myles Dininio is running nearly eight thousand kilometers across Canada to raise funds for CAMH, and when this conversation happened he was somewhere near Agawa Bay in northern Ontario, just past the halfway mark. He stopped running long enough to talk. Then he started again. The idea has lived in…

NEW - Kyler Horner: Windsor's All In. So is Canada!

Less than twenty-four hours before Canada faced Switzerland, Kyle Horner called in from Windsor, Ontario, right on the American border, to talk about what this World Cup run is doing to a country that isn't used to winning at football. Kyle Horner, radio host at AM800 CKLW, makes the case that what…

Shiftheads - Is Swearing by Politicians OK… Even if They Have a Point?

Calgary mayor Jeremy Farkas put out a video during Stampede and dropped some language that got attention. The swearing was the hook. The issue underneath it is real and a lot more specific than noise complaints. Ryan O'Donnell lives three minutes from the Cowboys tent and has something to say about…

ICYMI - Arlene Dickinson on Why Canada Needs to Say "We Can"

Entrepreneur and investor Arlene Dickinson makes the case that what Canadians need most right now isn't a new plan — it's the belief that they already have what it takes to execute one. Dickinson traces how curiosity became her operating system, why she chose to go more public — not less — as the …

NEW - Tech: New Earbuds, a Robot Film, and Toy Story in Hospital Beds

Kris Abel, tech and entertainment commentator at krisabel.com, covers three things this week that actually earned the attention. The Sennheiser Accentum Clip launches July 23rd in Canada, before the US gets it, at $270. It clips around the ear instead of hoping your ear canal cooperates, combines b…

Extreme Crime in Canada: Nobody Fits the Profile Anymore

A shooting in a Montreal Jewish grocery store. A high-speed pursuit ending in gunfire in Calgary. An MP targeted in Saskatchewan. What links them isn't ideology, it's the moment after, when the internet fills the silence with certainty. Matt Gurney, writer and analyst at The Line, has spent a caree…

Bob Paid a TON for the Footy Tix. Canada Made Him Proud

Sixty thousand people in red at a Canada World Cup soccer match will do something to you, even if you're normally a late arriver who avoids crowds. Bob Addison, co-host of the Uncle Bob's Bits segment, was there, and he's still processing what national pride actually feels like when it's coming at …

The Happy Beep Is Costing You More Than You Think

Most people have no idea what they're spending until the statement arrives. Cash fixes that — which is exactly why almost nobody uses it anymore. Shane and the team open the week with a conversation about what happens when you can't find your debit card, can't make change, and can't explain why yo…