

The Greatest Dogs List Everyone's Arguing Over
A tweet ranking the greatest dogs of all time set off a debate once it became clear some of the most obvious picks weren't included, and the argument over who got snubbed took over most of the show. Storm damage in Windsor, Ontario turned into an unexpected good news story once a local bingo tradi…

NEW - Good News Tuesday: The Race Car Driver With No Arms Hitting 110 MPH
A race car driver with no arms held speeds past 100 miles an hour at one of motorsport's most demanding endurance races, and the method behind it says something about what limits actually mean once you decide to ignore them. A baby born with a failing heart is being kept alive by a device that tak…

MapQuest Refused to Rename the Lake. The Internet Noticed
A company most people assumed was long gone just became an unlikely symbol of resistance. Vass Bednar, managing director of the Canadian Shield Institute, explains why MapQuest's refusal to rename Lake Ontario turned into a genuine online moment, one that MapQuest itself has leaned into. There may…

What’s On Your Mind: What Deb Hutton Wishes She'd Valued More
An ordinary walk to school turned into a bigger realization for Deb Hutton, one tied to a countdown she didn't expect to be thinking about yet, and it shapes the rest of this honest conversation about raising kids. Deb names the exact parts of early parenting she now misses most, even the ones mos…

ICYMI - A Teenager Found a T-Rex Just Walking a Riverbed
Alberta is one of the richest fossil regions on the planet, but there is a catch that surprises almost everyone who finds one, tied to a law most Canadians have never heard explained clearly before. Inside one of the country's top dinosaur museums sits a fossil discovered entirely by accident, sta…

The De-Stressing Trick That Takes No Extra Time
Most stress isn't the workload. It's the story a person tells about the workload, and a researcher who studies wellbeing explains why the exact same amount of "too much" can either feel exciting or feel like drowning, depending entirely on that framing. She also names a slower, quieter danger: a ki…

Shiftheads - A Rescue Robot That Might Also Terrify You
Imagine you're trapped under rubble after an earthquake, injured, and the first thing that reaches you is a cockroach wearing a tiny electronic backpack, followed by a second one carrying a hypodermic needle loaded with medicine, all part of a very real rescue plan researchers are calling paraborgs…

ICYMI - Why Detroit Looks Cleaner Than Most Canadian Downtowns
Matt Gurney has a theory that doesn't sit well with most people: Canada's problems mostly aren't about the United States at all. He and Shane dig into the idea that whoever is in the White House can only exploit weaknesses that already exist, and most of those weaknesses were built right here, over…

The Greatest Dogs List Everyone Is About To Argue Over
A viral ranking of famous TV and movie dogs sorts every legendary pup into five tiers, from certified greats to outright failures, and Bob Addison isn't buying half the placements. Listeners get a rapid-fire argument over which beloved dogs got robbed and which ones never deserved the spot they lan…

How a Whiteboard Became So Much More
The whiteboard next to Antonietta Nobile's desk in a hospital's heart investigative unit had exactly one job: track the date and which doctor a patient was seeing that day. She started using the empty space for something the schedule never accounted for, and patients noticed immediately. By the ti…