Smoking in taxis. Kids tethered in the back window of a Barracuda. A Ford Pinto packed like a clown car. This episode asks one big question: what did your family do in the past that would never fly today?

Shane Hewitt shares wild listener throwbacks from 1979, adding his own stories of smoky rides and sketchy road trips. From pipelines and grocery prices to the launch of the Walkman and Gretzky joining the NHL, it’s a full-spectrum flashback to the year when everything seemed normal… until you look back.

Originally aired on 2025-12-11

Smoking in taxis. Kids tethered in the back window of a Barracuda. A Ford Pinto packed like a clown car. This episode asks one big question: what did your family do in the past that would never fly today?
Shane Hewitt shares wild listener throwbacks from 1979, adding his own stories of smoky rides and sketchy road trips. From pipelines and grocery prices to the launch of the Walkman and Gretzky joining the NHL, it&rsquo;s a full-spectrum flashback to the year when everything seemed normal&hellip; until you look back.
Originally aired on&nbsp;2025-12-11

Shane Hewitt & The Nightshift is your late-night companion for real talk, bold ideas, and unfiltered conversations that matter. Hosted by Canadian radio veteran Shane Hewitt, each episode dives into the headlines, human stories, and hidden truths shaping our world—always with curiosity, compassion, and a sharp edge.

From politics and pop culture to mental health, technology, and everyday life, this podcast is where night owls, deep thinkers, and curious minds come to connect. Featuring expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane’s signature style—thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real.

If you crave meaningful dialogue, smart perspectives, and late-night radio energy in podcast form, subscribe now and join The Nightshift.

Shane Hewitt &amp; The Nightshift is your late-night companion for real talk, bold ideas, and unfiltered conversations that matter. Hosted by Canadian radio veteran Shane Hewitt, each episode dives into the headlines, human stories, and hidden truths shaping our world&mdash;always with curiosity, compassion, and a sharp edge.
From politics and pop culture to mental health, technology, and everyday life, this podcast is where night owls, deep thinkers, and curious minds come to connect. Featuring expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane&rsquo;s signature style&mdash;thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real.
If you crave meaningful dialogue, smart perspectives, and late-night radio energy in podcast form, subscribe now and join The Nightshift.

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Shane Hewitt is known for his engaging and relatable on-air personality, which captivates listeners. His ability to blend insightful commentary with humour and empathy creates a genuine connection with listeners.  Shane Hewitt and the Night Shift provides relatable content, informative discussions and expert insights – along with a balance of anecdotes and entertainment.

Shane Hewitt is known for his engaging and relatable on-air personality, which captivates listeners. His ability to blend insightful commentary with humour and empathy creates a genuine connection with listeners.  Shane Hewitt and the Night Shift provides relatable content, informative discussions and expert insights – along with a balance of anecdotes and entertainment.

NEW - Did Your Parents Do This in 1979?

Aging water infrastructure under your city is running on borrowed time, and you would never know it from your tap. You turn it on, water comes out, and that feels like proof that someone has it handled. But in Calgary this week, the main feeder pipe supplying 60% of the city's water needed emergency shutdown, not for the first time, just to stop it from exploding again.

 

What does it feel like to know your city expects you to shave three minutes off your shower, buy the low-flow toilet before your old one dies, and track your own water use, while 30% of Canada's water infrastructure sits in fair, poor, or very poor condition and another 12% is simply unknown because the pipes are underground and the detectors missed it? That gap between what citizens are asked to do and what municipalities are actually fixing is not comfortable to sit with.

 

This is not a conservation story. It is an infrastructure story wearing a conservation costume. The water returns to the system. The pipes underneath everything, that is where the actual cost lives.

 

Topics: aging water infrastructure, Calgary water restrictions, Canada water crisis, municipal infrastructure maintenance, water conservation


Originally aired on 2026-03-09

Aging water infrastructure under your city is running on borrowed time, and you would never know it from your tap. You turn it on, water comes out, and that feels like proof that someone has it handled. But in Calgary this week, the main feeder pipe supplying 60% of the city's water needed emergency shutdown, not for the first time, just to stop it from exploding again.
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What does it feel like to know your city expects you to shave three minutes off your shower, buy the low-flow toilet before your old one dies, and track your own water use, while 30% of Canada's water infrastructure sits in fair, poor, or very poor condition and another 12% is simply unknown because the pipes are underground and the detectors missed it? That gap between what citizens are asked to do and what municipalities are actually fixing is not comfortable to sit with.
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This is not a conservation story. It is an infrastructure story wearing a conservation costume. The water returns to the system. The pipes underneath everything, that is where the actual cost lives.
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Topics: aging water infrastructure, Calgary water restrictions, Canada water crisis, municipal infrastructure maintenance, water conservation
 Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-03-09

The Pipe Under Your Street Has a Secret

Vertical vegetable gardening and growing from seed will quietly make you the most interesting gift-giver in your neighbourhood. You put 64 seeds in a tray in January. By spring you have more plants than your yard can hold, more than you planned, more than you need. That is when it gets good.

 

There is something unexpected about watching a pole bean decide that your bamboo stick is not tall enough and keep going anyway. These plants do not need permission. They find the structure, they take it, and they climb. When you start from seed and end up with more than you planted for, you stop thinking about the garden as a project and start thinking about who gets what.

 

What works in a yard scales to a railing. What starts as a seed tray ends as a birthday gift nobody else thought of. The nursery figured out the volume game a long time ago. You just joined the supply side.

 

Topics: vertical vegetable gardening, growing from seed, small space gardening, climbing vegetables, spring planting


Originally aired on 2026-03-09

Vertical vegetable gardening and growing from seed will quietly make you the most interesting gift-giver in your neighbourhood. You put 64 seeds in a tray in January. By spring you have more plants than your yard can hold, more than you planned, more than you need. That is when it gets good.
&nbsp;
There is something unexpected about watching a pole bean decide that your bamboo stick is not tall enough and keep going anyway. These plants do not need permission. They find the structure, they take it, and they climb. When you start from seed and end up with more than you planted for, you stop thinking about the garden as a project and start thinking about who gets what.
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What works in a yard scales to a railing. What starts as a seed tray ends as a birthday gift nobody else thought of. The nursery figured out the volume game a long time ago. You just joined the supply side.
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Topics: vertical vegetable gardening, growing from seed, small space gardening, climbing vegetables, spring planting
 Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-03-09

NEW - Handy Andy: Everything Your Balcony Could Be Doing

Oil price volatility in Canada puts you in a strange position every time you fill up. You pay more at the pump and somewhere in the federal math, the country collects more too. High oil means bigger equalization payments flowing across provinces. That does not make the receipt feel better.

 

What does it mean when $120 a barrel corrects back down below $100 and the question is whether the statement caused it or the market did? The variables are global, but the reason the decisions get made or reversed tends to come back to one thing: how much it costs to fill a tank and whether people will remember it when they vote.

 

A dollar ninety for diesel is not relief. It is the new reference point.

 

GUEST: Dan McTeague | affordableenergy.ca


Originally aired on 2026-03-09

Oil price volatility in Canada puts you in a strange position every time you fill up. You pay more at the pump and somewhere in the federal math, the country collects more too. High oil means bigger equalization payments flowing across provinces. That does not make the receipt feel better.
&nbsp;
What does it mean when $120 a barrel corrects back down below $100 and the question is whether the statement caused it or the market did? The variables are global, but the reason the decisions get made or reversed tends to come back to one thing: how much it costs to fill a tank and whether people will remember it when they vote.
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A dollar ninety for diesel is not relief. It is the new reference point.
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GUEST: Dan McTeague | affordableenergy.ca
 Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-03-09

NEW - Did Your Parents Do This in 1979?

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