NEW - Things Only Canadians Say: Yeah, No. It Means No… yeah?

Canadian expressions are invisible until someone from outside names them. With F1 weekend pulling visitors into Montreal from around the world, the hosts asked the question: what do we say that sounds completely normal to us and completely baffling to everyone else? "Yeah, no" came up first. It so…

ICYMI: What Does Quebec Know About Separation That Alberta Doesn't?

Alberta's separation talk is getting louder, and a man who organized Quebec's 1980 referendum is watching closely. Andrew Caddell has seen this before. The phrases are familiar. The math is not. He organized on the ground and found the people running the movement were nothing like the people in th…

SHIFTHEADS: Inside Copy - The Cybertruck That Got a Boating Ticket

Three weird news stories make up this episode, and each one gets worse the more you think about it. A Texas man drove a Cybertruck into a lake. His citation was for not having a boat licence. A Michigan couple's interior security camera caught their landlord in their home doing something several p…

Steve Stebbing on Why Star Wars Stopped Being a Cultural Event

What to watch this weekend covers six picks and a real argument: whether audiences have been permanently conditioned out of blockbuster excitement, with a new Star Wars in theatres as the test case. Horror on the Highway and a Heist That Starts With Demi Moore Passenger follows a van life couple w…

NEW - AI and Humans in the Loop: Who's Actually Watching?

Humans in the loop only works as a safeguard if the humans know they are in one. Right now, across industries, most of them do not. Mohit Rajhans points to a coffee chain that pulled its AI automation entirely after customers got wrong information because no one was checking the inventory. That is…

SCAMS: The Message Came From Apple. Apple Didn't Send It

iCloud phishing scams are targeting Canadians with messages so convincing they fooled a cybersecurity analyst's own mother. The pitch is simple: your storage is full, pay four dollars or lose your photos. One click hands scammers your account, your contacts, your messages, and your credit card. Th…

The Inside Job: Organized Crime, Airport Workers, and Your Luggage

Canada has an airport drug smuggling problem, and it starts with the people loading your bags. Avery Haines found that corrupt employees have been switching bag tags, routing narcotics through the luggage of ordinary travelers who have no idea. Sixteen of 17 bag tag switching cases traced back to …

Pac-Man Was Not 1983. Mario Was. A Trivia Game Goes Sideways

1983 brought Mario, the chicken nugget, and the Swatch Watch. A trivia game on air reveals all of them and gets one answer spectacularly wrong. The clues come one at a time: shoulder pads as the worst fashion trend, Ford Escort as the best-selling car, the chicken nugget as the food debut of the y…

ICYMI: How to Know if a Watch Is Worth the Money, With the Horological Society of Canada

Swatch watch saved the Swiss watch industry in 1983. Forty-plus years later, a Swatch collaboration just made an Audemars Piguet accessible to mere mortals. A Royal Oak from Audemars Piguet starts at $35,000 Canadian and you cannot just walk into a store and buy one. The Swatch collaboration chang…

SHIFTHEADS: Ontario Charged Food Manufacturers a Billion Dollars. You Are Paying for It

Food inflation in Canada has a hidden driver nobody is talking about. Ontario just charged food manufacturers a billion dollars through it. You are paying that bill. The Extended Producer Responsibility fee was designed to push the food industry toward greener packaging. Instead, Dr. Sylvain Charl…