NEW - Robots in Your iPhone - Robots Climbing Mountains

Tech journalist Kris Abel joins Good News Tuesday with three stories that land differently depending on how optimistic you are about the future. Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference revealed a new Siri built on Google's Gemini technology, with longer conversations, better task planning, and cust…

NEW - Four Pieces of IKEA. Still Engaged. It's Good News.

Good News Tuesday opens with a genuine relationship milestone: assembling four pieces of IKEA furniture in a single afternoon and coming out the other side still engaged. The research backs up why that counts. Psychologists have found that picture-only instructions force constant compromise, trigge…

Good News Is There. Artemis 3 and More Good News Tuesday.

Good News Tuesday is built on a simple idea: when you can't find the good, sometimes hearing it from someone else is enough to turn you around. This one brings the next NASA moon crew, a child in Nanaimo doing something remarkable at three in the morning, a stolen car with a very large dog in the b…

SHIFTHEADS: A Good Friend to Remember and One Line To Never Forget

Vancouver police Sergeant Craig Reynolds was forty-eight when he died. Bob Addison was at the funeral, and one moment at the very end, a single line from the MC, stopped him cold. This is a Good News Tuesday that earns the name the hard way: through loss, through eight hundred people in a church, a…

Half of Canadian Couples Fight About This Nightly

Couples and food decisions have a numbers problem: research cited by relationship writer Jen Kirsch puts decision paralysis over dinner at about half of all Canadian couples, and Tony Tedesco says the question underneath the question is almost always about who is carrying the load. Date night gets …

ICYMI - Your Memory Is Lying to you. One Word Might Have Done It.

Cognitive bias researcher and author Davis Carbo joins to unpack one of the most unsettling findings in psychology: changing a single word in how an event is described can make people remember things that never happened. The Loftus and Palmer car crash study from the seventies proved it, and the im…

NEW - What’s On Your Mind: Aaron Rand CJAD 800 Montreal

Aaron Rand, host at CJAD Montreal, joins to break down the political moment Quebec finds itself in heading toward an October election. The Parti Québécois, whose signature issue is separation, is pushing a referendum that almost nobody in Quebec wants, and their latest move is asking Ottawa for for…

Shiftheads: Alberta's Wins That Separatists Forgot They Had

Alberta separatists have a long memory for grievances and a short one for results. Matt Gurney, editor at Read the Line, brings a new piece arguing that Alberta conservatives have been one of the most effective political forces in Canadian history, and that the case for separatism ignores twenty ye…

Canada's Prisons Are Testing AI. Experts Aren't Sold.

AI in Canadian prisons is no longer hypothetical. Correctional Service Canada has handed $123,000 to Accenture to pilot the use of artificial intelligence in writing criminal profile reports, the foundational documents that shape how inmates are managed, what programs they access, and how parole de…

Canada's Comfortable Bubble Nobody Wants to Question

Canadian consumer choices rarely get challenged from the inside, and that is exactly the problem. This conversation starts with recycling bags in Merrickville and ends up somewhere much bigger: why do Canadians keep accepting the options they are handed instead of asking for better ones?   From t…