NEW - $2.12 a Litre and a Soccer Team That Might Leave: Ryan Price on BC This Week

BC gas prices have been above $2 a litre for a long time. Ryan Price says watching Ontario treat $1.75 as a crisis has been an experience. Victoria sits at $2.12 for regular gasoline, a number Ryan Price says reflects federal, provincial, and regional government taxes stacked on top of each other.…

SHIFTHEADS: The 50-Kilometre Choke Point Holding the World Hostage: Ian Wereley on the Strait of Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz carried 20 million barrels of oil per day before the war. Ian Wereley says that number is down 95%, and the knock-on effects are landing everywhere from hospital supply rooms to farm fields. The strait moves more than crude oil. Ian Wereley tracks the full picture: natural gas…

NEW - Miranda Priestly Is Back and Someone Peed at the Hocum Screening: Steve Stebbing's Weekend Guide

May 1st is the start of summer movie season and Steve Stebbing says the lineup is already delivering. Three Movies, One Very Strong Warning Devil Wears Prada 2 reunites Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci and Steve Stebbing says it justifies every year of the wait. The Mir…

Shiftheads - Is It Love or Is It Love Bombing: Dr. Laurie Betito on the Line Between Affection and Manipulation

Love bombing is not about the gifts or the attention. Dr. Laurie Betito says it is about the motive and the pattern behind them. Someone coming on fast with intense affection, constant praise, promises, and grand gestures early in a relationship can feel like exactly what you wanted. Dr. Laurie Be…

ICYMI - The Wrong Conversation: Mohit Rajhans on Youth, AI, and the Trust Problem

A McGill University study on young people aged 17 to 23 and their relationship with AI stopped Mohit Rajhans cold. He says the adults in the room have been having the wrong conversation. The study is not showing a generation eager to take AI as far as it can go. Mohit Rajhans says what is coming t…

NEW - Why Your Heart Almost Never Gets Cancer: Dr. Samantha Yammine on a Stunning New Study

Heart cancer is so rare it shows up in less than 1% of autopsies. Cancer cells pass through the heart constantly. Dr. Samantha Yammine says scientists have finally found a clue about why it almost never takes hold there. A study published in Science compared mouse hearts that could beat with heart…

Who Cares for the Caregivers: Dr. Janet McMordie on Vitals and Frontline Families Canada

Vitals is a solo show running May 2 to 10 at Factory Theatre in Toronto, and Dr. Janet McMordie says the question at the centre of it is one medicine does not answer well enough. The show follows Anna, a paramedic whose life reaches a breaking point, and what happens when someone finally offers he…

The Warm Hug Movie and Why You Keep Watching Them

Comfort movies are not about quality. They are about the feeling you already know is coming before you press play. The hosts break down what actually makes a movie feel like a warm hug: the director who casts the same people every time, the duo that shows up together so often they feel like old fr…

NEW - Throwback 1980: The Year Terry Fox Started Running and Canada Changed

Terry Fox dipped his prosthetic leg into the Atlantic Ocean in St. John's on April 12, 1980, and started running. What followed changed Canada in ways that are still being measured. The hosts put that moment inside a year that looked a lot like this one: global inflation, fuel shortages, Iran in t…

The Informed Shopper: What Grocery Prices Taught Canadians

Grocery prices have not dropped. But Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says Canadians have stopped being caught off guard by them, and that shift matters. The panic that defined grocery shopping four years ago has given way to something different. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says new numbers from his team show co…