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Toxic relationships and aging are directly connected, and Dr. Theresa Pauly says the mechanism is measurable in your saliva.

The quality of your relationships is almost as important to your physical health as smoking, exercise, or body weight. Most people do not think about who they spend time with as a health behavior. Dr. Theresa Pauly's lab does. She measures cortisol, the body's primary stress hormone, and has found that social...

Gordie Howe Bridge is ready. It has been under construction for eight years, funded entirely by Canada, and co-owned by Canada and Michigan. Patty Handysides says most people in Windsor believe what is holding up the opening has something to do with Donald Trump.

The Ambassador Bridge, built in the 1920s and privately owned by one American family, is the only international bridge in North America under private ownership. When the G...

What to watch this weekend spans a video game brawler that earns its cheese, a sheep murder mystery with a cast nobody predicted, and a 2008 film making its case as the greatest sports movie ever made. Two conversations. One list.

When the Sheep Start Asking Questions

Carl Urban steps into Mortal Kombat 2 as Johnny Cage and runs with it. The Sheep Detectives sends an animated flock after the killer of their shepherd, Hugh Jackman, ...

Your toxic ex may be gone, but a clinical psychologist says the damage does not leave with them. Two segments. One conversation that gets into the questions most people are afraid to ask.

What "Toxic" Actually Means and Whether You Are the Problem

"Toxic" is not a clinical label, but a clinical psychologist says it describes patterns that chip away at your emotional safety and self-worth. Boundary violations, manipulation, gaslight...

AI retail technology is not a kiosk in the corner of the food court. Mohit Rajhans says it is the entire operating system of the store you are standing in.

Something trends on a meme on Saturday and retailers can have it in stores by Monday. Employees inside stores are working with gamified systems that turn hot-commodity restocking into a competitive exercise. The front of the store can be reprogrammed to reflect what was trending...

Digital sovereignty Canada does not fully have, and Vass Bednar says the Trump administration has made the vulnerabilities harder to ignore.

The question she keeps returning to is simple: can you govern the economy you have? For a significant portion of Canada's digital infrastructure, the answer is no. The US Cloud Act reaches into Canadian data centres if the firm operating them has a meaningful American presence. The federal gov...

OpenAI privacy violations in Canada have been confirmed by federal and provincial privacy commissioners in BC, Alberta, and Quebec. Carmi Levy says the response was a blog post and that is not going to change much.

The findings are specific. OpenAI collected health information, political views, and data on children from the open internet without asking consent. It did not vet what it scraped, meaning false information entered the t...

The Canada War Museum marks 20 years in its purpose-built home this week, and if you haven't walked through the hall with the jet and the tanks, it's time to change that.

From a working Lancaster bomber in Hamilton to an entire museum dedicated to gophers in Torrington, Alberta, the country is packed with places that make history feel like something you're standing inside.

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, the Royal ...

Meal planning does not require a full day. Alyssa B says 10 minutes of planning at the start of the week, knowing what you are making and who is eating, is enough to change how you eat from Monday to Friday.

The alternative is what most people already know: it is 5:30, dinner is at 6:30, nothing is prepped, and the easiest thing in reach wins. Alyssa B says that easiest thing is almost always ultra-processed. The solution is not pe...

Restaurant closures in Canada are happening faster than forecast. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois projected a drop from 89,000 to 85,000 restaurants in 2026 and says the numbers coming from the sector confirm it is already underway.

The shift is driven by price sensitivity. A burger and fries at a quick service restaurant now runs around $20. The average household used to put 40 percent of its food budget toward restaurants. That number is ...

Canada in 2005 looked familiar in ways that are hard to ignore: a minority government, a floor crossing, and a prime minister under real pressure.

George W. Bush was in the White House with a war on. Harry Potter was everywhere, including in the hands of people who bought it weeks too early from a store that almost certainly regretted the decision. And the internet? Blazing fast, until you compare it to what exists now.

The Mazda 3...

Alberta voters list data on 2.9 million people was allegedly obtained by a separatist-linked group, and the cleanup is far from finished.

The Centurion Project built an app using the list. Elections Alberta traces leaks by seeding fake names into every copy it distributes. That system has now produced nearly 600 cease-and-desist letters, exposed a former premier's home address in a public demonstration, and sparked serious infighti...

The Canadian War Museum spent most of its existence in borrowed spaces. Dr. Andrew Burtch says the collection deserved better long before it got it.

Before the 2005 building at LeBreton Flats, the museum occupied a run-down building where the National Gallery now stands, then moved to the old Dominion Archives on Sussex Drive while major artifacts sat in a former streetcar facility. The current building was opened on the 60th anniv...

WKRP in Cincinnati, the fictional radio station from the classic CBS sitcom, is now a real station in Cincinnati, playing the same adult hits format the show's characters once pretended to broadcast.

Also real: a 38-year-old man from Sylvan Lake, Alberta, who drove 35 minutes to Red Deer for a burger, called 911 when a technical issue stopped staff from serving him, refused a breathalyzer when police arrived, and had his car seized...

In 2005 pop culture, you logged on, checked your email, and turned the computer off at the end of the day. Ed Conroy knows exactly when that era ended, and what ended it.

YouTube launched that year, and before it, video on the internet was postage-stamp-sized and buffering constantly. The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince leaked from a bookstore in Coquitlam, British Columbia, about 20 copies sold early, and the internet went ...

Tragically Chip ice cream is real, it is maple whiskey with dark chocolate chunks and black cherry ripple, and it comes from a Tragically Hip collaboration with Kawartha Dairy landing June 22nd with proceeds going to the Breakfast Club of Canada.

WKRP Is Back, Your Old House Is Haunting You, and the Hip Have Ice Cream
Three real radio stations in Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, and Dayton, Ohio have adopted the WKRP call letters ...

Self-checkout ethics are more complicated than most people admit, and the conversation starts with a twenty-year-old monster truck confession.

Ryan O'Donnell took a toy called Flash Fire from his friend Brady's birthday party at approximately age six. He felt immediately guilty, never played with it, moved it from Calgary to Ontario and back to Calgary, reconnected with Brady in high school, and said nothing. He still has it. Brady...

Alberta separatism is in the news. Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead both question how much of it is Albertans and how much of it is being fed from outside the country.

Lindsay Broadhead puts a number on baseline opposition: eight to thirteen percent of the population will be against something regardless of what it is. Her point is that separatism has always existed in some form. What is different now is the platform those voice...

Ted Turner passed away at 87. Bill Brioux says he was a yachtsman who won the America's Cup, a broadcaster who turned small TV stations into a media empire, and a conservationist who ended up owning more than two million acres and 45,000 bison.

The MGM library purchase in the eighties was the move that made everything else possible. He paid $1.5 billion, kept all the films, and used that content to launch Turner Classic Movies and ...