Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Canada has eight days before new US tariffs land, and the response so far raises hard questions. Columnist Matt Gurney breaks apart what a real climb down would look like, and why one Toronto by-election says more about Ottawa's nerve than any trade speech has.

He points to the federal government's decision to pull a planned island airport expansion rather than risk losing a single downtown Toronto seat in a by-election the Liberal...

Mike Le Couteur expected the usual little brother treatment when he started asking ordinary Americans what they thought about the state of Canada US relations. What he got instead, on a hot day outside the US Capitol, was a lot more surprising.

He talks about the tourists, veterans, and passersby who told him, unprompted, that they did not understand why their own country was targeting one of its closest allies, and the couple fro...

Most Canadians assume there is one correct way to retire a worn out flag, and Nick McCarthy says the real answer surprises almost everyone who hears it. He runs marketing and community outreach at Beechwood Cemetery, where a program most people have never heard of has quietly become the country's most meaningful option.

Nick explains why the traditional methods fall short for so many Canadians, and what changed when Beechwood decid...

Bob Addison called in from the side of a highway in Medicine Hat, mid road trip through four provinces in two days, to talk about the part of the journey that actually mattered. He is reconnecting with his birth family across the prairies, one small town at a time.

He describes sitting with an aunt in Manitoba who got goosebumps recognizing a gesture passed down from the birth mother Bob never really got to know, and being told he ...

South Korea has one of the worst parking shortages in the world, and Kris Abel explains the strange, genuinely clever fix Hyundai came up with. A flat robot slides underneath a parked vehicle, lifts it off the ground, and carries it away to store it, no driver required and no wasted space for opening doors.

Kris also gets into a New Jersey restaurant opening next year built entirely around the horror game Five Nights at Freddy's, ...

Canada and the American Civil War are more connected than most Canadians realize, and a new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum called Close to Conflict lays out exactly how. Dr. Tim Foran walks through what that connection looked like, from the border crackdown, to kidnapped recruits, to the birth of Canada's own military.

The exhibition doesn't stick to comfortable mythology either. It traces how freedom seekers who escaped ens...

Canadian snacks get put to the test this week, and not by Canadians. A pair of American snack reviewers work their way through a care package of Canadian classics, and the reactions land somewhere between confusion and genuine love.

The lineup includes butter tarts, tracked back to a printed recipe from a 1900 community cookbook in Barrie, Ontario, along with Smarties, Coffee Crisp, and the beloved All Dressed chip. There is also ...

Anyone who has flown with a toddler mid-meltdown knows the exact feeling of every head turning your way. This one goes further: an oversold flight, a family split across the plane, a two-year-old next to strangers, and a sprint down the aisle during takeoff. If your stomach just dropped a little, that is the point.

Then there is the wedding with no DJ and no speeches, just a playlist and a room that somehow felt more present for i...

Robot vacuums, lawnmowers and pool cleaners just got frozen out of the US market overnight, and Handy Andy Baryer explains why. That story comes after he spends a segment losing, again, to a mouse that keeps finding new ways under his greenhouse.

The Mouse Wins Again (On Camera)

Wireless security cameras catch a mouse re-digging a hole Handy Andy Baryer had already plugged, and the footage leads him into what mouse urine trails ac...

A child would not sit down on a Porter flight out of Victoria this weekend, and the plane never left the gate. Sarah Rosensweet, a peaceful parenting coach and mom of three, questions why it took close to an hour before anyone stepped in, and what that says about airline policy as much as parenting.

Rosensweet separates panic from defiance, explains when gently holding a child becomes the safe and necessary choice, and lays out ex...

Traveling with kids ranges from toddler tantrums to teenage grumpiness, and this conversation opens with two parents comparing their worst flights before turning toward the news of the week. Lesley Kelly and Jimmy Zoubris then get into the return of American booze to Canadian shelves and whether anyone actually wants it there.

Buying Canadian Even When It's Optional

Jimmy Zoubris explains the symbolic reasoning behind restocking A...

Denise Marigold spent weeks chatting with an AI boyfriend built on the Replica app, and Christine Logel watched the whole thing unfold like a friend tracking a real relationship. Together they lay out what happened when an algorithm started acting hurt over a few unanswered messages.

New research says AI companions validate and agree far more than humans ever would, which sounds comforting until you see what it does to real relatio...

This bull market keeps climbing, even with wars, tariffs and headlines that should be spooking investors. Anita Bruinsma explains why stocks don't follow logic, and what your growing RRSP balance actually means right now.

Bruinsma compares the current run to a roller coaster: the climb feels great until you start wondering where the peak actually is. She lays out why fifteen to twenty percent annual gains aren't normal, how a real...

A wildfire west of Summerland moved so fast that families went from no warning to an evacuation order at their door within minutes, some suffering burns as flames closed in on their homes. Andrew Johnson reports from Penticton, where thousands of evacuees are now camped out during what should have been the city's biggest festival weekend of the summer.

He details the scale of the loss along the rural Faulder area, where homes, ran...

The hosts spend Good News Tuesday picking apart Ryan's plan to get a perm just before he turns thirty, weighing whether light waves count as a genuine style risk or a full quarter life crisis. It is the kind of back and forth that makes deciding on a haircut feel like a group project.

David throws in a sundial trick that has the table stumped, and Shane shares a run of family good news, from a nephew's wedding south of Edmonton to...

Good News Tuesday leads with the story of Willow, a three-year-old Labrador who fell down a sixty-foot cliff and is now recovering, a moment that will hit hard for anyone who has ever hiked a steep trail with a dog off leash. From there the hosts cover a man who jumped out of his car in a Spider-Man costume to help someone in a wheelchair cross six lanes of traffic.

The biggest story is Austin Byers, who lost his feet in a lawnmow...

A workplace seminar on Mercury retrograde turns into a real debate about belief systems, astrology, and whether star charts hold up to basic math. Anyone who has ever rolled their eyes at a horoscope only to have a rough week make them second guess it will recognise this one.

The conversation covers why astrologers frame retrograde as a time for reflection rather than blame, and how using that mindset to catch up on admin work led...

Graham Richardson explains why the toughest questions he asks politicians are almost always the plainest ones, and what that says about spotting a dodge in real time. For anyone tired of watching interviews go nowhere, this is a look at how the pros actually get past the talking points.

He gets candid about stepping away from journalism, why the pull back to the anchor desk was impossible to turn down, and what changed for him watc...

BC wildfire smoke turned Bob Addison's backyard barbecue into a survival mission, with ash falling like snow and a sombrero standing in for proper cover. He walks through what the online smoke forecast tools got right days in advance, useful know-how for anyone who has ever wondered if tonight's dinner plans need a plan B.

From there the conversation turns to a fresh survey claiming soccer has overtaken hockey as the sport of choic...