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Good News Tuesday Trump Iran ceasefire landed about twenty minutes before showtime. Trump agrees to suspend the bombing of Iran for two weeks, pending the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier in the day he said a civilization would end tonight. The CTV News headline arrived at 6:45 Eastern and the show took it at face value and moved forward.   The other news is from space. A crater on th...

Trump Iran ceasefire analysis from Matt Gurney starts with a question he has been sitting with all week: would everyone be better off spending less time being shocked by Trump and more time understanding that the Iranians have been watching very carefully where the president complains loudest? Every statement Trump made showed them exactly where the pain point was. Matt Gurney says that is not str...

Artemis 2 photos are coming back from around the moon and Dr. Sarah Rugheimer says go find the CNN gallery of thirty of them right now. She has been watching from Edinburgh. She studies this for a living. She still finds them beautiful in a way that exceeds the professional. What does it mean that robots can genuinely do this better and cheaper and we are sending humans anyway? Dr. Sarah Rugheimer...

Good News Tuesday dog vet Easter story: Cora the golden retriever kept the household up all night on Good Friday, panting and licking her lips and refusing to settle. By five in the morning, Ryan O'Donnell and his fiancée were in the emergency vet waiting room so still with exhaustion that the motion-sensor lights turned off. The dog came back fine. The bill was five hundred dollars. The ve...

Air Miles Blue Rewards transition has a date and most people have not fully processed it yet. May 31st is the last day the program runs as Air Miles. June 1st it becomes Blue Rewards. Customer service shuts down for the transition. June 2nd you can log back in and your points will still be there, multiplied by roughly 16 because that is how the conversion works. What does it mean that one Air Mile...

Buying a house after divorce started with losing everything twice. Once in the divorce. Once in the spending that followed because grief and recklessness often travel together and nobody warns you about that part. The matrimonial home sold in 2011. The cash disappeared fast. Debt replaced it. Then thirteen years of quiet, unsexy rebuilding that did not involve a nice car or a comfortable financial...

Air Canada pilots names have been missing from the story that replaced them. Captain Antoine Forrest and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther were two young pilots chasing their careers and living their dream. The conversation that followed their deaths became about a CEO's French language skills and politicians demanding a resignation. Tony Chapman says nobody found the plot. What does it feel like to...

Young people and money is a conversation that usually starts with what to open. Anita Bruinsma says the more important conversation is what happens after. Most people open their TFSA, make the contribution, and stop. The money sits earning 0.2 percent. Step two is getting it invested and a lot of people never take step two. What does it feel like to find out you have had a savings account for five...

Vancouver Canucks are the worst team in the NHL and Bob Addison sent notes about celebrity sandwich marketing. The notes were not consulted. The conversation went to egg salad smelling bad, old men at assisted living stealing chocolate chip cookies in bulk, a goalie injury announcement from a team eliminated twenty points out of the playoffs, and the draft lottery math for a team that historically...

Artemis 2 distance record broke the Apollo benchmark yesterday and the voices that marked it were both Canadian. Jeremy Hansen spoke from the capsule. Jenny Gibbons from Calgary, astronaut and current Capcom voice of NASA, was Houston on the ground. The moment of farthest human travel from Earth in recorded history was called in both directions by Canadians. Kris Abel says that was not designed. I...

J eremy Hansen astronaut story starts on a farm outside London, Ontario. He found circuit breakers in the barn and used them as switches in his treehouse. He called it a spaceship. He explored space in his imagination until he was old enough to do it for real. He is currently in orbit and NASA put his story on the record this week alongside the rest of the Artemis 2 crew. What does it feel like to...

Artemis 2 mission update arrives from an astronomer who did not sleep well the night of the launch. The spacecraft launched April 1st, troubleshot a toilet light on April Fools Day as its first legitimate problem in orbit, and then pilot Victor Glover manually flew the most sensitive spacecraft he has ever touched while the people on the ground held their breath. What is it like to be approximatel...

Not-for-profit grocery stores are coming to Toronto and the NDP wants 50 of them across the country. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois was in a university classroom 15 years ago when a student suggested nationalizing food distribution and the whole room laughed. He is not laughing now. He is asking whether anyone has looked at the numbers. What does it mean to promise 40 percent savings when grocery store ma...

Apollo 11 1969 throwback lands on the week Artemis 2 launched and the comparison is impossible to resist. An estimated 600 million people crowded around televisions on one channel at one moment to watch Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon for the first time. Michael Collins circled above. Richard Nixon was president. Pierre Elliott Trudeau was prime minister of Canada. What does it cos...

Mark Carney Alberta MOU deadline was April 1st and it was missed. Rob Breakenridge says the frustration from the Business Council of Alberta this week is the same frustration building across the country: the prime minister's brand was built on moving faster and getting things done, and nobody can point to a clear example yet of that actually happening. What does a primetime presidential address lo...

Artemis 2 launch emotional reaction is where Jen Gerson's column began. She watched the launch with her family. Her husband got emotional and tried not to show it. Her nine-year-old said that is cool. She sat down to figure out what she was actually feeling and followed it to a love letter to the moon and a subtitle that says we must continue to do the stupid thing. What is it like to look at a ro...

Nickelback made a four-minute movie with Megan Thee Stallion promoting Flamin' Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos. It is real. It cost about thirty dollars a bag and is available in Canada through exotic candy stores. The Pickleback is here. The same band that turned down a million dollars from McDonald's for How You Remind Me because it was their first hit and they were not selling out has now done this, an...

1969 history has two halves that barely belong in the same year. The first half gives you Apollo 11 and Woodstock. The second gives you the Manson murders and Altamont, where the Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels as security and a man was stabbed to death in the crowd. Ed Conroy says you can feel the temperature of the whole year change between August and December. What does it mean that peopl...

What makes an artist Canadian is the question Richard Crouse is putting to his new podcast Entertainment Is Broken after Justin Bieber and Tate McCrae skipped the Junos despite major nominations. His argument is that if your career is built entirely in the United States, maybe the Canadian identity claim needs examining. His co-host disagrees. Ryan Reynolds donating to Canadian charities is the mo...

The Drama movie review comes with one warning from Richard Crouse: do not Google the twist before you watch. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple in the week before their wedding. They invite another couple over. Someone suggests the worst thing you have ever done game. Three answers are manageable. Zendaya's is not. What does it feel like to sit in a rom-com that suddenly stops being one? R...

Artemis 2 launched today and for one person watching, the last time a space launch was watched all the way through was 1986. Crisscross applesauce on a library floor in grade six. The angles looked familiar tonight and the breath held the same way at booster separation. Nothing bad happened. That took a minute to fully register. What does it feel like to watch the first countdown you have ever wat...

Artemis 2 launch reaction is the kind of thing that surprises you. Lindsay Broadhead did not expect what she felt watching it. Jamie Ellerton remembered a vague imprecise memory from the late nineties and a Canadian connection that may or may not have been real. Both agreed that Canada having someone on a rocket heading toward the moon is worth feeling something about. Who Would You Leave on the M...

Jeremy Hansen space launch is something Kris Abel has been waiting for since he met Hansen years before the mission existed. They did simulations together. Kris Abel planted a thought in his head about the 1965 Gemini astronaut who snuck a corned beef sandwich on board and triggered a permanent NASA ban on sandwiches in space. What happened with that thought is in the conversation. What does it fe...

Alien conspiracy theories in 2025 are moving fast and Nathan Radke, who teaches this for a living, has been tracking all of it. The US government registered alien.gov . An Air Force general with Wright-Patterson ties went missing six days after Trump announced a full UFO file release. Steven Spielberg has a film called Disclosure Day arriving this summer. The White House responded to questions abo...

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is going around the moon on Artemis 2 and Rachel Ward-Maxwell, who studies space for a living, is nervous. The astronauts are not. They have spent years preparing for this, they understand what they are flying into, and at this point they are simply ready to go. That gap tells you everything about what this mission means. The mission is 10 days. They fly around Ear...