Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Good News Tuesday exists because some days you need someone to go first. You have been carrying something this week, maybe small, maybe not. You did not wake up this morning expecting anyone to make room for the good stuff. But here it is, and it is yours if you want it. One host has tentative good news in the form of a crockpot of buffalo mac and cheese that was supposed to be ready 45 minutes ag...

Shy kids in sports is a question worth sitting with if you have a quiet child at home. You watch them hang back at parties, take forever to warm up to new faces, and prefer the comfort of one friend over a crowd. You have wondered whether a team setting helps or just adds one more place where being quiet feels harder. Megan DeGroot's research found that shyness arrives with real strengths: more th...

Internet cookies are on every website you visit and you have been saying yes to all of them. You click through that popup in half a second because it is easier and you just want to get to the page. You have done it a hundred times today without thinking. The question is what you have been quietly handing over each time.   What would it feel like to know that right now, somewhere, between 20 a...

The people who inspired you most were probably not in your plan. You did not find them on purpose. They just showed up one day, did something they had no obligation to do, and quietly changed the whole direction of your life before you even knew it was happening.   Imagine being four years old, sick, and wondering if your class has forgotten you. Mrs. Peligull had not forgotten. She showed up...

What makes a good coach? You have had one. You know the feeling of someone putting you in a situation where they believed in you before you believed in yourself. The question is whether you can recognize what they actually did, because it probably wasn't what you think. Before a game on a losing road trip, Willie Desjardin went around to every player in that room and handed each one a genuine comp...

Mexican cartel corruption starts with a choice you've probably never faced. Your options are starvation, death, or work for an organization where you might still die, but you eat today and your pocket has cash. You'd call it criminal. Someone living it might call it rational. The same logic driving cartel recruitment in Michoacan operates identically in Montreal and Toronto, according to Dr. Jerry...

Instagram teen safety is not something most parents think about until they need to, and by then it is usually too late. This week something changed. If your teenager is on Instagram and searches for self-harm or suicide topics, you find out. Not someday. Right then.   Apple had a week of updates and the absence of any magic was the headline. A company that used to make the future feel inevita...

Iran Israel war analysis is all over your feed right now and most of it sounds confident. You are watching footage of precision strikes and hearing about tactical brilliance and somewhere underneath all of it you are asking the same question nobody on television seems to be answering: what happens the day after tomorrow?   What does it feel like to watch something executed flawlessly with no...

BC daylight saving time is permanent now. You're the one who has to live with what comes next. Your Vancouver winter solstice sunrise lands at nine in the morning. Your Sunday football begins an hour later. Cross into Washington state between November and February and you step backward through time the moment you hit the border. You said yes to this in 2019. What exactly did you agree to? Bob Addi...

What's Actually in Your Potting Mix (Hint: No Soil) Potting mix and potting soil sound identical but one of them contains zero actual soil. You grab a bag at the garden center, assume dirt is dirt, and wonder later why nothing grew the way it should. The label says enhanced. The price says premium. Neither one explains what is actually inside.   The gap between a tray of 64 thriving seedlings...

Daylight saving time arrives next week and it's coming for your Sunday morning. You lose an hour of sleep, drag through Monday in a fog, and spend the week quietly convinced someone should just fix this already. BC Premier David Eby just decided to do exactly that, opting out permanently. The rest of Canada still falls back in November. You don't get that choice. Here's what nobody tells you: farm...

Retirement savings advice usually starts with a budget, and budgets usually fail. You build the categories, track the spending for two weeks, and then life happens and the spreadsheet disappears. Anita Bruinsma's approach skips that entirely: the day you get paid, $50 goes into a TFSA before you see it, and everything left is yours to spend. The structural difference matters more than the amount....

Richard Shimooka discusses the technology used in the first weekend of the war, and discusses with Shane Hewitt the gaps in both Canada’s Military Assets.  The number of planes lost in Iran (if they were Canadian) would have already devastated our Air Force.  Richard also helps us understand that Canada doesn’t stockpile weapons. So how then do we do it?   GUEST: Richard...

Car loan debt in Canada is heading somewhere Americans have already been, and the first question at any dealership is designed to get you there faster. How much do you have a month to spend? Don't answer. The moment you do, they'll hit that number. The loan might run 120 months. The car won't. Americans are already rolling old debt into new loans at scale, trading in vehicles they still owe on and...

Canada's total lunar eclipse in 2026 is happening once, and this is it. You set the alarm, step outside, and watch a red moon sitting low in the western sky while the sun starts coming up behind you in the east. It won't happen again until 2029. Why does the moon turn red? The sun's light refracts around Earth's atmosphere and the blue gets stripped out, leaving only red reaching the moon in Earth...

Food waste savings of $3,800 a year are already in your refrigerator. You open it, grab what looks good, cook what you felt motivated to make, and quietly throw out the rest. Not because you're careless. Because fully stocked shelves trained you to shop that way. Too Good To Go operates on a straightforward mechanism: businesses like Tim Hortons, Metro, and Food Basics list end-of-day surplus as s...

Canola tariffs just dropped, and if you grow canola or know someone who does, you felt this week land differently. China suspended agricultural tariffs on Canadian canola. A new trade deal with India was signed. The phone calls coming out of Saskatchewan farms have a different tone right now.   Iran US military strikes just reshaped the global picture, and you are trying to follow it from Can...

You already know what you think about cancel culture in sports. A US hockey player laughs at the wrong moment during a White House visit. You see the clip, you form your verdict, you move on. Then the White House posts an AI deepfake of Brady Tkachuk saying things he never said. He gets it pulled the same day. The verdict you formed just got more complicated. Brady Tkachuk wins gold for the USA wh...

Single men stereotypes have exactly two settings right now, and neither of them is accurate. You're either a playboy or you're an incel, and the middle ground, the guy who simply hasn't found what he's looking for and genuinely enjoys going to bed when he wants, doesn't have a narrative yet. Women have two books on Jen's desk romanticizing singlehood. Men have a Reddit thread where the married guy...

Loneliness and human connection have a measurement problem, and the number from Genwell's own Canadian research lands harder than most people expect. 52% of Canadians say they feel lonely on a weekly basis. Not occasionally. Not during hard seasons. Every week. And the research is clear that being surrounded by people does not fix it, because proximity and connection are not the same thing. The Am...

Your weekend streaming picks just got more interesting than you planned. Prime Video has a Paul McCartney documentary that has nothing to do with The Beatles. It's about after, when he didn't know if he'd write another note of music or whether audiences would accept him alone. That admission from one of the most gifted musicians alive might be the most surprising thing you watch all weekend. &nbsp...

Canadian politics and trade collided this week in ways that cut across the usual lines. India is growing at four to five percent annually, needs energy, and was burning coal before it moved to oil. It is now moving to natural gas. Canada just came back from India with a deal, and Andrew Caddell's framing is direct: in the next fifty years India is going to be a superpower and it is good to be on t...

You think you know the hockey birthplace Canada story. You probably picture Montreal or maybe Kingston. Sports historian Danny Dill has a different answer backed by more than 200 years of books, essays, and physical artifacts: Windsor, Nova Scotia. Not as a regional claim. As the documented origin point from which the sport spread everywhere else in the country. Dartmouth also claims the title. So...

AI search disruption is already changing what you find when you search, and the result is not neutral. Google's AI summary is built on what you have searched before, where you are located, and what keeps you on the platform. Mohit Rajhans flags it directly: that is not 100% accurate just because you searched it. His own AI summary has his height wrong. The content creator problem is specific and a...

Winter slip and fall liability is more complicated than the patch of ice you're standing on. The sidewalk that cuts through your driveway is city property. Ontario courts have held the city responsible for falls on that surface. But if snow you piled up ran down onto that sidewalk and froze overnight, the liability comes back to you. Same surface, different origin, different outcome. In Ontario, y...