Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Good News Tuesday works because you train yourself to look, and the looking changes what you find. Your day goes sideways from the moment you wake up. It's cold. You've got a headache. The fun dream didn't set the tone it promised. You put on a hoodie and find a Slurpee in the slush and that becomes the win.   The bigger story is a 21-year-old on a frozen roof, shingles in both hands, convers...

Canadian Olympic funding is short and the solution being floated is hosting the most expensive sporting event on earth. The Canadian Olympic Committee made the ask public after Milan Cortina. The answer they proposed is a bid, which is either nation-building or the most expensive way to avoid the actual problem, depending on who you ask. Every recent attempt at a Canadian hosting bid has fallen ap...

Mexico travel safety questions are flooding your feed and half of what you're seeing isn't real. You saw the neighborhood burning, maybe shared it, and then watched the same account post a correction minutes later: that's AI, the church is fine, I just saw it. You had no way of knowing. The problem isn't just that things look worse than they are. It's that you can no longer tell which version is r...

DIY appliance repair works until the part you bought online doesn't. You searched, you found the price you wanted, and you ordered it. No rules, no warranty, no customer service. For tool batteries especially, the knockoff market for brands like DeWalt and Milwaukee is deep enough that buying the wrong thing is easy to do accidentally.   The $800 thermostat repair quote on a commercial fridge...

Attending the Olympics has been on your list for years and you keep talking yourself out of it. Too far, too expensive, too hard to build a trip around real life. You don't need two weeks or a perfectly mapped itinerary. You need one focused week and a clear idea of what you actually want to see. The halfpipe looks like a video game until someone is flying ten feet above your head.   The Finl...

Mexico cartel violence is flooding your phone right now, and you can't tell what's real. The videos of burning neighborhoods, the armed convoys through Puerto Vallarta. Some of it is AI-generated, designed for clicks. Some of it isn't. Figuring out which is which matters more than your travel insurance will. El Mencho built his criminal empire from a marijuana plantation in Michoacan. He's dead no...

Reliable information during a crisis doesn't live where you think it does. Your instinct sends you to Instagram first, but what's there are burning church photos that may be fake, poolside videos of military operations, and comment sections that say "wow, that's crazy" before moving to the next thing. That's not help. That's a highlight reel of chaos.   Before smartphones, a journalist vetted...

Pay-to-play hockey doesn't look like inequality until you run the numbers. Your kid gets cut from a rep team and drops a tier. The team above plays 54 games this season. Your kid plays 14. That's not bad luck. That's the system doing exactly what it was built to do.   Lesley sits on her local hockey board specifically to keep barriers low and still describes rep seasons climbing into the tens...

TFSA RRSP investing strategy isn't a single answer. It's a different answer depending on when you're asking it. You've got accounts from old jobs you haven't looked at in years. A TFSA you opened because someone told you to. Maybe an RESP. You've been meaning to figure it all out and you haven't, and that's not unusual. It's just expensive. Jessica Moorhouse talked to a woman in her investing cour...

Team Canada Winter Olympics coverage just reframed what gold actually means. You watched the women's hockey team lose the gold medal game and felt something unexpected: genuine pride in a silver. That hasn't been the Canadian reaction before, not in hockey, not at the big events. Something shifted this week. Canada was projected to win 10 gold medals and won't reach it. McDavid's answer: the margi...

Endurance training should work the same for everyone doing identical workouts, right? You're putting in the miles, tracking your heart rate, building muscle, and somehow still hitting a wall that other people breeze past. Turns out there's a group of neurons in your hypothalamus that activates after you exercise, and whether those fire correctly has nothing to do with how hard you're trying. A mou...

William Shatner heavy metal is a real thing happening right now, and at 94 he described a collaboration with a former Megadeth guitarist as "a doorway." Not a novelty project. A doorway. He's covering Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden, and said it made him want to go all in and find the best metal players still around. You didn't know you needed this. You do now. Also on the list of thi...

What to watch this weekend includes a film written by the writer of Seven, loaded with aesthetic and atmosphere, that Steve Stebbing says feels hollow at its center. You're drawn in by the red-filtered cinematography and the serial killer in a gas mask, and then the third act arrives. It's a first film from this director and it shows in the worst possible place. How to Make a Killing gives you Gle...

Canada Olympics funding is the quiet story underneath the medal count, and the math is uncomfortable. Norway has roughly the same population as Saskatchewan and Alberta combined. It dominates winter sports because it invests in them. You're watching Canadian athletes compete on world-class talent and aging infrastructure, with organizations fighting for cash every year and facilities like WinSport...

AI data privacy is built on promises nobody can verify, and you've already accepted those terms. You pay a monthly subscription to feed your ideas, your business data, your writing into a system that will, when pushed correctly, reveal behavioral patterns across its entire user base. You're building their platform. You're funding their valuation. And the data agreement you clicked through didn't c...

AI mental health support is built around user satisfaction, and that's exactly the problem. You open ChatGPT at 2am, type out what's wrong, and it listens. It validates. It never pushes back. A therapist optimizing for your satisfaction the way a chatbot does would have a serious ethics problem on their hands, because making you feel good and helping you get better are not the same thing. Amelia K...

Police body worn cameras are in your city, on the officers you interact with, recording everything. In Canada, if you want to see footage that documents you, you file a freedom of information request and wait. The officer who recorded you reviews it whenever they want. That asymmetry is not a bug someone is working to fix. It's how the policy is written. Chris Schneider spent years tracking how "t...

The toonie's 30th anniversary lands this week, and the coin's origin story has a detail most people missed. The $2 bill was officially withdrawn on February 16, 1996, three days before the coin debuted. The government's reasoning: coins last longer than paper bills, so it would save money. The TTC's reasoning, announced one day before the toonie launched: transit now costs exactly $2. Convenient f...

Toonie buying power in 1996 is the kind of throwback that starts as a fun memory and lands somewhere genuinely uncomfortable. You walked into McDonald's with two dollars and came out with three hamburgers. You grabbed a large Tim Hortons coffee and a fresh sesame bagel, both a dollar fifty, and still had change to spare. Gas in Toronto was 56 cents a litre. The same coin sitting in your pocket rig...

Food inflation Canada recorded in January was 7.3%, and yes, the GST holiday makes that number look worse than it is. So Dr. Charlebois did the math without it. Remove the holiday effect entirely and you land at 6.2 to 6.3 percent, which is still enough to put Canada at the top of the G7. You were hoping the holiday was the whole story. It wasn't. Skimflation is harder to spot than shrinkflation b...

The US military buildup aimed at Iran is the largest in over 20 years, and the strangest thing about it might be how little noise it's making. You'd expect a deployment of this scale to dominate the conversation, but there's been almost no public debate about what the end game is, whether this is a pressure campaign, a prelude to strikes, or something that fizzles the way last year's strikes did w...

Manual transmission cars are still out there and they solve a problem you didn't know you had. You can't steal one if you don't know how to drive it, and you can't look at your phone while you're driving it. Both of those things turn out to be features, not limitations, and the list of new cars still offering a stick shift is longer than you think. Brian Makse spent the last few days driving a Maz...

Coin collecting in Canada has a secret hiding inside every Coinstar machine at every Walmart in the country. You dump your change in, the machine rejects certain coins because of their weight and calibration, and you pocket them as useless and walk away. Those rejected coins are old silver quarters and they're worth eight to ten dollars each. The machine knew. You didn't. And Michael Findlay, pres...

Prince Andrew's arrest is being absorbed through the Epstein lens because that's the story most people already have in their heads, but the actual charge is something more specific and in some ways more provable. Misconduct in public office means he's accused of passing confidential trade and investment information, received in his role as UK special trade representative, directly to Epstein for f...

Nostalgia collecting has a price tag now, and you didn't put it there. You gave away the toys, tossed the hockey cards, donated the comics, thinking none of it mattered. Then eBay showed up and strangers started pricing your childhood for you. Every garage sale you walk into now has someone convinced their old junk is worth a fortune, and you're starting to think they might be right. eBay's founde...