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The satanic panic of the 1980s turned rock music, Dungeons and Dragons, and Ouija boards into instruments of the devil. Tonight the target is He-Man, and the claim that a cartoon prince with a magic sword was secretly recruiting children into devil worship through action figures. It sounds absurd. It was also believed by a lot of people. And the more interesting question is how much of that fear q...

Strategic communications veterans Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead join to sort through the agreement to sign an agreement that may eventually become a peace deal in the Strait of Hormuz, and what any of it actually means for global energy markets, Canadian foreign policy, and the geopolitical leverage Iran just quietly secured for itself. The ceasefire may be good news for oil markets in the...

Gas rewards expert Patrick Sojka of http://RewardsCanada.ca joins to map out which loyalty program and credit card combinations are actually worth the effort this summer, and why the system has gotten a lot more complicated than it used to be. Stacking Scene Plus with Shell, linking CAA to Scotiabank, converting Petro Points to car washes instead of fuel: the savings are real, but only if you know...

The phrase old wives tale goes back to a play written in 1595. By 1611 the King James Bible was using it to dismiss the knowledge of older women. The irony is hard to miss, because the women being dismissed were often the ones carrying the most practical knowledge about health, childbirth, and community care. Tonight runs through the greatest hits: junk food and appendicitis, gum stuck in your sto...

Nathan Radke of the Uncover Up Podcast is here to explain why a new He-Man movie is the perfect entry point into one of the most useful ideas you can carry into the news cycle right now. In the 1980s, He-Man was accused of recruiting children into the occult. Experts testified. Documentaries were made. Cassette tapes were sold. What was actually happening is a much better story, and a much more re...

Cyberpunk Survival Guide author Greg Fish breaks down the economics behind AI token pricing and why the free ride is ending faster than most businesses realise. Every AI request costs money, measured in tokens: the subdivisions of language a large language model processes on the way in and the way out. The more complex the request, the more tokens burned, and the bill lands whether the answer was...

Relationship columnist Jen Kirsch and commentator Tony Tedesco join date night to unpack why the people closest to us have the most power to hurt us, and what that actually reveals about the patterns we carry into every relationship. The disappointment you feel in love rarely has much to do with what just happened. Jen and Tony get into why our unspoken expectations set the stage for the arguments...

Medication safety gets a closer look as emergency physician Dr. Mitch Shulman breaks down why the liquid you use to take your pills can change how much of the medication actually reaches your bloodstream, and what most people have never been told about it. Grapefruit juice blocks an enzyme in your intestines that breaks down certain medications, meaning you can end up absorbing far more than your...

Good News Tuesday opens with small wins: a 15-year-old BMW diesel that needed nothing more than a new air filter, and a Calgary venue tour that put a real wedding date one step closer to real.   Then the show pivots to a question worth sitting with. The indie horror film Obsession has made near Star Wars money on a budget of under a hundred thousand dollars, built around a single premise: a w...

Good News Tuesday takes a turn toward the hypothetical this week, and the question is harder than it sounds: if you had one wish and no consequences, what would you actually wish for?   The prompt comes from Obsession, an indie horror film made for under a hundred thousand dollars that is outpacing recent Star Wars numbers at the box office. The premise is simple: a novelty shop, a stick call...

Something changed in your Claude window this week and technology analyst Carmi Levy is here to tell you it was not an accident. It was a decision, made by a government that is not yours, about a tool you depend on.   The AI you were using had already been dialed back before it reached you. The full-strength version was quietly restricted to a handful of trusted governments and researchers und...

If the idea of riding a motorcycle has been sitting in the back of your head, Lisa Best of CFAX 1070 is the person who will either push you toward it or give you a much more honest picture of what it actually takes.   Best has been riding for thirty-five years and teaching for nearly as long. She knows exactly what draws people to two wheels, what stops them from committing, and what separate...

Canadian citizenship certificates are being recalled, and immigration lawyer Joel Sandaluk has a message for everyone panicking: surrendering the document does not surrender the status. The harder question is how thousands of people became Canadian citizens without knowing it, why the government is asking for proof back instead of simply auditing the files, and what happens to the people who alrea...

Bob Addison is back, and he's made some decisions that his wife knows about and his son does not yet. From firing a golf ball bazooka at a fundraising tournament to watching Hockey Night in Canada die after ninety-plus years on the air, Bob's week has been eventful. The Tommy Hunter deep cut is free of charge. Then Bob confesses he bought more FIFA tickets, this time with his own money, for Canada...

Tech expert Kris Abel shows up every week with the stories that make you stop and say wait, that's real? This week he brought three of them, and not one of them requires any imagination to top the last.   There is a reason people who follow technology closely never seem surprised by anything anymore. They have been paying attention to someone like Kris Abel, who tracks the stories before they...

Aaron Hagey-MacKay, investigative content creator behind The Goose Media, did something simple: he searched Alberta separatism on Twitter and checked where the accounts were from. Kenya. India. The United States. Fifteen minutes of looking. What he found is less about separatism than about who profits when Canadians fight with each other, and how little it costs to get them started. The conversati...

Summer gets easier when you know two things: how to take back your backyard and how to stop your phone from running your night. Andy Baryer, home and technology expert at Handy Andy Media, brings both in the same conversation, and neither fix costs much.   The Five-Dollar Mosquito Trap Nobody Told You About A five-gallon bucket, grass clippings, water, and a couple of days is all it takes to...

PBR bull riding is unlike anything else you will sit in an arena and watch, and the reason has nothing to do with the spectacle. Shane Hewitt spent the weekend at the Professional Bull Riders event and came back with an observation that is harder to shake than the backflips and fireworks. In every other sport, there is someone to boo. A rival team, a bad call, an opponent to root against. Bull rid...

Every move has a moment where something goes wrong that nobody planned for. The difference between a move you survive and one you are still recovering from three weeks later usually comes down to four things, and none of them are the ones that show up on a moving checklist.   If a move is coming, these are worth fifteen minutes of your time before it does.   Topics: apartment moving advi...

Gas prices Canada-wide are dropping this week, and Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, is here with the regional breakdown and the reason not to get too comfortable. The ceasefire sent markets into relief mode, but sentiment and supply are two different things, and the global oil shortage that built up over the past several months is not going to be resolved by a signed mem...

Two political stories landed this week that are worth sitting with, and neither one of them is as simple as it first looks.   The Poll That Feels Like Good News Until You Do the Math Fifty-five percent approval sounds strong until you remember it was sixty-three percent two months ago. That sixteen-point swing between Carney's rise and the Conservative recovery is the kind of number that chan...

Teaching kids about money starts earlier than most parents think, and Jessica Moorhouse, personal finance author and educator, makes the case that silence is already a lesson. Kids are watching what parents do with money whether the conversation happens or not, and the habits they absorb early tend to follow them into adulthood. The question isn't whether to talk about it. It's whether to be inten...

The Tim Hortons Canada ownership debate has been running hot since the Duncan tariff announcement, and Duncan Fulton, Chief Corporate Officer at Tim Hortons, sits down to put real numbers behind the noise. Fifteen hundred Canadian franchise owners operate the restaurants, $1.6 billion flows annually to Canadian suppliers, and the headquarters and leadership team are in Toronto. The ownership pictu...

Good News Tuesday is built on a simple idea: when you can't find the good, sometimes hearing it from someone else is enough to turn you around. This one brings the next NASA moon crew, a child in Nanaimo doing something remarkable at three in the morning, a stolen car with a very large dog in the back, and a string of transformative philanthropic gifts to Canadian healthcare and universities. &nbs...

Good News Tuesday opens with a genuine relationship milestone: assembling four pieces of IKEA furniture in a single afternoon and coming out the other side still engaged. The research backs up why that counts. Psychologists have found that picture-only instructions force constant compromise, trigger questions of trust and competence, and surface exactly how differently two people approach a proble...