Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Vancouver police Sergeant Craig Reynolds was forty-eight when he died. Bob Addison was at the funeral, and one moment at the very end, a single line from the MC, stopped him cold. This is a Good News Tuesday that earns the name the hard way: through loss, through eight hundred people in a church, and through a life that clearly mattered to everyone it touched. Then the conversation shifts to somet...

Couples and food decisions have a numbers problem: research cited by relationship writer Jen Kirsch puts decision paralysis over dinner at about half of all Canadian couples, and Tony Tedesco says the question underneath the question is almost always about who is carrying the load. Date night gets into the mechanics of why this keeps happening and what to do about it. The friction builds quietly....

Tech journalist Kris Abel joins Good News Tuesday with three stories that land differently depending on how optimistic you are about the future. Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference revealed a new Siri built on Google's Gemini technology, with longer conversations, better task planning, and customisable voice and pacing. Apple Intelligence is also reaching back to support iPhones as old as the...

Aaron Rand, host at CJAD Montreal, joins to break down the political moment Quebec finds itself in heading toward an October election. The Parti Québécois, whose signature issue is separation, is pushing a referendum that almost nobody in Quebec wants, and their latest move is asking Ottawa for forty billion dollars to opt out of the planned high speed rail corridor connecting Quebec...

Cognitive bias researcher and author Davis Carbo joins to unpack one of the most unsettling findings in psychology: changing a single word in how an event is described can make people remember things that never happened. The Loftus and Palmer car crash study from the seventies proved it, and the implications reach into every conversation, news story, and relationship in your life. Carbo walks thro...

AI in Canadian prisons is no longer hypothetical. Correctional Service Canada has handed $123,000 to Accenture to pilot the use of artificial intelligence in writing criminal profile reports, the foundational documents that shape how inmates are managed, what programs they access, and how parole decisions get made. Technology analyst Carmi Levy breaks down what that actually means and why the expe...

Alberta separatists have a long memory for grievances and a short one for results. Matt Gurney, editor at Read the Line, brings a new piece arguing that Alberta conservatives have been one of the most effective political forces in Canadian history, and that the case for separatism ignores twenty years of real, documented wins. Then the conversation turns to something harder to measure: what happen...

Canadian consumer choices rarely get challenged from the inside, and that is exactly the problem. This conversation starts with recycling bags in Merrickville and ends up somewhere much bigger: why do Canadians keep accepting the options they are handed instead of asking for better ones?   From the cars that keep getting larger while European streets fill with variety, to recycling pickup tha...

First time travel to a tropical destination has a way of dismantling opinions held for years, and Ryan O'Donnell arrived in Cabo San Lucas with a full set of them. He wanted experiences, not a beach chair. He wanted castles and roller coasters and history, not chips and a pool. He was wrong, and he knows it.   The conversation lands on what actually shifted: tasting salt water for the first t...

Home maintenance tips don't get more overlooked than this one: draining your hot water tank once or twice a year could add years to its life, and almost nobody does it. Andy Baryer from HandyAndyMedia.com learned this the hard way when his tank failed a year past its six-year warranty, and his plumber confirmed the mineral buildup was the cause.   Baryer also makes the case for holding onto y...

Canadian car market selection has never really been a choice, and automotive journalist Lorraine Sommerfeld from http://driving.ca lays out exactly why: Canada represents roughly ten percent of the US market, which means whatever America wants, Canada gets. The conversation starts with Monaco yacht videos and ends somewhere much closer to home. Sommerfeld traces how the SUV takeover happened, name...

Canadian content streaming funding has been a fight Canadian broadcasters have been losing for years, and the Monday panel digs into exactly what just happened: the CRTC ordered foreign streaming services to contribute to the Canada Media Fund, the government backed off citing trade irritants, and Spotify sent out a price increase notice for 15%. The same number. Same week.   Jimmy Zoubris an...

Divorce and child expenses are supposed to be settled in the separation agreement, but financial planner Anita Bruinsma says that document only takes you so far. What it cannot anticipate is the horseback riding hobby, the $300 hockey stick, or the braces one parent books before the other has signed off. http://ClarityOnYourMoney.com contributor Bruinsma maps out where the money friction actually...

If you've ever wondered what you'd actually find if you stopped running from yourself, a darkness retreat is the most direct answer available. No light. No sound. No scroll. No signal that you're doing it right. Just you, and whatever you've been carrying without knowing it. Scott Berman has guided over seven hundred people through exactly that at Sky Cave Retreats in southern Oregon. The nervous...

The middleman is gone. The manager who mentored the new hire, the salesperson with the Rolodex, the person who connected the question to the right answer. That role has been cut from business, from retail, and now from the conversation about AI. The problem is not that AI gives wrong answers. The problem is that the answer is only as good as the question, and nobody is teaching people how to ask....

Trump has faced legal setbacks on tariffs. Forced labour as a justification for new trade measures has never appeared before in Canada-US negotiations. Andrew Caddell says it is a backdoor: a way to keep pressure on Canada and limit trade with China while bypassing the courts that have blocked previous moves. The CUSMA review is approaching and Canada's strategy is to protect as much of the agreem...

AI can draft a resume. It can help translate one career into the language of another. What it cannot do, according to career development leader Candy Ho, is connect the dots of a life and help someone talk about themselves effectively in a room with another human being. The more overlooked problem is on the employer side. A rejected candidate who impressed the hiring team represents an open door m...

Six things are competing for your weekend. Three in theatres. Three on streaming. Steve Stebbing has seen all of them and has a clear order of priority. The Wayans Brothers, He-Man, and a Paul Rudd Music Drama Walk Into a Theatre Scary Movie 6 marks the first time the Wayans brothers have touched the franchise since part two. Masters of the Universe arrives with the weight of an eighties toy aisle...

Social media does not show relationship conflicts, insecurity, ordinary bodies, or real intimacy. It shows curated vacations, idealized bodies, and romantic gestures. Dr. Laurie Betito calls it the comparison trap: measuring your actual relationship against someone else's highly edited reality, then wondering why yours falls short. The Highlight Reel Affecting Your Expectations Social media shapes...

The clip economy is not just about shorter videos. It is about a generation forming opinions, making arguments, and consuming news from content that has been stripped of everything that makes it accurate. Mohit Rajhans calls it the clip economy: a media environment where a four-minute subway hot take and a 45-minute expert interview compete for the same attention and carry the same perceived weigh...

Canada's national AI strategy is optimistic, overdue, and built on a premise Vass Bednar says is materially incorrect: that low public trust in AI is a literacy problem that more access will fix. Bednar argues trust is low because the product came to market too early, makes promises it cannot keep, and operates without the kind of regulation that makes people trust an airplane without needing a ph...

The Price is Right changed hosts in 2007 for the first time in over thirty years, and a man from Grand Prairie, Alberta made it memorable for Canadians before the year was out. Patrice Massa missed his showcase bid by one dollar. The Throwback Thursday conversation digs into what that means, what he walked away with, and why that margin still gets talked about. The hour opens with a game show soun...

Protein added to chips. Protein added to milk that already has protein. A Costco chocolate milk that flies off the shelves. The marketing is working, but the nutrition math is messier than the labels suggest. Alyssa B from http://Nourished.ca cuts through the noise with a number: one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight is the target for an active woman focused on muscle and bone health. That's...

Canadian baby formula prices are up 70% in five years. There are still shortages. And the only plant producing baby formula in Canada ships most of what it makes to China and the United States. That plant cost $380 million to build. Canadian taxpayers confirmed at least $48 million of that. The company that owns it is Chinese. A heavily redacted 200-page document, pried loose through the Freedom o...

In 2007, Stephen Harper was leading a conservative minority government, George W. Bush was in his second term, and Afghanistan was dominating the news. Politicians were speaking about Arctic sovereignty without calling each other names. Nothing was done about it then either. The average Canadian home cost $300,000. Weekly groceries ran $140 to $170. Gas was a dollar to a dollar ten a litre, which...