Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Swiping past someone because their profile opens with a political slogan is now a dating strategy — and it might be the rational one. Tony Tedesco does it. Not because he disagrees, but because leading with that energy is a preview of every conversation to come. He's seen what happens when political differences stop being a quirk and start being a values gap. Jen Kirsch has a different appro...

Toronto Police just pulled three and a half million dollars worth of counterfeit jerseys out of a west-end warehouse, and the story of how it happened says more about who runs this city right now than the bust itself.   It was not a tip from a concerned citizen. A lawyer retained by a legitimate sports apparel manufacturer tracked the knockoffs, confirmed they were counterfeit, and handed it...

Thrift store summer is not a trend. It is a rational response to the cost of everything right now. Eighty-three percent of Albertans say thrifting makes economic sense given current conditions, and Habitat for Humanity Restore locations in Calgary are seeing ten percent more foot traffic than last year. The secondhand orbit has expanded well past Value Village. Marketplace, Kijiji, buy-nothing gro...

Claude Lemieux death hit Quebec like a loss in the family. Because for francophones across the province, that is exactly what it was. Andrew Caddell was in Kamaraska when the news landed. He describes watching Lemieux carry the torch into the rink during game three, the cheer that followed, and what it meant to see a proud Canadien come home one last time. Then the hockey conversation shifts: can...

Friday night news that earns its place at the table: a truck driver hauled a trailer from Embrun to Ottawa missing ten of its twelve wheels, with no brakes and an unsecured fastener on the two that remained. He was headed to a scrapyard. Police found him first. Elsewhere, a man launched a speedboat off a thirty-foot waterfall in a Guinness record attempt that Guinness does not actually track. The...

What to watch this weekend starts with a nineteen-year-old YouTuber who turned an internet horror phenomenon into a feature film for A24. Backrooms, directed by Kane Parsons, drops a furniture store owner into an infinite maze of yellow rooms and builds from there. Then Tuner makes the case for one of the year's best performances, with Leo Woodall as a piano tuner turned safecracker trying to cove...

Love as a verb is not a metaphor. According to Dr. Laurie Betito, it is the only definition that actually sustains a relationship. Saying I love you is easy. The actions behind it, reliability, consistency, listening, showing up during the hard moments, are what create emotional safety and trust over time. When Feeling In Love Becomes I Love Being in love is fueled by novelty and dopamine. It is o...

Canada AI policy has a tell. The country boasts about what it is going to do. It does not yet have victories to boast about. Mohit Rajhans lays out what is actually missing: no unified national framework, no track record of nurturing technology at pace with even smaller European nations, and a governance model still built on self-reporting and meetings held once every two years. At the speed AI mo...

Critical thinking is not a soft skill. It is the skill. And right now, something is eroding it in a generation that never learned to live without AI. Dr. Perry Adler has spent decades working with teenagers. What he is seeing now is different. Kids arriving despondent about their futures, convinced AI will take their jobs before they ever get started. Suicidal ideation in young people has more tha...

Canadian comedy shows anchor Throwback Thursday 2001, and the hosts want to know which ones belong on the list. Trailer Park Boys, Shoresy, Kids in the Hall, Red Green, and This Hour Has 22 Minutes are all in the conversation. Trailer Park Boys started as a gritty pilot with hard drugs and handguns before becoming the 2001 TV show. The history of the series, including the passing of Mr. Leahy and...

Food safety is the subject and it starts with pizza pops. Two outbreaks in three years: one E. coli, one salmonella. Dr. Keith Warriner explains how something most people assume is safe to cook at home went wrong twice. The microwave is the common thread in the E. coli case. Microwaves heat unevenly, leaving cold spots where bacteria survive. The salmonella outbreak traced to dried milk powder in...

Chicken prices in Canada are about to get worse. Sylvain Charlebois visited a processing plant today and had lunch with the CEO. They ate chicken. Two hundred and fifty chickens are harvested per minute at this facility. Canada's supply management system missed its production quota twelve times out of the last fourteen cycles. Whole chicken is up thirty percent. A meat broker called Sylvain Charle...

Throwback Thursday 2001 and the best Canadian comedy shows debate is louder than it sounds. Corner Gas has a case. So does SCTV. So does something from Calgary that only rock radio people from that era fully understand. There is a speech from 2001 about a small Canadian town and a lot of strangers that is worth hearing even today. There is also an announcement from an American president that names...

Alberta separatism is the subject and the Premiers' Conference in Manitoba just gave it a flashpoint. Danielle Smith and Wab Kinew had an exchange that nobody in the room expected. The court ruling that killed the separatist petition hinges on the constitutional duty to consult First Nations. Alberta is challenging that ruling in court. Kinew's message to Smith at the conference: stop fighting Fir...

Montreal Canadiens playoffs took an unexpected turn before anyone predicted them happening at all. Victor Findlay has called every game of this run in English on TSN Radio Montreal and still finds it hard to believe. In December 2024 the Habs were at the bottom of the conference. By spring 2026 they are in the conference final. Down three to one against the Carolina Hurricanes, Victor Findlay's po...

Trailer Park Boys reaches 182 countries on Netflix. Randy's Cheeseburger Picnic Comedy Tour reaches 14 cities across Ontario and Quebec this summer. Pat Roach is driving between them in an RV. The show includes TPB trivia, cheeseburger picnic contests, songs, and audience participation. Hecklers are welcomed. A woman who had never seen Trailer Park Boys came with her boyfriend, laughed harder than...

Canadian comedy history runs deeper than most people realise. Ed Conroy has a working theory about two parallel traditions running since 1970, and Trailer Park Boys sits at the end of one of them. The first tradition is hoser comedy, which started not with the McKenzie Brothers but with a 1970 film called Goin Down the Road. Two East Coasters hitchhike to Toronto. SCTV made it iconic. Trailer Park...

Entertainment news covers a boffo return to movie theatres, the first James Bond video game in over a decade, and a new Dustin Hoffman film about a piano tuner who becomes a safe cracker. Bond Has a New Video Game. The Concern Is What Amazon Does With Him Next. Richard Crouse makes the case that 2026 is shaping up to be the best year at the box office since 2019. The first James Bond game in a dec...

Online shopping returns take a strange turn in tonight's opener. A woman ordered five-hundred-dollar jeans from Holt Renfrew. The store sent the wrong pair. She sued for three hundred and thirty dollars in compensation for the inconvenience of completing the return. The conversation moves to return habits generally and how cheap online platforms changed the calculus. When something from Temu does...

Online shopping returns open the conversation and land somewhere unexpected. The Holt Renfrew jeans story, five hundred dollars, wrong pair sent, three hundred and thirty dollars in compensation sought in court, is the starting point. The real argument underneath it is about being heard. Jamie Ellerton has not eaten a Domino's pizza since the day they refused to refund a dropped delivery. Lindsay...

Punk rock and its community are the subject, and the perspective comes from someone who has been in it for forty-six years. Paul Gott started the Montreal band the Ripcordz in 1980 thinking he was already too old for it. Seventeen albums, three thousand shows, and a view of punk that starts with the crowd. In punk, the crowd is the show. They are also the promoters, the basement venue operators, a...

AI subscription costs are changing and not in the direction anyone hoped. The pay-by-workload model is replacing the all-you-can-eat subscription, and it looks a lot like the early internet. Carmi Levy maps the problem precisely. You replace a fifty-thousand-dollar human assistant with AI at fifteen thousand. The AI company doubles the price. Features move behind paywalls. The rules change six mon...

UFO orbs are the subject and the newly released US government files go back further than most people realize. The phenomenon predates flying saucers by years. WWII Allied pilots called them Foo Fighters: strange lights and orbs following aircraft over Europe and the Pacific. The Air Force took the reports seriously and launched investigations that produced no satisfying explanations. That pattern...

Artificial general intelligence is what AI companies say they are building. Engineered super children are Silicon Valley's plan for when that AI takes over. Greg Fish explains why both ideas have the same problem. CRISPR can edit one gene at a time. Human eyes are controlled by around six hundred genes. The immune system blocks large-scale genome manipulation for good reason. The idea that you can...

Canada military procurement made a move this week. Canada is looking to buy a surveillance plane built on a Bombardier airframe with Saab technology. Richard Shimooka says the purchase could be scrapped. The US asked Canada to stop borrowing American assets for northern defence. But the integrated North American aerospace defence network runs at a classified security level that excludes foreign pa...