NEW - The Simplest Thing You Can Do to Help Your Kid Learn Better
Six-year-olds who could not tell time. A baseline test confirming it. Then two sessions with performance visual artists teaching through play and joy. Every child could tell the time. Every child move...
3 Kesä 19min
SHIFTHEADS: West End Ottawa Born and Raised. What’s On Your Mind Stefan Keyes?
Ottawa nostalgia and urban development collide when the place that held your childhood firsts starts coming down by machine. Stefan Keyes grew up in Ottawa's West End, close enough to walk to Westgate...
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Good News Tuesday: She Fixed Bikes for 14 Years and Gave Every One Away
Good news Tuesday Canada brings Krista Richard out of Moncton, New Brunswick, where her Bikes and Trikes for Everyone program has put wheels under thousands of kids over 14 years. She collects them, f...
3 Kesä 9min
NEW - New Fiction Book: The Peacekeeper Who Couldn't Keep His Own Peace
A Canadian peacekeeper deploys to Croatia in 1993 to separate armies that want nothing to do with peace. He comes home carrying wounds nobody can see. Decades later, a daughter he never knew existed m...
3 Kesä 19min
Someone 3D Printed a Horse and It Might Be the Best Tech Story of the Year
Three robots walked into the show tonight - all of them fun. One is in a university cafeteria doing something 2.5 million times that humans have never quite managed to do consistently. One is in a l...
3 Kesä 9min
ICYMI - Canada's Been in a Recession for a Decade. Immigration Hid It.
Canada is technically in a recession and the prime minister won't say the word. Matt Gurney thinks the more important conversation is the one hiding underneath it. For years, the answer to flat econom...
3 Kesä 10min
NEW - Fifty Bucks for a Canada Day Flag. The Pole Is From China.
Bob Addison went back to read the label on a six-foot Canada Day flag at Costco. Made in Canada, imported fabric, pole and bracket from China. Fifty dollars. The irony runs deeper when you consider Ca...
3 Kesä 9min
NEW: The Fake Jersey Debate Nobody Wants to Have Honestly
Counterfeit sports jerseys are everywhere, and the reasons people buy them are more complicated than the law makes room for. The conversation draws a hard line between two kinds of fakes. A counterf...
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