NEW - Smart Speakers: Nobody Knows What Box Canada Sits In
Rating the summer out of ten turns into something heavier once the conversation shifts to whether Canadians have simply checked out. Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead pick up on a lingering questio...
23 Jul 0s
SHIFTHEADS: Three in Five Canadians Now Plan to Thrift
Thrifting has lost its stigma, with new survey data showing three in five Canadians plan to shop secondhand this year. Bruce Winder connects the surge to affordability, environmental motivations, and ...
23 Jul 0s
NEW - Booking a Dive Bar Instead of a Ballroom
The average wedding cost in Canada now sits between thirty and forty thousand dollars, double what it was in 2010, and climbing higher in cities like Toronto and Vancouver. One host lays out exactly w...
23 Jul 0s
Shiftheads - UnCover-Up: The Book has Arrived… or has it?
How to think clearly about conspiracies starts with admitting you're not immune to them. Lee Kuhnle and Nathan Radke, longtime co-teachers and now co-authors of Uncover Up, walk through the moral pani...
23 Jul 0s
ICYMI - Hustle Culture Is Quietly Killing Reading
Hustle culture and literacy don't sound connected until Greg Fish lays out the chain reaction: kids stop reading for boredom relief, schools turn reading into test prep, and an entire generation grows...
23 Jul 0s
NEW - Why Is Cancelling Harder Than Signing Up for Everything?
Subscription costs keep climbing even after you already cut cable to save money. Tony Chapman lays out why the average household now pays for seven streaming platforms, still sees ads, and still doesn...
23 Jul 0s
You're Probably Two to Four Percent Neanderthal. And it’s a Compliment
Neanderthals and modern humans lived in the same caves, hunted the same animals, and made nearly identical tools, so why did only one species survive? April Nowell explains what new excavations in Tur...
23 Jul 0s
SQZ 455: The License Plate a Grandmother Never Ordered
A license plate story turns a routine plate swap into one of the wildest good news pickups of the year. A seventy seven year old grandmother is randomly issued a plate she never ordered, and it is now...
22 Jul 0s
