NEW - Smart Speakers - Should the Opposition Leader Keep His House?
The agency that insures Canadian mortgages just paid out thirty two million dollars in staff bonuses. The people footing that bill are the same ones struggling to qualify for a mortgage in the first p...
9 Jul 19min
SHIFTHEADS: Summer Jobs Aren't a Waste of Your Time. They're Free Education
Career myths convince people they get one shot at everything: wrong major, wrong first job, and that's the whole story decided. Candy Ho, a CERIC board member, makes the case that a summer job is clos...
9 Jul 9min
NEW - The Sound of the Sounds of the World Cup
World Cup fan celebrations are the actual show this tournament, the games are just the excuse. If the sport itself has never made sense, this is the entry point that finally clicks: not the offside ru...
9 Jul 9min
Shiftheads - The Bermuda Triangle Is Safer Than This Canadian Lake
The Great Lakes Triangle has claimed roughly six thousand ships and hundreds of planes, and Nathan Radke explains why the losses feel supernatural even when they are not. His book Uncover Up spent a d...
9 Jul 19min
ICYMI - Your Boss Might Be Drunk on AI
Something happens to a manager who spends all day getting agreed with. Greg Fish, a computer scientist behind Cyberpunk Survival Guide, lays out why the people running the meeting are more likely than...
9 Jul 9min
NEW - Uncle Bob’s Bits: He Sold His FIFA Tickets to Fund a Better Trip
Canada World Cup travel plans do not usually involve selling tickets to one game so you can afford tickets to another, but that is exactly the math Bob Addison worked out when Canada advanced to Houst...
9 Jul 10min
The Marketing Lesson Hidden in a Celebrity Wedding
Marketing scarcity gets tested against a real example: a wedding with no leaked photos, no outside editor, and twenty six million dollars already routed to charity before the criticism could show up. ...
9 Jul 9min
Welcome to Some Good News
Good News Tuesday runs on stories sent in by listeners and a text line that keeps the good ones coming, and this week the good news starts with a 139-year-old former church rectory brought back to lif...
8 Jul 9min
