NEW - Three Hamburgers for Two Dollars Used to Be a Real Offer
Toonie buying power in 1996 is the kind of throwback that starts as a fun memory and lands somewhere genuinely uncomfortable. You walked into McDonald's with two dollars and came out with three hambur...
20 Feb 9min
SHIFTHEADS: Strip Out the Excuses and Canada Still Wins the Worst Food Inflation Race
Food inflation Canada recorded in January was 7.3%, and yes, the GST holiday makes that number look worse than it is. So Dr. Charlebois did the math without it. Remove the holiday effect entirely and ...
20 Feb 9min
NEW - Peace Prize Speeches and Warships in the Middle East at the Same Time
The US military buildup aimed at Iran is the largest in over 20 years, and the strangest thing about it might be how little noise it's making. You'd expect a deployment of this scale to dominate the c...
20 Feb 9min
Shiftheads - The Cheapest Anti-Theft Device on the Market: The Clutch Pedal
Manual transmission cars are still out there and they solve a problem you didn't know you had. You can't steal one if you don't know how to drive it, and you can't look at your phone while you're driv...
20 Feb 11min
The Coins the Machine Rejects Are the Ones Worth Keeping
Coin collecting in Canada has a secret hiding inside every Coinstar machine at every Walmart in the country. You dump your change in, the machine rejects certain coins because of their weight and cali...
20 Feb 9min
NEW - Andrew Wasn't Arrested for What You Think He Was Arrested For
Prince Andrew's arrest is being absorbed through the Epstein lens because that's the story most people already have in their heads, but the actual charge is something more specific and in some ways mo...
20 Feb 8min
Throwback Thursday: How 1996 Put a Price Tag on Your Childhood
Nostalgia collecting has a price tag now, and you didn't put it there. You gave away the toys, tossed the hockey cards, donated the comics, thinking none of it mattered. Then eBay showed up and strang...
20 Feb 9min
What Was Sitting in a Kansas Salt Mine Might Change Your Mind About Elvis
Elvis Presley concert film EPIC starts with a question you've never thought to ask: what happened to 68 boxes of footage locked in a Kansas salt mine? You already know the Vegas Elvis, the jumpsuits, ...
20 Feb 19min
