Before the Game Boy, There Was the Punch Buggy Game
The Game Boy turns 36 this year, and the throwback is not just about the hardware. It is about what changed the moment a screen showed up in the back seat of the family car. Before handheld gaming, ro...
24 Apr 9min
Technology Giveth and Technology Taketh Away
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to ask what actually changed the moment handheld gaming arrived in the back seat of the family car. Carmi Levy has a clear answer: we gained peace, and we lost the...
24 Apr 9min
SHIFTHEADS: The Dairy Myth and What Canada Is Actually Giving Up at the Trade Table
Canada US trade negotiations are at a crossroads, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says the messaging coming out of Ottawa is conflicting enough to be a problem on its own. Mexico has overtaken Canada as th...
24 Apr 9min
1989: The Year the Game Boy Arrived and a Home Cost $125,000
Throwback Thursday lands in 1989, and the gap between then and now is either comforting or devastating depending on what you look at first. The Game Boy launched. The Canadian Space Agency was officia...
24 Apr 8min
Shiftheads - We Have the Oil, the Gas, and the Minerals. The Question Is Whether We Use Them
Canada trade talks with the United States are stuck in a holding pattern, and Rob Breakenridge says the bigger problem is that nobody has defined the end game. Trump is calling his own deal a ripoff. ...
24 Apr 9min
ICYMI - The Three Questions That Change How You See Spring Cleaning
Decluttering is not a weekend project. Megan Golightly says it is a mindset shift, and once it clicks, you cannot unlearn it. The hard part is not the stuff. It is the voice in your head that has been...
24 Apr 19min
NEW - No Save Button, No Shortcuts: What the Original Game Boy Actually Built
The Game Boy anniversary is a reason to talk about something that keeps coming up in conversations about 1989: the things you had to earn before anyone handed them to you. Ed Conroy argues that genera...
24 Apr 9min
Great Concerts, Thin Biography: The Michael Jackson Movie Reviewed
Michael Jackson's biopic is in theatres now, and whether it deserves the praise depends entirely on what you want from it. Meanwhile, a UK judge just called Amy Winehouse's father an unreliable witnes...
24 Apr 19min
