NEW - Earth Destroyed Its Own Origin Story. The Moon Kept It
What the moon can teach us is the part of our own story we cannot find anywhere down here, because this planet erased it. Every earthquake, every ocean, every million years of weather. The very forces...
18 Apr 9min
When Did Car Shopping Start Feeling Like Buying a Washing Machine?
New car prices in Canada are up almost 60% in six years, and Lorraine Sommerfeld says that number didn't just change what people can afford. It changed how they feel about cars. Walking through a lot ...
18 Apr 9min
Pokemon Pocket Man-sters. Twenty-Seven Years of Getting It Wrong
Pokemon throwback Thursday 1998 starts with a confession. The spelling on the show document said P-O-K-E-M-A-N. It has said that since 1998. Pokemon means pocket monsters. Mon means monster. For twent...
17 Apr 9min
The Much Music Corner on Queen Street Still Feels Like Something
MuchMusic is gone long enough now that people are finally understanding what it was. That is Bill Welychka's theory and ten years of book signings have confirmed it. You need distance from something b...
17 Apr 9min
SHIFTHEADS: Two People. Same Banana. Different Price
Surveillance pricing grocery stores are not a future problem. Tests in the United States put 20 people in the same room buying the same product at the same time and found they paid different prices. N...
17 Apr 9min
THROWBACK THURSDAY: The Last Year Before Everything Changed
1998 throwback Thursday lands on a year that felt safe and new at the exact same time. The Discman was still in your bag. Blockbuster still had a line on Friday night. Gas was 50 cents a litre. And Go...
17 Apr 8min
Rob Breakenridge: One Point. Worst Team in the League. Rob Is Nervous for his Team
Canadian NHL playoffs are here and the Oilers have been handed the simplest possible test going in. One point. Against the worst team in the entire league. The fact that Rob Breakenridge is nervous ab...
17 Apr 9min
Pokemon: Poker Meets Chess. Also, There Are Dragons
Pokemon card game competitive play has a world championship, a global tournament circuit, and kids making tens of thousands of dollars. Most adults still think it is a cartoon with some stuffies attac...
17 Apr 9min
