NEW - What Is the Smallest Amount You Would Actually Go Back For?
Grocery store refund stories have a threshold moment and this one involves potato peelings. Tony cooked the potato. Then he checked the receipt. The price was wrong. He had no potato left, only the pe...
27 Mar 9min
Canadian Oranges from Saskatchewan VIA Egypt
Maple washing is what happens when a grocery store uses the maple leaf to raise prices on a product that is not Canadian. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois has seen it in person: oranges labeled as Canadian, man...
27 Mar 9min
SHIFTHEADS: Food Prep vs Groceries: The Math Works Until You Open the Fridge
Meal kit delivery versus groceries is a math problem until you go back through the weeks and find the ordering-in receipts. Three meals plus lunch supplies for $200 at the grocery store. Every ingredi...
27 Mar 9min
THROWBACK THURSDAY 1995 - The Finance Minister Was Taking Your Calls. Live. On TV
1995 Canada had a finance minister who went on Canada AM and took unscreened phone calls from Canadians about his budget cuts. Paul Martin sat there and answered them. Jean Chrétien was on CBC making ...
27 Mar 7min
Shiftheads - WAR and OIL: The Background Is Now the Foreground
Alberta referendum votes on October 19th are drawing a line that will be hard to ignore once it is drawn. Immigration. Constitutional reform. Separation on the table. Rob Breakenridge interviewed Dani...
27 Mar 9min
ICYMI - Fourteen Years Ago Gord Downey Was Way Ahead
Tragically Hip music has a way of arriving late for some people. Not because the songs changed but because the listener did. Ryan O'Donnell grew up hearing his dad scream the lyrics at house parties a...
27 Mar 8min
NEW - SNL 1995 with the Tragically Hip: He Said the Wrong Word and It was Accidental Genius
Tragically Hip Saturday Night Live 1995 started with Gord Downie walking out and saying the wrong first lyric. Instead of fabulously rich he said tragically hip because he could hear Dan Aykroyd intro...
27 Mar 12min
Where Did All the Leading Men Go?
Hollywood leading men are disappearing and Ed Conroy has a specific way of putting it: when Clooney and DiCaprio and Pitt are gone, where is the new Paul Newman? Brad Pitt was voted Sexiest Man Alive ...
27 Mar 10min
