1979 COLUMBIA HOUSE LAUNCH IN CANADA
What was it like to work in a music store? Ryan remembers HMV all too well… Originally aired on 2026-09-16
18 Sep 9min
NEW - The Fast Food Giant Quietly Dumping Pumpkin Spice
Pumpkin spice coffee turns thirty four this year, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois reveals it was never supposed to exist in the first place. It started as a marketing mistake at Starbucks, and sales have d...
18 Sep 9min
SHIFTHEADS - This Planet May Be Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Expected
Mercury is shriveling up like a grape in the sun, a raisin! Dr. Sam breaks down why this is happening. GUEST: Dr. Samantha Yammine, PhD is a Neuroscientist turned Science Communicator better known as...
18 Sep 9min
NEW - Throwback Thursday: Columbia House - Did You Actually Pay for Your Ten Free Tapes?
A friend hands over a card. Ten tapes, practically free, just don't bother cancelling and nobody comes looking. That was the pitch, and millions of people took it without asking the one question that ...
18 Sep 8min
Shiftheads - University Report Just Priced Out Alberta Leaving Canada
The Alberta separation referendum arrives in just over a month, and broadcaster Rob Breakenridge lays out what a new university report says it would actually cost, so you know the real numbers before ...
18 Sep 9min
ICYMI - Sixteen Million People Fell for (and Benefited From) This CD Deal
Columbia House once had sixteen million members across North America, and music expert Eric Alper explains how a penny-CD mail order club grew into a genuine billion dollar business. The scale of it i...
18 Sep 9min
NEW - What Would Business Owners Would Do With Lower Taxes?
Small business taxes get treated like an abstract line item until Corinne Pohlmann of CFIB puts real numbers on what businesses pay just to keep an employee on payroll, whether or not the business tur...
18 Sep 10min
Why Columbia House Never Actually Had to Cancel Anyone
Columbia House recently shut down, and Ed Conroy finally explains the business model that kept it running for decades after everyone assumed it should have collapsed. It came to Canada in 1979, and th...
18 Sep 9min
