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
The Real Star of Brad Pitt's New Movie Isn't Brad Pitt
Richard Crouse previews Heart of the Beast, a survival thriller starring Brad Pitt as a stranded special forces officer fighting to survive the Alaskan wilderness, and reveals who Pitt himself says wa...
18 Sep 19min
Your Biggest Expense Isn't Rent, Gas, or Groceries
Your tax bill outweighs every other expense Canadians complain about, and new research backs that up. Shane and Ryan break down why the conversation around cost of living keeps missing the actual numb...
17 Sep 9min
NEW - Canada's US Relationship Isn't the Ceiling Anymore
A stalled trade deal with the United States gets reframed here as something other than a loss. Jamie Ellerton argues Canadians have been treating a shrinking relationship with the US as the new ceilin...
17 Sep 19min
