NEW - Flying for Free Isn't Dead. It Just Got Harder
Four years of saving points. One redemption. And the taxes and fees still took a $900 bite out of a flight that was supposed to be free. That's the moment most people quietly give up on the whole idea...
17 Juli 10min
Shiftheads - The Bridge Deal Where Nobody Gets Paid Until Debt Clears
A $6 billion bridge, a private partner, and a new rule that changes the usual math entirely: no profit until the debt gets repaid first. Tim Powers breaks down why this Gordie Howe Bridge deal reads d...
17 Juli 9min
ICYMI - A Human Tripod Once Caught a Falling Satellite
Normally a spacewalk sends out two people. One time in NASA history, it sent out three, because a massive satellite wasn't cooperating and somebody suggested becoming a human tripod instead. Robert Pe...
17 Juli 9min
The Year Bitcoin Hit a Dollar and Investors bought Pizza
Bitcoin crossed a dollar in 2011 and almost nobody blinked. Ed Conroy revisits the year that felt completely ordinary at the time and turns out to have been quietly loaded with the moments that change...
17 Juli 9min
Richard Crouse: 60ft Puppets and a Self Cast AI Wanna-Be
A dart hitting the stage was enough to end a Metallica show outright, no warning, no encore. Richard Crouse has the story behind one of only four times the band ever walked off mid-set, plus the AI mo...
17 Juli 19min
Video Games Lost Their Discs. This Box Could Fix It
A community movie library is showing up in neighbourhoods that already trade paperbacks, and it solves a problem video game owners know too well now that discs are disappearing from the box. The idea ...
16 Juli 9min
NEW - What It Takes for Canadians to Actually Pay Attention
Canadian attention fatigue is the throughline tonight, tested first by rising gas prices tied to a collapsing ceasefire, then flipped on its head by a city that could not stop celebrating soccer. Gas ...
16 Juli 19min
SHIFTHEADS: How Long You Actually Have After a Tick Bite
A tick bite symptom is easy to miss, and this segment lays out anaplasmosis, the tick-borne illness now showing up alongside Lyme disease and pushing stomach trouble into the list of warning signs. Dr...
16 Juli 7min
