ICYMI - Matchmaking Helps Friends. It Also Ends Them
Matchmaking sounds like a favour until someone gets hurt, and Jen Kirsch has watched it go wrong from every angle. Friends turned into third parties, blind dates built on nothing more than a shared ta...
5 Sep 9min
The Storm Left Concert Stands in Pieces Before AC/DC Even Arrives
Yesterday's windstorm in Toronto left more than just chaos on the sidewalks. Stadium scaffolding built for an upcoming AC/DC show took real damage, and there's cleanup work ahead before the concert ca...
4 Sep 9min
Canadian Tire's Cash Loyalty Just Met Tim Hortons
Some retail pairings work and some quietly disappear. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, food economist and host of the Food Professor Podcast, walks through the ones that stuck, like Starbucks inside Western Ca...
4 Sep 9min
The Five Second Rule Started Hundreds of Years Ago
The five second rule feels like something everyone has just always known, but Dr. Keith Warriner, microbiologist, traces its actual origin back centuries, through a Mongol emperor, a 1960s TV cook, an...
4 Sep 10min
A Fifty Dollar Thrift Store Find Turned Out to Be Worth Hundreds
1988 was the year CDs officially overtook vinyl records in sales, and a CBC report from that exact era laid out why listeners were making the switch, citing everything from surface noise to frequency ...
4 Sep 8min
Shiftheads - Canadians Are Hearing About This Deal From the Wrong Country First
Rob Breakenridge breaks down why Canadians keep learning about their own trade negotiations from American officials before their own prime minister says a word. A recent round of comments from a US ca...
4 Sep 9min
ICYMI - Hockey Season: One Conversation in 2022 Changed the Entire NHL
Victoria Matiash traces the current wave of NHL player movement back to a single moment in 2022, when one star told his general manager exactly what he wasn't willing to wait for anymore. She explains...
4 Sep 9min
ICYMI - Vinyl Sales Keep Climbing. Carmi Levy Explains Why
Something about a needle in a groove still beats digital, at least according to Carmi Levy, who breaks down why vinyl sales have grown by double digits every single year despite streaming's total domi...
4 Sep 9min
