NEW - Canada Is Buying a Surveillance Plane. It May Not Plug Into the System It Needs to Use
Canada military procurement made a move this week. Canada is looking to buy a surveillance plane built on a Bombardier airframe with Saab technology. Richard Shimooka says the purchase could be scrapp...
28 Maj 6min
NEW - Heavy Metal Has a Reputation for Danger. The Mosh Pit Has Different Rules.
Heavy metal community is the subject and the argument is simple. The music sounds aggressive. The culture is not. Ryan O'Donnell has been to hundreds of shows and never seen a mosh pit that did not st...
27 Maj 9min
Good News Tuesday: A Thousand People Showed Up for a Six-Year-Old Who Could Not Have a Birthday Party
Good News Tuesday lands on one story that earns the name more than most. A six-year-old named Levi has leukemia and could not be surrounded by people for his birthday. His family posted about it on ...
27 Maj 9min
SHIFTHEADS:What’s On Your Mind: Jerry Agar Edition - Running Out of Time to Delay the Things You Actually Want
Parenting adult kids is the subject and it starts with a phone call. Your daughter says she might come visit. The answer to might is just tell me when. Jerry Agar's daughter is an athletic therapist t...
27 Maj 10min
The Schoolyard Has More Asphalt. The Kids Have More Anxiety.
Kids recess in Canada has no legal protection. No legislation. Some schools have it. Some do not. A researcher who has been in this field for twenty-five years says that matters more right now than it...
27 Maj 8min
ICYMI: Nobody Told These Kids Metal Wasn't for Them. Now They're Obsessed.
Kids metal music has a home and it is called Howdytoons. Mike Whitla started writing heavy songs about dinosaurs for his young children in 2010, realised the words brachiosaurus were basically already...
27 Maj 9min
NEW - Canada Funded the Research. Someone Else Owns the Patent.
Canadian innovation has a cost problem almost nobody talks about. Not the cost of building things, but the cost of giving them away after they work. Jim Balsillie's argument is pointed: Canadian polic...
27 Maj 23min
Coming Soon: You Can Hire Digital Ozzy for Your Commercial. He Will Do Whatever You Want.
Tech news this week includes a digital Ozzy Osbourne available for commercial licensing, a Ferrari that looks like an Apple product, and a Canadian breakthrough in early skin cancer detection. Hyper...
27 Maj 9min
