Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSmoke ‘em 🚬 — Running out of pipeline capacity. Banning menthol cigarettes.
Episode 1
Like us trying to do spreadsheets while also taking a Zoom call, Canada’s pipelines are at full capacity.
Menthol cigarette bans are helping make the …
2 years, 8 months ago
Vintage wine 🍷 — Cold snap lays B.C.’s wine crop to waste. Uber launches delivery robots in Japan
Episode 1
If you stumble across a bottle of 2024 vintage B.C. wine when perusing the liquor store this year, we recommend you pick it up. It could be a collect…
2 years, 8 months ago
Cybercrime setback 💻 — The law locks out LockBit hackers. Alberta’s tourism industry gets new immigration stream.
Episode 1
A shadowy international syndicate of cybercriminals just got a taste of its own medicine.
As people keep flocking to Alberta’s picturesque mountains, …
2 years, 8 months ago
Hat trick 🏒 — Women’s hockey breaks records, Maple Syrup bounces back.
Episode 1
Less than two months after hitting the ice, North America’s new pro women’s hockey league is already breaking records.
Unseasonably warm weather isn’t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Defence dollars 💸 — NATO nations are spending, Waymo pulls driverless cars.
Episode 1
While most of us are trying to save up these days, NATO nations are spending on defence like a rich kid who got their hands on their father’s credit …
2 years, 8 months ago
Roblaw$ 🛒— T-Shirt dispute, Alberta’s booming honey industry.
Episode 1
The Loblaw corporation has previously beefed with Frito-Lay and other smaller suppliers. Now, it’s in a spat with a guy making novelty T-shirts.
Like …
2 years, 8 months ago
Not guilty 👩⚖️— Canada’s short on judges, The cost of the World Cup.
Episode 1
Housing isn’t the only shortage facing the federal government these days: It turns out there are about as many judges in Canada as there are apartmen…
2 years, 8 months ago
Catalogue for sale 🎶 — Biden joins TikTok, Investors flock to music catalogues.
Episode 1
It wasn’t too long ago we were writing regularly about plans by U.S. lawmakers to ban TikTok. It now seems like those plans have taken a backseat to …
2 years, 8 months ago
AI Spy 🕵️♀️ — Bosses turn to AI to spy on workers, Investors flock to psychedelics.
Episode 1
Think twice before sending that disparaging Slack message about your manager. Someone—or rather, something—could be watching.
As they did with shirtle…
2 years, 8 months ago
Bowl-o-rama 🎳 — Bowling is booming in Canada, Google’s got a new chatbot.
Episode 1
At the height of the pandemic, nothing could be more frightening than repeatedly touching a germ-infested item hundreds of other strangers had handle…
2 years, 8 months ago