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NEW - Three Hamburgers for Two Dollars Used to Be a Real Offer
Season 2 Episode 123
Toonie buying power in 1996 is the kind of throwback that starts as a fun memory and lands somewhere genuinely uncomfortable. You walked into McDonal…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
SHIFTHEADS: Strip Out the Excuses and Canada Still Wins the Worst Food Inflation Race
Season 2 Episode 123
Food inflation Canada recorded in January was 7.3%, and yes, the GST holiday makes that number look worse than it is. So Dr. Charlebois did the math …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
NEW - Peace Prize Speeches and Warships in the Middle East at the Same Time
Season 2 Episode 123
The US military buildup aimed at Iran is the largest in over 20 years, and the strangest thing about it might be how little noise it's making. You'd …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Shiftheads - The Cheapest Anti-Theft Device on the Market: The Clutch Pedal
Season 2 Episode 123
Manual transmission cars are still out there and they solve a problem you didn't know you had. You can't steal one if you don't know how to drive it,…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Coins the Machine Rejects Are the Ones Worth Keeping
Season 2 Episode 123
Coin collecting in Canada has a secret hiding inside every Coinstar machine at every Walmart in the country. You dump your change in, the machine rej…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
NEW - Andrew Wasn't Arrested for What You Think He Was Arrested For
Season 2 Episode 123
Prince Andrew's arrest is being absorbed through the Epstein lens because that's the story most people already have in their heads, but the actual ch…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Throwback Thursday: How 1996 Put a Price Tag on Your Childhood
Season 2 Episode 123
Nostalgia collecting has a price tag now, and you didn't put it there. You gave away the toys, tossed the hockey cards, donated the comics, thinking …
5 months, 4 weeks ago
What Was Sitting in a Kansas Salt Mine Might Change Your Mind About Elvis
Season 2 Episode 123
Elvis Presley concert film EPIC starts with a question you've never thought to ask: what happened to 68 boxes of footage locked in a Kansas salt mine…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
NEW: Celine Dion Doesn't Know the Rules and That's the Point
Season 2 Episode 122
Celine Dion Instagram is what it actually takes to break a 30% phone reduction streak. She posts still images to TikTok, which experts would tell you…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
He Said He Was Leaving for His Family. Three Months Later, He Crossed the Floor
Season 2 Episode 122
Crossing the floor in Canada: your elected representative just did it, three months after announcing he was leaving politics to spend time with famil…
5 months, 4 weeks ago