Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift

Good News Tuesday runs on the idea that good news makes more good news. Tonight it also runs on swearing. Dr. Robin Hanley DeFoe's research says dropping a casual expletive, not at anyone, just into the void, can block pain receptors and reset the nervous system. A French tennis player proved it in a post-match interview. The Calgary mayor proved it on Twitter during Stampede. It fits. The actual good news is personal and wide-ranging. A Kamloops tattoo artist built a Game Boy life counter for Magic the Gathering, put it on a hand-painted cartridge, and accidentally launched a production run of a thousand. A nervous young man asked for a blessing to propose to his girlfriend. He had the ring ready. He did not wait long. Ryan O'Donnell in Calgary has questions about what living downtown during Stampede actually looks like now. Arlene Dickinson is here to be a mirror for Canadians, and manages to swear once. Topics: Good News Tuesday, swearing research, Calgary Stampede, Arlene Dickinson, Canadian good news Originally aired on 2026-06-23

Myles Dininio is running nearly eight thousand kilometers across Canada to raise funds for CAMH, and when this conversation happened he was somewhere near Agawa Bay in northern Ontario, just past the halfway mark. He stopped running long enough to talk. Then he started again. The idea has lived in Myles's head for twenty-two years, since he rode his mountain bike across the country at eighteen and decided the next big thing would be a run. What got him out the door in 2026 was simpler: the kids are old enough, his wife is working, and the clock was ticking. What he didn't expect was how much the road would give back. Strangers sharing their stories. His own grief rising to the surface with nowhere to hide. A playlist his kids made him that he describes as garbage, except for the part where every song belongs to someone he loves. He started in St. John's at the same mile zero where Terry Fox began. He has a mason jar of Atlantic Ocean. He needs one more of the Pacific. Topics: running across Canada, CAMH mental health fundraising, cross-country endurance run, grief and resilience, Canadian mental health awareness GUEST: Myles Dininio | @‌mylesacrosscanada Originally aired on 2026-06-23

Calgary mayor Jeremy Farkas put out a video during Stampede and dropped some language that got attention. The swearing was the hook. The issue underneath it is real and a lot more specific than noise complaints. Ryan O'Donnell lives three minutes from the Cowboys tent and has something to say about what ten straight days of that actually looks like from the inside. Downtown Calgary during Stampede isn't just loud. Last year, windows broke. Things fell off shelves. And every morning after, the sidewalks outside people's homes looked like the aftermath of something nobody living there chose to attend. Ryan's point isn't that Stampede shouldn't exist. It's that downtown is a neighbourhood. There are families, strollers, schools around the corner, and people who should be able to stay in their own homes for ten days without leaving. The question of whether politicians swearing makes them more real or less professional turns out to be more interesting than it sounds. Topics: Calgary Stampede noise, downtown Calgary neighbourhood, mayor Jeremy Farkas, outdoor concerts city living, festival disruption Originally aired on 2026-06-23

Kris Abel, tech and entertainment commentator at krisabel.com, covers three things this week that actually earned the attention. The Sennheiser Accentum Clip launches July 23rd in Canada, before the US gets it, at $270. It clips around the ear instead of hoping your ear canal cooperates, combines broadcast-grade Sennheiser audio quality with situational awareness, and has a design borrowed from ear piercing culture that looks genuinely different from anything else on the market. Disney launched Toy Story 5 in theatres and in four hundred children's hospitals on the same day. Patients got access to the film from their beds, received themed tech toys tied to the film's storyline, and got personal video messages from the cast recorded at the Hollywood premiere. The piracy concern that blocked this kind of access for years finally gave way. Taika Waititi's Clara and the Sun hits theatres October 23rd. Jenna Ortega plays a humanoid robot companion. The question of whether you'd want your robot to look like a robot or a person comes up. The answer is more interesting than expected. Topics: Sennheiser Accentum Clip Canada, Toy Story 5 hospital screening, Clara and the Sun, humanoid robots, tech Canada GUEST: Kris Abel | krisabel.com | @realkrisabel Originally aired on 2026-06-23

Sixty thousand people in red at a Canada World Cup soccer match will do something to you, even if you're normally a late arriver who avoids crowds. Bob Addison, co-host of the Uncle Bob's Bits segment, was there, and he's still processing what national pride actually feels like when it's coming at you like a tsunami. The stadium experience leads somewhere unexpected: a list of notes Bob is preparing for his fourteen-year-old son. Talk to people. Have face-to-face conversations. And whatever you do, don't wait ten years to ask someone out the way his dad did. The talk hasn't happened yet, but the notes are ready. Elsewhere: thirty degrees in Surrey, in-laws in from Alberta, and the air conditioner went in without a fight this year. Both of them. Topics: Canada soccer World Cup, national pride Vancouver, parenting teens, summer heat BC, Uncle Bob's Bits GUEST: Bob Addison | @‌riobobbo Originally aired on 2026-06-23

AI-generated content has gotten good enough that most people scrolling past it have no idea — and tech and DIY expert Andy Baryer argues the brands using it secretly are taking a risk that transparent ones aren't. Andy traces how influencer marketing gave way to AI content creation, why the NDAs brands are requiring are a red flag, and what the Sports Illustrated AI writer scandal tells us about where this ends when it gets exposed. The dead internet theory isn't a theory anymore for a growing slice of what people see in their feeds. Before that: a powdery mildew diagnosis from a listener photo, the difference between cosmetic damage and real plant harm, and why a vertical indoor herb wall is closer to buildable than most people think. Topics: AI influencers, brand AI disclosure, social media authenticity, powdery mildew, indoor living wall DIY GUEST: Andy Baryer | handyandymedia.com | @handyandymedia Originally aired on 2026-06-22

Three police officers down across three provinces on the same Monday. Lesley Kelly and Jimmy Zoubris open the week by acknowledging what that costs before the panel moves into the policy questions that follow. Bill C-14 gives police more tools to deal with car theft, gang violence, and repeat offenders — but Kelly's question is the right one: will the resources actually be there to use them? Then the panel splits on Chinese electric vehicles. Jimmy would go electric tomorrow. Lesley puts on forty thousand kilometers a year farming in Saskatchewan and needs to see a decade of improvement first. The government's answer — build where you sell — sounds reasonable until you remember that Canadian labour costs are exactly why affordable cars come from somewhere else. Canada also unveiled a nuclear strategy this week. The Simpsons may have had something to do with why it took this long. Topics: bail reform Canada, Chinese electric vehicles, nuclear energy Canada, electric car affordability, police shootings GUEST: Lesley Kelly | highheelsandcanolafields.com GUEST: Jimmy Zoubris   Originally aired on 2026-06-22

Robinhood just closed its Canadian entry through the acquisition of two major crypto exchanges — and personal finance educator Dr. Preet Banerjee has some thoughts on what follows a platform with dozens of millions in SEC fines and a business model that profits from your trading activity, not your returns. Dr. Preet Banerjee connects the dots between zero-commission trading, social media investing communities, meme stock mania, and the gamblification of markets — a term that captures something gamification alone doesn't. When sports betting went dark during lockdowns, people bet on stocks instead. That dynamic didn't disappear when the world reopened. Knowing the number — even a bad one — is still the most useful place to start. Topics: Robinhood Canada, investing vs gambling, gamification, meme stocks, personal finance GUEST: Dr. Preet Banerjee | http://YourMoneyDegree.com | @‌preetbanerjee Originally aired on 2026-06-22

What do you say to a father you can't sit beside this Father's Day? This segment is one answer: a letter read live on air, tracing one lesson, just be one step better, through a rebuilt house, years of growing up, and the staples still being pulled out of old stairs. It's also a pointer to the Wind Phone, a real-world tradition built around a phone booth where people go to speak to loved ones who are out of reach, including where to find one nearby for anyone whose Father's Day doesn't look like everyone else's. A short conversation about distance and fathers follows, along with a quick look at what's coming up later in the show. Topics: Father's Day tribute, long distance dad, Wind Phone, family storytelling, holiday segment Originally aired on 2026-06-19

A pub in Vancouver burns through two hundred extra kegs in one night because Australian fans showed up to celebrate a World Cup win, and somehow the bar staff still call them well behaved. That's the kind of story sitting in this Friday roundup, the ones that don't matter and still won't leave your head once you've heard them. From there it's Washington's reflection pool, repainted instead of properly fixed, with hydrogen peroxide poured in to fight the algae underneath the new coat of paint. Then a video out of China of a kid getting kicked by a robot wearing a clown wig, the kind of clip that gets passed around for the wrong reasons and somehow earns its own internet folklore by the end of the segment. Topics: weird news, World Cup fans, reflection pool, robot video, Friday roundup Originally aired on 2026-06-19

Show me your friends and a clinical psychologist can read the state of a relationship before either partner says a word. Dr. Laurie Betito breaks down why emotions and attitudes spread through a friend group the same way they do anywhere else, meaning constant exposure to friends who treat cheating or divorce as normal can quietly chip away at how someone views their own partnership over time. A genuinely good friend looks different from that. Dr. Laurie outlines what separates healthy venting from corrosive complaining, and why a real friend supports a relationship instead of treating it as competition for attention. The harder conversation comes when a friend crosses a line entirely, and Dr. Laurie offers a specific approach for raising it that doesn't come across as controlling who a partner is allowed to see. The line between a flawed friend and a genuinely harmful one is more specific than it sounds, and Dr. Laurie draws it clearly. **Why Good Friends Strengthen a Relationship** Dr. Laurie explains the contagion effect of negativity within friend groups and names the specific habits, like accountability and normalizing conflict, that define a truly supportive friend. **When a Friend Becomes a Problem** The conversation shifts to recognizing a friend who undermines a relationship, including the complicated case of a shared friend, and how to raise the issue without it sounding like an ultimatum. Topics: relationship advice, friend group influence, toxic friendships, healthy friendships, Dr. Laurie Betito GUEST: Dr. Laurie Betito | drlaurie.com Originally aired on 2026-06-19

Showing up every day feels like it should count for something, but master certified coach Rachel Levy explains why a manager hears that as nothing more than doing the job. The real lever in any raise conversation is impact, and most people have never learned how to talk about their own. Rachel breaks down why the story has to be told constantly, not saved for a once-a-year review nobody remembers the details of. The fix starts with something almost nobody does: keeping a running log of what actually got accomplished, project by project, win by win. Rachel walks through how to turn a routine check-in into a moment that quietly builds a case, and why staying quiet about a win does a disservice to an entire team, not just one person. There's also a clear answer to the question everyone avoids asking out loud, which is how to actually know what a fair number even looks like before walking into the room. A negotiation isn't a fight. Rachel reframes it as a dialogue anyone can walk into prepared. Topics: salary negotiation, raise negotiation, total compensation, career advocacy, Rachel Levy GUEST: Rachel Levy | kaleidoscope.consulting Originally aired on 2026-06-19

Music industry commentator Eric Alper on the two years that permanently rewired how the world hears music, and why the streaming subscription you pay today traces directly back to a college kid's side project in 1999. Before Napster, hearing a specific song meant buying an entire album or catching it on the radio. Within months of launch, millions of people were trading files from their bedrooms, and the expectation of instant, free, on-demand music was set in place so firmly it has never reversed. The story behind the labels' slow response, why Metallica and Dave Matthews couldn't have been further apart on what Napster meant, and what the iTunes dollar-twenty-nine era taught everyone about what music is actually worth. Topics: Napster, music piracy, streaming history, iTunes, digital music rights GUEST: Eric Alper | http://thatericalper.com Originally aired on 2026-06-18