Build It Here, Buy It Here: Canada's Electric Car Gamble

SHIFTHEADS: It Cost Shane How Much in Fees to Get His Own Money Out?

Bank fees, ATM limits, and a marketplace transaction that required three separate e-transfers to produce four hundred dollars in cash. The cashless future has a cost, and it's not always obvious until you need actual bills in your hand. Shane and Ryan dig into what cash access actually looks like for Canadians who don't live near a branch, can't drive to one, or just got hit with a hundred dollar fee because an eleven dollar automated payment came out of an account with five dollars in it. Ryan pulls 2024 numbers that complicate the narrative: 79% of Canadians have no plans to go fully cashless, and a Manitoba restaurant just went cash only by choice. The little old lady walking past Shane's house with her grocery bag every day doesn't have a square reader. She has cash. The system isn't built for her anymore. Topics: bank fees, cash vs digital banking, cashless Canada, rural banking access, cash only businesses Originally aired on 2026-06-22

Build It Here, Buy It Here: Canada's Electric Car Gamble

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

Shiftheads - Clive Davis Shaped Every Era of Music for 66 Years

Music industry commentator Eric Alper on the death of Clive Davis at 94 — the man whose roster reads like the history of recorded music and whose ear for a hit never stopped working, no matter the decade. Davis didn't just sign artists. He picked the songs, the co-writers, the photographers, the look. He spotted Whitney Houston in a New York club before anyone knew her name and spent years shaping her before the public heard a note. He gave Bruce Springsteen a third album when almost no one else would. He signed Janis Joplin and Santana at Monterey. He came back from a 1973 scandal that most people assumed would finish him and built Arista Records into something bigger than what came before. Eric Alper makes the case that there is no list of greatest music executives — there is just Clive Davis, and then everyone else. Topics: Clive Davis, music industry history, Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, Arista Records GUEST: Eric Alper | thatericalper.com Originally aired on 2026-06-22

ICYMI - Robinhood Is in Canada Now. Here's What That Means

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 [http://yourmoneydegree.com] | @‌preetbanerjee Originally aired on 2026-06-22

Will Your Chinese EV Be Allowed to Cross the Border?

Automotive columnist Lorraine Sommerfeld breaks down what your car already knows about you and why the politicians now panicking about Chinese vehicles are decades late to a problem that's been sitting in every driveway for years. The harder question isn't whether Chinese-made cars belong at the US border. It's whether anyone is holding any carmaker accountable for what your vehicle records, sells, and keeps. Buicks, Volvos, Teslas — a significant portion are already built in China. The ban sounds clean. The reality isn't. If you've ever plugged your phone into a rental car, hard-braked near a school, or had a conversation about lunch in your own vehicle, this conversation is for you. Topics: car data privacy, Chinese vehicles, vehicle surveillance, insurance tracking, US border crossing GUEST: Lorraine Sommerfeld | http://driving.ca [http://driving.ca] Originally aired on 2026-06-22