ICYMI - Fake Canadians in Real Ads. Real Numbers in the Polls.

ICYMI - Fake Canadians in Real Ads. Real Numbers in the Polls.

Two political stories landed this week that are worth sitting with, and neither one of them is as simple as it first looks.   The Poll That Feels Like Good News Until You Do the Math Fifty-five percent approval sounds strong until you remember it was sixty-three percent two months ago. That sixteen-point swing between Carney's rise and the Conservative recovery is the kind of number that changes how a room full of strategists sleeps at night. The panel breaks down what is driving it, what the NDP's quiet climb back to twelve percent means for where those votes are coming from, and whether the ballot box question that carried the last election still holds.   The Ad Full of People Who Were Never There A Toronto Star piece on the Conservative Party's use of AI-generated faces in a recent campaign ad raises a question the panel takes seriously: when trust in politicians is already this low, what does it cost to get caught populating your ads with Canadians who do not exist? Jimmy Zoubris and Andrew Caddel draw the line between using AI to produce content and using it to fabricate the people you claim to represent, and land in the same place: it is fraud, it is detectable, and it is exactly the wrong move.   Topics: Canadian politics AI ads, Mark Carney approval rating, Conservative AI advertising, trust politicians Canada, FIFA World Cup   Originally aired on 2026-06-15

ICYMI - What Your Kids Already Know About Your Money

Teaching kids about money starts earlier than most parents think, and Jessica Moorhouse, personal finance author and educator, makes the case that silence is already a lesson. Kids are watching what parents do with money whether the conversation happens or not, and the habits they absorb early tend to follow them into adulthood. The question isn't whether to talk about it. It's whether to be intentional about what they're picking up.   Moorhouse walks through how to handle the salary question when kids ask, why connecting a dream house or a luxury car to actual monthly payments lands differently than a lecture, and how needs versus wants becomes the foundation everything else builds on. She also flags sports betting as a growing and deliberately marketed threat to young people that parents aren't having nearly enough conversations about.   The honest starting point for any parent who didn't get these conversations growing up and is figuring out how to do it differently.   Topics: teaching kids about money, children and financial literacy, money habits, needs vs wants, sports betting youth   GUEST: Jessica Moorhouse | jessicamoorhouse.com   Originally aired on 2026-06-15

NEW - Tim Hortons Ownership and Temporary Foreign Workers: The Actual Numbers

The Tim Hortons Canada ownership debate has been running hot since the Duncan tariff announcement, and Duncan Fulton, Chief Corporate Officer at Tim Hortons, sits down to put real numbers behind the noise. Fifteen hundred Canadian franchise owners operate the restaurants, $1.6 billion flows annually to Canadian suppliers, and the headquarters and leadership team are in Toronto. The ownership picture is more Canadian than the loudest version of the conversation suggests. Fulton also takes the temporary foreign worker question head-on: 4,000 approved positions out of 110,000 total employees, a lobbying history tied to post-COVID labour shortages, and a current position that has the company stepping back from government advocacy on the file entirely. What Fulton doesn't dodge is the criticism that lands harder than ownership charts ever could: the bathrooms. The overflowing bins. The parking lots. He accepts the feedback without deflection, and the conversation is better for it. Topics: Tim Hortons Canada ownership, Canadian franchise model, temporary foreign workers, Restaurant Brands International, Tim Hortons customer experience GUEST: Duncan Fulton | timhortons.ca Originally aired on 2026-06-15

NEW - Four Pieces of IKEA. Still Engaged. It's Good News.

Good News Tuesday opens with a genuine relationship milestone: assembling four pieces of IKEA furniture in a single afternoon and coming out the other side still engaged. The research backs up why that counts. Psychologists have found that picture-only instructions force constant compromise, trigger questions of trust and competence, and surface exactly how differently two people approach a problem under pressure. One therapist called a particular shelf the divorce maker. Seventeen percent of adults report arguing during furniture assembly.   The conversation pulls in Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney doing the same thing for GQ, a grandfather's engraved Chrysler screwdriver that survived thirty years on the line and apparently outlasted the company's gift-giving culture, and the observation that once IKEA furniture is built, you never take it apart again. Ever.   Good news is where you find it. Sometimes it's a TV stand and a time-lapse video of everything going wrong.   Topics: IKEA furniture assembly, relationship psychology, Good News Tuesday, couples and stress, good news Canada Originally aired on 2026-06-09

Good News Is There. Artemis 3 and More Good News Tuesday.

Good News Tuesday is built on a simple idea: when you can't find the good, sometimes hearing it from someone else is enough to turn you around. This one brings the next NASA moon crew, a child in Nanaimo doing something remarkable at three in the morning, a stolen car with a very large dog in the back, and a string of transformative philanthropic gifts to Canadian healthcare and universities.   When people say the country is struggling and generosity is gone, the Weston family's forty-one million dollar gift to Sunnybrook and Simon Fraser University's record forty million dollar donation from the Stevens family suggest otherwise. The good is there. It usually is.   A listener named Kevin from Winnipeg figured that out once. This is the segment that convinced him.   Topics: Good News Tuesday, Artemis III, Canadian philanthropy, community stories, good news Canada Originally aired on 2026-06-09