SHIFTHEADS: Good News at the Pump. Bad News Behind It.

Stop the Mosquitoes. Put Down the Phone.

Summer gets easier when you know two things: how to take back your backyard and how to stop your phone from running your night. Andy Baryer, home and technology expert at Handy Andy Media, brings both in the same conversation, and neither fix costs much.   The Five-Dollar Mosquito Trap Nobody Told You About A five-gallon bucket, grass clippings, water, and a couple of days is all it takes to build what Andy calls the bucket of doom. Female mosquitoes are drawn to the fermented water to lay their eggs, which is exactly the point. One small tablet called a mosquito dunk, available online, carries a naturally occurring bacteria that wipes out the larvae without touching anything else. Thirty days of coverage, almost no cost, and you stay outside for the whole game. Andy also shares a frozen water bottle trick that turns a basic fan into something close enough to air conditioning to actually sleep.   NEW TECH - Free AI and a Phone That Knows When to Back Off Amazon Prime members can now upgrade to Alexa Plus at no extra cost, with full English and French support finally live across Canada. It handles real-time news, scheduling, and extended conversation without needing the wake word each time. The TCL K70 Next Paper solves a different problem: one button switches the screen to e-ink mode, pulling the colour and the compulsion out of the phone without locking anything down.   Topics: summer mosquito trap, Alexa Plus Canada, TCL K70 Next Paper phone, sleeping cool summer, digital detox   GUEST: Andy Baryer | handyandymedia.com   Originally aired on 2026-06-15

NEW: The Sport Where Nobody Gets Booed

PBR bull riding is unlike anything else you will sit in an arena and watch, and the reason has nothing to do with the spectacle. Shane Hewitt spent the weekend at the Professional Bull Riders event and came back with an observation that is harder to shake than the backflips and fireworks. In every other sport, there is someone to boo. A rival team, a bad call, an opponent to root against. Bull riding has none of that. One rider, eight seconds, and every single person in the building cheering for the same outcome.   The culture behind it runs deeper than the event itself. The camaraderie between competitors, the way the crowd shows up, and the three men whose only job is to put themselves between a cowboy and a bull the moment the ride ends. It is a world that rewards showing up and paying attention.   Later in the show, Ryan O'Donnell brings moving tips from a recent apartment move, including one time-related lesson that had nothing to do with money and everything to do with a broken elevator on day one.   Topics: PBR bull riding, rodeo culture, Professional Bull Riders, moving apartment tips, Calgary Stampede   RUNDOWN: PBR and Rodeo Culture | Shane reflects on a weekend at the Professional Bull Riders event, making the case that bull riding is the only sport where the entire arena cheers for the same outcome, and unpacks the culture and community behind the rodeo world that makes it unlike any other live event.   Originally aired on 2026-06-15

SHIFTHEADS: Good News at the Pump. Bad News Behind It.

Gas prices Canada-wide are dropping this week, and Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, is here with the regional breakdown and the reason not to get too comfortable. The ceasefire sent markets into relief mode, but sentiment and supply are two different things, and the global oil shortage that built up over the past several months is not going to be resolved by a signed memorandum in Switzerland.   McTeague maps the gap between what futures markets are pricing in and what a barrel of oil actually costs on the spot market right now, which is running significantly higher. The lag between those two numbers closes in one direction, and it is not toward consumers. With summer demand, hurricane season, and the federal excise tax restoration all coming in the second half of the year, the window for relief at the pump is narrow and the floor is higher than most people are expecting.   The regional breakdown is here too: prairies dropping twelve cents on gasoline, Vancouver down eight to nine cents, Atlantic Canada and Ontario moving on Wednesday, and Calgary bottoming out around $1.42 a litre.   Topics: gas prices Canada, oil supply shortage, ceasefire oil markets, affordable energy Canada, gas prices drop this week   GUEST: Dan McTeague | affordableenergy.ca   Originally aired on 2026-06-15

4 Moving Mistakes You Can Actually Avoid

Every move has a moment where something goes wrong that nobody planned for. The difference between a move you survive and one you are still recovering from three weeks later usually comes down to four things, and none of them are the ones that show up on a moving checklist.   If a move is coming, these are worth fifteen minutes of your time before it does.   Topics: apartment moving advice, moving mistakes Canada, DIY move versus movers, landlord accountability, moving day tips   Originally aired on 2026-06-15

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