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SHIFTHEADS: West End Ottawa Born and Raised. What’s On Your Mind Stefan Keyes?

Ottawa nostalgia and urban development collide when the place that held your childhood firsts starts coming down by machine. Stefan Keyes grew up in Ottawa's West End, close enough to walk to Westgate Shopping Centre. He watched his first movie there. He got his first passport photo there. He has not been inside in years and he is going to miss it anyway.   There is a difference between a place you visit and a place that holds something for you. Stefan Keyes names it precisely: the physical manifestation of memory. When it goes, the instant recall goes with it.   The new Ottawa is bigger, shinier, and genuinely exciting. It is also missing something that the reclining seats and the VIP section cannot replace.   Topics: Westgate Shopping Centre Ottawa, nostalgia urban development, childhood memories Ottawa West End, human connection, Stefan Keyes CTV CFRA   GUEST: Stefan Keyes | cfra.com Originally aired on 2026-06-02

Good News Tuesday: She Fixed Bikes for 14 Years and Gave Every One Away

Good news Tuesday Canada brings Krista Richard out of Moncton, New Brunswick, where her Bikes and Trikes for Everyone program has put wheels under thousands of kids over 14 years. She collects them, fixes them, and sends them out the door. That is the whole program.   The phones and texts fill in the rest. Arthur was fancy. Teletubbies was a hard no. Someone watched Mr. Dressup through their teens when they were homesick and it still worked. A daughter got her physics project running tonight. The good news is small and enormous all at once.   In New York City, a Turkish restaurant owner has been letting homeless people sleep inside for eight years. Pope Leo plays tennis. The good news is not hard to find once you start looking.   Topics: good news Tuesday Canada, Krista Richard Bikes and Trikes Moncton, childhood TV nostalgia, Pope Leo Augustinian, listener texts radio Originally aired on 2026-06-02

NEW - New Fiction Book: The Peacekeeper Who Couldn't Keep His Own Peace

A Canadian peacekeeper deploys to Croatia in 1993 to separate armies that want nothing to do with peace. He comes home carrying wounds nobody can see. Decades later, a daughter he never knew existed makes her way across the country to find him. The Peace Thieves is Brent Van Staalduinen's sixth novel, built around a question the title refuses to let go of: who is stealing the peace, and can it ever truly be kept? An anti-war novel that openly celebrates the people sent into harm's way, and asks what a country owes them when they return. Topics: Canadian peacekeeping novel, military fiction Canada, PTSD veterans fiction, Croatia 1993, father-daughter estrangement GUEST: Brent Van Staalduinen | http://brentvans.com [http://brentvans.com] Originally aired on 2026-06-02

Someone 3D Printed a Horse and It Might Be the Best Tech Story of the Year

Three robots walked into the show tonight - all of them fun.   One is in a university cafeteria doing something 2.5 million times that humans have never quite managed to do consistently. One is in a litter box, quietly learning things. And one was built in someone's garage from plans posted online, for a reason that sounds absurd until Kris Abel explains exactly who it was built for.   That last one is the one you'll still be thinking about.   Topics: robot burger grill, Litter Robot 5 Canada, weird tech Canada, Gastronomist Tech Burlington, horse simulation controller   GUEST: Kris Abel | krisabel.com Originally aired on 2026-06-02

ICYMI - Canada's Been in a Recession for a Decade. Immigration Hid It.

Canada is technically in a recession and the prime minister won't say the word. Matt Gurney thinks the more important conversation is the one hiding underneath it. For years, the answer to flat economic productivity was simple: put more people in the country. More people at Tim Hortons, more people at Canadian Tire, more dollars tallied in GDP. It worked as a number. It did not work as an economy. Canadian productivity per working hour has been declining relative to the United States for decades, and the gap keeps widening. Now the population is actually dipping, the tariff pressure is real, and the mask is off. Gurney's read on Mark Carney: he knows what the big picture problems are and he's trying to put the country on a different economic track without touching the social policies that keep his party together. Whether you can draw a clean line between economic and social issues is another question. And it's been more than a year. The steering wheel might be broken, or the ship just takes this long to turn. Either way, Canadians aren't asking for a Hail Mary. They want a yard. Topics: Canada recession 2025, Canadian productivity decline, GDP population growth, Mark Carney economic policy, immigration and GDP Canada GUEST: Matt Gurney | http://readtheline.ca [http://readtheline.ca] Originally aired on 2026-06-02