Shiftheads - Is Swearing by Politicians OK… Even if They Have a Point?

NEW - A Kid's Haircut Just Became Someone's Good News

Good News Tuesday runs on stories sent in by listeners through a dedicated text line, and this week starts with Kyle Lowry set to sign a one-day contract so he can officially retire as a Toronto Raptor, with his number 7 headed for the rafters.   From there, a young soccer fan in Saskatchewan set out to copy his favourite player's haircut and ended up donating his hair to a child with cancer instead. The segment also swings through Halifax, where a mural festival is turning blank walls into colour, and a smaller-scale version of the same idea happening right in Merrickville's monthly Art Walk.   Somewhere between a jersey retirement and a kid with clippers, this one makes a case for how small choices turn into someone else's best day.   Topics: Good News Tuesday, Kyle Lowry retirement, hair donation, mural festival, community stories   Originally aired on 2026-07-07

SHIFTHEADS: Four Subs Now, Eight More Whenever Europe Can Build Them

Canada's submarine procurement finally has a plan, and Matt Gurney explains why getting there will still take most of a decade. He connects the announcement to a defense minister's own words about shared crews and interoperability, and what that reveals about the deal underneath the headline. The conversation tracks Canada's credibility problem after years of underfunding defense, and why the government cannot prove this rearmament worked until long after the current leadership is gone. It contrasts the German-Norwegian option against South Korea's faster production line and names what each choice trades away. It closes on the practical risk still unresolved: a shipbuilding bottleneck shared with Europe, the question of building submarines near Russia instead of far from it, and what Canada would need to build the rest of this fleet at home. Topics: Canadian submarines, defense spending, submarine procurement, military strategy, Read the Line GUEST: Matt Gurney | http://readtheline.ca [http://readtheline.ca] | @‌mattgurney Originally aired on 2026-07-07

NEW - What’s on Your Mind Jim Richards: Sobriety

Sobriety gets treated like a confession, and Jim Richards is tired of feeling like he owes anyone an explanation for ordering a non-alcoholic beer. Coming up on three years without a drink, he lays out what actually changed and why the hardest part was never the willpower people assume it takes. He traces the moment it started: a weekend decided by cost-benefit math, one too many Fridays writing off Saturdays he wanted back. He gets into what non-alcoholic beer has become, why anxiety operated like a megaphone once alcohol left the picture, and why old emotional patterns can resurface through a single drink at the end of a hard day. The conversation lands on the difference between sobriety as a definition and sobriety as an experience, why clarity, not restriction, is the part nobody warns you about, and why he still goes out just as much as he ever did. Topics: sobriety, non-alcoholic beer, quitting drinking, clarity, anxiety GUEST: Jim Richards | http://newstalk1010.com [http://newstalk1010.com] Originally aired on 2026-07-07

Thrifting 101: He Paid Four Dollars For A Quarter Million Dollar Jacket

A Portland teenager pulled Wilt Chamberlain's 1972 NBA Finals warm-up jacket out of a Goodwill bin for four dollars, and it is now headed to Sotheby's with an estimate as high as $250,000. Someone else had already picked it up and put it back before he grabbed it.   That story kicks off a real conversation about why finds like this have gotten so rare. Resale flippers now comb through donation bins looking for anything wearable, and AI shopping tools are starting to personalize secondhand searches before a regular shopper even gets a chance to browse. What used to be a straightforward ten-dollar-and-done errand has turned into something closer to competition.   There is still a way to win at it, though, and it comes down to knowing exactly which neighbourhoods, which shop types, and which days actually turn up the good stuff.   Topics: thrifting tips, Wilt Chamberlain jacket, resale market, thrift store finds, secondhand shopping   Originally aired on 2026-07-07

NEW - An Asteroid Just Rewrote What DNA Ingredients Look Like

A six-year-old sample from asteroid Ryugu just confirmed all five major DNA building blocks, and Dr. Samantha Yammine breaks down why that finding matters more than the headlines suggest. It separates what the data actually shows from the more dramatic claim that life itself started elsewhere. The conversation traces the Hayabusa2 mission's pristine sample collection, built specifically to rule out the Earth contamination that clouded earlier meteorite research. It explains a new detail from this study: the ratio of nucleobases shifts with ammonia levels, offering a clue to what other life forms might carry. It ends with the sheer improbability of any of this coming together at all, and a free, limited-time chance to send a name into deep space aboard the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope before the window closes. Topics: asteroid Ryugu, Hayabusa2, nucleobases, DNA ingredients, Nancy Grace Roman Telescope GUEST: Dr. Samantha Yammine | http://samanthayammine.com [http://samanthayammine.com] | @‌science.sam Originally aired on 2026-07-07