SHIFTHEADS: Running Canada for Mental Health, One Step at a Time

SHIFTHEADS: Running Canada for Mental Health, One Step at a Time

Myles Dininio is running nearly eight thousand kilometers across Canada to raise funds for CAMH, and when this conversation happened he was somewhere near Agawa Bay in northern Ontario, just past the halfway mark. He stopped running long enough to talk. Then he started again. The idea has lived in Myles's head for twenty-two years, since he rode his mountain bike across the country at eighteen and decided the next big thing would be a run. What got him out the door in 2026 was simpler: the kids are old enough, his wife is working, and the clock was ticking. What he didn't expect was how much the road would give back. Strangers sharing their stories. His own grief rising to the surface with nowhere to hide. A playlist his kids made him that he describes as garbage, except for the part where every song belongs to someone he loves. He started in St. John's at the same mile zero where Terry Fox began. He has a mason jar of Atlantic Ocean. He needs one more of the Pacific. Topics: running across Canada, CAMH mental health fundraising, cross-country endurance run, grief and resilience, Canadian mental health awareness GUEST: Myles Dininio | @‌mylesacrosscanada Originally aired on 2026-06-23

NEW - Kyler Horner: Windsor's All In. So is Canada!

Less than twenty-four hours before Canada faced Switzerland, Kyle Horner called in from Windsor, Ontario, right on the American border, to talk about what this World Cup run is doing to a country that isn't used to winning at football. Kyle Horner, radio host at AM800 CKLW, makes the case that what's happening right now is bigger than the game. Windsor is uniquely placed to feel it. School across the border, lunch across the border, friends across the border. And yet when Canada scored in that first game and the flags came out at the waterfront watch party, it landed differently than anything political. The biggest Canadian flag in the country sits on Windsor's waterfront facing the US. They didn't put it up for the World Cup. It's just always been there. The Scots drank Boston dry. Egyptians partied in the streets of Vancouver after Mo Salah's win. English fans took over Texas rodeos. Kyle thinks Canada vs USA, if it comes to that, can wait. Topics: Canada World Cup soccer, Canadian national pride, Windsor Ontario border city, FIFA World Cup 2026, multicultural Canada GUEST: Kyle Horner | http://am800cklw.com [http://am800cklw.com] Originally aired on 2026-06-23

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

Calgary mayor Jeremy Farkas put out a video during Stampede and dropped some language that got attention. The swearing was the hook. The issue underneath it is real and a lot more specific than noise complaints. Ryan O'Donnell lives three minutes from the Cowboys tent and has something to say about what ten straight days of that actually looks like from the inside. Downtown Calgary during Stampede isn't just loud. Last year, windows broke. Things fell off shelves. And every morning after, the sidewalks outside people's homes looked like the aftermath of something nobody living there chose to attend. Ryan's point isn't that Stampede shouldn't exist. It's that downtown is a neighbourhood. There are families, strollers, schools around the corner, and people who should be able to stay in their own homes for ten days without leaving. The question of whether politicians swearing makes them more real or less professional turns out to be more interesting than it sounds. Topics: Calgary Stampede noise, downtown Calgary neighbourhood, mayor Jeremy Farkas, outdoor concerts city living, festival disruption Originally aired on 2026-06-23

ICYMI - Arlene Dickinson on Why Canada Needs to Say "We Can"

Entrepreneur and investor Arlene Dickinson makes the case that what Canadians need most right now isn't a new plan — it's the belief that they already have what it takes to execute one. Dickinson traces how curiosity became her operating system, why she chose to go more public — not less — as the noise around her got louder, and what it cost her to admit she's dealt with depression and anxiety. She also gets into the political moment: not partisan, but pointed. When institutions get dismantled instead of repaired, and when a generation grows up thinking division is normal, she argues someone has to say so out loud. Arlene is Alone started as a show about being single. It became something harder to define and more worth watching. Topics: Canadian identity, entrepreneurship, Arlene is Alone, vulnerability, political division GUEST: Arlene Dickinson | http://arlenedickinson.com [http://arlenedickinson.com] Originally aired on 2026-06-23

NEW - Tech: New Earbuds, a Robot Film, and Toy Story in Hospital Beds

Kris Abel, tech and entertainment commentator at krisabel.com, covers three things this week that actually earned the attention. The Sennheiser Accentum Clip launches July 23rd in Canada, before the US gets it, at $270. It clips around the ear instead of hoping your ear canal cooperates, combines broadcast-grade Sennheiser audio quality with situational awareness, and has a design borrowed from ear piercing culture that looks genuinely different from anything else on the market. Disney launched Toy Story 5 in theatres and in four hundred children's hospitals on the same day. Patients got access to the film from their beds, received themed tech toys tied to the film's storyline, and got personal video messages from the cast recorded at the Hollywood premiere. The piracy concern that blocked this kind of access for years finally gave way. Taika Waititi's Clara and the Sun hits theatres October 23rd. Jenna Ortega plays a humanoid robot companion. The question of whether you'd want your robot to look like a robot or a person comes up. The answer is more interesting than expected. Topics: Sennheiser Accentum Clip Canada, Toy Story 5 hospital screening, Clara and the Sun, humanoid robots, tech Canada GUEST: Kris Abel | krisabel.com | @realkrisabel Originally aired on 2026-06-23