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NEW - Zellers Is Back and Canada Might Be in a Recession. Coincidence?

Canada economy recession talk is landing at the same moment a beloved discount chain is rising from the ashes of Hudson's Bay. The hosts are not sure that is a coincidence. Zellers, Loyalty Points, and the Nostalgia Economy A Quebec retail group has acquired the Zellers name, logo, and Zeddy the bear, and plans to go national. The hosts dig into what the revival actually signals about where Canadian consumers are right now, and whether optimum points, Canadian tire money, and aeroplan rewards are doing more for the economy than anyone wants to admit. Trump, Forced Labor, and the Technical Recession Nobody Wants to Name Sixty countries are now accused of forced labor violations under a tariff authority American courts have already struck down once. The hosts trace the Uyghur supply chain connection, weigh whether Canada's recession is technical in name only, and land on one uncomfortable agreement: Trump may have done Canadian defence spending a favour nobody asked for. Topics: Canada economy recession, Trump tariffs forced labor, Zellers relaunch, technical recession Canada, loyalty points GUEST: Jamie Ellerton | conaptus.com GUEST: Lindsay Broadhead | broadheadcomms.ca Originally aired on 2026-06-03

SHIFTHEADS: Three Stores, No Diner, and a Lot of Competition. Can Zellers Pull It Off?

Zellers relaunch Canada has two new Ontario locations and a plan to go national slowly. Bruce Winder has questions about whether slowly is fast enough. Bruce traces the structural challenges facing the new Zellers: limited buying power at three locations, a retail landscape where every major competitor has already absorbed the categories Zellers is re-entering, and mall landlords so eager to fill Bay and Nordstrom vacancies that the rent deals available now may not last. The window is real. So is the pressure to use it. The conversation lands on private label as the lever that could make the economics work. Without it, Zellers is selling branded product at margins that make it hard to survive. With it, the brand has a price point and an identity that none of its competitors can copy. Topics: Zellers relaunch Canada, retail nostalgia, mall real estate vacancy, discount retail strategy, private label GUEST: Bruce Winder | brucewinder.com Originally aired on 2026-06-03

NEW - Why Gas Prices Make No Sense Right Now (And When They Will)

Oil inventories are at historic lows. Demand is strong. The price keeps dropping. Dan McTeague says the futures market is being driven by headlines, not reality, and the pain at the pump is far from over. Dan breaks down why a litre of diesel costs forty cents more in Ontario than Alberta, why the weak loonie adds roughly forty cents a litre regardless of where crude is trading, and why provincial tax relief is largely being cancelled out by HST windfalls governments are quietly collecting on higher prices. The deeper problem is supply. Dan puts the net loss at fifteen to sixteen million barrels a day, with emergency reserves already eighty percent drawn down. Even if the Strait of Hormuz opened tomorrow, he says, prices would not return to pre-crisis levels for several months at minimum. Topics: gas prices Canada, oil supply crisis, Canadian dollar fuel costs, fuel tax relief, Strait of Hormuz GUEST: Dan McTeague | http://affordableenergy.ca [http://affordableenergy.ca] Originally aired on 2026-06-03

Shiftheads - Skinwalker Ranch Has Cameras Everywhere and Still Nothing Conclusive

Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most surveilled properties on earth. Dr. Lee Kuhnle wants to know why the footage never quite delivers. Lee walks through decades of ownership, research, and television production, including the defence-funded program that quietly paid for cryptid hunting while telling Congress it was doing something else. He also names the independent analysts who went to the ranch, saw genuinely strange things, and came home with explanations involving Starlink satellites and camera apertures. None of that makes the ranch boring. Orbs through hillsides, GPS mapping drones underground, fence posts burned overnight. Lee's framework for thinking through what counts as real evidence makes the unexplained parts sharper, not smaller. Topics: Skinwalker Ranch, paranormal evidence, UFO investigation, government defence contracts, disconfirmation GUEST: Dr. Lee Kuhnle | http://amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873 [http://amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873] Originally aired on 2026-06-03

ICYMI - Black Holes: Like Eighty-Eight Billion Suns in One Place. We’re Gonna Need Sunscreen

Black hole TON 618 looks beautiful in the viral image. Greg Fish wants to talk about what it would actually do to the clouds, the oceans, and everything in between. Greg breaks down why a black hole produces more light than the sun, how an accretion disc accelerates matter to near light speed before obliterating it, and why the idyllic image circulating online has no relationship to the physics involved. The Photoshop is the point, he argues. Attention drives the share. Reality drives the unsubscribe. The useful part of the conversation is what space radiation events that fall short of extinction actually look like. Satellite disruption, ozone damage, infrastructure failure. Greg draws a direct line from understanding TON 618 to knowing how to build systems that survive the space weather events that are already happening. Topics: black hole TON 618, viral space images debunked, supernova radiation Earth, space weather infrastructure, accretion disc explained GUEST: Greg Fish | cyberpunksurvivalguide.com Originally aired on 2026-06-03