Canada's Cheapest Mortgage City Might Surprise You

Canada's Cheapest Mortgage City Might Surprise You

Most affordable mortgage city in Canada is not a Toronto or Vancouver question, and it is not even close to one. A fresh Royal LePage ranking puts the country's most affordable spots somewhere entirely different, working through mortgage aggregate prices city by city until landing on a windy Alberta answer nobody saw coming. The numbers get stranger from there. St. John's, New Brunswick posts an average house price under two hundred seventy thousand dollars, a figure that would barely cover a downtown studio in some major markets. Calgary gets weighed too, livable but not the cheapest, with its own affordability quirks around utilities and transit worth knowing before anyone packs a bag. The real question by the end is a personal one: if cost of living was the deciding factor, where in Canada would actually make sense to go. Topics: affordable cities Canada, mortgage affordability, Lethbridge, Royal LePage, cost of living Originally aired on 2026-07-08

NEW - Smart Speakers - Should the Opposition Leader Keep His House?

The agency that insures Canadian mortgages just paid out thirty two million dollars in staff bonuses. The people footing that bill are the same ones struggling to qualify for a mortgage in the first place. Jamie Ellerton, founding partner at Conaptus, and former Toronto City Councillor and TTC Chair Karen Stintz do not let that pass quietly. The same scrutiny lands on Stornoway. Elizabeth May has petitioned to sell the official opposition's government house to save money, and the response from both guests is not what you'd expect: not that she's wrong to ask, but that the reasoning misses what actually costs this country money. There is a harder question sitting underneath both stories, about who gets protected when a system is already broken and who pays for the protection. Two people who watch Canadian politics and money closely enough to be genuinely annoyed by it, saying so plainly. Topics: CMHC bonuses, Stornoway, 24 Sussex, housing affordability, Canadian politics GUEST: Jamie Ellerton | http://conaptus.com [http://conaptus.com]GUEST: Karen Stintz Originally aired on 2026-07-08

SHIFTHEADS: Summer Jobs Aren't a Waste of Your Time. They're Free Education

Career myths convince people they get one shot at everything: wrong major, wrong first job, and that's the whole story decided. Candy Ho, a CERIC board member, makes the case that a summer job is closer to free training than a paycheque, and stacking the right experience early can change what happens next. Retail floors and customer service counters turn out to teach the stuff no course does: staying calm under pressure, solving problems on the spot, reading people fast. CERIC's free Career Mythbuster tool, live since last November, offers a way to test whether one wrong move really does end a career path before it starts. There's a case for volunteering too, not as time given away but as another form of unpaid education, plus a couple of career fantasies that never quite happened for either person in the room. Topics: career myths, summer jobs, CERIC, transferable skills, career mythbuster tool GUEST: Candy Ho | http://careermythbuster.ca/ [http://careermythbuster.ca/] Originally aired on 2026-07-08

NEW - The Sound of the Sounds of the World Cup

World Cup fan celebrations are the actual show this tournament, the games are just the excuse. If the sport itself has never made sense, this is the entry point that finally clicks: not the offside rule, but the noise a hundred years of rivalry makes when it finally boils over. There's a lost voice, a three in the morning wake-up call delivered as a favour, and a national anthem sung so hard it takes over a baseball game that has nothing to do with soccer. None of it needed context to be funny the first time, and none of it needs it now. Anyone who has ever wondered what makes a country lose its mind over a ball for a month gets the answer here, in sound, not stats. Topics: World Cup 2026, Harry Kane, Scotland fans, fan celebrations, football culture Originally aired on 2026-07-08

Shiftheads - The Bermuda Triangle Is Safer Than This Canadian Lake

The Great Lakes Triangle has claimed roughly six thousand ships and hundreds of planes, and Nathan Radke explains why the losses feel supernatural even when they are not. His book Uncover Up spent a decade tracing how ordinary people get talked into extraordinary beliefs. This episode follows his own trip into the vortex, out to isolated Main Duck Island, home to an old lighthouse and oversized, cannibalistic snakes. It also revisits the 1889 disappearance of the schooner Bavaria's crew, found missing from an undamaged ship with fresh bread still in the oven and a canary singing alone. It traces the region's vanishing planes and ghost ships back to atmospheric optics, an ancient meteor's magnetic pull, and weather violent enough to sink freighters and bury cars in snow, building a case for natural forces over portals, monsters, or ghosts. Topics: Great Lakes Triangle, Main Duck Island, Bermuda Triangle, ghost ships, shipwrecks GUEST: Nathan Radke | https://www.amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873 [https://www.amazon.ca/Uncover-Up-Think-Clearly-Conspiracies/dp/1770418873] | @‌theuncoverup Originally aired on 2026-07-08