Canadian affordability is the test beneath two noisy political conversations. Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead help you weigh what Ottawa is doing against what you can feel in your own budget, even as headlines from Washington demand attention. Where should that attention go?

When does a long game help today?

Jamie Ellerton sees promise in wider trade and changes to project approvals. Gas prices, housing and the next budget make the timing harder to ignore. What would turn a national growth plan into relief people can feel?

What deserves the microphone?

Lindsay Broadhead questions how much attention Donald Trump receives and what a fight over renaming a public place accomplishes. Could telling more of a place’s history do something a new sign cannot? The choice matters when other priorities are pressing.

Topics: Canadian affordability, political attention, trade diversification, project approvals, public place names

GUEST: Jamie Ellerton | conaptus.com; Lindsay Broadhead | broadheadcomms.ca

Originally aired on 2026-09-23

Parenthood can feel like a demand on time you barely have. Ryan is planning a wedding, and the baby question has already arrived. If your evenings are the one part of the day that still feels yours, how do you begin to imagine giving them up?

A free, one-night rec-centre program in New York offers parents a break while children take part in activities. It sounds like an answer to exhaustion. But is the larger problem a shortage of childcare, or the fear that family life will leave no room for anything else?

The word “losing” changes the stakes. Shane pushes back with another word for what happens to your time when you raise a child, and Ryan considers it. What changes when you question the assumption that those hours simply disappear?

Topics: parenthood, free time, childcare, family decisions, raising children

Originally aired on 2026-09-23

Childhood stories aren’t always grand. Sometimes they’re a fort, a scary movie or the night a parent discovered the video game was still running at dawn. This conversation invites you to remember what happened when your friends were in the same room.

The game was supposed to end with a virtual Stanley Cup. Instead, the night stretched past the final round, and even being told to go to bed didn’t stop the talking. What were two friends willing to stay up for after the screen went off?

Ghost stories, paper fortune tellers and games made each sleepover a little different. You can still play together online. When you think back years later, will you remember the win or the person who was beside you when morning came?

Topics: sleepovers, video games, ghost stories, childhood memories, friendship

Originally aired on 2026-09-23