NEW - The Year the Internet Started

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Mar 13, 2026 · 9m

Canada 1989 is the year you are still paying for, in both directions. Gas was fifty cents a litre. Groceries for a week cost your family eighty dollars. A house in Toronto was $273,000. The numbers are not a punchline. They are a before-and-after, and you are living in the after.

In Dryden, Ontario that same year, twenty-four people died when Air Ontario Flight 1363 went down. What came out of that investigation changed de-icing procedures for every winter flight that has taken off since. The tragedy had a consequence, and the consequence is still active every time a plane gets cleared for…