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Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shane Hewitt & The Nightshift is your late-night companion for real talk, bold ideas, and unfiltered conversations that matter. Hosted by Canadian radio veteran Shane Hewitt, each episode dives into the headlines, human stories, and hidden truths shaping our world—always with curiosity, compassion, and a sharp edge.
From politics and pop culture to mental health, technology, and everyday life, this podcast is where night owls, deep thinkers, and curious minds come to connect. Featuring…
Episodes
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - How Do You Measure What AI Actually Does?
AI evaluation in business sounds straightforward until you try to do it. Mohit Rajhans says most companies are realizing the math doesn't work the way they…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - She Planned It for a Year. Still Blew the Budget
Vacation budgeting is something Jessica Moorhouse thinks about professionally. She still went to Italy for three weeks, blew past her carefully built…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Game That Saves Lives: Dungeons and Dragons
Dungeons and Dragons started in 1974 with no budget and a simple idea, and Ryan O'Donnell makes the case that it has been saving lives ever since. If you've…
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NEW - Borrowing Against Your Investments: Good Idea or Trap?
Wealth Simple is expanding fast and Vincent Gregoire, Canada Research Chair in Finance and Technology at HEC Montreal, is paying close attention. Lower fees…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: 1974: Trudeau, Nixon, and 79-Cent Ground Beef
Canada Day 1974 means a federal election, a sitting prime minister fighting for his majority, and a American president about to become the first to resign the…
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NEW - Secrecy Creep: What Governments Hope You Don't File For
Canadian politics commentator Rob Breakenridge joins the Canada Day long weekend to make a distinction most people skip: the country is not the same thing as…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Why Protein Matters More as You Age
Holistic nutritionist Alyssa B of nourished.ca makes the case that protein isn't a fitness trend — it's the foundation everything else depends on. Muscle…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Playing Pretend With Rules: A Dungeons and Dragons Primer
Dungeons and Dragons for beginners sounds like a rulebook problem. Dean McKinnon says it's actually a playing pretend problem, and once you solve that one…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
If You Were Normal in 1974, Did You Play Dungeons and Dragons?
Flipping the script, going against the grain and breaking away from the norm. Dungeons and Dragons was crucial in setting up the counter culture of the 80s and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Larry David Told Obama No. Canada Said Yes to Fox
Entertainment journalist Richard Crouse of http://richardcrouse.ca joins for two conversations that together cover everything worth knowing about pop culture…
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What Your Canada Day BBQ Actually Costs This Year
Food professor Sylvain Charlebois has real-time grocery data for Canada Day weekend, and the news is mixed depending on what's on your grill. Ground beef, pork…
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The Record Nobody Expected a 69-Year-Old to Break
Cycling around the world qualifies for a Guinness World Record, and until recently the oldest person to hold it was 56. Mark Herbst looked at that number at…
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Rod Black: The Voice, the Book, the Lost Keys
Rod Black has been the voice in the room for Canadian sports fans for decades. Cut to Black is the book that explains how he got there, and it turns out it's…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Case for Small Wins on Canada Day Eve
The show lands on Canada Day Eve with good news from three cities and a question worth sitting with: what if the most useful thing you can share today is…
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NEW - Good News, a Loyal Dog, and a Cat With No Comment
The good news tonight comes in three flavors. A Phoenix school resource officer who rented a movie theater for kids who'd never been, then turned to the adults…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Why Cats Got a Bad Reputation (And Kept It)
Thirty percent of people don't like cats. Only five percent feel that way about dogs. Rod Phillips has spent years figuring out why, and the answer goes back…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Why Newfoundland Starts Canada Day With the Dead
In Newfoundland, Canada Day doesn't begin with fireworks. It begins with Memorial Day and the memory of a generation of young men sent over the top at…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Booze and Reviews: Three Canadian Movies. Three Canadian Drinks. Go!
Film critic Richard Crouse builds a Canada Day weekend watch list from the ground up: three Canadian films, each with a drink to match. Goon pairs with a…
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ICYMI - A Psychologist on Why Sports Fans Need the Losses Too
A psychologist makes the case that the highs and lows of being a sports fan are not just entertainment, they are doing real work for your mental health. The…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
You Bought the Box. There's No Game Inside
Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-orders are live and the box is real, but open it and there's only a download code. No disc. No trade-in value. No physical copy. Ever. A…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Can a Government Built to Move Slow Keep Up?
This conversation starts with Mark Carney admitting his own emissions targets will be missed and uses it as a way into a bigger pattern: decisions on 24 Sussex…
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Bob’s (Soccer) Bits: A Credit Card, a Scalping Plan, and a Trip to Texas
When Canada advanced further than anyone expected, one family decided the only response was to follow the team to Houston, no matter what it took to get there…
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The Pig Roast Nobody Planned (That's Why It Worked)
What makes a good party is a question most people think they already know the answer to. This conversation suggests they don't. From flood warnings in Calgary…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - DIY Seal This, Leave That: Andy Baryer's Summer Home Fixes
Home maintenance tips that actually save money this summer start with knowing where your house is leaking money without you realising it. Andy Barrar of Handy…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Darth Vader Test: When You Move In Together
Moving in together has a moment nobody warns you about. It's not the argument or the negotiation. It's a glance at a bookshelf. Ryan O'Donnell spotted that…
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NEW - Who Actually Benefits From the Vancouver Condo Deal?
Federal housing policy rarely produces a clean answer, and the BC condo buyback program is no exception. The Monday study panel works through what the numbers…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada's Defence Plan Has a Decade-Long Head Start Problem
Canada missile defence has officially moved from background concern to stated priority. The Chief of Defence Staff named Russian missile technology as the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
You're Not Unloved. You're Just Looking in the Wrong Place
Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch join Date Night to untangle why so many people are surrounded by love and still feel lonely. The problem isn't that love isn't…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The $40 Million Gift and What It Actually Builds
Simon Fraser University just received a $40 million donation from the Stevens family to support its new medical school, opening this August. Erin Morantz…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Why Your Vacation Feels Expensive Before It Starts
Vacation budgeting tips are easy to find and hard to follow, especially when the flights are already paid and the costs keep creeping up anyway. Anita Bruinsma…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - A G7 Country Shouldn't Act Small
Canada is the ninth largest economy in the world and a senior member of the G7. Andrew Caddell thinks it's time the country started acting like it, on trade…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Inside Copy: Nana-Imo, Walking Sharks, and Ranch Dressing
Nobody needed any of this information. That's exactly why it's here. A cookie chain put a Nanaimo bar on their menu and filmed Americans trying to say the…
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NEW - What the Hell to Watch this Weekend
This week's picks come with a warning: if you bought any of them digitally, you might not have them as long as you think. Steve Stebbing has 4,100 movies on…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - When to Seek Help with your Relationship
There's a six-year gap between when relationship problems start and when most couples finally ask for help. Dr. Laurie Betito has spent a career on the other…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The Vomit of Change: AI, Kids, and No Manual
AI and kids in Canada is no longer a future problem. Mohit Rajhans says the rules are already changing, most parents don't know it yet, and the confusion isn't…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
You Bought It. You Don't Own It
Digital ownership in Canada is mostly a polite fiction. You buy the movie, the game, the scale, the heated seat, and what you actually get is permission to use…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Pizza Hut Got Its Name From a Nine-Letter Sign
It's Throwback Thursday and Shane, Ryan, and Noah dig into one of 1995's defining fast food moments: the arrival of stuffed crust pizza and the competitive war…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Throwback Thursday: A Large Pizza, a Two-Litre Coke, Twelve Dollars. In 1995
It's Throwback Thursday and the inflation conversation gets personal fast: in 1995, a large pepperoni pizza and a two-litre Coke ran twelve to fifteen dollars…
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SHIFTHEADS: Canada's Grocery Bill Has a Canada Problem
Food inflation in Canada is running hotter than every other G7 country, and food professor Sylvain Charlebois says the reasons are closer to home than most…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Twenty-Six Billion Dollars. But Is the Discount Even Real?
Retail analyst Bruce Winder joins on Amazon Prime Day to break down what the numbers actually say about where Canadian consumers are right now and whether the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The King Paid Tax. The Public Paid for Everything Else
Columnist and commentator Rob Breakenridge joins for two stories: what King Charles's voluntary tax disclosure actually reveals about royal finances, and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The Robot Didn't Replace the Waiter. It Replaced the First Job
Technology analyst Carmi Levy joins to talk about where restaurant automation is actually heading, and what gets lost when the entry-level job disappears from…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Pizza Hut and Blockbuster Have the Same Problem
You miss Pizza Hut. You'd go back. You just wouldn't go back next week. Ryan O'Donnell thinks that's the whole problem, and that he's seen it before. The…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
You Wanted Pizza Hut Back. It Came Back. Nobody Went
Historian and Retro Ontario founder Ed Conroy joins to trace the stuffed crust pizza back to 1995, the celebrity fast food wars that produced it, and why the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW: Toy Story Almost Died. A Work-From-Home Mom Saved It
Film critic Richard Crouse joins for two conversations covering the week's biggest entertainment stories and a pair of cocktails built for a superhero movie…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW: The Green Whistle and Your Worst Injury Ever
That device Ishmael Kone was holding on the stretcher after breaking his leg at the FIFA tournament wasn't a vape pen. It's called the green whistle, and it's…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Smart Speakers: Conflict of Interest, Condos, and Canada in the World Cup
Conflict of interest in Canadian politics is back in the conversation, and Jamie Ellerton and John Tory Jr. are here to sort out what it means when the Prime…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Green Whistle: What It Is and Why It Works
Green whistle pain relief became the most searched phrase the moment Ishmael Kone waved from a stretcher mid-exit at the FIFA tournament, and Dr. Mitch…
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NEW - The World Cup Case Against Social Media Doom
FIFA World Cup 2026 is putting Canada on the world stage, and the cost is real: BC alone is on the hook for up to $114 million after revenue offsets, and a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The Spy Who Built the Net He Was Caught In
Soviet espionage during the Cold War was not paranoia. It was infrastructure, and Lee Kuhnle lays out exactly what that looked like from the inside. Kim Philby…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why Your Apps Keep Breaking and Nobody Knows Why
Software engineer burnout is the reason your app looked different this morning and nobody on the team can explain why it changed. Greg Fish of Cyberpunk…
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NEW - Too Big to Fail Is Now Too Slow to Respond
FIFA World Cup Canada is handing brands a masterclass in constraint-as-opportunity, and Tony Chapman says most of them are missing it. The organizations…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why the World Cup Is Peak Dating Season
Sports dating Toronto is having a moment, and Tony Tedesco and Jen Kirsch are here to explain why major sporting events are doing something dating apps have…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Science of Swearing is Some Very Good News
Good News Tuesday runs on the idea that good news makes more good news. Tonight it also runs on swearing. Dr. Robin Hanley DeFoe's research says dropping a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Good News Tuesday! Good News, Big Fish, Bigger Ideas
Good News Tuesday goes coast to coast this week, and the stories range from eleven hundred pounds to a cup of tea at a library table. The throughline is the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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…