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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
Extreme Crime in Canada: Nobody Fits the Profile Anymore
A shooting in a Montreal Jewish grocery store. A high-speed pursuit ending in gunfire in Calgary. An MP targeted in Saskatchewan. What links them isn't…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Bob Paid a TON for the Footy Tix. Canada Made Him Proud
Sixty thousand people in red at a Canada World Cup soccer match will do something to you, even if you're normally a late arriver who avoids crowds. Bob…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Happy Beep Is Costing You More Than You Think
Most people have no idea what they're spending until the statement arrives. Cash fixes that — which is exactly why almost nobody uses it anymore. Shane…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - AI: You Can't Tell If That Influencer Is Real Anymore
AI-generated content has gotten good enough that most people scrolling past it have no idea — and tech and DIY expert Andy Baryer argues the brands using…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: It Cost Shane How Much in Fees to Get His Own Money Out?
Bank fees, ATM limits, and a marketplace transaction that required three separate e-transfers to produce four hundred dollars in cash. The cashless future has…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Build It Here, Buy It Here: Canada's Electric Car Gamble
Three police officers down across three provinces on the same Monday. Lesley Kelly and Jimmy Zoubris open the week by acknowledging what that costs before the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Clive Davis Shaped Every Era of Music for 66 Years
Music industry commentator Eric Alper on the death of Clive Davis at 94 — the man whose roster reads like the history of recorded music and whose ear for…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Robinhood Is in Canada Now. Here's What That Means
Robinhood just closed its Canadian entry through the acquisition of two major crypto exchanges — and personal finance educator Dr. Preet Banerjee has…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Will Your Chinese EV Be Allowed to Cross the Border?
Automotive columnist Lorraine Sommerfeld breaks down what your car already knows about you and why the politicians now panicking about Chinese vehicles are…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
A Long Distance Father's Day
What do you say to a father you can't sit beside this Father's Day? This segment is one answer: a letter read live on air, tracing one lesson, just be one step…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Tariffs, a Broken Leg, and a Stolen Bike
Canada just slapped a ten percent tariff on canned vegetables and left the US off the list, and the reasoning behind that exclusion says more about how trade…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Context Matters: A Pool, a Pub, and a Robot in a Clown Wig
A pub in Vancouver burns through two hundred extra kegs in one night because Australian fans showed up to celebrate a World Cup win, and somehow the bar staff…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Toy Story 5 Made a Skeptic Eat His Words Again
Going into a fifth Toy Story movie with low expectations turns out to be a losing bet, and movie critic Steve Stebbing explains why this one earns its place in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - A Friend Test That Predicts Your Relationship's Future
Show me your friends and a clinical psychologist can read the state of a relationship before either partner says a word. Dr. Laurie Betito breaks down why…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - When Your Kid Catches You in the Lie
Kids notice more than parents think, and new research from McGill University shows that when children see parental honesty and behaviour fall out of alignment…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Hard Work Doesn't Get You a Raise. This Does
Showing up every day feels like it should count for something, but master certified coach Rachel Levy explains why a manager hears that as nothing more than…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Throwback Thursday: The Music Pirates Lost. The Artists Still Lose
Everybody who built an MP3 library remembers the tools. Winamp, Napster, the slow crawl of dial-up giving way to broadband fast enough to actually steal music…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Napster Broke the Music Industry. Then Became It
Music industry commentator Eric Alper on the two years that permanently rewired how the world hears music, and why the streaming subscription you pay today…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Why Ottawa Won't Like the Answer on Food Prices
Food professor Sylvain Charlebois on why Canadian grocery prices are so high, what a Lidl store in Cork, Ireland reveals about what we're actually paying for…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Lawsuit That Made Spotify Possible
Twenty million users in year one. Eighty million at the peak. Then a lawsuit took Napster down in about six months. This one walks through how a platform built…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Electric Car Owners Are Cashing Alberta's Gas Cheque
Instead of cutting the gas tax, Alberta sent residents a flat hundred dollar cheque, and the math broke almost immediately. Journalist Rob Breakenridge…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why Spotify Started Out Just as Shady as Napster
Twenty-five years after Napster got shut down, the company that replaced it built its own empire on a strikingly similar shortcut. Tech expert Carmi Levy…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Why Your Brain Makes Falling More Likely With Age
Falls aren't accidents. Aging and balance science now shows exactly why older adults are more vulnerable — and the answer is inside the brain. Dr…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI: Napster Died. The Hunger It Created Didn't
Writer and historian Ed Conroy on what Napster actually opened up for music fans beyond the free, and why the resentment and entitlement it created have never…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Movie Memoribilia: $500K for a Valentine's Card. $1M for Scrap Metal
Film critic Richard Crouse on the auction that is about to put Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, Rocky's boots, the Wicked Witch's hat, and John Lennon's…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Tonight: He-Man Was Recruiting Kids for Satan. Apparently
The satanic panic of the 1980s turned rock music, Dungeons and Dragons, and Ouija boards into instruments of the devil. Tonight the target is He-Man, and the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - A Deal to Sign a Deal to Maybe Make a Deal About Iran
Strategic communications veterans Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead join to sort through the agreement to sign an agreement that may eventually become a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Getting More Value Out of Every Gas Station Stop
Gas rewards expert Patrick Sojka of http://RewardsCanada.ca joins to map out which loyalty program and credit card combinations are actually worth the effort…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Coffee Stunts Your Growth: Where Old Wives Tales Actually Come From
The phrase old wives tale goes back to a play written in 1595. By 1611 the King James Bible was using it to dismiss the knowledge of older women. The irony is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - He-Man, Satanic Panic, and Who Was Really After Your Kids
Nathan Radke of the Uncover Up Podcast is here to explain why a new He-Man movie is the perfect entry point into one of the most useful ideas you can carry…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The AI Bill Is Coming. Businesses Aren't Ready
Cyberpunk Survival Guide author Greg Fish breaks down the economics behind AI token pricing and why the free ride is ending faster than most businesses…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - It’s Not You, It’s Me: Why Love Makes You Angry
Relationship columnist Jen Kirsch and commentator Tony Tedesco join date night to unpack why the people closest to us have the most power to hurt us, and what…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Dr is in: What You're Washing Your Pills Down With Matters
Medication safety gets a closer look as emergency physician Dr. Mitch Shulman breaks down why the liquid you use to take your pills can change how much of the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Good News and the One Wish Willow
Good News Tuesday opens with small wins: a 15-year-old BMW diesel that needed nothing more than a new air filter, and a Calgary venue tour that put a real…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Good News Tuesday
Good News Tuesday takes a turn toward the hypothetical this week, and the question is harder than it sounds: if you had one wish and no consequences, what…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The AI Upgrade You Lost Without Warning
Something changed in your Claude window this week and technology analyst Carmi Levy is here to tell you it was not an accident. It was a decision, made by a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - What’s On Your Mind Lisa Best: Why Motorcycles Are Rad
If the idea of riding a motorcycle has been sitting in the back of your head, Lisa Best of CFAX 1070 is the person who will either push you toward it or give…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada Is Taking Back Citizenship Certificates
Canadian citizenship certificates are being recalled, and immigration lawyer Joel Sandaluk has a message for everyone panicking: surrendering the document does…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Frugal Bob Spent $2,500 on Thursday For How Many FIFA Tix?
Bob Addison is back, and he's made some decisions that his wife knows about and his son does not yet. From firing a golf ball bazooka at a fundraising…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Your Separatist Anger Is Someone Else's Side Hustle
Aaron Hagey-MacKay, investigative content creator behind The Goose Media, did something simple: he searched Alberta separatism on Twitter and checked where the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Robots: Your Lights Know the Score. Your Toilet Is on Coming to You.
Tech expert Kris Abel shows up every week with the stories that make you stop and say wait, that's real? This week he brought three of them, and not one of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW: The Sport Where Nobody Gets Booed
PBR bull riding is unlike anything else you will sit in an arena and watch, and the reason has nothing to do with the spectacle. Shane Hewitt spent the weekend…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Stop the Mosquitoes. Put Down the Phone.
Summer gets easier when you know two things: how to take back your backyard and how to stop your phone from running your night. Andy Baryer, home and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
4 Moving Mistakes You Can Actually Avoid
Every move has a moment where something goes wrong that nobody planned for. The difference between a move you survive and one you are still recovering from…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Good News at the Pump. Bad News Behind It.
Gas prices Canada-wide are dropping this week, and Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, is here with the regional breakdown and the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Fake Canadians in Real Ads. Real Numbers in the Polls.
Two political stories landed this week that are worth sitting with, and neither one of them is as simple as it first looks. The Poll That Feels Like Good News…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - What Your Kids Already Know About Your Money
Teaching kids about money starts earlier than most parents think, and Jessica Moorhouse, personal finance author and educator, makes the case that silence is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Tim Hortons Ownership and Temporary Foreign Workers: The Actual Numbers
The Tim Hortons Canada ownership debate has been running hot since the Duncan tariff announcement, and Duncan Fulton, Chief Corporate Officer at Tim Hortons…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Good News Is There. Artemis 3 and More Good News Tuesday.
Good News Tuesday is built on a simple idea: when you can't find the good, sometimes hearing it from someone else is enough to turn you around. This one brings…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Four Pieces of IKEA. Still Engaged. It's Good News.
Good News Tuesday opens with a genuine relationship milestone: assembling four pieces of IKEA furniture in a single afternoon and coming out the other side…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: A Good Friend to Remember and One Line To Never Forget
Vancouver police Sergeant Craig Reynolds was forty-eight when he died. Bob Addison was at the funeral, and one moment at the very end, a single line from the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Half of Canadian Couples Fight About This Nightly
Couples and food decisions have a numbers problem: research cited by relationship writer Jen Kirsch puts decision paralysis over dinner at about half of all…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Robots in Your iPhone - Robots Climbing Mountains
Tech journalist Kris Abel joins Good News Tuesday with three stories that land differently depending on how optimistic you are about the future. Apple's…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Your Memory Is Lying to you. One Word Might Have Done It.
Cognitive bias researcher and author Davis Carbo joins to unpack one of the most unsettling findings in psychology: changing a single word in how an event is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - What’s On Your Mind: Aaron Rand CJAD 800 Montreal
Aaron Rand, host at CJAD Montreal, joins to break down the political moment Quebec finds itself in heading toward an October election. The Parti…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada's Prisons Are Testing AI. Experts Aren't Sold.
AI in Canadian prisons is no longer hypothetical. Correctional Service Canada has handed $123,000 to Accenture to pilot the use of artificial intelligence in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads: Alberta's Wins That Separatists Forgot They Had
Alberta separatists have a long memory for grievances and a short one for results. Matt Gurney, editor at Read the Line, brings a new piece arguing that…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada's Comfortable Bubble Nobody Wants to Question
Canadian consumer choices rarely get challenged from the inside, and that is exactly the problem. This conversation starts with recycling bags in Merrickville…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - DIY Fixed for your Hot Water Tank and an Apple Siri Fix too?
Home maintenance tips don't get more overlooked than this one: draining your hot water tank once or twice a year could add years to its life, and almost nobody…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Ryan Hated Beach Vacations… Then He Actually Went on One
First time travel to a tropical destination has a way of dismantling opinions held for years, and Ryan O'Donnell arrived in Cabo San Lucas with a full set of…