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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
NEW - Federal Policy Forced Streamers to Invest More In Canadian Content. Spotify Raised Prices. Funny how that works.
Canadian content streaming funding has been a fight Canadian broadcasters have been losing for years, and the Monday panel digs into exactly what just…
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Why Can't Canadians Buy the Cars They Actually Want?
Canadian car market selection has never really been a choice, and automotive journalist Lorraine Sommerfeld from http://driving.ca lays out exactly why: Canada…
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ICYMI - When Co-Parenting Gets Expensive and Nobody Agreed to It
Divorce and child expenses are supposed to be settled in the separation agreement, but financial planner Anita Bruinsma says that document only takes you so…
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NEW - Darkness for days: What Will You Find at a Cave Retreat?
If you've ever wondered what you'd actually find if you stopped running from yourself, a darkness retreat is the most direct answer available. No light. No…
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NEW: AI Will Answer Anything. Nobody Is Teaching You What to Ask
The middleman is gone. The manager who mentored the new hire, the salesperson with the Rolodex, the person who connected the question to the right answer. That…
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ICYMI - Trump Keeps Losing in Court. The Forced Labour Tariff Is the Workaround
Trump has faced legal setbacks on tariffs. Forced labour as a justification for new trade measures has never appeared before in Canada-US negotiations. Andrew…
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Most Jobs Are Filled Before They're Posted. Here's What to Do About It
AI can draft a resume. It can help translate one career into the language of another. What it cannot do, according to career development leader Candy Ho, is…
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SHIFTHEADS: Five Movies and Shows Worth Your Weekend. One Not Worth It
Six things are competing for your weekend. Three in theatres. Three on streaming. Steve Stebbing has seen all of them and has a clear order of priority. The…
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NEW - Your Relationship Expectations Aren't Yours. Here's Where They Came From
Social media does not show relationship conflicts, insecurity, ordinary bodies, or real intimacy. It shows curated vacations, idealized bodies, and romantic…
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ICYMI - Your Kid Thinks They're Informed. They Watched Three Clips
The clip economy is not just about shorter videos. It is about a generation forming opinions, making arguments, and consuming news from content that has been…
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Canada's AI Strategy Arrived Late and Skipped the Governance Part
Canada's national AI strategy is optimistic, overdue, and built on a premise Vass Bednar says is materially incorrect: that low public trust in AI is a…
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One Dollar Off: Canada's Most Famous Price Is Right Moment
The Price is Right changed hosts in 2007 for the first time in over thirty years, and a man from Grand Prairie, Alberta made it memorable for Canadians before…
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NEW - Protein Is Everywhere. Most of It Is Noise
Protein added to chips. Protein added to milk that already has protein. A Costco chocolate milk that flies off the shelves. The marketing is working, but the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Chinese-Owned Plant Making Canada's Baby Formula and a Secret Export Operation
Canadian baby formula prices are up 70% in five years. There are still shortages. And the only plant producing baby formula in Canada ships most of what it…
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NEW - Canada in 2007: The Year the World Changed and Nobody Noticed
In 2007, Stephen Harper was leading a conservative minority government, George W. Bush was in his second term, and Afghanistan was dominating the news…
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ICYMI - Alberta's Separation Bill Starts at $170 Billion
Alberta's Premier put a number on separation this week: $170 billion in federal debt as Alberta's opening share, before accounting for everything the federal…
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ICYMI - The Price is Right: Cliffhangers Has a Secret and Loyal Viewers Already Know It
The Price is Right is the definition of game show in most people's heads, and according to BuzzerBlog's Cory Anotado, that didn't happen by accident. Hidden…
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NEW - Bob Dylan Is 85 and Back on the Road. So Is Everyone Else
Bob Dylan is 85 and just announced more tour dates. The Beach Boys are out with Mike Love at 85. Paul Simon is 84, Randy Bachman is 82, Rod Stewart and Eric…
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Before Memes Had a Name, There Was a Cat
Internet memes turned 2007 into year zero — and the evidence starts with a cat, a cheeseburger, and intentionally terrible spelling. Ed Conroy connects…
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Hollywood Spent Billions. Gen Z Picked the $750,000 Movie
Canadian films are landing at the box office, and the question nobody expected to be asking is whether this country is ready to actually celebrate the people…
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Your Feed Thinks You Need Fixing
The optimization industry needs one thing before it can sell you anything: your belief that you are not enough. Tony Tedesco has decided not to provide it…
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NEW - Zellers Is Back and Canada Might Be in a Recession. Coincidence?
Canada economy recession talk is landing at the same moment a beloved discount chain is rising from the ashes of Hudson's Bay. The hosts are not sure that is a…
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SHIFTHEADS: Three Stores, No Diner, and a Lot of Competition. Can Zellers Pull It Off?
Zellers relaunch Canada has two new Ontario locations and a plan to go national slowly. Bruce Winder has questions about whether slowly is fast enough. Bruce…
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NEW - Why Gas Prices Make No Sense Right Now (And When They Will)
Oil inventories are at historic lows. Demand is strong. The price keeps dropping. Dan McTeague says the futures market is being driven by headlines, not…
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Shiftheads - Skinwalker Ranch Has Cameras Everywhere and Still Nothing Conclusive
Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most surveilled properties on earth. Dr. Lee Kuhnle wants to know why the footage never quite delivers. Lee walks through…
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ICYMI - Black Holes: Like Eighty-Eight Billion Suns in One Place. We’re Gonna Need Sunscreen
Black hole TON 618 looks beautiful in the viral image. Greg Fish wants to talk about what it would actually do to the clouds, the oceans, and everything in…
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NEW - The Optimization Trap Nobody Wants to Admit They're In
Optimization culture sold itself as a tool. Tony Chapman says it became a weapon, and the target is your sense of worth. Tony draws a direct line from…
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Good News Tuesday - The Tickle Trunk Was Doing More Than You Knew
Children laughter and play turn out to be building something permanent. The Saturday morning forts, the trunk full of random props that turned into a pirate…
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NEW - The Simplest Thing You Can Do to Help Your Kid Learn Better
Six-year-olds who could not tell time. A baseline test confirming it. Then two sessions with performance visual artists teaching through play and joy. Every…
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Good News Tuesday: She Fixed Bikes for 14 Years and Gave Every One Away
Good news Tuesday Canada brings Krista Richard out of Moncton, New Brunswick, where her Bikes and Trikes for Everyone program has put wheels under thousands of…
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SHIFTHEADS: West End Ottawa Born and Raised. What’s On Your Mind Stefan Keyes?
Ottawa nostalgia and urban development collide when the place that held your childhood firsts starts coming down by machine. Stefan Keyes grew up in Ottawa's…
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NEW - New Fiction Book: The Peacekeeper Who Couldn't Keep His Own Peace
A Canadian peacekeeper deploys to Croatia in 1993 to separate armies that want nothing to do with peace. He comes home carrying wounds nobody can see. Decades…
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Someone 3D Printed a Horse and It Might Be the Best Tech Story of the Year
Three robots walked into the show tonight - all of them fun. One is in a university cafeteria doing something 2.5 million times that humans have never quite…
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ICYMI - Canada's Been in a Recession for a Decade. Immigration Hid It.
Canada is technically in a recession and the prime minister won't say the word. Matt Gurney thinks the more important conversation is the one hiding underneath…
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NEW - Fifty Bucks for a Canada Day Flag. The Pole Is From China.
Bob Addison went back to read the label on a six-foot Canada Day flag at Costco. Made in Canada, imported fabric, pole and bracket from China. Fifty dollars…
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NEW: The Fake Jersey Debate Nobody Wants to Have Honestly
Counterfeit sports jerseys are everywhere, and the reasons people buy them are more complicated than the law makes room for. The conversation draws a hard line…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS - The Gardening Trend Where Doing Nothing Is the Strategy
From wildflower yards to self-cleaning robot vacuums, this week's DIY conversation goes places you won't expect. The neighbours want a perfect lawn. The bees…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI: Stress Doesn't Just Make You Forget. It Changes How You Remember.
A new study on stress and memory just landed — and it reframes what's actually happening in your brain when you blank at the worst possible time. The…
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NEW - The Debate Canada Needs to Have and Keeps Not Having
A technical recession, a denied emergency debate, and a prime minister who promised less red tape. The Monday panel takes stock of where things actually stand…
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ICYMI - Dating: When Agreeing to Disagree Stops Working
Swiping past someone because their profile opens with a political slogan is now a dating strategy — and it might be the rational one. Tony Tedesco does…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Condom Prices Are Up. Youth Testing Rates Are Down. Here Is What That Means.
Before the price increase, young Canadians were already skipping condoms. Now the math gets harder. Let's Stop AIDS surveys young people across Canada every…
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Shiftheads - Three and a Half Million in Fake Jerseys. But Who Really is Getting Ripped Off?
Toronto Police just pulled three and a half million dollars worth of counterfeit jerseys out of a west-end warehouse, and the story of how it happened says…
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The Thrift Store Summer Nobody Planned but Everyone Needed
Thrift store summer is not a trend. It is a rational response to the cost of everything right now. Eighty-three percent of Albertans say thrifting makes…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW: Claude Lemieux, the Playoffs, and the Canada That Can't Pick a Lane
Claude Lemieux death hit Quebec like a loss in the family. Because for francophones across the province, that is exactly what it was. Andrew Caddell was in…
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ICYMI: No Wheels, No Brakes, No Problem: Friday's Wildest Stories
Friday night news that earns its place at the table: a truck driver hauled a trailer from Embrun to Ottawa missing ten of its twelve wheels, with no brakes and…
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3 Movies and 3 Streaming Shows Worth Your Weekend
What to watch this weekend starts with a nineteen-year-old YouTuber who turned an internet horror phenomenon into a feature film for A24. Backrooms, directed…
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NEW - Love Is Not a Feeling. It Is What You Do Every Day
Love as a verb is not a metaphor. According to Dr. Laurie Betito, it is the only definition that actually sustains a relationship. Saying I love you is easy…
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ICYMI Canada: Building AI Ambition or Better Press Releases?
Canada AI policy has a tell. The country boasts about what it is going to do. It does not yet have victories to boast about. Mohit Rajhans lays out what is…
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NEW - The Skill AI Is Quietly Taking From Your Kids
Critical thinking is not a soft skill. It is the skill. And right now, something is eroding it in a generation that never learned to live without AI. Dr. Perry…
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NEW - Trailer Park Boys Started Hard. It Became a Canadian Institution. Throwback Thursday Is 2001
Canadian comedy shows anchor Throwback Thursday 2001, and the hosts want to know which ones belong on the list. Trailer Park Boys, Shoresy, Kids in the Hall…
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NEW: The Pizza Pops Are Cooked. The Microwave Left the E. Coli Alive
Food safety is the subject and it starts with pizza pops. Two outbreaks in three years: one E. coli, one salmonella. Dr. Keith Warriner explains how something…
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Canada Has a Chicken Quota. It Has Missed It 12 Times Out of 14. Prices Are Up 30 Percent
Chicken prices in Canada are about to get worse. Sylvain Charlebois visited a processing plant today and had lunch with the CEO. They ate chicken. Two hundred…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Throwback Thursday: Trailer Park Boys, Drake and Political Things Happening this Week with Echos of 2001
Throwback Thursday 2001 and the best Canadian comedy shows debate is louder than it sounds. Corner Gas has a case. So does SCTV. So does something from Calgary…
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ICYMI: Carney Said Canada Doesn't Need America. Then He Flew to New York to Sell Canada to America
Alberta separatism is the subject and the Premiers' Conference in Manitoba just gave it a flashpoint. Danielle Smith and Wab Kinew had an exchange that nobody…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Nobody Predicted the Habs To Go This Far. Victor Findlay Explains How They Got Here
Montreal Canadiens playoffs took an unexpected turn before anyone predicted them happening at all. Victor Findlay has called every game of this run in English…
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NEW - Trailer Park Boys: Randy Gets Recognized in Airports. Pat Roach Is a Lot Harder to Pick Out of a Crowd
Trailer Park Boys reaches 182 countries on Netflix. Randy's Cheeseburger Picnic Comedy Tour reaches 14 cities across Ontario and Quebec this summer. Pat Roach…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Canadian Comedy Built Two Traditions Since 1970. Trailer Park Boys Was the End of One of Them
Canadian comedy history runs deeper than most people realise. Ed Conroy has a working theory about two parallel traditions running since 1970, and Trailer Park…
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Richard Crouse: The Movies Are Back. James Bond Might Be Heading the Wrong Direction
Entertainment news covers a boffo return to movie theatres, the first James Bond video game in over a decade, and a new Dustin Hoffman film about a piano tuner…
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NEW - She Got Sent the Wrong Jeans. The Store Agreed. She Sued for $330 Anyway
Online shopping returns take a strange turn in tonight's opener. A woman ordered five-hundred-dollar jeans from Holt Renfrew. The store sent the wrong pair…
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The Return Policy Is Fine. The Part Where Nobody Listens Is the Problem
Online shopping returns open the conversation and land somewhere unexpected. The Holt Renfrew jeans story, five hundred dollars, wrong pair sent, three hundred…