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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
Vassy Kapelos: The Envelope She Almost Never Opened
A random act of kindness arrived in a hot pink envelope at a CTV newsroom during a federal by-election special. It sat unopened all day. She assumed it was…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Accountability Question Nobody Could Answer
Canadian government accountability is the question underneath a majority nobody seems to be celebrating. Mark Carney got his sweep, two floor crossers pushed…
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Shiftheads - Buffalo Sabres: Almost Canadian But They Kept the Receipts for 14 Years
Buffalo Sabres playoffs are back, and they came prepared. The last time Buffalo made the postseason, Stephen Harper was Prime Minister, Minecraft had just…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The 125-Year Reason Iran Won't Let Go
The Strait of Hormuz is thirty kilometres wide and it has held the world hostage before. Not since 1979. Since 1901, when a foreign company was handed three…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Feature That Is Off By Default For a Reason
Google Gemini personal intelligence is available in Canada starting today, and the thing it knows about you when switched on is genuinely surprising. It reads…
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Wrongfully Convicted Affects the Victims Too
Wrongful conviction in Canada is still new information to most people who hear it, even after documentaries, headlines, and high-profile cases. Kelly Lauzon…
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SHIFTHEADS: You Know It When You See It. Ryan O'Donnell on Where PDA Crosses the Line.
Public displays of affection have an unspoken line that nobody can define until someone crosses it in front of them. Handholding is fine. One good airport kiss…
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15 Months Ago Conservatives Were Was Looking at 280 Seats. Tonight John Moore on What Changed.
A Canadian majority government was already taking shape before anyone voted tonight. John Moore from Newstalk 1010 is one of the people who has been watching…
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NEW: Your Gutters Are Fine. Your Roof Might Not Be. Handy Andy on What Spring Is Hiding.
Spring home maintenance has a way of starting small and getting expensive fast. Handy Andy Baryer went up to clean his parents' gutters and came back down with…
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NEW - PDA: Blue Monday. Ryan Felt Uncomfortable
Public displays of affection have a line nobody can draw until someone crosses it right next to them. That happened on a dance floor in Calgary. Blue Monday…
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ICYMI - Trash Panda Puzzles? Raccoon Science to Save Your Garbage
Raccoon intelligence is one of the most colloquially accepted ideas in North American wildlife, and one of the least formally studied. There are 167 known…
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Post-Political Period. Bill Carroll Has Two Words for That.
A Liberal majority government was already a foregone conclusion before the polls closed tonight and Bill Carroll from CFRA had been sitting with that feeling…
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NEW - What Does the Liberal Party Stand For Now? Nobody on This Panel Is Quite Sure.
A Liberal majority government is arriving tonight and the question nobody is answering clearly is what it actually believes. Jimmy Zoubris is in Montreal…
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Ryan Price on What a Liberal Majority Means from the West Coast.
A Liberal majority government is landing tonight and Ryan Price from CFAX in Victoria has been waiting for the moment the honeymoon breaks. He has been…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Confetti Is for the Bank. Not for You.
Gamification of banking feels like your financial institution finally started rooting for you. The stars when you hit a savings goal. The confetti when you…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Tonight We're Gathering Around the Radio. When Did We Stop Doing That?
Artemis splashdown tonight is at 8:07 Eastern and there is something about that specific time being locked in for days that makes it feel like an appointment…
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NEW - Justin Trudeau Got Three Minutes and Deathly Applause at His Own Party's Convention
Federal by-election Monday has three ridings up and Terrebonne is the one nobody is calling easy. Supporting Liberals there has historically been like wearing…
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SHIFTHEADS: New York Is Losing Its Mind Over a Grapefruit-Sized Bird. We Need to Talk About This
Stories you absolutely did not need to know are arriving twenty minutes before Artemis splashdown and they are exactly the right warm-up. A small bird with a…
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NEW - What the Hell Should I Watch This Weekend: Malcolm Returned, and Darth Maul Built an Army
Your weekend streaming options just got a verdict. The Boys is going out swinging. Malcolm in the Middle came back. Darth Maul has eight episodes and a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The Relief Test: Dr. Laurie Betito on Knowing When You're Done
Relationship breakup signs are rarely obvious, and the moment most people act on them is far later than they think. The average couple lives in distress for…
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ICYMI - Your Job: Do You Even Know What You're Being Measured On?
AI workplace redesign has a specific problem nobody is talking about clearly. Employees are using the tools. Managers are getting data. Those two things are…
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NEW - Most People With Chronic Pain Are Waiting for a Moment Like This
Living with chronic pain is something most people are doing quietly and calling something else. Nagging. Stiff. Just how it is. Desmond Williams did that for…
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NEW: Atlantis Landed. Then Nobody Went for Twelve Years
Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down on July 21 2011 and the shuttle program ended with it. By that point the machine was irreplaceable, not because it was…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
A Canadian Telescope Caught a Canadian Astronaut Flying Past the Moon at 4 a.m
Artemis II splashdown is scheduled for 8:07 Eastern, and the Orion capsule is cooking toward Earth fast enough that reentry is expected to produce a…
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SHIFTHEADS: Canada Has a Syrup Reserve But No Oil Reserve. Priorities
Maple syrup fraud just became the most Canadian scandal possible. Quebec has a strategic reserve, a single desk authentication system, and wholesale testing on…
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NEW - The Year the Shuttle Stopped and Everything Else Started
Throwback Thursday 2011 is the year everything was normal right up until it wasn't. The Space Shuttle Atlantis glided home in July with no engines and one shot…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - She Was Denouncing Floor Crossers Last Week. This Week She Is One
Marilyn Gladue floor crossing to the Liberals is the kind of news that made Rob Breakenridge wonder if he was thinking of the wrong person. Then wonder if it…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
We Know the Photo. We Never Knew His Name. Not This Time
Artemis crew splashdown is at 8:07 Eastern tomorrow and before they come home there is one thing worth sitting with. The Earthrise photograph from Apollo 8 in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Athletes Can't Leave the Arena Anymore. It Follows Them Home
Athlete social media pressure has changed what it means to be a professional. It used to stop at the rink doors. Now there are dedicated accounts tracking…
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The Last Year Nobody Had Their Phone Out at a Concert
2011 was the last normal year. That's not nostalgia. That's what historians who study decades for a living actually call it. Go find concert footage from that…
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You're Not Imagining It. Movies Have Gotten Longer
Movies getting longer is not a feeling. A researcher named Steven Follows checked the runtimes of 36,000 theatrically released films from 1980 to 2025. Average…
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To Be or Not to Be. Also, What Are We Drinking?
Riz Ahmed's Hamlet sets Shakespeare's tragedy inside London's South Asian community, keeps the original language almost entirely intact, and puts the most…
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NEW - Nobody Expects Much Anymore. That's Exactly the Problem
Above and beyond customer service has gotten so rare that when it happens, people put it on the internet and send a stranger a hundred thousand dollars. A…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Smart Speakers: The MP Who Said Never. Then Did It Anyway
Customer service above and beyond has a hundred-thousand-dollar price tag on it tonight, and so does crossing a conservative floor to the Liberals. Both…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Dan McTeague Has Never Seen Diesel Fall This Far This Fast
Gas prices dropping thirteen cents a liter in one day is news. Diesel falling twenty-eight cents a liter is something Dan McTeague says he has genuinely never…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Over and Above Service: The Guy Who Picks Up His Own Phone
Customer service at a small business hits different when the number on the bottle goes straight to the guy who makes the product. No hold music. No chatbot. No…
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The World Is Getting Better by Every Measure. So Why Do We All Feel Like This?
Conspiracy theories don't start with a villain. They start with a feeling, the specific uncomfortable feeling that somebody must be in charge of how bad this…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - What Happens to Your Brain When You Start Talking Nonsense
Corporate jargon sounds like communication. Researchers built a test to find out if it actually is. Real mission statements went up against randomly generated…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Moon: Why Go Back? (And Why It Matters More This Time)
Artemis mission engineers call the moon a stepping stone. Not a destination. A rehearsal for Mars, for Titan, for whatever comes after that. The question was…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Cure for Doom Scrolling Is 400,000 Kilometres Away
Space inspiration and doom scrolling are fighting for the same fifteen seconds of attention. One of them is winning right now, and it isn't the rocket. Tony…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Two Weeks Ceasefire. Naming a Crater. The Toilet Is Broken. Good News Tuesday Is On.
Good News Tuesday Trump Iran ceasefire landed about twenty minutes before showtime. Trump agrees to suspend the bombing of Iran for two weeks, pending the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Five Hundred Dollars to Find Out the Dog Is Fat and Fine
Good News Tuesday dog vet Easter story: Cora the golden retriever kept the household up all night on Good Friday, panting and licking her lips and refusing to…
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SHIFTHEADS: Artemis 2: Robots Would Do This Better. We Are Doing It Anyway. Dr. Sarah Rugheimer Explains Why.
Artemis 2 photos are coming back from around the moon and Dr. Sarah Rugheimer says go find the CNN gallery of thirty of them right now. She has been watching…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Trump Campaigned on No Foreign Wars. Here We Are.
Trump Iran ceasefire analysis from Matt Gurney starts with a question he has been sitting with all week: would everyone be better off spending less time being…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Air Miles Ends May 31st. Here Is What Happens to Your Points.
Air Miles Blue Rewards transition has a date and most people have not fully processed it yet. May 31st is the last day the program runs as Air Miles. June 1st…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Divorce: The Cash Was Gone in a Year. The House Took Thirteen to Buy.
Buying a house after divorce started with losing everything twice. Once in the divorce. Once in the spending that followed because grief and recklessness often…
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NEW - Say Their Names: Captain Antoine Forrest and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther
Air Canada pilots names have been missing from the story that replaced them. Captain Antoine Forrest and First Officer Mackenzie Gunther were two young pilots…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Bob’s Bits Came for Sandwiches. We Ended Up at the Draft Lottery. Don’t Ask How.
Vancouver Canucks are the worst team in the NHL and Bob Addison sent notes about celebrity sandwich marketing. The notes were not consulted. The conversation…
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ICYMI The Farthest Humans in History and Both Voices Were Canadian
Artemis 2 distance record broke the Apollo benchmark yesterday and the voices that marked it were both Canadian. Jeremy Hansen spoke from the capsule. Jenny…
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Opening the Account Is Not the Same as Investing It
Young people and money is a conversation that usually starts with what to open. Anita Bruinsma says the more important conversation is what happens after. Most…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS - He Turned His Treehouse Into a Spaceship. He Is Currently in Space
Jeremy Hansen astronaut story starts on a farm outside London, Ontario. He found circuit breakers in the barn and used them as switches in his treehouse. He…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Farthest Humans from Earth in History. By About 6,000 Kilometres
Artemis 2 mission update arrives from an astronomer who did not sleep well the night of the launch. The spacecraft launched April 1st, troubleshot a toilet…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Forty Percent Cheaper. Three to Four Percent Margins. Do the Math
Not-for-profit grocery stores are coming to Toronto and the NDP wants 50 of them across the country. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois was in a university classroom 15…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Apollo 11: Six Hundred Million People. One Channel. One Moment
Apollo 11 1969 throwback lands on the week Artemis 2 launched and the comparison is impossible to resist. An estimated 600 million people crowded around…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Missed Deadlines, $100 Oil, and a Beer Tax Nobody Asked For
Mark Carney Alberta MOU deadline was April 1st and it was missed. Rob Breakenridge says the frustration from the Business Council of Alberta this week is the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Your Great-Great-Grandchildren Will Have Lunch on the Moon. This Is Why It Matters
Artemis 2 launch emotional reaction is where Jen Gerson's column began. She watched the launch with her family. Her husband got emotional and tried not to show…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Inside Copy: Look, It Is a Lion. Oh My God. ($27 Million Lawsuit)
Nickelback made a four-minute movie with Megan Thee Stallion promoting Flamin' Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos. It is real. It cost about thirty dollars a bag and is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS - The Year That Started With the Moon and Ended With Manson
1969 history has two halves that barely belong in the same year. The first half gives you Apollo 11 and Woodstock. The second gives you the Manson murders and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Ferris Bueller Was Almost Played By Who? Richard Crouse Has Thoughts
What makes an artist Canadian is the question Richard Crouse is putting to his new podcast Entertainment Is Broken after Justin Bieber and Tate McCrae skipped…
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Booze n Reviews: The Worst Thing You Have Ever Done. One Answer Ends the Wedding
The Drama movie review comes with one warning from Richard Crouse: do not Google the twist before you watch. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple in the…