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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
Will Taking Out El Mencho Actually Fix Anything? Colombia Knows
Pablo Escobar died in December 1993, and whether that made things better is still genuinely open. You've seen a new cartel leader taken out recently and you're…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Throwback Thursday: Canada Had Three Prime Ministers in 1993
Best city to raise a family in Canada? You already have the answer without thinking about it. Your hometown gets better every year you're away from it, and the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Canada’s Small Towns Often Have One Grocery Store. That's Not an Accident
Grocery competition in Canada is vanishing from your town before you ever realize it's gone. The grocer down the street didn't just win your business. They…
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NEW - Half of Those Players Probably Didn't Want to Be There
The US Canada hockey rivalry just landed in uncomfortable territory, and you felt it watching that clip. You saw the laugh. You saw the AI video of Brady…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Colombia Got Less Violent After Escobar Died. It Also Now Ships Four Times More Cocaine
The Pablo Escobar and El Mencho comparison lands differently once you hear the Colombia data. Violence dropped significantly after Escobar was killed in 1993…
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You Keep Every Handwritten Letter. You Delete Every Email
Handwritten letters sitting in a drawer right now, you know exactly which ones they are. You have not thrown a single one out. Your inbox from the same period…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Electric Circus Shouldn't Have Happened (That's Why It Worked)
Canadian TV nostalgia for Electric Circus hits different when you realize nobody in charge thought it should work. You got an invite, you paid your own way to…
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Your Favourite Show Is Already Booking Your Next Vacation Rental
Movie tourism just turned your watchlist into a travel bucket list. You can rent the actual cottage from Heated Rivalry on Airbnb right now for $248.10 a night…
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The Letter You Keep Meaning to Write
Letters to your kids about who they are before you have to leave them. You've probably thought about it. Maybe you started. Sunny Dhillon started writing his…
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NEW - First the Calculator, and now AI Is Doing the Work. That's Exactly the Problem
AI and job satisfaction are moving in opposite directions and most workplaces haven't noticed yet. You finish the day having produced more than you ever could…
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Your Tech Keeps Breaking On Purpose
Buggy software frustrates you, and the people who shipped it felt the same way when they sent it. You open your new laptop and a folder flickers, disappears…
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Shiftheads - The CIA Made a Sex Tape and Decided Nobody Would Believe It
CIA secret operations history has a documented file titled Happy Days. It's 1959. Indonesia. The CIA wants to discredit a foreign leader named Sukarno, so they…
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NEW - The Parent Who Does Everything Is Guaranteeing the Wrong Outcome
Youth career advice usually sounds like a plan. Tony Chapman's version starts earlier and goes somewhere different. His mom rented him the pitcher for his…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: 71% Land Directly in Their Field. The Backup Plan Is Outperforming the Plan
Career college in Canada has a number most people haven't heard and it's worth stopping on. 71% of graduates go directly into a field related to their…
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NEW - Fund Them. But Fund Them With a Plan
Canadian athlete funding is worth having and both people in this conversation agree on that. What they don't agree on is whether the ask being made right now…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Mexico Fake News AI: The Cartel Knew You'd Share It
Fake news detection just got a harder test, and the cartels just raised the bar. You're watching Mexico unravel in your feed and the images are terrifying…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - How to Train Your Dino: The Fossil That Appeared Millions of Years Too Early
Evolution textbook timelines tell you when specific adaptations appeared. You learned herbivores developed complex plant-shredding teeth at a specific point in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Saturn Is Visible Tonight and the Rings Aren't the Story
Your next chance to see Saturn is tonight, low in the western sky just after sunset, and you don't need a telescope. But while the rings are what everyone…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Little Robot Rides the Power Line Like a Zip Line
Robots and AI technology just solved two problems you didn't know had the same answer. After an ice storm in China, a quadricopter drone flies out, finds the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - How to Have the Money Talk Before It Becomes a Fight
Money and relationships break down together and the timing of that break is more predictable than you'd think. You wait. The bill arrives. Your partner is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Why Canada's Prime Minister Is Always Somewhere Else
Mark Carney is meeting heads of state while Canada debates desk counts, and you might be reading that backwards. The world tour looks like leadership. But when…
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Netflix Will Pay for Your $400,000 Wedding. There's One Catch.
Wedding budget math is brutal and someone just found the loophole. If you got engaged on Love is Blind, Netflix covers the wedding. Florals alone run $50,000…
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SHIFTHEADS: More Grocery Store News is Real. Are Cheaper Grocery Prices Real too?
Loblaws expansion in 2026 puts 70 new stores across the country with a $2.4 billion price tag, and the headline is discount grocery. But if you're in a major…
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Good News Tuesday: Canada's First Competitive Bodybuilder with Down Syndrome Is Doing the Heavy Lifting
Good News Tuesday is for the days that don't hand it to you. You crash your car in an unfamiliar province far from home, you come to, and there's a Quebec…
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Your Good News Is in There. You Just Have to Look for It.
Good News Tuesday works because you train yourself to look, and the looking changes what you find. Your day goes sideways from the moment you wake up. It's…
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NEW Canada Wants to Calgary to Host the Olympics. It Can't Keep Water in the Pipes.
Canadian Olympic funding is short and the solution being floated is hosting the most expensive sporting event on earth. The Canadian Olympic Committee made the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Picture You Shared From Mexico Might Not Be Real
Mexico travel safety questions are flooding your feed and half of what you're seeing isn't real. You saw the neighborhood burning, maybe shared it, and then…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Handy Andy: It Might be a Deal on a Part, Or Your Knockoff Battery Could Let You Down
DIY appliance repair works until the part you bought online doesn't. You searched, you found the price you wanted, and you ordered it. No rules, no warranty…
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SHIFTHEADS: He Swapped His Tickets in Italy and Watched Canadian Hockey History
Attending the Olympics has been on your list for years and you keep talking yourself out of it. Too far, too expensive, too hard to build a trip around real…
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NEW - Military or Militia: What Nobody Tells You Before Landing in Puerto Vallarta
Mexico cartel violence is flooding your phone right now, and you can't tell what's real. The videos of burning neighborhoods, the armed convoys through Puerto…
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NEW - 500 Strangers Answered a Tourist Faster Than Any News Alert
Reliable information during a crisis doesn't live where you think it does. Your instinct sends you to Instagram first, but what's there are burning church…
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ICYMI - The Pay-to-Play Wall Most Non-Hockey Families Would Ever Believe
Pay-to-play hockey doesn't look like inequality until you run the numbers. Your kid gets cut from a rep team and drops a tier. The team above plays 54 games…
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NEW - Your Old RRSP Is Sitting There. So Might Your Money.
TFSA RRSP investing strategy isn't a single answer. It's a different answer depending on when you're asking it. You've got accounts from old jobs you haven't…
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Gold or Nothing? Canada Just Changed the Answer
Team Canada Winter Olympics coverage just reframed what gold actually means. You watched the women's hockey team lose the gold medal game and felt something…
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Your Endurance Problem Might Not Be in Your Legs
Endurance training should work the same for everyone doing identical workouts, right? You're putting in the miles, tracking your heart rate, building muscle…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads: Shatner Found a Doorway at 94 and It Goes All the Way to Black Sabbath
William Shatner heavy metal is a real thing happening right now, and at 94 he described a collaboration with a former Megadeth guitarist as "a doorway." Not a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Guy Who Wrote Seven Made Something That Deflates Like a Whoopee Cushion
What to watch this weekend includes a film written by the writer of Seven, loaded with aesthetic and atmosphere, that Steve Stebbing says feels hollow at its…
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ICYMI Norway Has Canada’s Prairie Population and Twice the Podiums
Canada Olympics funding is the quiet story underneath the medal count, and the math is uncomfortable. Norway has roughly the same population as Saskatchewan…
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NEW - What Happened When Shane Asked AI Why It Lied
AI data privacy is built on promises nobody can verify, and you've already accepted those terms. You pay a monthly subscription to feed your ideas, your…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Your Therapist Noticed Your Foot. The Chatbot Wouldn't Have
AI mental health support is built around user satisfaction, and that's exactly the problem. You open ChatGPT at 2am, type out what's wrong, and it listens. It…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Body Cams: Who Actually Controls the Footage?
Police body worn cameras are in your city, on the officers you interact with, recording everything. In Canada, if you want to see footage that documents you…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Toonie Turned 30 and Transit Raised Its Price the Day Before It Showed Up
The toonie's 30th anniversary lands this week, and the coin's origin story has a detail most people missed. The $2 bill was officially withdrawn on February…
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NEW - Three Hamburgers for Two Dollars Used to Be a Real Offer
Toonie buying power in 1996 is the kind of throwback that starts as a fun memory and lands somewhere genuinely uncomfortable. You walked into McDonald's with…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Strip Out the Excuses and Canada Still Wins the Worst Food Inflation Race
Food inflation Canada recorded in January was 7.3%, and yes, the GST holiday makes that number look worse than it is. So Dr. Charlebois did the math without…
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NEW - Peace Prize Speeches and Warships in the Middle East at the Same Time
The US military buildup aimed at Iran is the largest in over 20 years, and the strangest thing about it might be how little noise it's making. You'd expect a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The Cheapest Anti-Theft Device on the Market: The Clutch Pedal
Manual transmission cars are still out there and they solve a problem you didn't know you had. You can't steal one if you don't know how to drive it, and you…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Coins the Machine Rejects Are the Ones Worth Keeping
Coin collecting in Canada has a secret hiding inside every Coinstar machine at every Walmart in the country. You dump your change in, the machine rejects…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Andrew Wasn't Arrested for What You Think He Was Arrested For
Prince Andrew's arrest is being absorbed through the Epstein lens because that's the story most people already have in their heads, but the actual charge is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Throwback Thursday: How 1996 Put a Price Tag on Your Childhood
Nostalgia collecting has a price tag now, and you didn't put it there. You gave away the toys, tossed the hockey cards, donated the comics, thinking none of it…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
What Was Sitting in a Kansas Salt Mine Might Change Your Mind About Elvis
Elvis Presley concert film EPIC starts with a question you've never thought to ask: what happened to 68 boxes of footage locked in a Kansas salt mine? You…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW: Celine Dion Doesn't Know the Rules and That's the Point
Celine Dion Instagram is what it actually takes to break a 30% phone reduction streak. She posts still images to TikTok, which experts would tell you is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
He Said He Was Leaving for His Family. Three Months Later, He Crossed the Floor
Crossing the floor in Canada: your elected representative just did it, three months after announcing he was leaving politics to spend time with family. Now he…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The World is Broken: Pikachu Just Outsold Mickey Mantle
Pokemon card investment just set a world record. Logan Paul sold a single card for $16 million US. A Wayne Gretzky rookie card, one of the most famous in…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Aliens: Your Oxygen Came From a Dying Star
Alien life might be a question you've never thought to ask about yourself. Every atom of oxygen you breathe had to pass through a supernova to exist. Stars…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Aliens: The Question Obama Actually Answered (It Wasn't the One You Think)
Obama’s ‘aliens’ comment went viral when he said "they're real, but I haven't seen them" on a podcast rapid fire round. You saw the clip…
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Your Data Has Already Been Sold. Here's How to Want It Back
Data sovereignty asks a question that feels simple until you sit with it: was the consent you gave to share your data actually informed? You joined social…
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ICYMI - See All Evil: The Glasses That Know You Before You Say Hello
Smart glasses privacy isn't a future concern. Someone wearing Oakley Metas across from you at a coffee shop could already be running facial recognition on your…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
60% of Canadian Mortgages Are Renewing. Here's What to Do Before You Sign
Shopping your mortgage at renewal could be the most valuable hour you spend this year. Your bank sends a number, and it looks reasonable. But the broker you…
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NEW: They Trained Four Years. The Condoms Lasted Three Days
Good News Tuesday lands differently when the headliner is a famous Italian love arch collapsing on Valentine's Day. You're tuning in for the bright stuff and…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Sixty-Five Years, Twenty Grand, and One Very Important Checkbox
Organ donation in Canada has more than one option and most people only read the first one. You filled out your driver's license paperwork, checked the box, and…