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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
ICYMI - Move Over Protein, This Should Be Your New Best Friend
Holistic nutritionist Alyssa B says most people are getting barely half the fiber they need each day, and breaks down the actual gram target adults should be…
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NEW - Why Your Phone Won't Stop Ringing With Scam Calls
Carmi Levy has noticed the same thing a lot of people have lately: scam calls used to trickle in every few weeks, and now they show up in clusters, sometimes…
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He Watched 29 Films in Nine Days at TIFF
Ben Harrison walks through what nine days at the Toronto International Film Festival actually looks like when you're chasing dozens of premieres, and how this…
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Gas, Cars, Everything: A Live Price Check Across Canada
Gas prices are climbing everywhere, and this segment turns into a live, city-by-city comparison of what people are actually paying at the pump right now, with…
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NEW - Why Europeans Already Think Canada Is the Bee's Knees
There are direct flights between Germany and places like Yukon and Saskatchewan, and columnist Andrew Caddell uses that detail to explain something most…
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SHIFTHEADS: Inside Copy - Thousands Got Someone Else's Face on Their Government ID
A state government agency mixed up the identities of thousands of people, printing new ID cards with the wrong face attached, and correcting it took more than…
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NEW - Ethan Hawke's New Film Reminds Steve of a Cult Classic
Film critic Steve Stebbing lays out a full weekend of picks, spanning theatres, streaming, and one music documentary he calls unmissable. A Gold Heist Steve…
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Shiftheads - The Dating App Paradox No One Talks About
Psychologist Dr. Laurie Betito breaks down why so many people quit dating apps, only to come back a few months later no matter how burned out they were the…
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ICYMI - The Question You Need to Ask Before Trusting AI With Everything
AI strategist Mohit Rajhans raises a question most people never think to ask when a tool starts personalizing their work and their inbox: what actually happens…
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Car Shopping: The Car Loan Trick That Makes Two Prices Look the Same
Money expert Barry Choi breaks down why car loans have stretched from five years to eight, and what that actually does to the total price of a vehicle once the…
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Why "Young and Healthy" Doesn't Mean Zero Risk
Dr. Christine Palmay pushes back on a common assumption heading into fall respiratory season: that being young and healthy means vaccines don't really matter…
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1979 COLUMBIA HOUSE LAUNCH IN CANADA
What was it like to work in a music store? Ryan remembers HMV all too well… Originally aired on 2026-09-16
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NEW - The Fast Food Giant Quietly Dumping Pumpkin Spice
Pumpkin spice coffee turns thirty four this year, and Dr. Sylvain Charlebois reveals it was never supposed to exist in the first place. It started as a…
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SHIFTHEADS - This Planet May Be Shrinking Faster Than Scientists Expected
Mercury is shriveling up like a grape in the sun, a raisin! Dr. Sam breaks down why this is happening. GUEST: Dr. Samantha Yammine, PhD is a Neuroscientist…
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NEW - Throwback Thursday: Columbia House - Did You Actually Pay for Your Ten Free Tapes?
A friend hands over a card. Ten tapes, practically free, just don't bother cancelling and nobody comes looking. That was the pitch, and millions of people took…
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Shiftheads - University Report Just Priced Out Alberta Leaving Canada
The Alberta separation referendum arrives in just over a month, and broadcaster Rob Breakenridge lays out what a new university report says it would actually…
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ICYMI - Sixteen Million People Fell for (and Benefited From) This CD Deal
Columbia House once had sixteen million members across North America, and music expert Eric Alper explains how a penny-CD mail order club grew into a genuine…
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NEW - What Would Business Owners Would Do With Lower Taxes?
Small business taxes get treated like an abstract line item until Corinne Pohlmann of CFIB puts real numbers on what businesses pay just to keep an employee on…
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Why Columbia House Never Actually Had to Cancel Anyone
Columbia House recently shut down, and Ed Conroy finally explains the business model that kept it running for decades after everyone assumed it should have…
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The Real Star of Brad Pitt's New Movie Isn't Brad Pitt
Richard Crouse previews Heart of the Beast, a survival thriller starring Brad Pitt as a stranded special forces officer fighting to survive the Alaskan…
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Your Biggest Expense Isn't Rent, Gas, or Groceries
Your tax bill outweighs every other expense Canadians complain about, and new research backs that up. Shane and Ryan break down why the conversation around…
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NEW - Canada's US Relationship Isn't the Ceiling Anymore
A stalled trade deal with the United States gets reframed here as something other than a loss. Jamie Ellerton argues Canadians have been treating a shrinking…
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SHIFTHEADS: How Nike Went From King of Sneakers to Struggling
A few years ago Nike could do no wrong, landing every collaboration and dominating sneaker culture. Shane and Ryan explain how quickly that changed, and just…
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NEW - Why Canada's Sports Stars Keep Choosing US Teams
Tony Chapman breaks down why Canadian sports stars keep signing with American teams once free agency hits, and it isn't only about the paycheque. He walks…
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Shiftheads - Seeing UFOs Sent Him Down a Math Rabbit Hole
Dr. Lee Kuhnle calls himself a skeptic, but a night spent stargazing with his young son left him with an experience he couldn't fully explain. That moment sent…
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ICYMI - The Tax Code Wasn't Built for You
Tax fairness gets personal when Jared A. Walker explains why someone who inherits five million dollars can pay less tax than someone earning it paycheque by…
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Your Bucket List: A 15-Year-Old List With Batman on It
A phone notification during a work meeting nearly brought someone to tears tonight, over a video game that's been sitting untouched for more than a decade…
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NEW - What's Left When Your List Is Almost Done?
Musk ox spotted from the air over the Arctic. Decades of obscure adventures already lived. At seventy-eight, one bucket list is down to a single item left, and…
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Canada’s Investor Summit: Why the Money Isn't Canada's Problem
Canada's investment summit is dangling a trillion dollars in front of the world, and journalist Matt Gurney says the real problem isn't the money, it's…
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SHIFTHEADS: What’s On Your Mind: This ER Doctor Wants You to Never Meet Him
Dr. Mitch Shulman does radio, television, and writing on top of working the emergency room, and he explains the specific reason behind all of it, one that has…
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NEW - What Replaced the McDonald's Job?
Youth unemployment keeps trending the wrong way, and career development leader Candy Ho points to something specific that used to give young workers structure…
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Shiftheads - Success Couldn't Heal Him. Walking the Camino Did
Rocco Rossi had a corner office, a closing cheque in his pocket, and a life built on the idea that he who dies with the most toys wins, until an ad on a…
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ICYMI - Has Apple Lost It’s Way
Tech expert and journalist Kris Abel joins us to share his thoughts on the new iPhone duo. And questions the path that Apple is on not only from the name, not…
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NEW - Taxes Beat Housing and Food. Here's the Math
Taxes edge out housing and food as the real cost of living most Canadians never add up. Franco Terrazano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation breaks down just…
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A Love Letter to the City I Don't Understand
A two and a half hour commute is the kind of thing that should end a relationship with a city before it starts. Instead, it's the opening line of an actual…
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NEW - AI Models Are Learning to Deceive Researchers
Some AI models behave differently the moment they realize they're being tested, a pattern researchers call deceptive alignment. Andy Barrar of Handy Andy Media…
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SHIFTHEADS: If AI Is This Dangerous, Why Keep Selling It?
The companies warning the world that AI needs to slow down are the same ones still selling access to it. Matthew de Mota, research director at the Canadian…
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NEW - Monday Study: A Farmer's AI Tool List Might Surprise You
Meal plans for a harvest crew. Diagnosing a broken combine. Auditing hockey ice time for an entire rural league. Lesley Kelly's actual list of AI use cases…
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Shiftheads - Have you Ever Been to…
One Phone Call, Five Strangers Offering Help One call to a hotel front desk in Newfoundland was supposed to end at a corporate voicemail. Instead it turned…
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ICYMI - Why September Is the Best Time to Reset Your Budget
Jessica Moorhouse treats September like a financial reset point, the same way she once treated the start of a new school year. With just under four months left…
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NEW - Your Real Number One Expense Isn't Rent or Groceries
Ian Lee makes the case that taxes, not groceries or housing, are the actual biggest expense for working Canadians, and explains why that conversation almost…
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The Superstitions You Don't Even Know You Have
Superstition shows up in more places than black cats and broken mirrors. Shane runs through a long list of small, unconscious habits people carry every day…
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NEW - Tone it Down or Tone Deaf? Hypocrisy Behind Pete Hoekstra
A US official is telling Canada to tone down its rhetoric, and Andrew Caddell has a specific list of reasons why that message rings hollow. He runs through…
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Inside Copy: How To Sabotage Your Own Party's Candidate?
One candidate wanted to face a Democrat in the general election. The path he allegedly chose to get there involved planting evidence on someone from his own…
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A Weekend Watch List for Witches, Rebels, and Gamers
This week's watch list runs from a witch sequel with a devoted following to a medieval uprising and a rock reunion decades in the making. Steve Stebbing walks…
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ICYMI - What Happens to a Marriage When the Kids Leave
Long before the last kid moves out, Dr. Laurie Betito says the empty nest has already been happening in small doses for years. She traces how those early…
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The AI Contradiction Playing Out at This Year's Film Festivals
At this year's festival season, Mohit Rajhans noticed something that does not quite add up. Filmmakers are warning about how dangerous AI technology could be…
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Shiftheads - TIFF Opening Weekend: Why Some People Go To The Same Film Festival For Decades
Ben Harrison explains what keeps people coming back to TIFF year after year, including attendees well into their seventies and eighties who treat it as an…
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Unlucky? He Was Born on Friday the 13th, So He Ran the Numbers
Jeffrey Rosenthal has a personal stake in this question. He was born on a Friday the 13th, and every time someone calls the date unlucky, it feels a little bit…
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Half of Us Won't Remember 9/11 by the 2030s
Twenty five years after September 11th, the hosts compare notes on where they were that morning, and the gap between those old enough to remember it and those…
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NEW - The Non-Written Rule Jacking Up Your Grocery Bill
Food inflation is coming, but not for the reason most people assume. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois breaks down a quiet, unwritten pricing rule grocers follow every…
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Why Your Coffee Order Might Be Secretly Dessert
Every so often a fast food item goes viral for its sheer excess, and Lianne Phillipson has seen this pattern before. She traces the connection between a nearly…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Throwback Thursday: What American News Sounded Like Hours Before 9/11
This Throwback Thursday plays the actual ABC broadcast from just hours before the towers were hit, followed by CNN's coverage a day later, to hear exactly how…
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ICYMI - The Moment Rob Breakenridge Knew the World Changed
Twenty five years after September 11th, Rob Breakenridge describes waking up to a clock radio reporting what sounded like a small plane accident, and the exact…
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How 9/11 Quietly Rewrote the Video Game Industry
September 11th changed more than politics and airport security. It reached directly into entertainment, forcing edits to films most people have watched dozens…
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Shiftheads - Grounded in Gander: One Passenger's Story, 25 Years On
Kerry Derringer-Cashin was flying home from Dublin when her plane was diverted to Gander, Newfoundland on September 11th. She was on the first of thirty…
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ICYMI - The Home Footage That Changed How Ed Conroy Sees 9/11
Twenty five years after September 11th, the raw footage tells a different story than the highlight reels do. Ed Conroy spent the last day and a half digitizing…
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A $750,000 Horror Movie Made Almost $300 Million
Richard Crouse breaks down why this summer turned into one of the best box office stretches in years, driven by a mix of blockbuster sequels and something…
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How Many Used Cars Does Apple's New Phone Cost?
Apple just unveiled its long-awaited folding phone, and the reaction on this show wasn't about the design. Shane and Ryan run the actual math on the price tag…
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NEW - A Senior US Official Just Called Canada "Unhinged"
A shift in this week's tariff list caught less attention than the new bans, but Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay Broadhead argue it's the more telling detail…