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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
When Life Happens: A Storm, a Lost Dog, and a Choice to Make
The dog gets loose the second the thunder hits, and the people who'd normally drop everything to find it have contract work that only happens when the sun's…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Handy Andy Tips! A Broken Carafe, a $3,500 Phone, and Bad Sleep Data
Handy Andy Baryer tackles a string of kitchen appliance fixes, from a stubborn coffee maker sensor to the real science behind dishwasher habits, before…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Growing Up: The Step Stool That Explains Adulthood
A step stool from Canadian Tire becomes the unlikely symbol of what changes when two lives actually merge under one roof. Grocery runs get bigger, chores…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Buy Canadian Label That Doesn't Mean Canadian
Buy Canadian policy sounds simple until you start asking what actually counts as Canadian. Jimmy Zoubris and Lesley Kelly unpack why that question matters for…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - The Opportunity Says Yes. Your Budget Says Wait.
Surprise expenses show up disguised as good news: a kid making the team, free tickets to a race, a last-minute concert invite. Jessica Moorhouse, author of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Canadians Are Supposed to Buy Canadian - Is the Government Also Following Their Own Program?
An American company runs the payment portal for an Ontario utility bill. Economist Moshe Lander uses that example to unpack how a business qualifies as…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Can You Really Add a Third Person Into a Relationship?
Before diving into open relationships, the question on the table is simpler: if two people already struggle to make time for each other, how does adding a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - It's Technically Illegal to Ship Wine Between Provinces
Provinces claim they're united against tariff threats, but columnist Andrew Caddell points out one premier who can't even agree to loosen alcohol shipping…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Inside Copy: When an MLS Seems to Read His AI Prompt Out Loud in a Real Speech
A New Brunswick MLA delivered a speech that still had the AI's own commentary baked into it, proof that the copy button grabs everything, whether you meant to…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: King of the Hill's Best Season Might Be Its Fifteenth
Steve Stebbing makes the case that King of the Hill's fifteenth season is not just a nostalgic return but genuinely one of the show's best, thanks to real…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Open Marriage That Fell Apart the Moment It Started
A husband spent years pressuring his wife into an open marriage, and the moment she finally agreed and found a boyfriend, he couldn't cope, a real case…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Nobody Can Actually Define AI Adoption
A government target aims for 60% AI adoption by 2030, and Mohit Rajhans admits the phrase itself is what keeps him up at night, because nobody has actually…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Why Online Debates Are Rarely Actual Debates
Professor Timothy Caulfield argues that most viral online debates aren't built to uncover truth at all, they're built to produce a winner, a loser, and maximum…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Canada’s Sweet Treats - Saskatoon Berry Pie vs. Nanaimo Bar: The Debate
A look back at how BeaverTails turned into one of Canada's most recognisable food exports since its 1980 debut in Ottawa's Byward Market kicks off a wider…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Grocery Stores: Selling Food or Convenience?
Grocery stores sell the idea of fresh food, but Food Professor Dr. Sylvain Charlebois makes the case that most of what shoppers pay for is convenience dressed…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Weight Loss Pill Won't Fix How You Eat
GLP-1 drugs suppress appetite and the weight comes off, but registered dietitian Abby Sharp explains why the pill alone leaves people right back where they…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Throwback Thursday: 1980 Explains a Lot More Than You'd Think
BeaverTails started on Sparks Street in Ottawa in 1980, and that single detail opens up a wider look back at a year that turns out to have set the stage for…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Why Silence From Ottawa Feels Like Endorsement
Rob Breakenridge breaks down why Canadians are growing tired of hearing that the government will do whatever it takes, while new Trump tariffs keep landing…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Coffee Doesn't Dehydrate You, Turns Out
New research suggests up to five cups of coffee a day may actually support heart health rather than work against it, and that's just the starting point for a…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - A Microbiologist's Own Taco Stand Story Went Very Wrong
Dr. Keith Warriner studies food safety for a living, and he still ended up hospitalized after one taco stand decision near the Mexican border, an experience he…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Colonel Sanders Quit America and Built This in Canada
A&W turns out to be Canadian, not American, and that's just the start of what historian Ed Conroy uncovers about the food brands people think they know. Anyone…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
95 Year Old William Shatners Rock Star Rider Wants What?
William Shatner is 95, and his Riot Fest rider reads like a dare, entertainment critic Richard Crouse breaks down what he actually got the festival to agree…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Rating This Summer Out of Ten, Halfway In
Rate your summer out of ten sounds simple until the answer actually has to come out loud. One host lands on a four, citing a move and friends scattered out of…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Smart Speakers: Nobody Knows What Box Canada Sits In
Rating the summer out of ten turns into something heavier once the conversation shifts to whether Canadians have simply checked out. Jamie Ellerton and Lindsay…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Three in Five Canadians Now Plan to Thrift
Thrifting has lost its stigma, with new survey data showing three in five Canadians plan to shop secondhand this year. Bruce Winder connects the surge to…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Booking a Dive Bar Instead of a Ballroom
The average wedding cost in Canada now sits between thirty and forty thousand dollars, double what it was in 2010, and climbing higher in cities like Toronto…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - UnCover-Up: The Book has Arrived… or has it?
How to think clearly about conspiracies starts with admitting you're not immune to them. Lee Kuhnle and Nathan Radke, longtime co-teachers and now co-authors…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Hustle Culture Is Quietly Killing Reading
Hustle culture and literacy don't sound connected until Greg Fish lays out the chain reaction: kids stop reading for boredom relief, schools turn reading into…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Why Is Cancelling Harder Than Signing Up for Everything?
Subscription costs keep climbing even after you already cut cable to save money. Tony Chapman lays out why the average household now pays for seven streaming…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
You're Probably Two to Four Percent Neanderthal. And it’s a Compliment
Neanderthals and modern humans lived in the same caves, hunted the same animals, and made nearly identical tools, so why did only one species survive? April…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SQZ 455: The License Plate a Grandmother Never Ordered
A license plate story turns a routine plate swap into one of the wildest good news pickups of the year. A seventy seven year old grandmother is randomly issued…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Good News Tuesday - Six Whales Just Left Marineland for Good
A bumper stumpers style guessing game runs through some of the best vanity plates ever spotted, from a Ferrari reading C student to a Jeep that simply says no…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: A Google Maps Detour Found a 390-Million-Year Crater
Impact crater discovery isn't supposed to happen because someone was scouting a campsite, but that's the story here. Dr. Gordon Osinski, a planetary geology…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - What’s On Your Mind: Elias Makos Brand New Baby!
Paternity leave sounds simple until you're eight days in, running on no sleep, and watching your toddler realize he's not an only child anymore. Elias Makos is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The World Cup Final That Fans Say Went Too Far
A soccer fandom conversation opens with a confession: thirty million Canadians watched the World Cup, many for the first time paying close attention to a sport…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Widow’s Crayon Box: A Poet Turned Grief Into a Colourful Story
Grief and poetry rarely get compared to a box of crayons, but that's exactly the shape Molly Peacock gives it in her new collection. She built the book around…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The E-Bike With a Rear View Camera and 911 Built In
A tech news roundup opens with word that Samsung is heading into humanoid robot production, starting with industrial models before the company looks at…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Doing Nothing Feels Great. Feeling Guilty About It Doesn't
Leisure guilt is the reason you cancel plans and then spend the whole weekend feeling like you ruined something. Jen Kirsch and Tony Tedesco dig into why…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
A Goalless Final Until it Wasn’t
A World Cup final that ran a hundred and fifteen minutes before either team scored, and one side never managed a single shot on net the entire match. Spain's…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Handy Andy Tips: The Trellis Trick and the Foldable Phone Problem
A backyard trellis turns a runaway squash vine into an overhead harvest, and a phone company still hasn't solved the crease running down the middle of its…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Comedy Open Might Night: Tempted
A night meant to be spent watching a friend's first open mic set turns into something else entirely: the sudden, terrifying thought that maybe stand-up is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Monday Study: The Runway Is Getting Shorter for Carney
Fifty percent tariffs on Canadian alcohol and dairy land with a thirty day deadline attached, and the timing traces straight back to an awkward World Cup…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - Little House: The Show Got the Story Right. It Got the Prairie Wrong
Little House on the Prairie true story details rarely match what actually happened to the Ingalls family, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum's Julien Nolan…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Your Key Fob Isn't the Problem. Your Car Company Is
Car theft technology finally got a real answer when Ford introduced Start Inhibit, a built-in immobilizer that stops a stolen key from starting your vehicle…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
A YouTuber Tried to Talk AI Into Breaking the Law
An AI lying on camera is one thing. Watching someone talk it into a crime is another. A YouTuber set up three AIs on three phones and asked them to count to…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Tariffs Over Smoke? Andrew Caddell Weighs In
California burns and Canada sends planes. Canada burns and the US threatens tariffs. Andrew Caddell digs into that double standard, plus the human causes…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: Why the Large Hadron Collider Is Shutting Down (For Now)
The Large Hadron Collider is going dark, and it is not the ending it sounds like. Dr. Samantha Yammine walks through what a decade-old Higgs boson discovery…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - What to Watch This Weekend, From Nolan's Epic to a Reboot
A three-hour Nolan epic, a Canadian coming-of-age drama gone taboo, and a reunion sketch pitch disguised as a dinner party. Steve Stebbing breaks down what is…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The Problem With "You Complete Me"
"You complete me" sounds romantic right up until you think about what it implies. Dr. Laurie Betito explains why that phrase, and the old "happy wife, happy…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - Mac vs PC AI Edition: Is Claude the Rock Star or the Nerd?
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini are not interchangeable, and the one you default to says more about what you actually need than you think. Mohit Rajhans runs the…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Sunscreen Paradox: Why More Product Means More Burns
Sunscreen feels like protection, but a dermatologist says it might be giving you permission to burn instead. Dr. Ivan Litvinov walks through why the products…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Five Actors Who Vanished Into Someone Else's Voice
Somewhere between imitation and full transformation is where the best biopic performances live, and a new Stallone film trailer is the starting point for…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Fewer Mouths to Feed Means Smaller Steaks, Same Price
Populations are shrinking. Appetites are shrinking too, thanks to GLP-1 drugs. Food Professor Dr. Sylvain Charlebois lays out what happens when an entire…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
SHIFTHEADS: The Skies Over Thunder Bay Turned Burnt Orange
Ash falling from the sky. Homes smelling like campfires from the inside. A town called Collins evacuated by boat as flames closed in. This is what forest fire…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - The Last Space Shuttle Flew the Same Year Vancouver Burned
NASA closed out thirty years of space shuttle missions the same year Vancouver's streets filled with flipped cars after a Stanley Cup Game 7 loss. 2011 packed…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
NEW - Flying for Free Isn't Dead. It Just Got Harder
Four years of saving points. One redemption. And the taxes and fees still took a $900 bite out of a flight that was supposed to be free. That's the moment most…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Shiftheads - The Bridge Deal Where Nobody Gets Paid Until Debt Clears
A $6 billion bridge, a private partner, and a new rule that changes the usual math entirely: no profit until the debt gets repaid first. Tim Powers breaks down…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
ICYMI - A Human Tripod Once Caught a Falling Satellite
Normally a spacewalk sends out two people. One time in NASA history, it sent out three, because a massive satellite wasn't cooperating and somebody suggested…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
The Year Bitcoin Hit a Dollar and Investors bought Pizza
Bitcoin crossed a dollar in 2011 and almost nobody blinked. Ed Conroy revisits the year that felt completely ordinary at the time and turns out to have been…
- Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
Richard Crouse: 60ft Puppets and a Self Cast AI Wanna-Be
A dart hitting the stage was enough to end a Metallica show outright, no warning, no encore. Richard Crouse has the story behind one of only four times the…