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Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift
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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 expert guests, passionate callers, and Shane’s signature style—thoughtful, fearless, and refreshingly real.
If you crave meaningful dialogue, smart perspectives, and late-night radio energy in podcast form, subscribe now and join The Nightshift.
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Prairie Bound: A Summer Drive to Meet the Family He Never Knew He Had
6d ago00:09:20Tap to summarizeBirth family connections don't always start with a meeting, and a radio contributor says the phone call that changed his life happened almost twenty years ago. Bob Addison says he is adopted and found out about his birth family only when his birth mother was already dying. He never met her, but they spoke by phone. He says the people on that side turned out to be wonderful, and this summer he is driving across the prairies to see them. The trip includes Swan River, Brandon, and a short drive east to Carberry, the community where his birth mother spent her teaching career. Addison also has a biological brother whose life growing up around the Brandon hockey scene explains the hockey obsession he had since age five. Topics: birth family, adoption, prairie road trip, Brandon Wheat Kings, birth mother GUEST: Bob Addison | @‌riobobbo Originally aired on 2026-05-19
Transcribe →ICYMI: Trump Is Right About Canada's Military. Matt Gurney Says We've Known It for Decades.
6d ago00:09:56Tap to summarizeCanada defence spending has been a broken promise for decades, and a political journalist says the US pausing a joint defence board is just the beginning of what's coming. Matt Gurney says the Permanent Joint Board of Defense, a Canada-US committee dating back to 1940, has been paused explicitly because of Canada's failure to meet defence commitments. The trade agreement renegotiates in six weeks, mushroom tariffs just hit Canadian farmers, and Gurney says it is all the same pressure campaign. A classified American document leaked in recent years captured European and American officials confronting Canada's former prime minister over defence spending. Gurney says the former PM privately acknowledged Canada would never hit its NATO target because there was no domestic appetite for it. Polling now shows that appetite is growing. Topics: Canada defence spending, Permanent Joint Board of Defense, trade renegotiation, mushroom tariffs, NATO GUEST: Matt Gurney | The Line | Substack | @‌mattgurney Originally aired on 2026-05-19
Transcribe →NEW - The 18% Default: How the Payment Screen Changed the Tipping Conversation
1w ago00:09:35Tap to summarizeTipping culture has a word problem. The receipt says gratuity. The machine says 18. Somewhere between those two things, the meaning changed. The hosts dig into what it means when muscle memory sends you to 18% because that's where 15% used to be. Canadians are pushing back, and the team says the reason isn't stinginess. It's that an expectation is not the same thing as a thank-you. A long weekend weather check rounds out the open, from Calgary's late-season snow to Ottawa's incoming 28-degree Monday. At least one team member thinks a hoodie on the patio is exactly the right way to celebrate. Originally aired on 2026-05-15
Transcribe →What’s On Your Mind, Elias Makso? Quebec Tried to Fix Tipping and broke it
1w ago00:09:44Tap to summarizeTipping in Quebec had a problem, so the government passed a law. The first tip option is now higher than it was before the law existed. The old system calculated tips on top of Quebec's 15% sales tax, pushing a stated 15% tip to roughly 17.5% in practice. The law banned that and required the "other" option on payment machines to be as visible as the presets. Restaurants responded by setting the new first option at 18%. The same pattern shows up in a separate consumer protection law now coming into effect. Washers and dryers must last five years. Fridges, stoves, and freezers, six years. Cell phones, three years. Retailers are warning those guarantees will push appliance prices up 10 to 30 percent. Topics: tipping, tip creep, Quebec consumer laws, appliance warranty law, government regulation GUEST: Elias Makos | http://cjad800.com/shows/elias-makos/ Originally aired on 2026-05-15
Transcribe →SHIFTHEADS: What a Hospitality Professor Actually Thinks About Your 20% Tip
1w ago00:09:42Tap to summarizeTipping culture is being redesigned, and a hospitality professor says the first real test is already happening at restaurants near you. Wayne Smith says tipping and non-tipping sections are being beta tested now, giving customers a choice that changes the nature of the transaction entirely. Pick the tipping section and you get full table service. Pick the other and you order at a kiosk, pick up your own food, and walk away. Smith also traces tipping's roots to post-Civil War America, where it became a tool for keeping minority workers from earning full wages. That history, he says, is not separate from the screen in front of you today. Topics: tipping culture, tipping sections, hospitality research, tipping history, service industry reform GUEST: Wayne Smith Originally aired on 2026-05-15
Transcribe →ICYMI What to Watch This Weekend: The Movie That Could Change Awards Season for Horror
1w ago00:18:31Tap to summarizeWhat to watch this weekend just got a lot more specific, and a film critic from Penticton has already done the scrolling for you. The Movie That Could Make Awards History for Horror Obsession is a Blumhouse debut that Stebbing calls wildly unpredictable, built around a man whose wish for his coworker's love comes true in all the wrong ways. A viral YouTube short got the director his first feature. Also on the list: a blaxploitation-style revenge thriller and a Guy Ritchie heist with Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal. British TV Is Better Than You Think, and the Proof Is Free on YouTube The British TV conversation opens with essentials like Peep Show and Spaced, continues with a free six-episode YouTube series engineered to look professionally terrible on purpose, and lands on Martin Short's Netflix documentary and the Yellowstone spin-off Dutton Ranch on Paramount Plus. Topics: what to watch this weekend, new movies, British TV, Obsession film, Dutton Ranch GUEST: Steve Stebbing | stevestebbing.ca | @thestevildead Originally aired on 2026-05-15
Transcribe →Shiftheads - Secrets, Privacy, and White Lies: A Clinical Psychologist on What's Killing Your Relationship
1w ago00:17:43Tap to summarizeSecrets in relationships aren't always what they look like, and a clinical psychologist says the distinction between privacy and secrecy could be the most important conversation a couple never has. Deleting Messages Is Not Privacy. A Psychologist Draws the Line Dr. Laurie Betito says privacy protects individuality and is necessary even in close relationships, while secrecy is concealment that protects the liar, not the bond. A journal is private. Deleted messages are a secret. The most common ones she sees cluster around addictions and infidelity. White Lies Feel Safe Until They Become the Whole Relationship Dr. Laurie Betito says white lies motivated by kindness serve a purpose, but repeated ones erode trust and eventually create an atmosphere the relationship can't survive. When someone lies to avoid judgment over minor things, Betito says that's a big tell about how safe they feel telling the truth. A healthy relationship shouldn't require constant proof of innocence. Topics: secrets in relationships, privacy vs secrecy, white lies, trust erosion, relationship advice GUEST: Dr. Laurie Betito | drlaurie.com Originally aired on 2026-05-15
Transcribe →ICYMI - The Rogue Tool Problem: What Happens When Employees Go Off-Script With AI
1w ago00:09:33Tap to summarizeShadow AI is a one-click liability, and a tech consultant says most employers have no idea how deep it already goes inside their own organizations. Mohit Rajhans says employees are uploading pricing structures, proprietary documents, and competitive bid information to unvetted AI tools without understanding the security implications. Some of those tools have already shut down. In some cases, the companies that backed them no longer exist. Rajhans says the technology is moving too fast for a full audit of who's used what. Companies need to draw a clear line on what can't be used, then build tools that actually meet their employees where they are. Topics: shadow AI, AI data security, proprietary data, unvetted AI tools, cybersecurity GUEST: Mohit Rajhans | http://thinkstart.ca Originally aired on 2026-05-15
Transcribe →Are We Leaving Boys Behind? A Mental Health Educator on What's Going Wrong
1w ago00:09:58Tap to summarizeBoys falling behind in school often starts before anyone thinks to look, and a mental health professor says the gap begins in kindergarten. Calissa Ngozi says girls' brains develop faster, giving them social and emotional reasoning that boys need significantly more time to build. She confirms that full brain development doesn't complete until around 25. The education system isn't accounting for what happens in those years before it does. Ngozi points out that expecting boys to sit for hours without physical stimulation is a setup for disengagement. Those academic consequences follow them into university applications, career paths, and well beyond the classroom. Topics: boys falling behind, brain development, kinesthetic learning, boys education, mental health GUEST: Calissa Ngozi | @‌calissangozi Originally aired on 2026-05-15
Transcribe →Peptides Are Real. The Science Behind Most of What's Online Isn't
1w ago00:09:43Tap to summarizePeptide supplements are flooding the internet with promises about weight loss and joint repair. A physician says the science behind almost all of them stops at a Petri dish. Dr. Mitch Shulman says the gold standard for knowing whether anything works is a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial, and none of the substances being touted online have been through that process. What gets sold instead is anecdotal evidence, the most biased form of data there is. Beyond whether these compounds work, Shulman raises the question of what is actually in them. Heavy metal contamination, unknown sterility, and unverified manufacturing are all possible when you bypass Health Canada approval. Topics: peptide supplements, Health Canada, clinical trials, anecdotal evidence, online supplements GUEST: Dr. Mitch Shulman Originally aired on 2026-05-15
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