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Transport Canada Replaced an Emergency Pilotage Order for LNG Carriers
The new order replaces a July 2025 measure and gives coordinates, scope, and a safety finding without describing the urgent issue behind it.
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Mike B.
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"This Is a Tale of Power": The 1976 Royal Commission That Asked Whether IBM Canada Controlled the Canadian State
In 1976, a Royal Commission called IBM Canada a subsidiary so integrated into its American parent that it functioned as a state within a state.
Aug 9
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Mike B.
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CBC Reports Billions, but Not Local Station Spending
The Senate wants CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate rewritten around local communities, with public station-level reports showing whether the money follows the…
Aug 7
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Ottawa Named a 1,250-Kilometre Pipeline Without Publishing Its Route
Ottawa has named the endpoints and scale of a proposed Alberta-to-British Columbia oil pipeline, while leaving the communities between them unstated.
Aug 4
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Women Remained Inside Kingston’s Men’s Prison for 99 Years
Three women arrived in 1835. Officials called their quarters unfit for decades before they were moved beyond the men’s penitentiary walls.
Aug 2
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July 2026
The CRTC Ruled on Its Own Conduct. Then Said It Wasn't a Decision
Nine unpublished pages dismissed a consumer complaint, found no statutory or regulatory breach and held the CRTC’s notification procedures adequate.
Jul 31
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One Van Has to Reach 1,100 Students
A federal northern food security fund bought the vehicle behind nine Whitehorse school routes
Jul 28
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The Wooden Box Two Dalhousie Professors Dragged Under HMCS Fleur de Lys
On March 21, 1940, two Dalhousie physicists dragged a homemade detector under HMCS Fleur de Lys and solved a problem the Navy could not.
Jul 26
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Iran’s Lego Videos Reached 83 Million Users in a Month
Canada traced Iran AI propaganda from low-engagement Farsi videos to a global English audience
Jul 24
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Canada Now Lets Foreign Regulators Finish Parts of Drug Reviews
Health Canada drug reviews can now skip work already completed abroad.
Jul 21
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The Fixed-Rate Mortgage Was a Trap Lenders Could Not Escape
A 1973 federal task force designed the variable-rate mortgage to unfreeze Canadian housing finance.
Jul 19
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His Wife Joined Alto. He Cast Thirteen Votes.
The Finance Minister built an ethics screen for Alto, then cast thirteen votes anyway.
Jul 17
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