Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Notes
Start Here
The Weekly Record
The Paper Trail
From the Files
Archive
About
Latest
Top
Discussions
The Fifth Standing Committee: A Mother’s 1,619-Day Wait for an Online Harms Law
MPs heard testimony on social media’s toll on Canadian kids. A mother who buried her daughter says Parliament keeps making words instead of action.
Sep 4
•
Mike B.
4
1
1
Canadian Women Earned 87 Cents for Every Dollar Men Earned in 2023. Canada Filed That Fact With the United Nations.
The Canadian Human Rights Commission told the UN in 2024 that Canadian women earned 87 cents per dollar and the machinery of equality had stalled.
Sep 1
•
Mike B.
6
3
3
August 2026
Easterly Winds Carried Niagara Water to the Canadian Shore
In 1970 the International Joint Commission found Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and the international St. Lawrence polluted on both sides of the boundary.
Aug 30
•
Mike B.
6
1
2
Canada Border Officers Spot Illegal Crossings They Are Barred From Stopping
At the Whirlpool Bridge and across rural ports, CBSA officers watch crossings happen and wait hours for RCMP backup they are powerless to skip.
Aug 28
•
Mike B.
7
4
2
26 Degrees at 2:00 AM With the Windows Closed. A New NRC Report Says That Is Enough to Hurt You.
An NRC review finds that sealing homes for energy efficiency may be incubating a health crisis at temperatures most Canadians consider safe.
Aug 25
•
Mike B.
14
4
3
Every Parking Spot at the Drive-In Counts as Three Seats
Published August 22: $1.50 a seat on capacity for 2017 through 2024, due November 20. From 2025, a cut of the basic ticket.
Aug 25
•
Mike B.
2
1
1
325 Pounds, 10 Years, and a 50-50 Chance: How Canada Became the Third Nation in Space
Alouette 1 left Shirley Bay with a fifty-fifty chance of surviving orbit. Ground stations in South Africa and Alaska confirmed the signal.
Aug 23
•
Mike B.
9
5
3
A Five-to-Four Vote Closed the File on 15 Years of Bridge Tolls
The House operations committee stopped a motion to release the Gordie Howe agreement and have the Parliamentary Budget Officer price it.
Aug 21
•
Mike B.
9
4
3
The 2026 Car Had a 20 Percent Zero-Emission Floor. Ottawa Wants It Gone.
Zero-emission sales had already fallen from 14 percent to 9 percent. The repeal's own cost-benefit statement puts the net cost at $90.3 billion.
Aug 18
•
Mike B.
5
2
3
The Accidental Empire: Old Age Pensions in 1927, Unemployment Insurance in 1940, Family Allowances in 1944. Nobody Planned Any of It.
By 1989, the Library of Parliament documented how Canada built a welfare state through crisis legislation nobody fully planned.
Aug 16
•
Mike B.
11
4
2
Parliament’s MAID Committee Rejects Another Deadline
Its only recommendation is an indefinite exclusion after the same clinical and system disputes delayed eligibility twice before.
Aug 14
•
Mike B.
8
1
2
A Saskatchewan First Nation Unlocks Bond Market Rates for Community Infrastructure
Adding Whitecap Dakota to Schedule 2 of federal adaptation regulations enables direct access to low-cost pooled borrowing.
Aug 12
•
Mike B.
6
2
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
