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Canada’s $159B Defence Reckoning Is Already Overdue
The Senate’s three days of debate in May 2026 exposed a yawning chasm between Ottawa’s NATO spending promises and the fiscal reality the Parliamentary…
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Canada’s Week of Reckoning: 3 Bills, 1 Parliament
Forced sterilization, military sexual justice, and a land-title earthquake collided in the House of Commons between May 4 and 8, 2026, revealing how…
May 12
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The Hidden 3 Percent Levy: How SOCAN Tariff 4.A Just Captured Canada’s Live DJs and Lip-Synchers
Buried in a Saturday supplement, the new ruling imposes a strict royalty floor on every music venue and promoter. Here is how the federal copyright…
May 11
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The Twenty-Five Thousand Who Stayed Behind
While the world celebrated VE Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division marched into the ruins of Germany to govern a sullen enemy and manage the chaos of…
May 10
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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6,000 Rounds of Failure: The Secret Report on Canada’s WW2 Weapons
In 1944, officers gathered in a pine wood to shoot their own pistols at ammo boxes. The results—and a classified file on the despised Sten gun—exposed a…
May 9
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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502 Billion Reasons Ottawa’s Committee Rooms Felt Like a Systems Test
As senators examined the 2026-27 Main Estimates, witnesses described a country where money, data, justice, food, trade and trust all depend on whether…
May 8
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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100 Minutes With Marlow: The Human Toll Exposed in Canadian Parliamentary Committees
From grieving mothers fighting the CRA to Indigenous families facing legal extinction, recent Canadian parliamentary committees reveal the devastating…
May 7
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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“Canada Strong” Week in the Senate: Heroes, Billions, and a Border Failure
The chamber honored Ukrainians under sirens and Arctic explorers while debating a new sovereign wealth fund and demanding answers on why an IRGC…
May 6
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The $25 Billion Fund and the Week Carney’s Majority Took Control
The spring economic update put the Canada Strong fund at the centre of a new majority’s first test, linking affordability, debt, committees, and trust…
May 5
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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99 Days at the Brink: The $4 Billion Sunrise Expansion Program
The Sunrise Expansion Program will push 300 million cubic feet of natural gas to the coast daily. But buried in the approval is a complex fight over…
May 4
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Eighteen Years of Whiplash: How One Report Mapped Canada’s Survival Between Wars
A forgotten 1938 government analysis reveals the devastation of the Great Depression and the fragile recovery that preceded World War II.
May 3
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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50 Percent of Children and the End of the Pioneer Era
How the 1931 Census revealed a nation where half of all young children lived in near-poverty and the large family was rapidly becoming extinct.
May 2
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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