We read the record. You read the story.
Hansard Files turns Canadian parliamentary and government records into narrative journalism. Committee evidence, audits, the Gazette, departmental reports, and closed archival files. Three reported features each week. Every story is free to read and includes its sources.
If you are new, start with one of these.
How Canada got here
From the pacemaker to computer animation in Hollywood, the National Research Council is the hidden history of Canada's greatest scientific gamble.
How Telesat and the Anik satellite program solved the engineering problem of connecting Canada's isolated northern communities.
A nearly empty House replaced “Dominion Day” with “Canada Day” in one afternoon.
A current fight in the record
From organized crime networks at domestic ports to chemical contamination and tariff pressures, five committee rooms in late April 2026 revealed the state of the country in real time.
Behind closed doors and regulatory orders, Ottawa moved to track Russian shadow tankers navigating Arctic approaches and harden domestic nuclear facilities against insider sabotage.
The rest of the archive is filed by the kind of record, if you want to browse that way:
The Paper Trail: current government documents and active committee evidence
From the Files: closed archival records
Notes capture shorter findings from the record between the weekly features.
Free: every story by email. The archive stays open.
Paid: fund the hours in the record so the work stays free for everyone.