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Every story on Hansard Files is built from the actual parliamentary record. The Hansard. Committee transcripts. Government audits. Declassified documents. Not the press release, not the clip, not the party line.
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Independent Canadian political journalism from the primary record: Hansard, committee Evidence, government audits, and the documents behind the press release.
Three pieces a week (Tue / Fri / Sun). Full citations. Nothing paywalled.
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THE WEEKLY RECORD
(What was actually said in committee and debate this session)
Fifty-eight people died in Driver Inc. trucking crashes. Parliament had the evidence, the testimony, and the votes to act. Then came the filibuster. A close reading of what the committee record actually shows.
Inside the Senate Agriculture Committee hearings where witnesses warned that Canada’s food supply chain is a national security liability hiding in plain sight. Built from what was said in the room, not the press release after.
THE PAPER TRAIL
(Documents almost nobody opens)
Since 2010, the Canada Periodical Fund granted over $663 million to media. One company took about 18 percent. The story lives in the open grants database, Public Accounts, and the formula almost nobody runs to the end.
FROM THE FILES
(Canadian history told from the primary record)
How Bill C-201 erased Dominion Day in five minutes. One sitting. One short debate. A name change that rewrote the calendar, recovered from the page of Hansard almost nobody quotes in full.
When a secret memo exposed the illusion of Canadian independence. Archival reporting on how Ottawa’s voice in Washington was diagnosed, and what the record said next.
Every piece includes full source citations: Hansard volume, committee Evidence number, report title. Everything is verifiable. That is the point.
Free: every story by email. The archive stays open.
Paid: fund the hours in the record so the work stays free for everyone.