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Baker Lake, 1962: The Sociologist Who Watched Ottawa Turn the Arctic Into a Class System
F.G. Vallee spent 1962 in Baker Lake watching Ottawa's wage economy divide the Inuit into haves and have-nots.
Jun 21
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Lester Pearson Had 48 Hours to Build an Army From Nothing. He Did It to Save the World.
Lester Pearson and a Canadian general had 48 hours to assemble a peacekeeping force from nothing. What they built changed how the world ends wars.
Jun 20
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The Billion-Dollar Panic: How 1950 Rewrote Canadian Defence Policy
From a $195 million shoestring army to a billion-dollar nuclear-ready air force: Inside the declassified files that built Canada’s Cold War machine.
Jun 14
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The “Confidential” Report: Education in the North, 1961
Inside the internal government document that claimed “1000% progress” while architecting a new era of federal control.
Jun 13
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Canada Tried to Make It Rain 22 Times. Nothing Happened.
How a classified 1954 federal report from the Department of Transport admitted that Canada’s airborne cloud-seeding program, after two summers and…
Jun 7
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The Whispering Campaign: How Rumour, Resistance, and Bureaucratic Delay Nearly Broke Canada’s Women’s Wartime Services
Canada mobilized over 45,000 women into uniform in WWII, yet a secret 1954 Army Headquarters report reveals they spent years fighting a second war…
Jun 6
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Canada's Metric War: How a 1984 Court Ruling Nearly Unravelled a Decade of Conversion
The Weights and Measures Act was law. Then a judge in Ontario said it violated the Charter, and suddenly the country that spent a decade switching to…
Jun 5
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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Television Swallowed Radio Alive: The 1957-58 Numbers That Rewired Canada
Canada’s 1957-58 broadcasting survey, the first national financial census of private radio and television stations, reveals how a $128 million industry…
May 31
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Canada’s Forgotten War: How 4,000 Soldiers Were Sent to Siberia Without a Clear Reason, Then Quietly Brought Home
The Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force deployed 5,000 troops to Vladivostok in 1918 on a mission nobody could fully explain. A newly declassified…
May 30
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Canada’s Forgotten First Soldiers: The 439 Men Who Never Made It to the Trenches
Before a single Canadian boot touched European mud in the First World War, hundreds of soldiers were garrisoned in the tropics, fighting bureaucratic…
May 29
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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40 Doctors and 2 Million Casualties: The Hidden War Inside Canada’s Second World War
How a corps of just 40 permanent medical officers built a battlefield healthcare system from almost nothing, and what it cost the men and women who held…
May 28
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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The Blueprint for Erasure: Inside the 1955 Indian Act Amendments That Quietly Redefined Who Got to Be Indian
How a closed-door conference between Ottawa bureaucrats and First Nations delegates produced the legal machinery still shaping Indigenous identity in…
May 24
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Mike B. | Hansard Files
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