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The Canola Industry Began With Half a Seed
How five surviving seeds became the genetic foundation of Canadian canola.
Sep 20
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Mike B.
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The Azure Blackout Froze Corporate Networks Around the World. Canadian Seniors Never Missed a Payment.
Canada's largest IT transformation just survived a global blackout. The Benefits Delivery Modernization is only halfway done.
Sep 13
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Mike B.
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800 Students in 1969. 10,000 by 1982. The Report That Asked Canadian Universities If They Were Ready and Didn't Like the Answer
In 1976, Ottawa sent Dr. E.R. Daniels across Canada to ask universities if they were ready for Indigenous students. They were not.
Sep 6
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Mike B.
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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
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Mike B.
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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
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Mike B.
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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
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Mike B.
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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
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Mike B.
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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
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Mike B.
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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
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Mike B.
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"This Is a Tale of Power": The 1976 Royal Commission That Asked Whether IBM Canada Controlled the Canadian State
In 1976, a Royal Commission called IBM Canada a subsidiary so integrated into its American parent that it functioned as a state within a state.
Aug 9
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Mike B.
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Women Remained Inside Kingston’s Men’s Prison for 99 Years
Three women arrived in 1835. Officials called their quarters unfit for decades before they were moved beyond the men’s penitentiary walls.
Aug 2
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Mike B.
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The CRTC Ruled on Its Own Conduct. Then Said It Wasn't a Decision
Nine unpublished pages dismissed a consumer complaint, found no statutory or regulatory breach and held the CRTC’s notification procedures adequate.
Jul 31
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Mike B.
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