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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.
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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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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Nine unpublished pages dismissed a consumer complaint, found no statutory or regulatory breach and held the CRTC’s notification procedures adequate.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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The Wooden Box Two Dalhousie Professors Dragged Under HMCS Fleur de Lys
On March 21, 1940, two Dalhousie physicists dragged a homemade detector under HMCS Fleur de Lys and solved a problem the Navy could not.
Jul 26
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The Fixed-Rate Mortgage Was a Trap Lenders Could Not Escape
A 1973 federal task force designed the variable-rate mortgage to unfreeze Canadian housing finance.
Jul 19
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The House of Alphonse: Canadian Secret Agents Who Led 307 Airmen Out of Occupied France
Two Dieppe prisoners of war built an escape route that moved 307 Allied airmen past German patrols and radio detectors without losing a single one.
Jul 12
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22,300 Miles High and a Country That Still Couldn't Talk to Itself
The untold history of Telesat, the Anik satellite, and the engineering marvels that brought national connectivity to Canada.
Jul 5
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The $35,000 Proposal to Measure What Nine Saskatchewan Residential Schools Were Doing to Children
Inside the forgotten 1950s archival proposal to study student health, adaptation, and conditions at nine Saskatchewan residential schools.
Jul 2
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I Read the Parliament of Canada Hansard for July 9, 1982, and the Bill Nobody Remembers Changed Everything
How Bill C-201 erased Dominion Day in five minutes
Jul 1
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The U-Boat That Spent the Night on the Bottom of a Newfoundland Bay and Sank Two Ships at Dawn
How a German submarine hid in Canadian waters and attacked Allied shipping during WWII.
Jun 28
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The Secret Report Canada Declassified in 1986 That Reframes Who Actually Started World War I
A deep dive into the declassified 1946 Canadian report that reframes the origins and blame of World War 1.
Jun 27
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Mike B.
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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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