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Debates & Proceedings

The Carbon Mortgage: Canada locks in fossil fuel exports until 2075.

While Senators rushed to adjourn for the holidays, a buried provision in the 2025 budget bill quietly extended Canada’s LNG export timeline to nearly…

Feb 5 • Hansard Files

58 Fatalities, Zero Accountability, and the Parliament of Fools

Inside the chaotic, insult-laden committee brawl that buried the “Driver Inc.” investigation while Canadian highways turn deadly.

Feb 4 • Hansard Files

54% Rise in Violent Crime: The Fight to Fix Bill C-16

A government under siege attempts to rewrite the rules of justice while the opposition claims the streets have been surrendered.

Feb 3 • Hansard Files

Defence Contractors Fight for Fairness While Ministers Shuffle

A sole-source software scandal and a crackdown on toxic laundry detergent mark a chaotic week in the federal register.

Feb 2 • Hansard Files

Research & Open Data

Zuranolone Regulation: Why Health Canada is Controlling a New Postpartum Treatment

The government moves to list the first oral medication for postpartum depression under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act alongside…

14 hrs ago • Hansard Files

The Secret Memo That Forced Canada To Choose Sides

A classified request from Belgium tested national loyalty and trapped peacekeepers in the deadly crossfire of the Cold War.

Feb 8 • Hansard Files

51.82% of Hiawatha: The Arithmetic of Extinction

Across Canada, a silent demographic clock is ticking inside the government’s own servers. New data reveals precisely when First Nations communities will…

Feb 7 • Hansard Files

The Five Percent Shock: Canada’s Impossible Struggle to Re-Arm

A new era of “total defense” demands Ottawa triple its military footprint, but decades of industrial decay and procurement paralysis stand in the way.

Feb 6 • Hansard Files

Recent posts

The Five Percent Shock: Canada’s Impossible Struggle to Re-Arm

A new era of “total defense” demands Ottawa triple its military footprint, but decades of industrial decay and procurement paralysis stand in the way.

Feb 6 • Hansard Files

The Carbon Mortgage: Canada locks in fossil fuel exports until 2075.

While Senators rushed to adjourn for the holidays, a buried provision in the 2025 budget bill quietly extended Canada’s LNG export timeline to nearly…

Feb 5 • Hansard Files

58 Fatalities, Zero Accountability, and the Parliament of Fools

Inside the chaotic, insult-laden committee brawl that buried the “Driver Inc.” investigation while Canadian highways turn deadly.

Feb 4 • Hansard Files

54% Rise in Violent Crime: The Fight to Fix Bill C-16

A government under siege attempts to rewrite the rules of justice while the opposition claims the streets have been surrendered.

Feb 3 • Hansard Files

Defence Contractors Fight for Fairness While Ministers Shuffle

A sole-source software scandal and a crackdown on toxic laundry detergent mark a chaotic week in the federal register.

Feb 2 • Hansard Files

The 67,000 Dollars That Bought an Arctic Empire

For fifty years, Canada claimed the High Arctic on paper while ignoring it in practice. Then the Americans and Norwegians arrived, and Ottawa had to pay…

Feb 1 • Hansard Files

The Forty-Two Hours That Broke The Government

Prime Minister Diefenbaker refused to alert forces during the Cuban Missile Crisis and changed history.

Jan 31 • Hansard Files

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