May 30, 2026
The Truck That Fed the War
Canada built more than 815,000 military vehicles between 1939 and 1945. Roughly half were Canadian Military Pattern trucks. Almost nobody remembers them.
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The Dominion Files
Original narrative nonfiction from across the Canadian historical record. Every piece reported. Every fact verifiable. Nothing invented.
May 27, 2026
Five Pounds Four Ounces of Nothing
How Canada bought 25,000 MacAdam shield-shovels for the First World War, watched them fail every serious test, and sold the lot for scrap.
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The Government or the Opposition
How Robert Borden Held an Election and Won It Before Anyone Voted
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Open to All Comers
The true story of St. Paul, Alberta's official UFO landing pad — a 130,000-kilogram centennial monument built to welcome visitors from other worlds, still waiting under the prairie sky.
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The Hole They Dug for the End of the World
A plan to save 535 people. Their families were not on the list. Neither was most of the government.
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Character Weakness
How Canada built a machine to detect gay civil servants, proved nothing with it, and carried on with the purge anyway.
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A Fugitive in the Frost
The unstoppable pursuit across the Arctic that gripped Canada in 1931-1932
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The Wrong House on a Tuesday Afternoon
In 2018, two cleaners walked into an unlocked house in Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia, and left it better than they found it. They just had the wrong address.
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The Blind Side of the Hooghly
How a Drunken Sea Captain, a Stolen Pair of Spectacles, and a Parliamentary Trick Decided the Capital of British Columbia
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The Government Report That Put Vampires in a Canadian Town
How an American folklorist, a federal museum, and a seventy-word question destroyed a community’s identity for half a century
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What the Water Won't Give Back
A century of ships, planes, and people that vanished in Canadian waters — from the Bannockburn in 1902 to the Chief William Saulis in 2020.
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The Driest Man in British Columbia
How the Man Paid to Kill the Booze Ran the Biggest Booze Ring in the Province
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The Night Shift
The True Story of a Stolen Goat, an Automatic Door, and the Longest Sunday Morning in RCMP History
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The Coldest Show On Earth
How 288 Canadians Froze Their Hair Into Art
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The Last Laugh of Charlie Millar
How a Dead Man Proved That Every Soul in Toronto Had a Price Tag
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