Source Registry

Agency for Integrated Rural Fire Management (Portugal) — Annual Activity Report

AGIF created by Decreto-Lei 12/2018 of 16 February 2018 — coordination and planning only, no firefighting. Prevention rose from 20% of system spending in 2017 to about 54% in 2025; deaths fell from over 100 in 2017 to 6 in 2025. Use ICNF/AGIF figures for national area burned and EFFIS only for EU comparison.

Avalon Project, Yale Law School — Eisenhower Farewell Address (1961)

The 'military-industrial complex' warning.

BC Wildfire Service — Cultural and Prescribed Fire

British Columbia is the only province publishing an annual cultural and prescribed fire total: 6,351 ha across 76 projects in 2025, against 886,300 ha burned by wildfire that year. There is no federal equivalent and no national prescribed-burn target.

CMHC Rental Market Report

Semi-annual rental market survey data

CPTAQ (Quebec Farmland Protection Commission)

Quebec agricultural land protection data. FR primary.

Canada Energy Regulator — Canada's Renewable Power

Generation mix by source; wind and solar as fastest-growing additions

Canada Gazette — Regulations Amending Schedule 2 to the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act and the Fuel Charge Regulations (SOR/2025-107)

Registered 15 March 2025, in force 1 April 2025. The fuel charge was ZEROED, not repealed — Part 1 of the GGPPA remains law, so a future government could restore it by regulation rather than legislation. Its own RIAS concedes: 'The elimination of the fuel charge and the CCR would generally be expected to benefit wealthier Canadians who tend to use more fossil fuels, whereas lower- and middle-income households would generally be negatively impacted.'

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Housing starts, rental market data, housing supply reports

Canada Revenue Agency — Maximum Pensionable Earnings and Contributions for 2025

2025 YMPE $71,300. Base CPP is capped; CPP2 (from 2024) extends to YAMPE $81,200. CPP benefits are also capped.

Canada Revenue Agency — Overall Federal Tax Gap Report

CRA official estimate: net federal tax gap $34.7B (gross $59.5B) for 2022. The $47.8B figure is the Conference Board of Canada's 2017 upper bound.

Canadian Centre for Energy Information — Energy Fact Book

Clean power share of electricity generation, Spring 2026 edition

Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre

National wildfire coordination and statistics

City of Vienna Housing

Vienna social housing model — international comparison for The Rent Cheque

Competition Bureau Canada — Canada Needs More Grocery Competition (Retail Grocery Market Study)

2023. The Big Three (Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro) reported >$100B in sales and >$3.6B in profit in 2022 — that figure is Big-Three-only, NOT 'plus Costco and Walmart' (neither discloses Canadian-segment profit).

Department of Finance Canada — Annual Financial Report 2018-2019

2018-19: personal income tax $163.9B, corporate $50.4B, non-resident $9.4B (= $223.6B of INCOME TAX, not total federal revenue of $332.2B).

Department of Finance Canada — Budget 2024, Fairness for Every Generation

Budget 2024 contains NO $600M wildfire line (that figure welds together three envelopes across 2022-2026). What it did: $145.2M/5yr First Nations emergency management; volunteer firefighter tax credit doubled $3,000->$6,000 ($105M/6yr); only $800,000 to NRCan for firefighting capacity.

Department of Justice Canada — Building Canada Act

S.C. 2025, c. 2, s. 4. Enacted by Bill C-5; royal assent 26 June 2025, twenty days after first reading. Schedule 1 (National Interest Projects) verified against the enacted text on 2026-07-15: column headers only, zero project rows.

Department of Justice Canada — Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act

S.C. 2022, c. 15 — legislated 2030 and 2050 milestones, Net-Zero Advisory Body

Department of Justice Canada — Global Minimum Tax Act

SC 2024, c.17, s.81. Royal assent 20 June 2024; OECD Pillar Two 15% minimum; MNE groups with consolidated revenue >= EUR 750M; first returns due 30 June 2026.

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia) — Savanna Fire Management

10 April 2026. 86 projects, 34.9M ha enrolled (not burned), ~70% Indigenous-held, ~1 Mt CO2-e abated annually, ~$59M/yr revenue. The scheme is contested: see Bowman/Macintosh et al. on fire intensity and over-crediting, and Jones et al. on smoke.

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Plastic pollution and waste flow data

Environment and Climate Change Canada — Carbon Pricing

Federal carbon pricing policy and OBPS details

Environment and Climate Change Canada — Clean Electricity Regulations

Finalized Dec 2024; emission limits begin 2035, net-zero grid by 2050

Environment and Climate Change Canada — GHG Emissions Projections

Official emissions projections vs. 2005 baseline and 2030 targets

Environment and Climate Change Canada — National Inventory Report

Annual UNFCCC submission — National Inventory Report (NIR)

Environment and Climate Change Canada — Preliminary GHG Emissions

Official preliminary national GHG inventory tables 1990–2023

Environment and Climate Change Canada — Temperature Change Indicator

Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators — national temperature trends

GOPAC / Newt Gingrich — Language: A Key Mechanism of Control (1990)

The memo is 1990, not 1994. 'sick', 'pathetic', 'traitors', 'corrupt' all appear in its Contrasting Words list.

German Environment Agency (UBA)

German packaging and recycling recovery rates

Global Affairs Canada — Exports of Military Goods

The GDLS-Canada LAV contract with Saudi Arabia (2014, via the Canadian Commercial Corporation) is ~$15B, the largest Canadian arms export deal. Saudi Arabia was the top destination in 2024 ($1.293B).

Government Offices of Sweden, Ministry of Finance — Carbon Taxation in Sweden

government.se returns 403 to automated fetching; readable via the r.jina.ai proxy. Sweden's own figures pair 1990-2021 at real GDP +92% and emissions -33%. The widely repeated '85% / 29%' matches NO Swedish source and appears to weld two periods together. 'Highest in the world' is contested — Norway leads on headline rate; Sweden's defensible claim is highest BROAD-BASED carbon tax.

Government of Canada — 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan

2030 ERP (March 2022) and 2025 Progress Report under the Net-Zero Act

Government of Canada — Canada and International Climate Action

UNFCCC, Paris Agreement, and Canadian multilateral climate engagement overview

Government of Canada — Canada's 2035 Emissions Reduction Target

2035 NDC of 45-50% below 2005, submitted to UNFCCC 11 Feb 2025 (~381-419 Mt CO2e)

Government of Canada — Canada's Clean Electricity Future

Clean electricity goals and grid expansion to 2050

Government of Canada — Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution

2021 Paris Agreement 2030 target: 40–45% below 2005 levels

Government sources — Luxembourg / Vienna / Grand Paris Express public transit

Luxembourg free nationwide since 1 March 2020. Vienna EUR365 annual pass (from 2012), >1M sold. Grand Paris Express ~200 km; EUR35.6B is a 2012-euro figure, ~EUR42B in 2020 terms.

Health Canada — Health of Canadians in a Changing Climate

Chapter 5, Natural Hazards. Estimates 620 to 2,700 wildfire-smoke deaths annually in Canada from 2013 to 2018.

IPCC — Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (AR6 WG I)

AR6 Working Group I — ocean heat uptake, sea level, carbon cycle

Indigenous Services Canada

Official tracker for long-term drinking water advisories on First Nations reserves

Indigenous Services Canada — Emergency Management Assistance Program, Key Statistics

Response and recovery expenditures by fiscal year. Evacuation counts are person-evacuations, not unique individuals.

Indigenous Services Canada — First Nations Wildland Fire Evacuations

Live season tracker. Covers on-reserve First Nations only; no all-population national evacuee total exists. The department's 2025 figures are internally inconsistent (45,000 from 73 First Nations in an October 2025 release; 44,920 from 61 in a May 2026 release).

International Energy Agency — Energy and AI

IEA 2025 report on data centre electricity demand and AI projections

International Labour Organization — World Economic and Social Outlook 2025

WESO May 2025 update — labour share of income trends

International Monetary Fund — Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

Staff Discussion Note SDN/2024/001

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — U.S. Data Center Water Consumption

2024 report on data centre water and energy use

Lockheed Martin — 2024 Proxy Statement (SEC DEF 14A)

Taiclet 2023 total compensation $22,813,775 (~$22.8M), not $29M. 2001-2024 stock ~+940% price / ~+1,800% total return.

National Assembly of Quebec — Act respecting the laicity of the State (Bill 21)

Assented 16 June 2019 (2019, c.12). A Quebec-origin secularism law, not a US import.

National Bushfire Recovery Agency (Australia) — National Bushfire Recovery Fund

'More than $2 billion' committed (6 Jan 2020), not $800M. Agency wound up into NEMA; bushfirerecovery.gov.au no longer resolves, cited via Wayback. Only $2M went to Indigenous fire knowledge exchange — NOT the savanna carbon-market scale-up.

Natural Resources Canada — Canada's Changing Climate Report

2019 national science assessment — warming rates, cryosphere, oceans, coasts

Natural Resources Canada — Canadian Wildland Fire Information System, Reported Fire Statistics

Live national year-to-date area burned and fire counts by agency via api.cwfif.nrcan.gc.ca. Verified 2026-07-16: 13 agencies reconcile exactly to the national total (3,522 fires / 2,349,489.0 ha). The by-day endpoint reports a different measure (initial reported size) and must not be summed for cumulative work.

Natural Resources Canada — Fighting and Managing Wildfires in a Changing Climate Program

$346.1M over five years from 2022-23. Training Fund $28M; Equipment Fund $256M ($254.3M committed, agreements with every eligible province and territory). Both calls for applications closed.

Natural Resources Canada — WildFireSat Mission

$169.9M mission, launch targeted 2029. The prime contractor's contract was terminated for convenience in April 2026; the Canadian Space Agency maintains the 2029 date and budget.

Natural Resources Canada — Wildfire Resilient Futures Initiative

Up to $285M over five years from 2023-24 under the National Adaptation Strategy. A ceiling, and a component of the adaptation envelope rather than additional to it. All three streams closed.

Natural Resources Canada — Wildland Fires

General wildland fire programme pages. Note its 'about 2.1 million hectares / more than 8,000 wildfires' averages carry no stated reference period and sit well above CIFFC's actual ten-year average fire count.

OECD

OECD Municipal Waste statistics — used for international comparisons

Office of the Auditor General of Canada — Follow-up on Programs for First Nations

Tabled 21 October 2025. Cite by title and date: the OAG web path implies Report 5, the catalogue number implies 7, and the PDF carries no report number.

Office of the Auditor General of Canada — Report 8, Emergency Management in First Nations Communities

Tabled 15 November 2022. Audit period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2022. Paragraph 8.27 and Exhibit 8.2 carry the response-versus-prevention split; 8.35 the 112-project backlog; 8.50 the '18 times more likely' evacuation figure, sourced to an unnamed 2017 ISC study.

Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer — A Distributional Analysis of the Federal Fuel Charge (Update)

10 October 2024. THE MOST MISREPORTED SOURCE IN THE CANADIAN CLIMATE DEBATE. Fiscal measure: the average household in every backstop province receives more than it pays. Fiscal PLUS economic measure: the average household faces a net cost. Both are the PBO's, in the same report, for the same year. Always say which one you are quoting. Counter-intuitively the combined measure is MORE progressive, because higher-income households absorb more of the lost employment and investment income.

Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer — Estimating Canada's 2030 Emissions Gap

Independent estimate: 2030 emissions ~31.5-33.5% below 2005, gap of 49-102 Mt to target

Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer — Fiscal Implications of Meeting the NATO Military Spending Target

NATO-definition military spending ~$41B (2024-25); sustaining 2% would reach ~$81.9B by 2032-33 as GDP grows.

Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer — High-net-worth Families Database

Top 1% of families hold about 24% of net wealth.

Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer — Projecting the Cost of the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements Program

Published 23 October 2025. Projects $1.8B/yr average 2025-2034, of which wildfires $325M/yr.

Parks Canada — Government of Canada Funding for 2024 Wildfire Season, Jasper

358 of 1,113 buildings destroyed. Parks Canada's own evacuation count is 'over 20,000'. FR domain is parcs.canada.ca.

Parliamentary Budget Officer

PBO housing affordability and federal spending analyses

Parliamentary Budget Officer — Distributional Analysis of a National Guaranteed Basic Income (Update)

February 2025 update on GBI cost and distributional impact

Prime Minister of Canada — Canada Has Achieved the NATO 2% Defence Target

26 March 2026: Canada achieved 2% for 2025, spending 'more than $63 billion'. NATO's Hague pledge (June 2025) is now 5% of GDP by 2035 (3.5% core + 1.5% security-related).

Prime Minister of Canada — Canada and Alberta Advance West Coast Pipeline Project Proposal

2 July 2026. Referred to the Major Projects Office; not designated, not approved, not filed with the Canada Energy Regulator. Route moved to the south coast so the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act need not be amended.

Prime Minister of Canada — Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding

Signed 27 November 2025. Source of 'Canada will not implement the Oil and Gas Emissions Cap, which has not yet been put into effect.' The cap existed in draft only and was never in force.

Prime Minister of Canada — Kananaskis Wildfire Charter

G7 Leaders' Summit, 17 June 2025, with $120.4M for global wildfire prevention. Full text contains no mention of climate change or emissions.

Prime Minister of Canada — Permanent Public Transit Funding

$3B/yr permanent from 2026-27, announced 10 Feb 2021, part of $14.9B/8yr. Launched as the Canada Public Transit Fund (July 2024, $30B/10yr).

Prime Minister of Canada — Prime Minister Mark Carney Cancels Proposed Capital Gains Tax Increase

21 March 2025. The June 2024 increase in the capital gains inclusion rate (to 66.67% above $250k) was cancelled; the rate is back to a 50% inclusion.

Prime Minister of Canada — Remarks at Trinity College Dublin

13 June 2026.

Public Prosecution Service of Canada — Canada Bread Sentenced for Price-Fixing

Canada Bread fined $50M on four counts of price-fixing (s.45 Competition Act). Loblaw/George Weston later settled a class action for $500M.

Public Safety Canada — 2024 Wildfire Season, Parliamentary Committee Notes

Says 25,000 people were ORDERED to evacuate Jasper; Parks Canada's separate 'over 20,000' is the count evacuated. Both Tier 1, neither retracted.

Public Safety Canada — Emergency Management Strategy for Canada

2019. Source of the '$6 saved for every $1 invested in prevention' figure. Its own footnote 6 attributes this to Multihazard Mitigation Council (2017), National Institute of Building Sciences, Washington — a US, all-hazards, federal-grants figure, not Canadian and not wildfire-specific.

Quebec Environment Ministry — Carbon Market

Quebec SPEDE cap-and-trade system data and auction results

Quebec Ministry of the Environment — Cap-and-Trade Auction Revenues Paid to the Electrification and Climate Change Fund

The cumulative auction total exists ONLY on the French page; the English page carries the FECC statement but no total. As of 17 June 2026: $11,548,254,581.41.

RECYC-QUEBEC

Quebec residual materials management reports. FR primary source.

Rijkswaterstaat (Netherlands)

Dutch waste management and circular economy statistics

Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements (Australia) — Report

Reported 28 October 2020. 80 recommendations. Paragraph 17.42 finds fuel reduction of diminishing effectiveness as conditions deteriorate; the Commission set no national hazard-reduction target and the Commonwealth declined its call for a national aerial fleet.

SHQ (Societe d'habitation du Quebec)

Quebec housing data — social housing, rent supplement, housing conditions. FR primary.

Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry — Canada on Fire

Report 4, 45th Parliament, 1st Session, tabled 10 June 2026. 15 recommendations. Recommendation 2 asks for a federal coordinating office, not a national wildfire agency. The 'only G7 country without a national wildfire agency' line does not appear in the report.

Statistics Canada

Table 38-10-0032-01: Disposal of waste, by source

Statistics Canada — Canadian Employment Trends in the Era of Generative AI

Economic and Social Reports, January 2026

Statistics Canada — Census of Agriculture

2021 Census of Agriculture — farmland conversion data

Statistics Canada — Consumer Price Index, April 2025

The measured effect of removing the consumer carbon price: gasoline -18.1% year over year, which StatCan attributes mainly to the removal. Quebec is the natural control at -12.1% because SPEDE was unaffected. The April 2026 CPI confirms the base-year effect: the drop has since fallen out of the 12-month movement.

Statistics Canada — Distributions of Household Economic Accounts, Wealth

Median net worth of the bottom 40% of households ($64,150, 2023).

Statistics Canada — Electricity Supply and Disposition

2024 preliminary electricity supply and disposition (623 TWh, ~78% non-emitting)

Statistics Canada — Experimental Estimates of AI Occupational Exposure in Canada

Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series, 2024

Statistics Canada — Journey to Work, 2016 Census

Average one-way commute 26.2 minutes (2016 Census, latest comparable). '52 min' would be round-trip.

Statistics Canada — Urban Public Transit

2025 ridership 82.2% of 2019 volume (1.55B trips).

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) — Military Expenditure Database

US ~$997B in 2024 (~37% of world total); outspends about the next 6 countries combined.

Supreme Court of Canada — Confederation des syndicats nationaux v. Canada (Attorney General), 2008 SCC 68

EI surplus reached ~$57B by ~2008, not 1996. Court upheld the scheme generally but found the 2002, 2003 and 2005 premiums unconstitutional as an unauthorized tax. Case is CSN v Canada, NOT CUPE v Canada.

Supreme Court of the United States — Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010)

Permits unlimited INDEPENDENT expenditures, not direct contributions to candidates (that ban stands). Decided 21 Jan 2010.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report

17.6 veteran suicides/day (2022 data, all-era). Distinct from the post-9/11 30,177 vs 7,057 comparison.

U.S. Geological Survey

Peer-reviewed mass-balance work on Western Canada glacier loss 2021–2024

U.S. National Archives — Vietnam War Casualty Statistics

58,220 US military fatal casualties. The 4 Aug 1964 second Gulf of Tonkin attack did not occur (NSA/Hanyok declassified study).

U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee — FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act

FY2025 NDAA authorizes $895.2B ($849.9B DoD + $33.3B DOE). $886B was the FY2024 topline. Per SIPRI 2024, the US now outspends about the next 6 countries combined, not 10.

UK Legislation — Climate Change Act 2008

Legally binding UK carbon budgets and independent Climate Change Committee oversight

United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC)

Official UNFCCC compliance documentation — Canada withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol

United States Senate Historical Office — The Nye Committee

93 hearings, 200+ witnesses incl. J.P. Morgan Jr. and Pierre du Pont. senate.gov 403s automated fetching; confirmed via Wayback.

Veterans Affairs Canada — National Monument to Canada's Mission in Afghanistan

158 Canadian Armed Forces members died, plus 7 civilians (1 diplomat, 4 aid workers, 1 contractor, 1 journalist) = 165 total. Calling all 165 'soldiers' is incorrect.

World Bank — Costa Rica Indicators

Military abolished 1948 (Constitution Art. 12, 1949). Life expectancy ~80.9; literacy ~99.5% (2021), higher than the claim's 98%.

World Economic Forum — Future of Jobs Report 2025

Bank of America — 60% of Today's Jobs Didn't Exist in 1940

Via Fortune — Bank of America research note May 2026

CBC News — Carney's Government Cutting Hundreds of Environment and Science Jobs

CBC News — Ottawa Proposes Measures to Streamline Project Approvals Within 1 Year

Canada's Food Price Report 2026 (Dalhousie, Guelph, UBC, Saskatchewan)

Family of four projected to spend $17,571.79 on food in 2026, an increase of up to $994.63. Basket member ages not published.

Canada's National Observer — Carney Fast-Tracks Major Projects Legislation

Canadian Climate Institute

Independent climate policy research — emissions tracking and carbon pricing analysis

Canadian Climate Institute — How to Integrate AI Data Centres into Canada's Electricity Grids

Christianson et al. — Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021 (International Journal of Wildland Fire)

IJWF 33(7), WF23097. Authored largely by Canadian Forest Service and Parks Canada staff. The 41.9% figure counts evacuation EVENTS in majority-Indigenous communities, not evacuees; measured by people, First Nations on reserve were 27.5% of all evacuees.

Costs of War Project, Brown University

Post-9/11 wars: 940,000+ direct deaths, 432,000+ civilians (4.5-4.7M incl. indirect); ~$8T. Afghanistan $2.3T; 30,177 post-9/11 service-member/veteran suicides vs 7,057 killed in operations.

Deloitte for ECCC

Economic Study of the Canadian Plastic Industry, Markets and Waste (2019 reference data)

Environmental Defence Canada

Canadian environmental advocacy org — plastic waste, toxics, climate campaigns

Environmental Defence — Proposed Changes to Major Project Decision-Making

Advocacy organization — label as such when cited.

FPInnovations — Jasper Wildfire Structure Loss Assessment

MacKinnon & Collins, WF TR 2025 N4, October 2025. Found 3-4x loss rates on blocks with >10% combustible roofs, but also no statistically significant difference between paired burned and unburned structures once structure-to-structure ignition dominated.

FireSmart Canada — Neighbourhood Recognition Program and the Home Ignition Zone

The program is 'Neighbourhood Recognition' (FR: reconnaissance communautaire); there is no 'certification'. The brand is Intellifeu in French. The Home Ignition Zone is three NAMED zones within 30 m (Immediate 0-1.5 m, Intermediate 1.5-10 m, Extended 10-30 m); the old 30-100 m Zone 3 is retired.

Food Banks Canada — HungerCount 2025

~2.2 million visits in March 2025 (a single-month snapshot, not a sustained monthly average). Employed clients 19.4%, up from 12.2% in 2019.

Frontiers in AI — AI, UBI, and Power: Symbolic Violence in the Tech Elite's Narrative

Belisle-Pipon (Simon Fraser University), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, February 2025

Goldman Sachs — The Potentially Large Effects of AI on Economic Growth

Economics research report, 2023

Google — 2025 Environmental Report

Corporate sustainability report — self-reported data

Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction — Impact Analysis for the National Guide for Wildland-Urban Interface Fires

Porter, Scawthorn & Sandink, ICLR paper no. 69, May 2021, prepared for the National Research Council of Canada. DOI 10.4224/40002649. The genuine Canadian wildfire-specific benefit-cost source. Headline ratios are ceilings: for an existing house, vegetation control returns 32:1 in high hazard but 0.2:1 in low hazard.

Insurance Bureau of Canada — Insured Losses from the Jasper Wildfire

Figures from CatIQ. $1.23B superseded an earlier $880M; second-costliest fire event after Fort McMurray 2016 ($6.2B).

Jain et al. — Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada (Nature Communications)

Nature Communications 15:6764, DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-51154-7. Co-authored by Canadian Forest Service scientists. Source for the lightning share of area burned and for the finding that the widely quoted 18.5 Mha figure for 2023 is a preliminary in-season tally.

Johnston & Flannigan — Mapping Canadian wildland fire interface areas (International Journal of Wildland Fire)

IJWF 27(1):1-14. Lead author affiliated with Natural Resources Canada. The paper states explicitly that no estimate of homes or population in the interface can be directly produced from it, and it is a static baseline: no national interface growth rate exists.

Library of Parliament (HillNotes) — Corporate Income Taxes in Canada: Revenue, Rates and Rationale

Federal corporate rate 28% (2000) -> 18% (2010) -> 15% (2012 onward). Corporate income tax was 12.3% of federal revenue in 2019-20.

McMaster University — Ontario Basic Income Pilot: Signposts to Success

McMaster/Ryerson research on cancelled Ontario pilot outcomes

Microsoft — 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report

Corporate sustainability report — self-reported data

More in Common — The Hidden Tribes of America

US study. The four middle groups sum to 67% ('Exhausted Majority'); Progressive Activists + Devoted Conservatives = 14%. There is no Canadian equivalent in this dataset.

Murray & Rivers — British Columbia's revenue-neutral carbon tax: A review of the latest grand experiment in environmental policy (Energy Policy)

Energy Policy 86:674-683. The 5-15% is emissions IN THE PROVINCE — not 'from taxed fuels' and not 'vs the rest of Canada'; that framing belongs to Elgie & McClay. Do not cross the two. sciencedirect.com 403s; the abstract is readable via ideas.repec.org.

National Institute of Building Sciences — Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves

2019 edition, the latest. The origin of the '$6 per $1' figure Canada cites (all-hazards federal grants). Its wildfire-specific ratios are the lowest of any hazard studied: 4:1 above code, 2:1 building retrofit, 3:1 federal grants — the last resting on 25 grants worth $56M. The often-cited '$13 per $1' is earthquake retrofit only.

OECD — Revenue Statistics 2025

Denmark 45.2% tax-to-GDP (2024, highest in OECD). Canada ~34.8% (2023), above the OECD average — not 33%.

OpenAI — Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age

13-page OpenAI policy document, April 2026 — via TechCrunch

PROOF, University of Toronto — Household Food Insecurity in Canada 2024

2024: 25.5% of people in the ten provinces food-insecure (~10 million, incl. 2.5 million children). Excludes territories.

Parisien et al. — Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest (Nature Communications)

Nature Communications 11:2121 (CFS authorship). Fire deficit near 54.4% of 160 communities, but bounded to the WUI ('in parts of Canada'). Danneyrolles et al. 2025 (CJFR) finds it less pronounced in Canada than the US, with over half the analyzed area outside active fire management.

Quincy Institute / David Vine — U.S. Military Bases Abroad

~750 US bases in 80 countries and colonies (2021 estimate).

Second Harvest / Value Chain Management International — The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste (Update)

Oct 2024, funded by Loblaw. Over 46% of ALL food in Canada is wasted; the $58B values only the AVOIDABLE portion (~41.7% of waste), not all of it, and covers the whole value chain including imports.

TD Economics — Data Centers in a Grid Constrained World

The Canadian Encyclopedia — Reform Party of Canada

Founded Winnipeg, Oct 30-Nov 1 1987; Manning leader; 'The West Wants In' adopted 1988.

World Happiness Report — Finland

Finland ranked #1 in the 2025 report, its 8th consecutive year. University is tuition-free for domestic/EU students; non-EU students pay fees.

Zhang et al. — Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires (Nature)

Nature 645(8081):672-678, DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-09482-1. Acute: 1,300 Canada + 4,100 USA (of 5,400 on Canada smoke days). Chronic: 8,300 Canada, 33,000 USA, 82,100 worldwide. Acute varies by a factor of 4 with the exposure-response function.

American Public Transportation Association — Economic Impact of Public Transportation Investment

The '$5 in long-term economic value per $1 invested' figure is APTA's (a US transit-industry advocacy body) and is model-dependent. Attribute; not a Canadian or neutral-government statistic.

CBC News — 2015 'Barbaric Cultural Practices' Tip Line and the Niqab Debate

Tip line announced 2 Oct 2015 (Alexander & Leitch); Conservatives lost 19 Oct 2015. Chris Alexander later blamed the line for the loss.

CBC News — Freedom Convoy Donations and Occupation (2022)

~3-week occupation; ~$22M combined (GoFundMe ~$10.1M + GiveSendGo ~$12.2M). US donors ~59% by number of donations but only ~46% by dollar value on GiveSendGo.

Canadians for Tax Fairness — The Rise and Rise of Tax Havens

July 2025. Advocacy organization — attribute explicitly. $682B in tax havens (2024), +165% over ten years, 46 of 60 TSX 60 companies. A haven subsidiary is not proof of avoidance.

Carbon Credits — Carney Admits Canada Will Miss 2030 and 2035 Climate Targets

RELIABILITY CONCERN, flagged 2026-07-16: this article states Canada's 2024 emissions were 'approximately 816 megatonnes', which contradicts Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Inventory Report figure of 685 Mt CO2 eq. The 'Carney admits' framing also could not be traced to a primary source: the underlying December 2025 Radio-Canada interview does not contain the widely quoted wording. Downgraded to tier 3. Prefer the verified 30 June 2026 statement ('The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher...') and the Canadian Climate Institute's February 2026 assessment.

Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network (Delaware Superior Court)

$787.5M settlement, 18 April 2023. For a Tier-1 cite use the Delaware Superior Court docket C.A. N21C-03-257 EMD.

Fair Vote Canada — Campaign for Proportional Representation

National citizens' campaign for proportional representation.

Federation of Canadian Municipalities — Infrastructure and the Municipal Funding Gap

Municipal advocacy. Current national infrastructure deficit ~$270B (2025); the frequently-cited '$175B' matches no current FCM figure. >60% of core infrastructure, 8-10 cents of every tax dollar.

France — Loi Garot (2016 Anti-Food-Waste Law), reported effects

Loi 2016-138 bans supermarkets destroying unsold edible food. The 'more than 20%' rise in food-bank donations is the French government's estimate reported via journalism; no primary government statistic located. Supermarkets donating rose from 66% to >90%.

General Motors Streetcar Conspiracy (historical record)

GM fined $5,000; treasurer $1. Convicted of conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses/supplies, NOT transit-system ownership (acquitted on that). NCL controlled 46 systems in 45 cities by 1947. Historians (e.g. George W. Hilton) dispute the conspiracy's causal role in streetcar decline.

Historical record — Fox News launch (1996)

Launched 7 Oct 1996; Roger Ailes founding CEO. The 'explicit strategy / conservative ecosystem' characterization is interpretation.

Historical record — the Southern Strategy (Goldwater, Nixon/Phillips, Atwater)

The term and systematic strategy are usually credited to Nixon/Phillips (1968); crediting Goldwater 1964 as 'pioneer' is contested historiography. Phillips quote via Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes (1970).

Historical record — the Willie Horton advertisements (1988)

The mugshot 'Weekend Passes' ad was run by an independent PAC (NSPAC/Floyd Brown), not the Bush campaign; the campaign's own 'Revolving Door' ad had no mugshot.

Loblaw Companies Limited — 2024 Fiscal Year Results

FY2024 revenue ~$61.0B, net income ~$2.17B -> net margin ~3.56%. Supports the grocers' thin-margin point.

Loblaw Companies Limited — First Quarter 2025 Results

Company filing. Q1 2025 net earnings to common shareholders $503M, up 9.6%. This is total-company profit (grocery + pharmacy + PC Optimum + financial services + real estate), not food-only.

Pew Research Center / Gallup — US public-opinion polling on gun checks, taxes, health care, minimum wage

US polling, sensitive to question wording. Background checks ~81-86%; higher taxes on income >$400k ~58% (Pew, not 72%); government should ensure coverage ~62% (Gallup); $15 federal minimum ~62% (Pew 2021).

The Canadian Encyclopedia / municipal transit histories — Streetcar system closures

Streetcar closures: Calgary 1950, Edmonton 1951, Winnipeg 1955, Vancouver 1955, Ottawa 1959, Montreal 1959. Toronto is the only major Canadian city that kept its streetcars. Canadian removal was primarily municipal cost/aging-infrastructure decisions, not the GM plot.

The Nation — Lee Atwater's 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy

1981 interview (Alexander Lamis), audio released by The Nation 2012. Atwater's 1991 deathbed apology via Life magazine.

US Federal Communications Commission — Fairness Doctrine (abolished 1987)

FCC abolished the doctrine 4 Aug 1987; it bound broadcast licensees. Fox News is cable and was never subject to it.

World BEYOND War — Canada Pension Plan Investments in Weapons Companies

Advocacy tally (~$870M across 9 firms, 2022; other groups cite $1.4-1.6B). Definition-dependent, includes dual-use firms (Airbus, Honeywell, GE, Boeing). CPP is the FEDERAL plan only; Quebec's QPP and other provincial funds are separate.