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01ANCASTER Pass 3: Pressure-Testing "Trust-Mediated Sponsorship" — Verdict and Two BetsSERVING + first-party click/promo-code ATTRIBUTION for a creator's OWN direct sponsors, unified across formats.ResearchResearch briefAttribution & credit15k characters20 Sep
02The CANOPTICON Epistemological Framework: a synthesis across seven domainsBayesian probability, legal evidence standards, scientific methodology, and structured argumentation into a unified system for categorizing claims, grading evidence, rating sources, assigning confidence, and communicating uncertainty.ResearchResearch briefCanadian politics & power33k characters22 Jul
03A Comprehensive Map of Marshall McLuhan's Thought: Concepts, Neuroscience, Unexplored Territory, and Critical ReceptionMarshall McLuhan (1911–1980) is one of the most cited and least carefully read theorists of the twentieth century.ResearchResearch briefMcLuhan & media theory125k characters22 Jul
04Did Banning Airbnb Actually Fix Canadian Housing? An Evidence-Based Audit of the STR Restriction ExperimentCanadian housing affordability rests on a chain of causal assumptions — that STRs significantly reduce long-term housing supply, that banning them returns those units to the long-term rental (LTR) market, and that this added supply lowers rents.ResearchResearch briefHousing24k characters22 Jul
05The Examined Cognition: Substrates of Metacognition and Methods for Looking at the LookingPetitmengin) and neurophenomenology (Varela) for first- and second-person rigor; contemplative training to render the self-model opaque (Metzinger); and interpretability/introspection probes (Jack Lindsey, Anthropic, October 2025) for machine analogues.ResearchResearch briefMcLuhan & media theory38k characters22 Jul
06The Fentanyl Crisis Research Synthesis: Sharpest Evidence for a Long-Form Hamilton/Ontario EssayThis synthesis is organized by the four focus areas in your brief.ResearchResearch briefDrugs & public health46k characters22 Jul
07Hamilton's Short-Term Rental Crackdown and the "Demand-Side Disruption" QuestionHamilton, Ontario adopted one of Canada's stricter short-term rental (STR) regimes in January 2023, with full enforcement starting January 1, 2024.ResearchResearch briefHousing24k characters22 Jul
08How Do Canadian Public Sector Employees Vote? A Look at the EvidenceNDP and Liberals, and away from the Conservatives — but the effect is more modest than American partisan rhetoric about a "deep state" or a "public class" would suggest.ResearchResearch briefCanadian economy & policy25k characters22 Jul
09How We Got Here: A Field Guide to the Fentanyl Crisis in Canada and on Hamilton's StreetsHamilton in 2026 — the open wounds, the forward-leaning catatonia, the people who appear neither awake nor unconscious but suspended in some grotesque middle state — is not the same drug crisis Canada has been talking about for the last decade.ResearchResearch briefDrugs & public health40k characters22 Jul
10Mass Immigration and the Suppression of Domestic Innovation in Canada: A Research BriefThe dominant public narrative — that immigration "drives innovation" — rests almost entirely on studies of high-skilled, points-selected immigration in the United States (chiefly the work of William Kerr and collaborators on H-1B and ethnic patenting).ResearchResearch briefCanadian economy & policy53k characters22 Jul