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We went looking for a note left behind by the universe and found extraordinary physics with no signature needed.

A city watchman keeps a night vigil high in a mountain forest, waiting for the mage who destroyed a local family — and he has a bad feeling about how the confrontation will end.

Moose Jaw's dog parks have stayed shut for a month on one traveller's unconfirmed poisoning claim — after the water tested clean — while the locals who questioned it got doxxed.

A Swiss zoologist watched captive wolves for eight years, coined a word, and got it right. Almost everything built on top of it was wrong.

Canada's flag is younger than many of its houses — a reflection on what patriotism and nationalism really are, which kind of national pride is worth having, and whether we should believe in our countries at all.

A Scottish minister's proverb, a theory of mind you can test on yourself, and why the constant noise of being conscious is reason enough to go easy on each other.

Why I needed a name that wasn't mine, and what Allen Schyf is actually for: cases, not causes.

Three conversations at a Moose Jaw dog park — on taxes and roads, on arriving from Korea, and on a city some feel is slipping — with a look at two Saskatchewan AI data-centre proposals.

A drunk informant tells a Watch investigator what he saw at the waterfront — and what the killer was wearing.

Every abstraction is a compression — and the part it throws away is the only part that's any use when you actually want to change something.

Two ghost hunters, one cursed country mansion, and a 3 a.m. investigation that doesn't go to plan.