📏 Editorial Standards & Corrections

How Moose Mail checks its facts, and what happens when we get one wrong.

How We Check Our Facts

Every factual claim in the newsletter, on this site, and in our posts is checked against at least three independent reliable sources before it is published. The sources we lean on most are The Canadian Encyclopedia, Library and Archives Canada, Parks Canada, Veterans Affairs Canada, the Canadian War Museum, CBC, and the record of the people and places themselves.

If sources disagree on a number, we state it as a range, or leave the number out. Anniversary claims are worked out by subtraction, and checked against the year the round anniversary actually fell in. If a fact cannot be confirmed, it does not go in: we would rather skip a date than guess.

Sources for our Today in Canada facts appear on each fact, on the Days in Canada page and on the home page card. Facts added before this page went up gain their sources as they are re-checked.

What We Never Do

No politics, no doom. Moose Mail is a break from the news cycle, not another helping of it.

No copied text. The old coffee-shop paper format is the inspiration, and that inspiration ends there. Every word and drawing here is our own.

No paywall on the free reading. The newsletter is free forever, and the free reading never shrinks. The Lodge Pass buys extras; it never buys the news.

Readers are never the product. We do not sell reader data. The Privacy Policy has the full details.

When We Get It Wrong

We will. A date will slip, a number will be off, a name will be misspelled. When it happens, we fix the error and log it below, with the date and what changed. No quiet edits.

Spotted an error? Email [email protected] or use the contact form. Tell us what is wrong and where you saw it, and we will check it.

Corrections Log

These standards were first published November 11, 2026.