In this episode of Canada Is Boring, we dive beak-first into one of the strangest and most important inventions in Canadian aviation history: the Chicken Cannon.

As bird strikes continue to threaten aircraft worldwide, with over 50 bird strikes happening every day and more than 13,000 reported annually in the U.S. alone, engineers needed a way to test aircraft safety against high-speed avian impacts. The result? A gas-powered “flight impact simulator” capable of firing thawed chickens at aircraft parts at supersonic speeds.

Developed in the 1960s after two deadly U.S. crashes caused by flocks of starlings and whistling swans, Canada’s chicken cannon became a critical tool in aviation safety. Built in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and operated at Ottawa’s Macdonald-Cartier Airport, this monster of a machine launched 1–8 pound birds at aircraft windshields, engines, and stabilizers to replicate real-world bird strikes. At its peak, the cannon could fire a chicken at Mach 1.36, making it, unofficially, the fastest chicken ever recorded.

We explore the odd science behind impact testing, the physics of bird strikes, and the messy origin of the word “snarge.” From frozen chickens in metal sabots to high-speed film, atomic pacemaker tests, and a parking-lot incident that left VIP guests covered in poultry debris, this is one of the wildest pieces of Canadian engineering ever built.

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In this Remembrance Day special, Rhys and Jesse dive into the unbelievable World War II adventure of Leo Major, the one-eyed Canadian hero who liberated the Dutch city of Zwolle all by himself. This episode is packed with war stories, heroic undercover missions, and enough action to make Hollywood jealous (seriously, can we get a movie already?). Tune in for an epic story of liberation, resilience, and podcast chaos.

Leo Major, World War II, Canadian history, Zwolle, Dutch liberation, hero, action, Reme

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In 1830s Ontario, one of Canada’s most documented hauntings unfolded in the isolated Baldoon settlement. The McDonald family’s story of flying stones, ghostly fires, and a supposed witch’s curse became legend. Two centuries later, historians still debate what really happened. Was it hysteria, fraud or something no one could explain?

This Halloween, we’re digging up one of Canada’s oldest—and weirdest—ghost stories. Long before Netflix true-crime and TikTok ghost hunters, the settlers of Baldoon, Ontario were living through a full-blown paranormal meltdown.

In the early 1800s, John McDonald built a fine new home on the marshlands near the Chenal Ecarte River. Then the chaos began. Stones crashed through windows, furniture moved on its own, and fires sparked from nowhere. Even the family kettle turned violent. For nearly a decade, the McDonalds claimed their home was under attack by an unseen force—until a mysterious “wise woman” told them to make a silver bullet and shoot a black-headed goose that was supposedly carrying the witch’s spirit.

And somehow… it worked.

Two centuries later, The Baldoon Mystery still sits at the crossroads of folklore, fear, and early Canadian history. Was it witchcraft? Frontier superstition? Or the first documented case of mass hysteria in Ontario? In this Halloween special, we trace the real people, newspaper records, and eerie events behind the haunting that turned a quiet farming settlement into the country’s creepiest legend.

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