Canada is Boring

In this episode of Canada Is Boring: The Tinfoil Touque, Rhys Waters and Jesse dive into Project Magnet, Canada’s secretly funded UFO research program from the 1950s, led by government engineer Wilbert Brockhouse Smith.
They unpack how a respected radio and broadcasting expert went from establishing ionospheric monitoring systems and TV allocation standards… to claiming telepathic contact with “space brothers” and linking UFOs to psychic phenomena.
Along the way, they explore:
How Project Magnet tried to harness geomagnetism as a propulsion system
Why Smith believed UFOs were intelligent extraterrestrial craft
The mysterious status of never-fully-declassified Canadian government files
Parallels with Star Trek’s Prime Directive and modern UFO lore
What happens when a serious scientist appears to lose his grip on reality
The episode wraps up with small talk in the Small Talk Dimension, including ADHD, trying Vyvanse, near-miss pool-water drinking incidents, and a tease for the next East Coast cryptid/conspiracy story.
If you’re into UFO history, Cold War weirdness, Canadian conspiracies, or just well-crafted rants, this one’s for you.
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In this episode of Tinfoil Touque from Canada Is Boring, Rhys and Jesse dive into the viral case of Andrew Dawson, the TikToker who claimed to film a giant on a BC mountainside—then later posted strange follow-ups about government agents, mysterious helicopters, and being stalked… before tragically dying a few months later.
They unpack:
The original “giant on the mountain” video near Valemount / Canoe Mountain, BC
Possible mundane explanations (CBC transmitter mast, SkyTram station, firefighting / survey helicopters)
How a creator’s mental health struggles got erased by conspiracy narratives
Why people are so drawn to giants, UFOs, Freemasons, and secret societies
The limits of public power even when we “catch it on camera”
And how Dawson’s follower count exploded after his death, just like a modern myth in real time
Along the way, they go on classic Canada Is Boring tangents about:
TikTok view inflation and opaque social media metrics
Whether governments even need to cover things up anymore
Freemasons, “gentlemen’s clubs,” and real vs imagined influence
Rhys’ family trip to Germany and Jesse’s secret Fantasia film fest date
This episode balances dark humor, skepticism, and empathy, ending on a reminder that behind every viral clip is a real human being.
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Are aliens surgically mutilating cattle across the Canadian prairies… or is there a far more grounded (and grosser) explanation?

In this episode of Tinfoil Touque, Rhys Waters and Jesse dive into decades of bizarre prairie cattle mutilation reports from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and BC. We talk missing eyes and tongues, vanishing sex organs, no blood at the scene, strange surgical cuts, and RCMP files that still aren’t fully released.

Along the way we explore:

Classic conspiracy explanations: UFOs, secret government bioweapons, and satanic cults
What ranchers, vets, and pathologists actually say about these cases
The infamous “intergalactic vagina explosion” quote
How scavengers like ravens, magpies, and blowflies can create “surgical” wounds
Why some cases still don’t fit the natural explanation
Plus, in the STD (Small Talk Dimension) Zone, Rhys talks about joining a new gym in Halifax, Jesse preps for a mystery biker-dive-bar date, and they tease next week’s story about a TikToker who filmed a “giant” in the Rocky Mountains.

Is it aliens, cults, or just maggots doing what maggots do?
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In this episode of The Tinfoil Tuque, Rhys and Jesse dive into one of Canada’s most famous UFO cases: the Falcon Lake incident.
Was Polish immigrant and amateur prospector Stefan Michalak really burned by a UFO in 1967—or was it a bizarre self‑inflicted hoax?
Along the way they rant about conspiracy theories, flat‑Earthers, media bias, cops, and how the internet turned every would‑be investigative journalist into an online conspiracy-hunter. They also talk about the legacy of the case, from government investigations to a literal glow‑in‑the‑dark Canadian coin, and finish off in the Small Talk Dimension with vacation chaos in the Alps and smoked cocktails.
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In this debut episode of Canada Is Boring Presents: The Tinfoil Touque, Rhys and Jesse dig into one of Canada’s most famous “evidence of time travel” photos: a 1941 crowd scene at a bridge reopening in British Columbia featuring a mysterious man in wraparound shades, a logo sweater, and what looks like a modern camera.

Was he really a time traveler… or just a fashion-forward hockey fan with a new Kodak? The pair break down how this single image went viral in the 2010s, why people are so eager to see the fantastical instead of the obvious, and how gravity makes “unsexy” time travel (a.k.a. time dilation) very real.

Along the way, they riff on aging and fashion, internet conspiracy culture, superhero flame wars on Reddit, and Rhys’s new favourite church-parking-lot ice cream stand, Holy Cones.

Stay to the end for a tease of next week’s story: the Falcon Lake incident, a classic Canadian close encounter of the second kind.
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