Archive - The Old Guardian’s Substack

Two Schools, One Question:

Did Supervision Actually Fix Anything?

Jul 13 • Christopher Allen

Fifteen Classes, No Explanation

Christopher Allen — The Old Guardian

Jul 9 • Christopher Allen

The Board That Answers No One

Christopher Allen — The Old Guardian

Jul 8 • Christopher Allen

One Hundred Thousand Deaths Later

Ten years after Parliament promised MAiD would never replace care, the government’s own data tells a different story

Jul 7 • Christopher Allen

100 Pieces. One Pattern.

Looking back over my first 100 publications...

Jul 4 • Christopher Allen

June 2026

THE ARCHITECTURE OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL POWER | PART ONE

Jun 30 • Christopher Allen

THE OLIGOPOLY FILES — PART TWO OF THREE

Jun 29 • Christopher Allen

It Was Lent. You’d Never Know It.

How Queen’s Park quietly became the voice of Catholic education in Toronto

Jun 21 • Christopher Allen

The Pharmacy Avenue Playbook

What a closed file on Pharmacy Avenue tells us about how “minor” decisions get made

Jun 16 • Christopher Allen

When the Tower Comes First

The Old Guardian

Jun 13 • Christopher Allen

35 Years: The Verdict the Facts Always Pointed To

How a murder at a Texas track meet became a culture war, and why the evidence never cared

Jun 11 • Christopher Allen

The Hotline That Disappeared

How Canada’s forced labour disclosure system produces silence — and who it protects

Jun 9 • Christopher Allen

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