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Almanacs used to end with a note on how the book was made. This is ours.
The data
Climate figures are computed from Environment and Climate Change Canada's 1991 to 2020 climate normals, the standard 30-year window climatology runs on, across 655 stations. The dataset was last refreshed 2026-06-11. Provincial rules and deadlines are read from the responsible government source, linked beside every claim with the date we verified it. A canary checks the site every morning; a deeper pulse reads it every week; a human is alerted the moment either disagrees with a source.
The machinery
The site is plain, fast HTML, prebuilt and served from edge caches, with no frameworks shipped to your browser beyond a few small scripts for the tools. Your place is stored only in your own browser. Analytics are self-hosted, anonymous, and cookie-free. The calendar feeds are generated on demand and carry no tracking of any kind.
The type
Set in Fraunces, a soft serif that remembers the wood-type almanacs, and Newsreader for running text, with interface labels in system sans. The palette is ink on paper, because reference material should read like it.
The rules it lives under
The funding rules are published on the funding page; the calculations on the methodology page; the privacy promises on the privacy page. If the site ever drifts from any of them, write to contact@homealmanac.ca and a person will fix it.