Canadian winters have a consistent track record of exposing weaknesses in modern communications. Heavy snow, ice storms, high winds, and prolonged cold routinely interrupt power, damage infrastructure, and overwhelm cellular networks. When that happens, phones stop working, internet access disappears, and even local news becomes difficult to reach. Recent winter storms across multiple regions of…
This past week offered a familiar but important reminder for Canadian preppers: most disruptions don’t arrive as dramatic national emergencies. They show up as weather stress, localized outages, transportation slowdowns, and infrastructure fatigue — often affecting only a few regions at a time, but exposing the same vulnerabilities everywhere. Across Canada, winter conditions continued to…
Modern preparedness relies heavily on the internet — until the moment it doesn’t work. Power outages, connectivity failures, platform shutdowns, and disappearing content all highlight a growing weakness: critical knowledge is increasingly fragile. The CD3WD collection exists to solve that problem. Originally assembled to preserve practical, technical, and humanitarian knowledge for use in austere environments,…
When you harvest a big game animal—whether it’s a deer, elk, moose, bear, or other large species—the focus often lies squarely on the meat. But after the prime cuts are taken, there remains a wealth of potential in the rest of the carcass. When handled with respect, the non-meat portions can contribute to art, craft,…
When the world turns upside down and law enforcement is no longer a phone call away, your home stops being just a shelter—it becomes your stronghold. As preppers, we plan for food, water, power, and medical needs, but too often security is treated as an afterthought. In a true SHTF situation, a well-prepared defensive strategy…
At Preppers Meet 2024, I was lucky enough to win a Peak Refuel Base Camp food bucket generously donated by Briden Solutions. Thinking this would be a great bug out bucket, kind of a grab and go thing, I wanted to give each and every meal pack in that bucket a taste test. Could I live on this…
Introduction:When disaster strikes—whether it’s a freak ice storm, power grid failure, wildfire evacuation, or a full-blown SHTF scenario—your survival hinges on more than just luck. It depends on your level of preparedness, and the best way to ensure you’re ready is by mastering the Five Tenets of Preparedness. These principles serve as the foundation for…
This year the Canadian Preppers Network donated a set of Baofeng radios complete with a full accessory pack as part of the raffle draw at the Preppers Meet. Here’s a picture of our winner Sue being presented with the prize along with Preppers Meet Grand Poobah, Terry Blackmore! Congrats Sue!
As you may know, the Preppers Meet is a week long event this year. Here’s a quick video from day one…Remote First Aid being taught by Hard and Fast CPR. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nUy94JRx-y8 Enjoy!
For the next week I’m going to be posting sporadically. I’m off to the Preppers Meet in Alliston, Ontario again. My week will begin with a 2 day remote first aid course. This course is being offered by Hard and Fast CPR and is part of the Preppers Meet larger “Prepper Week”. Each of the…
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