SUMMARY — Release Notes

Release Notes in the Canadian Civic Context

February 2026

CanuckDUCK Civic Engagement Platform

Version: Calgary MVP  |  Infrastructure: Self-Hosted  |  Data Sovereignty: Canadian

🦆  Release Highlights

What if AI could learn from citizens instead of training data?

Most AI implementations fail because they ask a general-purpose model to reason about complex domains it doesn't understand. Healthcare policy. Economic ripple effects. Infrastructure dependencies. The model guesses. It hallucinates. It sounds confident while being wrong.

We built something different.

Firewall now logs all traffic to Harlequin which is then broken down into geographic source and categorized based on country of origin.  Scraping bots were also isolated in metrics to increase accuracy of engagement metrics.

Pond will now show a maple leaf icon for posts originating in canada, while all others will have a globe to identify the comment as coming from abroad.

Consensus will now separate polls into source, either Canadian or foreign poll responses.