The power will go out again. Be the house that's ready.
Digital kits, daily preparedness briefings and a physical offline library — all built for a Canadian winter: metric first, $ CAD, well water and septic. Every claim traced to its source.
Instant download on digital kits · Canada-wide shipping on Coldstart hardware
Start where you are weak
Seventy-five scored questions tell you what to fix. The workbooks turn "I should get more water" into litres and a rotation date. The playbook covers the 50 to 200 hours in between.
The Complete Kit
Audit where you're weak. Calculate what you need. Playbook for 3 a.m. All three products, four files, one download.
Winter Grid-Down Playbook
Nine chapters in threat order — heat first, then water, food, sanitation, power, medical, comms, security, recovery. Includes the 72-hour drill with 20 numeric pass/fail tests.
Preparedness Calculator Pack
Water storage in litres and containers with a rotation date, the canning planner that fails closed, calorie storage, winter solar sizing, generator fuel, wood heat, tier subtotals.
Family Preparedness Audit
75 questions scored 0–3 across ten domains, a Preparedness Index out of 225, four bands, and a plan template with owners, dates and a signed review page.
An offline library, shielded and measured — not claimed
A sealed enclosure holding a complete offline reference library — field manuals, medical references, offline maps, and a small AI that answers and cites the book and page. Nothing is sold on a shielding number we did not measure ourselves.
What actually moved today
Scored from 18 sources, bulk noise filtered out. Every item links to the publisher that reported it — Canaprep does not report the news.
Miami company recalls sprouts in Florida and New Hampshire over E. coli
Why it matters: food and water problems arrive quietly — a recall, a supply gap, a price jump.4-hour storage cheaper than gas peakers across global markets
Why it matters: loss of grid power is the most common way a normal week turns into an emergency.Canadian economy lost 68,000 jobs in September, second straight month of surprise
Why it matters: worth knowing now, because the window to prepare is before everyone else notices.Someone read the books so you don't have to
Not summaries — the small number of techniques that change whether a bad night becomes a funeral, each traced to the book and source that supports it.
The life-saving guide
From Where There Is No Doctor, the US Army's Emergency War Surgery, Kearny's Nuclear War Survival Skills and the behavioural findings in The Unthinkable.
- Hold pressure for a full 15 minutes — don't peek
- Rewarm the core, never the limbs, and never give alcohol
- 15 gallons per person for a two-week shelter stay
- KI only when instructed, and only within the window
We tell you when the sources conflict
Older civilian texts call a tourniquet a last resort. Current military trauma guidance says apply it early and high, and leave it on. Both are on the page, with which one is current — because following the 1970s advice is how people bleed out.
That is the standard for everything published here: if we cannot trace a claim to a source, it is marked low confidence or it does not go up.