From canlitgenerator.com, a CanLit premise generator built by Adam Brady. The generator uses JavaScript to randomly output event, location and character combinations, drawn from a database of crowdsourced suggestions. At present, 900,000 premises are available.

A troupe of French-Canadian clowns contemplates the meaning of Tim Horton’s coffee to reconnect with the false, nostalgic simplicity of their youth.


A dog drives drunk to make peace with the parents they never knew.


A teenager drives drunk to reconnect with the false, nostalgic simplicity of their youth.


A woman moves into an apartment Leonard Cohen once lived in but is also a robot.


A woman goes to Frobisher Bay in 1897 only to have to kill a whale.


A group of writers dry a teacup only to be killed by Vikings.


A husband builds a small-town church to survive the harsh winter and their failing marriage.


An orphan finally finds success growing hydrangeas to better know their withdrawn, uncommunicative father.


An intramural soccer team conducts a maple syrup heist in a tall ship to make it to a funeral.


Gordie Howe pursues a cold case murder but in a “Little Mosque on the Prairie” kind of way.


A family goes to an abandoned Yukon Gold Rush town which they then adopt as their own.


A young couple journeys to the center of Algonquin Park to reconnect with the false, nostalgic simplicity of their youth.


A young couple trek across the prairie during the Winter Olympics. To each other, they say nothing.


A troupe of French-Canadian clowns visit a dilapidated farmhouse on the Prairies after the fishery collapsed.


A family and their dog become involved in the fur trade, barely escaping the weather.


A man and his dog drive drunk on a skidoo to bring medicine to their snowed in family.


A woman and her dog drive across the country to survive the harsh winter and their failing marriage.


An unusually tall municipal bureaucrat falls in love with a wild animal while helplessly watching as the harvest fails.


A person with an antiquated profession writes Laura Secord erotic fan-fiction in 1897 to better know their withdrawn, uncommunicative father.


A woman and her dog cross the Rockies on a dog sled to make peace with the parents they never knew.


A man and his dog try acid at a concert to make it to a funeral.
A man tersely gets government funding on a stolen houseboat, losing an arm for their troubles.


A family and their dog absent-mindedly find success growing hydrangeas on a stolen houseboat to make peace with the parents they never knew.