diff --git a/.github/workflows/canary.yml b/.github/workflows/canary.yml
index 0c7d6bc..6938088 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/canary.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/canary.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 name: canary
 
-# One real run a day against medium.com, and the only workflow in this repo
+# One real run a week (Mondays) against medium.com, and the only workflow in this repo
 # that touches the site. tests.yml (deliberately) never does — see its own
 # header for why the two are separate.
 #
@@ -64,10 +64,6 @@ on:
   schedule:
     # 06:20 UTC. Off the hour, because everything else in the world runs on
     # it and a queued runner adds nothing but latency.
-    - cron: "20 6 * * *"
-    # Mondays: the same jobs, WITH the paid secrets (proxy, Scraping Browser,
-    # captcha key). On the daily run above those secrets read as empty, so
-    # it takes the free no-secret route and bills nothing.
     - cron: "20 6 * * 1"
   workflow_dispatch:
 
@@ -103,7 +99,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Scrape three days of a tag archive (the legacy-payload path)
         id: archive
         env:
-          MEDIUM_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '20 6 * * 1') && secrets.MEDIUM_PROXY || '' }}
+          MEDIUM_PROXY: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_PROXY }}
         # `set +e`: GitHub runs `run:` steps under `bash -e`, so a non-zero
         # command aborts the step BEFORE the following echo and
         # continue-on-error does not change that — it stops the step failing
@@ -184,7 +180,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Scrape a tag feed (the modern-payload path)
         id: feed
         env:
-          MEDIUM_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '20 6 * * 1') && secrets.MEDIUM_PROXY || '' }}
+          MEDIUM_PROXY: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_PROXY }}
         # Runs even when the archive half failed, so one red run still says
         # which of the two paths broke.
         if: always()
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3635737..fd8bbb0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@ empty output file.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- CI only: the canary's optional paid secret `MEDIUM_PROXY` now reaches it only on a new weekly
-  run (Mondays 06:20 UTC) and on a manual dispatch. The daily run keeps its
-  schedule and takes the free route without them, so it bills nothing.
+- CI only: the canary now runs weekly (Mondays 06:20 UTC) and on a manual dispatch, with its optional secret `MEDIUM_PROXY` passed on every run; the daily schedule is removed.
 
 ## [0.2.0] — 2026-10-16