diff --git a/.github/workflows/canary.yml b/.github/workflows/canary.yml
index 83a16e2..59c75d4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/canary.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/canary.yml
@@ -59,10 +59,6 @@ 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:
 
@@ -76,7 +72,7 @@ jobs:
     env:
       # `secrets` is not available in a job-level `if`, so presence is tested
       # through the job env and read in each step's condition.
-      HAVE_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '20 6 * * 1') && secrets.QUORA_PROXY != '' }}
+      HAVE_PROXY: ${{ secrets.QUORA_PROXY != '' }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
@@ -107,7 +103,7 @@ jobs:
         # stops the step from failing the job; it does not touch errexit.
         continue-on-error: true
         env:
-          QUORA_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '20 6 * * 1') && secrets.QUORA_PROXY || '' }}
+          QUORA_PROXY: ${{ secrets.QUORA_PROXY }}
         run: |
           set +e
           xvfb-run -a python3 playwright_scraper.py \
@@ -351,7 +347,7 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
         continue-on-error: true
         env:
-          QUORA_PROXY: ${{ (github.event_name != 'schedule' || github.event.schedule == '20 6 * * 1') && secrets.QUORA_PROXY || '' }}
+          QUORA_PROXY: ${{ secrets.QUORA_PROXY }}
         run: |
           set +e
           xvfb-run -a python3 playwright_scraper.py \
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 437126f..0b8541d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ bad default or violating the promise quietly.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- CI only: the canary's optional paid secret `QUORA_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 `QUORA_PROXY` passed on every run; the daily schedule is removed.
 
 ## [0.2.0] — 2026-10-16
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e7b0548..e49ebc5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ Author names, profile slugs, credentials, answer bodies and cited links are
 replaced with placeholders first; question titles, ids, counts, timestamps and
 Quora's own markup stay verbatim.
 
-`canary.yml` runs two real runs daily — a question URL for the inline-payload
+`canary.yml` runs two real runs weekly (Mondays) — a question URL for the inline-payload
 path and a topic URL for the DOM-only one — and asserts that each behaves the
 way this README says it does. A run that did not parse real rows (blocked,
 never got its content, partial, or empty) turns the badge red rather than