Canadian government data platform covering federal contracts, lobbying, grants, political donations, & building permits.
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The federal government paid $480M to a US-owned company to administer Canadian student loans.
The vendor: Nelnet Diversified Services Canada.
The department: Employment and Social Development Canada.
The contract: March 2026.
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Most Canadians don’t know a US-owned firm runs their student loan system.
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$ARE.TO Aecon Group has 6 active lobbying registrations with the federal government.
Their most active lobbyist: Tim Murphy — former Chief of Staff to Liberal PM Paul Martin.
A new Liberal government just took power.
Aecon’s last lobbying communication: May 27, 2026.
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What is Aecon lobbying for?
→ Northern infrastructure
→ Energy and natural resources
→ Arctic and Indigenous development
→ Defence contracts
In June alone they deployed 5 separate lobbyists targeting 35 federal departments simultaneously.
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$LB.TO Laurentian Bank is being sold
Fairstone Bank is acquiring it for $1.9B.
National is taking the retail and SME portfolios.
98.77% of shareholders voted yes in February.
Regulatory approval from the Minister of Finance and OSFI still required.
Expected to close late 2026
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This week, Laurentian Bank registered to lobby Finance Canada and OSFI about that approval.
Their ask: fast-track the regulatory sign-off. No public review process.
A $1.9B bank deal. Lobbying the regulators to approve it quietly.
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Mattamy Homes — Canada’s largest private homebuilder — has filed 101 lobbying communications since 2021.
Their #1 subject: skilled trades & employment.
Not housing supply. Not zoning. Workers.
They’re also lobbying on immigration and environment.
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Most recent example:
March 10, 2026 — Mattamy’s lobbyist met with a Senior Policy Advisor at the PMO.
Subject: skilled trades, immigration, infrastructure.
The meeting is a public record.
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Mattamy Homes lobbied Finance Canada 19 times since 2021.
More than Housing Canada. More than CMHC.
They’re not just lobbying on housing policy.
They’re lobbying on the tax rules that make building homes profitable.
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879 active lobbying registrations cite housing as a subject.
More than defence. More than energy. More than tax.
Who's lobbying on housing:
🔵 Homebuilders
🔵 Banks and fintechs
🔵 Environmental groups
🔵 Charities
🔵 Condo developers
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$EBS Emergent BioSolutions has up to $140M CAD in contracts with the Canadian government.
What they’re supplying: smallpox, anthrax, botulism, and Ebola countermeasures.
Canada is quietly building a biodefense stockpile.
The contracts are public.
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$GD National Defence awarded General Dynamics $144M in ammunition contracts in 4 months.
🔫 Nov 2025 — $81M
🔫 Mar 2026 — $33M
🔫 Mar 2026 — $30M
Canada committed to hitting NATO’s 2% GDP defence target.
The contracts are already moving.
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$GD General Dynamics lobbied the PMO and DND to accelerate Canada’s NATO spending.
They also lobbied specifically to secure ammunition contracts.
Months later: $144M in ammunition contracts from National Defence.
The lobbying data and the contracts are both public.
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$NOK Nokia is running two separate lobbying tracks in Canada right now.
Track 1: Asking Finance and the PMO for R&D funding.
Track 2: Lobbying DND and Canada's signals intelligence agency to secure military communications networks.
Registered this week
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Since becoming Finance Minister, François-Philippe Champagne has:
→ Passed 3 bills into law
→ 4 more bills in progress
Who's been lobbying him in that window:
🔵 Enbridge
🔵 CIBC
🔵 Manulife
🔵 ATCO
🔵 TransCanada Pipelines
Energy and banking.
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New construction permits — Calgary vs Edmonton:
2018: 7,017 vs 5,828
2024: 12,241 vs 5,953
2025: 11,344 vs 5,592
Calgary's permit count grew 74% since 2018.
Edmonton's stayed flat — but the projects got bigger.
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Calgary builds volume. Edmonton builds scale.
Same province. Same migration wave. Two different cities.
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Federal AI research grants by year:
2020-21 — 83 grants
2021-22 — 108 grants
2022-23 — 132 grants
2023-24 — 1,075 grants
That's a 13x increase in 4 years.
The money is going to U of T, UdeM, Concordia, and TMU.
Canada made a bet on AI research.
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$T.TO TELUS has received $9.78B in federal contracts since 2002.
99.8% of it flows through one department: Shared Services Canada.
Meanwhile: 8 active lobbying registrations. CEO Darren Entwistle is their top lobbyist.
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