The Pulse

What appears in the feed

Each entry is one event tied to one representative, with the date it occurred, the jurisdiction it belongs to, and a link out to the record it came from. The feed mixes several kinds of activity:

• Bill stages. A bill reaching first reading, second reading, committee, third reading, the Senate, or royal assent, linked to that bill's page here and to the legislature's own record.
• Lobbying contacts. A communication report filed in a lobbying registry naming a registrant, the organisation they act for, and the representative contacted.
• Disclosures. Filings published by a federal or provincial ethics or integrity commissioner.
• Trades and contracts. Trading activity and government contract awards, where the jurisdiction publishes them.
• Votes. Recorded divisions — the only votes in Canada attributable to a named member.

The filters narrow the feed by activity type and by jurisdiction, so you can watch one province, or one kind of activity across the country.

Where it comes from

Nothing in the feed originates here. Bill stages come from each legislature's own record — LEGISinfo federally and the equivalent provincial systems. Lobbying entries come from the federal Registry of Lobbyists and the provincial registrars. Disclosures come from the Ethics Commissioner's public registry and its provincial counterparts. Votes come from the House of Commons and the Ontario Legislative Assembly. Every item carries its source link — follow it before drawing a conclusion.

How to read an entry

An item records that something was filed, not that something was wrong. A lobbying entry means a registrant filed a communication report naming that representative. It does not say what was discussed in any detail, what was asked for, or that the representative did anything as a result. Registries record access, and access is worth knowing about, but it is not influence.

Volume follows publishing practice as much as activity. A jurisdiction that publishes a machine-readable registry will generate far more entries than one that does not, so a quiet province in this feed is usually a quiet data source. Reading a member's conflict-of-interest position from feed volume alone will mislead you.

Dates are the source's dates. We publish the date the record carries rather than the date we ingested it, which keeps items checkable against the registry but means an entry is only as precise as the filing behind it.

What is missing

Coverage is uneven and published rather than hidden. Recorded divisions are available federally and in Ontario; elsewhere legislatures publish divisions only inside Hansard PDFs, so no vote items appear for those provinces. Most provincial lobbying registries are ingested on a normal schedule, but the federal registry serves a bot challenge to automated requests and publishes no reliable machine-readable mirror, so federal lobbying entries are refreshed from a hand-mirrored export and can lag. A handful of provinces publish nothing usable at all. The live status of every feed is on data coverage, and it is the right page to check before treating an absence in this feed as an absence of activity.