Consultations Tracker: Never Miss a Window to Comment
For Government Relations (GR), Public Affairs, and Compliance teams, missing a government consultation deadline can mean missing a seat at the table. In Canada, policy decisions often evolve through public consultations long before they appear in the Canada Gazette or in legislative debates. The challenge? Consultations are scattered across hundreds of websites, portals, and notices. […]
How AI Sentiment Analysis Drives Customer-Centric Decision Making
In today’s data-driven world, businesses can’t afford to rely on guesswork when it comes to understanding their customers. AI-driven sentiment analysis is transforming how organizations interpret feedback, monitor public perception, and adjust strategies in real time. By applying natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to news, social media, and customer communications, sentiment analysis offers […]
Bill Tracking in Canada: Federal, Provincial, and Territorial in One Workflow
Canadian teams don’t just track one chamber—they track many. A single policy can move through the House and Senate, then ripple across provinces and territories on different calendars. A practical approach to bill lifecycle work in 2025 is to unify federal and provincial feeds, transcripts, and deadlines into one view—so GR, Legal, and Compliance can […]
Canada Gazette Part I vs Part II: What Each Means for Compliance
In Canadian regulatory work, the Canada Gazette is where draft and final rules are published. Understanding the difference between Canada Gazette Part I and Canada Gazette Part II helps teams move from awareness to action: Part I signals proposals and comment windows; Part II records final regulations and coming-into-force details. This guide explains what each […]
Hansard Transcripts: How GR Teams Turn Debates into Decisions
Canadian policy moves quickly in committee rooms and chambers—long before headlines catch up. For Government Relations (GR), Public Affairs, and legal teams, turning Hansard into action means finding the few minutes that matter in hours of debate. This guide shows a practical workflow using same-day parliamentary transcripts, structured highlights, and concise briefs so leaders act […]
Strategic Growth Through Business Intelligence in 2025
In 2025, growth-focused teams aren’t just asking what happened inside the business—they’re asking what’s changing outside it. The companies winning market share are the ones that fuse internal Business Intelligence (BI) with Automated Regulatory Monitoring: a continuous feed of bills, Hansard Canada transcripts, Canada Gazette notices, regulations, consultations, and municipal decisions. For Canadian enterprises, associations, […]
Automated Regulatory Monitoring in Canada: A Plain-English Guide
Canadian organizations don’t just compete on product—they compete on how quickly they see and act on change. Automated Regulatory Monitoring turns public sources (bills, Hansard Canada transcripts, Canada Gazette items, consultations, and municipal decisions) into near real-time alerts that decision-makers can trust. This guide explains—in plain English—how policy monitoring Canada works, what to watch by […]
3 Insights: The Senate, the Media, and the Court of Public Opinion
For some Canadians, the auditor general’s recent report confirmed a view of the Senate as a corrupt and secretive institution. Amid a flood of spending scandals (to say nothing of Don Meredith), the audit – which concluded that 30 senators had inappropriately spent a total of 1 million taxpayer dollars – has raised very public […]
Why Traditional Media Monitoring Still Matters
Why Traditional Media Monitoring Still Matters Listening is good. This is something we can all agree on, I think. Marketing and communications professionals learn the importance of listening to their audiences early on. Financial analysts and investors try to cut through the noise to find lucrative signals. Executives of all kinds want, more than anything, […]
Could Any Amount of PR Have Helped Elizabeth May?
Could Any Amount of PR Have Helped Elizabeth May? As an employee of a media-monitoring service provider, I’m pretty much addicted to the news. It’s become a part of my regular routine – most mornings, I scour news sites and twitter feeds, searching for stories (and soon-to-be stories) that I can run through Gnowit’s CoreAlerts […]