What we cover, and what we do not
Coverage is the first question a buyer of this kind of product should ask, so this page answers it in full, including the parts that are not flattering.
Every count below carries the date it was measured. Where we do not cover something, it is named here rather than left for you to discover in your first issue.
On the record today
The police services, boards, councils and ministries in the register beside this, provincial and federal, including federal defence procurement.
| Record we read | Held | Most recently collected |
|---|---|---|
| police board and council minutes | 2,600+ | 19 September 2026 |
| ministry announcements | 1,400+ | 19 September 2026 |
| inquest recommendations | 150+ | 11 September 2026 |
| budget documents | 120+ | 14 September 2026 |
Counts are floors, rounded down, because an exact figure is wrong the next morning and a floor stays true as the corpus grows.
Whose purchases we are tracing
We are tracing purchases through the published minutes of six Ontario police services boards today: Toronto, Greater Sudbury, York Region, London, Waterloo Region and Durham Region. 45 of those purchases are traced far enough to publish, and 13 of them have reached no tender and no award in the record we hold. Each issue features the ones that have also moved recently.
| Board | Purchases traced |
|---|---|
| Toronto | 24 |
| Greater Sudbury | 11 |
| York Region | 5 |
| London | 2 |
| Waterloo Region | 2 |
| Durham Region | 1 |
What reaches an issue. A purchase reaches the forward section when 3 or more dated public records carry it, it has not reached a tender or an award, and it moved in the last 90 days. Its whole chain is then shown as evidence, however far back it runs. Tracing a purchase is not the same as publishing it: a week can qualify one purchase, or none, and the issue says which.
Measured on 16 September 2026. A board enters this table when one of its purchases has been traced across two or more dated public records and checked by a person, and leaves it when none is. Reading a board’s minutes is not the same as tracing a purchase through them, and the boards we read but have not yet traced are the second table’s subject rather than this one’s.
What we do not cover
Not covered. Direct Ontario ministry tenders (the Ontario Tenders Portal forbids automated collection; OPP carried via capital and agency signal); provinces beyond Ontario.
Hansard, held. We hold 190+ documents and publish none of them. Collection is paused pending counsel on the copyright question (strategy doc D4). Released by that ruling, not by a code change. It appears in no claim we make, and our own build fails if a claim names it while the hold stands.
Federal grant programs. We collect 78, measured on 9 September 2026. Not one carries a closing date we can read off the page, so not one can reach you as something to act on. That is why our grant coverage is described as Ontario rather than national.
The provincial force. The Ontario Provincial Police has no municipal board whose minutes we read. It reaches you as it appears in other bodies’ records and in Infrastructure Ontario’s notices, and we do not describe that as reading the force itself.
Where coverage is growing
Ontario coverage deepens as new buyers clear validation.
We do not publish a schedule for it. A date on this page that passes without the coverage arriving is a broken promise on our own site, and we would rather name what is here today and let you check it.
If you need a buyer, a region or a category we do not name here, tell us. Enterprise members can request coverage as part of their agreement, and we will say plainly whether it is something we can collect.
How to check any of this
Open any item in an issue and follow its citation to the publisher’s own record. That is the whole check, and it is the one we would run on somebody else. How we verify what we tell you sets out the rest: what we hold back, what every item owes you, and what we do not claim.