I think fixing procurement is the best way to improve government.
Weekly
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Oct 27, 2026
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6 min read
Canadian governments asked suppliers for input 116 times in three weeks, up from 97. Cities posted fewer tenders but bought 12% more tech, eleven buyers went shopping for fire trucks at once, and health authorities are now renting housing for their own staff.
Defence
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Oct 13, 2026
7 min read
We followed the money governments are spending to stop drones, all the way to the companies cashing the cheques. The buyers are European. The winners, mostly, are not. Here are the four companies actually winning the drone war, and the one country building its own.
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Sep 23, 2026
4 min read
Cybersecurity was the through-line this week, from the House of Commons to a Saskatchewan city, and buyers are asking for it by brand. Plus: winter is coming, and the plows are already out to tender.
Sep 17, 2026
8 min read
In an age of spending restraint, two very different departments spent the week buying the same kind of thing: critical infrastructure.
Sep 1, 2026
Nine uncrewed-systems tenders in seven days, from the military to a city police force, plus the IT and defence work worth reading this week.
Aug 27, 2026
Ontario's Municipalities Already Spend 78 Cents on the Dollar at Home, and the Foreign Share Hides in Plain Sight Ontario's.
Aug 18, 2026
We track what the two biggest buyers, SSC and PSPC, are still tendering after a drop in consulting
Aug 11, 2026
National Defence Is Buying Faster Every Quarter, and Fisheries Just Lost Its Fleet
Aug 6, 2026
Telesat's Arctic satcom award, a $5.7B subway package, and a quiet Treasury Board push to unbundle contracts for small business.
Jul 28, 2026
10 min read
Canada gave itself top marks on internal trade. But only four of fourteen governments will show you who won their contracts, and the opacity has a price.
Jul 21, 2026
Half the money stays with NL-based firms. In tech, seven of every ten dollars go to foreign-owned vendors. We mapped all $5.4 billion of it.
Jul 14, 2026
A new sovereignty policy wants more of this money to stay home. The data shows exactly how much room there is to make that happen.
Jul 7, 2026
Where buying accelerated in Q2 2026, and how Alberta had the hottest in RFP in the country.
Jun 30, 2026
5 min read
The Carney government has been busy shopping Canadian defence tech abroad and buying it domestically.
Jun 23, 2026
Doug builds a hospital, and another, and another.
Jun 16, 2026
9 min read
$6.44 billion in roads, pipes, and parks, and the firms winning the work.
Jun 10, 2026
14 min read
The Feds drop their AI strategy, so we pulled every AI contract across the country. The data tells the story the strategy is missing.....
Jun 2, 2026
This was the biggest three months in procurement history, and we've got the analytics to prove it
May 27, 2026
We mapped every single defence, dual-use, and defence-curious company in Canada using our database of procurement. The findings were.....interesting to say the least.
May 19, 2026
Canada is building, funding, and launching nearly everything in sight. We follow the $42B.
May 12, 2026
$1.5B to defend Canadian industry from US tariffs. $1.13B to Lockheed Martin for HIMARS. The Buy Canadian story has limits, and this is what they look like.
May 5, 2026
The Spring Economic Update opens a Federal Contracts Review, cuts external consulting by 20 per cent, and seeds a $25 billion sovereign wealth fund.
Apr 28, 2026
Ontario's $37B spending in one year, a Canadian-content scoring rewrite, and a discretionary fund the Minister of Finance controls.
Apr 15, 2026
Ten years of $100M-plus awards, the $51 billion Build Communities launch, and the policy shift that changes the mid-market math.
Apr 7, 2026
Saskatchewan published $4.3 billion in capital projects with named contractors, bed counts, and completion dates.
