A plain-language briefing on AI in Canada

Project overview

AI Canada Pulse is a source-linked briefing for Canadian AI activity. The site combines live public feeds, government and research data, economic indicators, reviewed reference datasets, and stored AI-assisted summaries.

It publishes a latest digest, live feed, topic pages, the Timeline, longer explainers, an AI Adoption Compass, a Canadian data-centre map, a World AI feed, a Robotics pulse, a Global rank page, and a reviewed Quotes archive of government AI statements.

It is designed as an early reading layer, not a final authority: use it to see what is moving, then follow the linked source pages for anything important.

The AI Adoption Compass is a static, source-labelled evidence page that explains official business use, worker generative AI use, small-business experimentation, sector gaps, and productivity limits without merging them into one adoption rate.

Source code is available on GitHub.

Operator

This project is operated by Scott Hazlitt, a private individual based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is a personal project exploring AI-assisted software development and public-interest data journalism.

Scott works at the intersection of public policy, data, and technology. More at scotthazlitt.ai and LinkedIn.

Data sources and methodology

The site currently checks or reviews 11 core public source lists for the main live feed and public data services. The source library separately tracks 52 reviewed source records across 9 reader-question lanes. A plain-language source list is available on the Sources page.

News and media

• Canadian News Feeds - Google News, BetaKit, and CBC Technology news-feed coverage for Canadian AI stories
• World AI feeds - international AI-lab, policy, standards, media, and research sources used for global context

Government decisions and rules

• OpenParliament.ca - federal House of Commons mentions of AI
• LEGISinfo - AI-related bills in the Parliament of Canada
• Open Canada AI Registry - federal Algorithmic Impact Assessment disclosures
• Provincial AI rules - manually maintained references across Canadian jurisdictions

New AI research and companies

• arXiv and OpenAlex - AI and machine-learning research connected to Canadian institutions
• Canadian AI Startups - curated startup and money-raised items sourced from Canadian technology coverage
• Robotics sources - specialist robotics feeds, arXiv robotics queries, optional YouTube data, and manually reviewed seed records for physical AI coverage
• Global standing sources - Oxford Insights, Stanford HAI, IMF, OECD, Tortoise, Anthropic, and Federal Reserve references for Canada's international AI standing

Market and economic

• Government of Canada Job Bank - AI-related job posting statistics
• Statistics Canada - labour force and economic context for AI-sector employment
• AI adoption evidence snapshot - Statistics Canada, KPMG, CFIB, OECD, C.D. Howe, Stanford HAI, and Government of Canada references used for the adoption compass

Reference and archive surfaces

• Canadian government AI quotes - a Supabase-backed archive of approved quote records, with automated candidate ingest and admin review before public display
• Canadian data centres - a curated, city-level map of cloud regions, colocation facilities, telecom data centres, and high-performance or AI-compute sites, with a year-by-year buildout timeline sourced from launch announcements
• Topic and timeline pages - reader-friendly areas for government decisions, infrastructure, AI uses, new research, companies, jobs, talent, and historical context

AI-assisted writing

Story summaries, quick briefs, daily digests, topic matching, section summaries, and longer explainers are generated or assisted using OpenAI models, then cached before public rendering. Normal page views do not call the AI provider directly. See the How it works page for full pipeline details.

Key limits

• This is an independent personal project and does not represent any government, academic institution, or commercial entity.
• AI-assisted summaries and longer explainers may contain errors, omissions, or misleading phrasing. Always verify critical information with the linked source paths.
• Market and economic indicators are context only and should not be used for trading or investment decisions.
• Story categories, tone, location, and topic matching are automated or semi-automated and imperfect. Wrong matches will occur.
• Data freshness depends on upstream source availability. Feeds may occasionally fail, change format, duplicate records, or return stale results.
• Public status panels show feed, digest, AI-summary, and source-list health; they are operational checks, not completeness guarantees.

Corrections and contact

If you spot an error in AI-assisted content, a wrong topic or category, an accessibility barrier, or a technical issue, contact scott@scotthazlitt.ai. I aim to respond within 30 days.

Corrections to parliamentary, government, market, or research records must also be directed to the originating source. AI Canada Pulse can correct how a record is displayed, but it does not control the upstream data.

Accessibility and open source

AI Canada Pulse targets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 Level AA conformance, with semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, and sufficient colour contrast.

Built with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Upstash Redis, Supabase, OpenAI, and Vercel.