Source Registry
Primary — Government & Academic
CMHC Rental Market Report
Semi-annual rental market survey data
CPTAQ (Quebec Farmland Protection Commission)
Quebec agricultural land protection data. FR primary.
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Housing starts, rental market data, housing supply reports
Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre
National wildfire coordination and statistics
City of Vienna Housing
Vienna social housing model — international comparison for The Rent Cheque
Department of Justice Canada — Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act
S.C. 2022, c. 15 — legislated 2030 and 2050 milestones, Net-Zero Advisory Body
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Plastic pollution and waste flow data
Environment and Climate Change Canada — Carbon Pricing
Federal carbon pricing policy and OBPS details
Environment and Climate Change Canada — GHG Emissions Projections
Official emissions projections vs. 2005 baseline and 2030 targets
Environment and Climate Change Canada — National Inventory Report
Annual UNFCCC submission — National Inventory Report (NIR)
Environment and Climate Change Canada — Preliminary GHG Emissions
Official preliminary national GHG inventory tables 1990–2023
Environment and Climate Change Canada — Temperature Change Indicator
Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators — national temperature trends
German Environment Agency (UBA)
German packaging and recycling recovery rates
Government of Canada — Canada and International Climate Action
UNFCCC, Paris Agreement, and Canadian multilateral climate engagement overview
Government of Canada — Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution
2021 Paris Agreement 2030 target: 40–45% below 2005 levels
IPCC — Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (AR6 WG I)
AR6 Working Group I — ocean heat uptake, sea level, carbon cycle
Indigenous Services Canada
Official tracker for long-term drinking water advisories on First Nations reserves
International Energy Agency — Energy and AI
IEA 2025 report on data centre electricity demand and AI projections
International Labour Organization — World Economic and Social Outlook 2025
WESO May 2025 update — labour share of income trends
International Monetary Fund — Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Staff Discussion Note SDN/2024/001
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — U.S. Data Center Water Consumption
2024 report on data centre water and energy use
Natural Resources Canada — Canada's Changing Climate Report
2019 national science assessment — warming rates, cryosphere, oceans, coasts
OECD
OECD Municipal Waste statistics — used for international comparisons
Parliamentary Budget Officer
PBO housing affordability and federal spending analyses
Parliamentary Budget Officer — Distributional Analysis of a National Guaranteed Basic Income (Update)
February 2025 update on GBI cost and distributional impact
Quebec Environment Ministry — Carbon Market
Quebec SPEDE cap-and-trade system data and auction results
RECYC-QUEBEC
Quebec residual materials management reports. FR primary source.
Rijkswaterstaat (Netherlands)
Dutch waste management and circular economy statistics
SHQ (Societe d'habitation du Quebec)
Quebec housing data — social housing, rent supplement, housing conditions. FR primary.
Statistics Canada
Table 38-10-0032-01: Disposal of waste, by source
Statistics Canada — Canadian Employment Trends in the Era of Generative AI
Economic and Social Reports, January 2026
Statistics Canada — Census of Agriculture
2021 Census of Agriculture — farmland conversion data
Statistics Canada — Experimental Estimates of AI Occupational Exposure in Canada
Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series, 2024
U.S. Geological Survey
Peer-reviewed mass-balance work on Western Canada glacier loss 2021–2024
UK Legislation — Climate Change Act 2008
Legally binding UK carbon budgets and independent Climate Change Committee oversight
United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC)
Official UNFCCC compliance documentation — Canada withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol
World Economic Forum — Future of Jobs Report 2025
Established — NGO & Journalism
Bank of America — 60% of Today's Jobs Didn't Exist in 1940
Via Fortune — Bank of America research note May 2026
Canadian Climate Institute
Independent climate policy research — emissions tracking and carbon pricing analysis
Canadian Climate Institute — How to Integrate AI Data Centres into Canada's Electricity Grids
Deloitte for ECCC
Economic Study of the Canadian Plastic Industry, Markets and Waste (2019 reference data)
Environmental Defence Canada
Canadian environmental advocacy org — plastic waste, toxics, climate campaigns
Frontiers in AI — AI, UBI, and Power: Symbolic Violence in the Tech Elite's Narrative
Belisle-Pipon (Simon Fraser University), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, February 2025
Goldman Sachs — The Potentially Large Effects of AI on Economic Growth
Economics research report, 2023
Google — 2025 Environmental Report
Corporate sustainability report — self-reported data
McMaster University — Ontario Basic Income Pilot: Signposts to Success
McMaster/Ryerson research on cancelled Ontario pilot outcomes
Microsoft — 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report
Corporate sustainability report — self-reported data
OpenAI — Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age
13-page OpenAI policy document, April 2026 — via TechCrunch
TD Economics — Data Centers in a Grid Constrained World