Canadian organizations with a published AI policy
Every record links to the public source document. Inclusion does not mean a policy is good, and a missing record does not prove an organization lacks governance.
Registry snapshot
- Artifacts
- 387
- Formal policies
- 203
- Operational guidance
- 184
Browse by sector
See what schools, libraries, newsrooms, non-profits and regulators actually publish — each link opens the registry, filtered.
- Education209
- Libraries & culture37
- Media & communications28
- Nonprofits & associations21
- Health & professional regulation21
- Business & professional services16
- Public agencies & research14
- Other13
- Infrastructure, transport & energy11
- Public safety & justice9
- Finance & insurance8
Browse by region
“National” means organizations whose mandate spans the whole country — it is not the sum of the provinces. A province means the organization is based and operating there.
- Ontario127
- National66
- British Columbia61
- Alberta55
- Quebec42
- Nova Scotia11
- Manitoba10
- Saskatchewan7
- New Brunswick3
- Atlantic Canada2
- Northwest Territories1
- Newfoundland and Labrador1
- Prince Edward Island1
See also: provincial and territorial policies · municipal registry · registry overview
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Environment and Climate Change Canada
Federal environment and climate public agency · National
A federal environment and climate public agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
ECCC's conduct code requires employees using AI to complete current training, protect personal, sensitive and intellectual property information, assess stakeholder impacts, and scrutinize accuracy and relevance.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Federal fisheries, oceans, coastal-community, and maritime public agency · National
A federal fisheries, oceans, coastal-community, and maritime public agency delivering public administration, oversight, regulation, or public services across Canada.
Description under review — read the source document.
Good Spirit School Division
School board · Saskatchewan
A school board supporting K–12 schools, students, educators, and district services in Saskatchewan.
Description under review — read the source document.
Grande Prairie Public School Division
School board · Alberta
A school board supporting K–12 schools, students, educators, and district services in Alberta.
The school division's AI procedure requires human oversight, privacy review and impact assessment before covered uses, assigns accountable roles, and makes users monitor and address identified risks.
Niagara Regional Police Service
Regional police service and public-safety organization · Ontario
A regional police service and public-safety organization operating in Ontario.
Niagara Police requires human approval of AI decisions, pre-procurement privacy, rights and risk assessments, board approval for high-risk systems, public registration, annual reporting, and training.
Sun Life Financial Inc.
Insurance, wealth, and financial services · Ontario
An insurance, wealth, and financial services providing banking, insurance, financial, or related member services in Ontario.
Sun Life’s enterprise AI approach embeds governance through the lifecycle, applies risk and privacy-impact assessments, and trains employees to protect sensitive data, validate outputs and maintain human oversight.
Université du Québec à Rimouski
Public university · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
The university-wide AI policy establishes privacy, confidentiality, copyright and information-security duties, assigns governance roles, requires impact and security assessment for acquisition.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the organizations registry?
- It is a source-linked list of Canadian organizations — schools, libraries, non-profits, health and professional bodies, media outlets, agencies — that have published an AI policy or operational guidance. Every record links to the public source document, which is always the authority. Municipal records live in the separate registry at /municipalities.
- Where do the descriptions come from?
- Each description is written from the public source document and reviewed by a human before it appears here. Descriptions summarise what a document covers and which controls it names. They are never a score, a grade, or an opinion about whether the policy is good. Our approach is documented on /methodology.
- Why do some organizations have no description?
- A small number of records are still being adjudicated — usually because the source was hard to access, the document is an AI strategy rather than a use policy, or the scope was unclear. The organization stays listed with its source link, and the description appears once review is finished.
- What is the difference between a formal policy and operational guidance?
- A formal policy is an approved governing document. Operational guidance is practical direction staff actually follow — newsroom standards, classroom rules, a staff handbook section. Both count as published governance; neither is automatically stronger than the other.
- My organization is not listed. What should I do?
- Submit your policy through the form below. A missing record does not prove an organization lacks governance — it usually means we have not found a public source document yet.
- We do not have an AI policy yet. Where do we start?
- Read a few comparable records here to see what peers actually committed to, then use the Policy Builder in the Policy Studio at /studio to draft your own, and /policy-review to check an existing draft against the same control library.
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