Canadian organizations with a published AI policy

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

Browse the registry

1 of 387 organizations

• Memorial University of Newfoundland

  University · Newfoundland and Labrador

  EducationOperational guidanceNewfoundland and Labrador

  A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Newfoundland and Labrador.

  Memorial’s community must use approved generative AI for university data, protect personal and confidential information, verify and disclose outputs, cite sources, and preserve human judgment.

  • approved AI for university data
  • personal and confidential data protection
  • output verification and disclosure
  • source citation
  View recordSource document

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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