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
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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
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“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
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
University · Newfoundland 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.
Algoma University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
The university's generative AI guidance directs instructors to set course expectations, protect privacy, preserve academic integrity, review assessment uses, communicate transparently and align decisions with policy.
Carleton University
Public university · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
The university AI framework guides faculty, staff and students through human-centred use, privacy and data controls, transparency, fairness, academic integrity, role accountability and continuing review.
Concordia University
Public university · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
Concordia's generative AI guidance limits non-public university data to approved enterprise tools, bars personal accounts for such data, requires sensitivity checks, and prohibits DeepSeek on university systems.
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
University · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
Emily Carr's generative AI guidance defines permitted university uses, restricts confidential and personal data, requires disclosure and attribution, and assigns instructors responsibility for course-level expectations.
Trent University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
Instructors must publish course AI rules, fact-check teaching materials and protect privacy; students need explicit permission for assessment use, must disclose and cite it, and remain subject to human-led grading.
University of Alberta
University · Alberta
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Alberta.
The university’s AI framework directs faculty, staff and students to use AI with human-centred judgment, fairness, transparency and accountability while protecting privacy and security, supporting literacy.
University of Manitoba
University · Manitoba
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Manitoba.
Faculty, staff and students must keep AI human-centred, transparent and ethically supervised; the university requires literacy, privacy and data-security risk controls, copyright compliance, accessibility and fairness.
University of Northern British Columbia
Public university · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
Faculty and staff using AI for university business must protect personal and confidential information, use approved tools, complete required privacy and security review, verify outputs.
University of Ottawa
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
University AI use and acquisition require security, privacy and risk review, approved data handling, vendor due diligence and documented accountability; users must protect sensitive information.
University of Toronto
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
Administrative staff must verify and disclose AI-assisted work, protect and minimize university data, avoid sole-source employment decisions, monitor bias, document consequential uses, assess vendors and retain human accountability.
University of Waterloo
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
University AI use must match tool approval to data classification, keep highly restricted data out of AI, complete privacy, security and procurement assessment for new systems, minimize inputs.
University of Windsor
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
University users must remain accountable, disclose meaningful AI assistance, protect privacy and security, verify accuracy and bias, respect intellectual property, keep decisions human-led, ensure accessibility and legal compliance.
Wilfrid Laurier University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
University community members and contractors must assess generative AI risk, protect classified information, human-review content and decisions, document and disclose use, mitigate bias, respect copyright and follow approval requirements.
Athabasca University
Public university · Alberta
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Alberta.
Description under review — read the source document.
Brock University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
The instructor guidance requires clear course-level AI rules, privacy and copyright protection, disclosure, verified outputs, authentic assessment and alignment with academic-integrity policy.
Cape Breton University
Public university · Nova Scotia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Nova Scotia.
Description under review — read the source document.
Capilano University
Public university · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
The faculty guidance requires clear course expectations, privacy protection, transparent AI use, output verification, authentic assessment, academic-integrity compliance and equitable alternatives for students.
Dalhousie University
Public university · Nova Scotia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Nova Scotia.
Dalhousie's residency AI guideline requires disclosure, fact-checking and supervisor approval, prohibits patient data in public tools, and allows secure scribes only with patient consent and program oversight.
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Public polytechnic university · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
KPU's generative AI principles require disclosure and explanation, protect intellectual property and personal data, mandate accuracy and bias review, respect Indigenous data, and require consent before uploading student work.
MacEwan University
University · Alberta
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Alberta.
MacEwan governs AI across academic and administrative work through separate oversight, responsible-use and procurement controls, privacy and legal compliance, training, and human accountability.
McGill University
University · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
McGill directs staff and researchers to use approved AI services, remove personal or sensitive data, review outputs, respect copyright, and seek authorization for restricted information.
McMaster University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
McMaster employees must discuss generative AI with supervisors, protect confidential and personal data, verify and disclose outputs, and retain human control over hiring and consequential work.
Mount Royal University
Public university · Alberta
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Alberta.
Mount Royal guides everyday AI use through approved-tool selection, account and data safeguards, output verification and disclosure, human judgment, and escalation for privacy or security concerns.
Nipissing University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
Nipissing’s non-academic units need departmental authority and technology approval for AI, must match tools to data classifications, review and acknowledge outputs, and retain humans for consequential decisions.
NOSM University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
NOSM faculty and learners must disclose AI use, obtain consent before entering protected data, review outputs, preserve human grading and clinical judgment, and remain accountable for results.
OCAD University
Public university · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
OCAD students must follow course-specific AI rules, consult instructors when uncertain, and treat unauthorized or inappropriate AI use as possible academic misconduct while preserving approved accommodations.
Queen's University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
Description under review — read the source document.
Royal Roads University
Public university · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
Royal Roads’ community must protect personal and confidential data in AI, verify and cite outputs, disclose assistance, follow course and workplace expectations, and retain human accountability.
Saint Mary's University
University · Nova Scotia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Nova Scotia.
Description under review — read the source document.
Simon Fraser University
University · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
SFU faculty and staff in administrative work must check privacy requirements and supervisors before sensitive AI use, verify results, disclose assistance, use approved tools, and remain accountable.
St. Francis Xavier University
Public university · Nova Scotia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Nova Scotia.
Faculty must state permitted generative AI use for each graded activity; absent a syllabus rule, use is prohibited, while allowed use may require disclosure, citations, prompts, outputs and process explanations.
The University of British Columbia
University · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
UBC community members using generative AI for administrative work must obtain required approvals, protect confidential and personal data, verify accuracy and bias, attribute sources.
Toronto Metropolitan University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
Employees must use assessed AI tools, share only public information, never upload personal or sensitive data, and obtain privacy, security and AI assessments before adopting an unapproved tool; violations may be privacy breaches.
Trinity Western University
Private university · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
Faculty must define generative AI expectations in every syllabus, ensure use complies with ethical and legal duties, and keep critical thinking and personal authorship central to learning.
University Canada West
Private university · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
Description under review — read the source document.
University of Guelph
Public university · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
Marketing and communications staff may use AI for drafts, transcripts and limited image edits, but must human-review accuracy, originality, bias and brand fit, protect confidential data.
University of Lethbridge
Public university · Alberta
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Alberta.
Instructors and supervisory committees must clearly permit, limit or ban AI in courses, research and assessments; students must follow those directions, and violations are academic offences under the student code.
University of New Brunswick
Public university · New Brunswick
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in New Brunswick.
Graduate students and supervisors must agree on AI boundaries, document and disclose use, validate outputs, obtain ethics approval before sensitive-data use.
University of Regina
University · Saskatchewan
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Saskatchewan.
All employees must use generative AI lawfully and transparently, protect confidential and personal information, verify accuracy and bias, respect copyright, retain human judgment.
University of Saskatchewan
University · Saskatchewan
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Saskatchewan.
Administrative staff and managers must use approved AI ethically, protect institutional and personal data, verify accuracy and bias, disclose meaningful use, preserve human accountability.
University of the Fraser Valley
Public university · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
UFV staff must human-review every AI output, disclose AI-assisted public content, protect confidential, personal and intellectual-property data, use secure tools.
University of Victoria
University · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
Employees must use approved AI, complete privacy and technical review for new tools, keep internal, confidential and highly confidential data out of unapproved systems, verify outputs.
Vancouver Island University
Public university · British Columbia
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in British Columbia.
Faculty and students should use generative AI transparently and ethically, follow instructor-set assessment rules, verify outputs, protect privacy and intellectual property, preserve academic integrity and keep teaching human-led.
Western University
Public university · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
Staff may use AI for approved administrative support but must protect personal and sensitive data, verify and disclose output, preserve professional judgment, follow data-classification and privacy-assessment rules.
York University
University · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
York community members must use approved AI suited to data classification, protect personal and confidential information, verify accuracy and bias, disclose meaningful assistance, preserve human decisions.
University Health Network
Academic hospital and health network · Ontario
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Ontario.
UHN personnel must use approved AI for organizational work, sign in with institutional credentials, keep health, personal and confidential information out of unapproved tools.
Université de Sherbrooke
Public university · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
University community members must choose AI only when appropriate, validate accuracy and bias, protect personal and confidential data, respect copyright, preserve human judgment.
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.
Université Laval
University · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
Administrative staff must use university-approved AI tools, avoid personal, confidential and strategic data, anonymize or substitute sensitive details, manually verify outputs.
CHU Sainte-Justine
Pediatric and maternal university health centre · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
The hospital's AI guide requires project-specific benefit and risk assessment, privacy and autonomy safeguards, human control, transparency and explainability, equity, accountability and responsible clinical oversight.
HEC Montréal
Public university · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
HEC Montréal's generative AI guidelines require transparent and authorized use, protect confidential and personal data, mandate verification and human oversight, and apply academic-integrity and citation rules.
Polytechnique Montréal
Public university · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
Polytechnique Montréal’s administrative staff must use authorized AI within data-classification limits, verify and disclose outputs, preserve human decisions, and seek supervisory approval where required.
Université de Montréal
University · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
Administrative staff must match generative AI tools to information-classification levels: public data is allowed, internal data needs caution, confidential data requires an approved private tool.
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Public university · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
UQAC community members must disclose generative AI use, retain responsibility and critical judgment, adapt use to teaching and research contexts, protect privacy and confidential information, respect intellectual property and review bias.
Université du Québec à Montréal
Public university · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
UQAM community members must disclose generative AI use, verify accuracy and bias, preserve intellectual autonomy and human relationships, protect personal, confidential and copyrighted material.
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Public university · Quebec
A post-secondary institution providing education, training, research, and student services in Quebec.
All personnel must remain responsible for generative AI use, validate outputs and bias, protect personal, confidential and copyrighted information, disclose meaningful assistance.
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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