Data is not information, and information is not meaning, and meaning is not knowledge (Kent, W.: Data and reality) (Law's New Language?)
One way to think about data: Extreme "aboutness" (as opposed to formativeness) (Hildebrandt)
Data as holy vs data as toxic waste
BC Courts Data
BIRD's collection of sources, mostly arising out of investigative journalism in Europe but many global datasets
Canada Declassified
Canadian Housing Survey
Charity Data (Canada)
Competition Bureau: Monthly report of concluded merger reviews
The Data Catalog Platform | data.world
Estimating the top tail of the family wealth distribution in Canada
Law Firm Transparency Project
Tracking PPP: Search Every Company Approved for Federal Loans - ProPublica
Refugee Law Lab's Bulk Legal Datasets
VanMap
Completed Access to Information Request Summaries dataset
Open By Default: Complete ATI responses (Canada)
Secret Canada
Sunlight Project: Ontario FOIs
SEDAR+: Regulatory filings in Canadian capital markets (see also DisclosureNet)
Search for a Federal Corporation - Corporations Canada
MRAS Business Registry Search: (some) Canadian provincial corporations
BC Eviction Mapping
There is apparently a BC STR Data Portal that can be accessed by local government staff
CAPREIT Property List
Eviction Lab's USA-wide database of evictions
OpenTSS: Countering Tenant Screening
RTB Posted Decisions (since 2022/2023. legacy: http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/rtb/search.html)
Nova Scotia municipal police complaints (DocumentCloud)
Police Data Accessibility Project
Law Enforcement Data and Transparency Project - Tracking (In)Justice: Tracks killings by police in Canada
Stanford's Open Policing Project: Data about police-civilian interactions arising out of traffic stops in the USA
Board Meetings - Vancouver Police Board