About Queen Street Analytics

Queen Street Analytics is Canada's most comprehensive newsletter covering hard-to-monitor regulatory, legislative and political news. We provide weekly digests of what's happening in 24 separate industries, from Agriculture, to Defence, to Utilities & Power.

How subscriptions work

Subscribers have access to all 24 of our channels on our platform, and can also receive any of them as email newsletters. For example, a user can subscribe to the Oil & Gas, Mining, and Utilities & Power email newsletters, and then browse the Indigenous Affairs, Environment and Finance channels at their leisure.

What's paid and what's free

A subscription gives users access to the whole platform with all 24 channels.

We publish one free article a month on every channel, with the remaining articles behind paywall.

Group subscriptions

For organizations that need multiple subscriptions under separate email handles, we offer steep discounts on group subscriptions.

Publication format

The weekly digest format of our newsletter is intended to allow readers to take a step back from the daily hustle and bustle, and to create space for form a higher-level perspective on the GR and PR trends in each industry.

Separating government relations into 24 distinct industries at a fixed weekly cadence, our readers can monitor government activity from different perspectives and track it over time.

Our content

We strive to take in all potentially relevant texts related to government activity:

  • committee meetings in the House and the Senate in federal parliament, as they happen
  • official announcement from any branch of the federal government
  • regulatory updates in the federal Gazette
  • important open-data updates for regulated industries
  • social media (X) accounts of all MPs and Senators
  • official announcements from all provincial governments
  • regulatory (Gazette) updates for all provinces
  • news media articles and trade publications related to the domains we cover
  • lobby-data, with monthly analysis for each channel separately

Our data pipeline captures many thousands of datapoints every week, and our AI engine sorts and tags these data, before sending them to our editors who review, summarize and synthesize the content in each of our channels.

Monthly lobbying analytics

Lobby data are made public with a one-month delay in a single data dump. In between these data dumps, incoming lobby data is just noise. We therefore publish one monthly special edition on each of our channels, highlighting noteworthy patterns in lobbying by specific industry players, lobby of specific government branches, and lobby around specific subjects.

Our history and our roadmap

Queen Street Analytics was published as a single-channel substack with a focus on lobbying analytics from August 2023 to December 2024. In February 2025, we re-launched under the new format.

Our roadmap for 2025:

  • add general interest channels, starting with a channel on US-Canadian trade relations
  • end of February 2025: start offering unique custom newsletters to subscribers
  • by March 2025: start offering customized executive-quality instant report-generators