Once a month, we partner up with LobbyIQ to update our readers on recent movements in the federal lobbying landscape in Ottawa. We provide separate coverage for each channel, defined by the most relevant industries, organizations, institutions, and subject matters.

In the Arts & Culture channel, we focus on the following sectors:

• Arts and theatre schools
• Book retailers and news dealers
• Broadcast media production and distribution
• Francophone advocacy organizations
• Grantmaking foundations
• Motion picture and video industries
• Newspaper and book publishers
• Parks, museums and cultural institutions
• Sound recording industries
• Performing arts

Section A: Lobbying Activity by Industry

This section highlights in which industries we saw unusually high or low lobbying activity in Ottawa last month.

Note: The word 'Residuals' always refers to deviations between the observed level of lobbying activity and what a regression model would have predicted based on each industry's historical level of lobbying activity.

Industry Residuals: Number of Lobbying Meetings Above/Below Trends, 2025-01

Section B: Lobbying by Industry for the Past Year

To contextualize each industry's residual values for the most recent month, we compare them with the residual values for past 12 months. The combined view from Section A and B shows readers whether there is a persistent trend of increasing or decreasing lobbying activity within any industry.

Top Industry Residual Trends for 2025-01

Section C: Lobbying Activity by Organization

This section highlights which specific organizations engaged in unusually high or low lobbying activity in Ottawa last month. The exhibit shows the top-ten organizations with the biggest absolute deviation from their own historical behavior.

Organizational Residuals: Lobbying Meetings Above/Below Trends, 2025-01

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Section D: Lobbying of Government Institutions in the Past Month

The flip-side of every organization lobbying is a government official in an institution being lobbied. In this section, we show the aggregated industry-institutions pairs with the biggest (positive or negative) deviation from their own historical lobbying-patterns in the last month, and below that, corresponding organization-institution pairs.

Residuals in Lobbying, Industries → Government Institutions, 2025-01

Residuals in Lobbying, Organizations → Government Institutions, 2025-01

Section E: Industry and Organization Lobbying by Subject in the Past Month

Every federal lobby communication is tagged with the subject matter that the communication pertains to. In this section, we show the aggregated industry-subject pairs with the biggest (positive or negative) deviation from their own historical lobbying-patterns in the last month, and below that the organization-subject pairs.