About us

Insider Express follows the money behind Canadian markets. We bring five sets of public records into one place: what company insiders buy and sell, what politicians own, who lobbies Ottawa, who wins federal contracts and grants, and who funds the parties, all connected to the public companies involved.

Built in Vancouver, British Columbia

Our mission

Investing is an information game. Professional investors have analysts and data teams watching insider trading, lobbying, government contracts and political money. Most individual investors have never had the time or the tools to follow any of it. In Canada, these records are public, but they are scattered across registries that take real work to find, read and connect.

Our goal is to level that playing field: to put powerful, well-sourced information at the disposal of retail investors, so they can make stronger, better-informed decisions.

What we cover

Insider trades

Every trade that company insiders report on SEDI, the System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders: directors, senior officers and anyone holding more than 10% of a company’s shares. The desk shows the latest buys, sales and option exercises with their dollar value, and the record goes back to 2015. Each insider has a profile with their trades across every company they file for. Each company page shows who has been buying and selling its stock, plotted on the share price, and either list can be filtered: a company’s trades by insider, or an insider’s trades by company.

Politicians

The stocks and other assets that MPs and senators disclose to the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, and the holdings of provincial and territorial members in the ten jurisdictions that publish them. Each politician’s page lists what they hold, what has appeared since their last disclosure and what they no longer hold, and each company page shows which politicians hold it. Canadian disclosure names an asset but not its value, so we show what is held, never how much.

Lobbying

The federal Registry of Lobbyists, kept by the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying: who is registered to lobby, for which clients and on which subjects, and the monthly reports of their meetings with ministers, MPs, senators and senior officials, going back to 2008. Follow a company, an official or a policy subject to see every meeting on record. A meeting counts once, however many officials were in the room.

Government money

Federal contracts and grants from the Government of Canada’s proactive disclosure: who won, which department awarded it, the value as signed and when. Every company and organization has a page showing its awards over time, and every department has one showing where its money goes. Amendments are folded into the original award, so a contract is never counted twice.

Political donations

Contributions reported to Elections Canada since 2015, to federal parties, candidates and riding associations. Look up any donor to see who they gave to, when and how much, or open a party or candidate to see who funds them. Only individuals can give, within an annual limit, and Elections Canada names a donor once their contributions to one recipient pass $200 in a year.

How the records connect

The desks are linked by company, person and organization, so you can follow a name from one record to the next. A company’s page brings together its insider trades, its federal contracts, its lobbying and the politicians who hold its shares. An insider’s profile lists political donors with the same name, and a donor’s profile lists insiders with the same name. Those matches are labelled as name matches, because public records rarely say enough to confirm two names are the same person.

Staying up to date

Follow any company, person or organization and we will email you when something new is filed. The weekly Heat Sheet rounds up the Canadian companies insiders, politicians and lobbyists were most active in.

How we work

From the source. Every figure comes from a public filing, and rows link back to the record they came from.

Kept current. Each dataset refreshes on its own schedule, from hourly to monthly. The Methodology page lists every source, how often we check it and what the numbers can and cannot tell you.

Open to correction. If something doesn’t match the filing, tell us and we’ll check it against the record.

Who we are

Insider Express is built and run by Blackcomb Analytics Inc., a British Columbia company based in Vancouver. For questions, press enquiries or partnerships, email info@blackcombanalytics.com or use our contact page.