About This Publication

This is a reference desk for Canadian heavy industry, compiled from documents rather than reported from sources, and built so that a number with no document behind it cannot reach a page at all. It is new, it has no history, and the paragraphs below say what that buys a reader and what it costs one.

What is actually here

The finished part of the site is the mineral layer: 12 mining jurisdictions, 8 mineral commodities, and the federal route a proposed mine takes through assessment. Behind it sit 36 retrieved documents, mostly statutes, federal statistical tables and the departments' own pages, each stored with the date it was fetched. Four further sections carry scope notes rather than coverage and say so in their first paragraph, because nothing in that cache measures freight tonnage, generating capacity or factory output. A section with no evidence under it is left visibly unfinished here rather than filled with plausible writing, and the front page lists the whole cache in one column so that the size of the evidence can be judged before a word of the prose is read.

What it is not

The domain is older than the publication sitting on it. A trade magazine of the same name published digital editions at this address and stopped, and every one of its issue pages returns an error today. The operator holds the expired domain name and nothing else. No assignment of the name, no rights in the magazine, no transfer of its content, no files, no staff in common and no arrangement of any kind with whoever published it. Nothing on this site reproduces its covers, its issue titles or a line of its writing, and nothing here should be read as speaking for it.

That statement is not a formality, and here is the concrete reason it is on its own page rather than in the footer alone. Twenty-eight live links from Canada's main newswire carry the anchor Canadian Industry Online and point at issue pages that no longer exist. A reader who follows one arrives at a site with the name they clicked, which is precisely the situation in which a masthead can quietly accept credit for work it did not do. Those old addresses are redirected to the articles index, chosen as the nearest honest destination and never presented as an equivalent one. The alternative was a page apologising for a 404, which helps nobody.

Who writes it

Pages are published under the publication name and carry no byline. No author personas were invented for this site, and the structured data on every page names the organization rather than a person. That is a constraint rather than modesty: a page assembled from a statute and a statistical table has no reporter standing behind it, and inventing one would be the first fabrication on a site whose entire method is the refusal to fabricate. Anything contributed from outside carries the contributor's own name and is their responsibility, not the desk's.

How to check any of it

The editorial standards page sets out where the documents come from, what a review date on a page does and does not promise, and why 22 fields across the records read not established instead of carrying a number that would look better. Naming a ministry, a statute or a statistical agency anywhere on this site is a citation of what it published. It is never a claim that the body named has approved of, checked, or has any view at all about what is written here.