About Hansard Watch
An Accessible Database to Canada’s Parliamentary Debates
What is Hansard Watch and how it works?
Hansard Watch is a speaker-level Canadian parliamentary transcript database covering Hansards from:
- House of Commons debates
- Parliamentary committees
It captures up to 10 years of parliamentary debates, attributes every statement to an individual speaker, and links each result back to the original Hansard source.
Empowering Policy Professionals, Researchers & Journalists
Search Debates
Search debates by topic or policy issue instantly.
Smart Filters
Filter by speaker, political party, session, or date range.
Identify Trends
Identify trends, shifts in position, and recurring themes.
Verification
Access original Hansard documents for content verification.
Hansard Watch is not just another transcript archive.
It enables:
- Legislative monitoring without manual document review
- Faster policy monitoring and issue tracking
- Greater transparency in parliamentary debates
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Gnowit Inc.
Our Technology
Gnowit, founded in Ottawa, Canada in 2010, employs AI and machine learning to deliver real-time updates. Our software "understands" the text of new articles and intelligently selects those that are useful.
Today, we run a distributed platform that tracks millions of web sources in real-time, making over three billion web calls a month.
Our Vision: Leveraging AI
To make monitoring possible at Internet scale, we leverage artificial intelligence to monitor, capture, clean, analyse, filter, and organize information. For those who follow AI research, we are patterning our platform on the "Belief-Desire-Intention" (BDI) framework.
Leadership: Dr. Shahzad Khan
Founder and C.E.O
Shahzad has a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University (UK) and 23 years of experience in AI and computational linguistics. He has authored ~30 peer-reviewed research papers and holds five patents.
Partnerships & Patents
We have partnered with Algonquin College, Carleton University, McGill University, and others. Elements of Gnowit’s systems are patented under US and Canadian patents:
- US9600470B2
- US9336202B2
- CA2865184C
- CA2865186C