Wrangling Canada's corporate networks

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings patrons,

It’s time for another research update. In this letter, I share some exciting new work that untangles Canada’s corporate ownership networks. What’s more, I invite you to beta test my interactive graphs! Let’s dive in.

Wrangling corporate ownership data

Back in 2022, my colleague DT Cochrane reached out to me with an intriguing research problem. At the time, he was working for Canadians for Tax Fairness and was studying how big corporations had profited from various COVID-related subsidies. (Read his report here.) Some of this research required pegging down ownership stakes in particular companies.

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Wrangling Canada's corporate networks

Wrangling corporate ownership data