Case study · Canadian business · Bilingual portal
Proud to Work Work with Canada. Take Canada to the world.
A cross-border guide and marketplace for working with Canadian business, with live trackers for government decisions, TSX moves and open programs.
01 — The brief
The problem it solves
Canadian companies undersell themselves, and Canadian builders work in isolation from one another. The support that exists is scattered across fourteen governments, six regional development agencies and a few hundred organizations.
The brief: make Canadian work easy to find and easy to back — guides for working with Canada from abroad and for taking Canadian work to the world, a marketplace of Canadian expertise, and trackers that keep the market in view.
02 — What we built
Features that do real work.
Cross-border guides
Twenty-two guides for working with Canada from abroad and for taking Canadian work to the world.
Experts marketplace
Canadian experts and firms, listed by what they do.
Political tracker
Business-relevant decisions and statements from government newsrooms and Hansard, each stamped and linked to its source.
TSX tracker
Prices, sector moves and company filings for Toronto-listed companies.
Culture leaders
Companies read through three lenses — Culture, Capabilities, Capital — with a published note on how each claim is chosen and checked.
Supports and Ideas Lab
Programs and capital open to you, by metro, plus funded research projects that keep “funded” and “evidenced” apart.
03 — How it's put together
Structure
Templated pages for every company, person, guide, news story, city hub and metro map are generated from structured data, with the boards and trackers grouped under one Canada-wide view.
Under the hood
- Static pages plus small JavaScript modules reading JSON data files; a serverless refresh endpoint keeps the trackers current
- Schema: Organization, Person, NewsArticle, Article, City, CollectionPage and ItemList
- English and French in one page, switched instantly without a reload
Details that matter
- “Listings are editorial and free” — no paid placement anywhere on the site
- Sources named and linked on every tracker row
- Support maps stamped with the month they were last checked
A portal earns its keep by narrowing the firehose: a guide for the decision in front of you, and trackers that keep the market in view.
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