Maple Watch is a discovery layer for Canadian public records. Use it to find leads across many sources, then open the original publisher link before relying on anything important.
Search Examples
Better Search Habits
- Start broad, then narrow by topic, source, jurisdiction, or record type.
- Try alternate terms such as licence and license, catalogue and catalog, agenda and minutes.
- Search names, programs, departments, locations, vendors, and committee names separately.
- Use topic pages when you want a ready-made watchlist rather than a single keyword search.
Finding Meeting Records
Meeting records can appear as agendas, minutes, board packages, videos, transcripts, or committee evidence. Useful searches include council agenda, police board minutes, transit commission meeting, committee evidence, and public board meeting.
Open the original source for the full agenda, attachments, video, or official minutes. Maple Watch may only index metadata, short descriptions, or public page titles for meeting portals.
Tracking New And Changed Records
- Use the latest search view to spot newly discovered or recently changed records.
- Check source pages when you care about one publisher or portal.
- Use topic RSS feeds for watchlists such as housing, Parliament, procurement, and civic records.
- Treat new and changed labels as monitoring signals, not official publication dates.
Using CSV And RSS
- Download the latest static CSV snapshot for spreadsheet review.
- Subscribe to the main RSS feed for recent records across Maple Watch.
- Use topic feeds such as housing RSS or Parliament RSS for focused monitoring.
- Use the app's Export CSV button when running the local server or filtering in the browser.
Interpreting Dates
- Dates come from source metadata when available.
- A date may mean publication, modification, meeting date, catalogue update, ingestion time, or another publisher-specific field.
- Confirm the meaning of any date with the original publisher before citing it.
Source And Copyright Policy
- Maple Watch republishes limited metadata for discovery and links to original publishers.
- Underlying documents, datasets, images, videos, and database contents remain controlled by their original publishers and licences.
- Licence fields are source metadata, not legal advice. Verify reuse rights when they matter.
Limitations And Verification
Maple Watch is a beta monitor. Records can be delayed, duplicated, missing, misclassified, or changed after capture. Some sources throttle, restructure, remove pages, or publish metadata that is incomplete or inconsistent.
Do not rely on Maple Watch as the final authority for legal, medical, financial, academic, policy, or journalistic conclusions. Always verify official sources before publishing, citing, filing, trading, making legal decisions, making health decisions, or making public claims.