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Sources and report card

Where every figure comes from, what each source covers, and how well each publisher does at publishing it.

Line-item sources

Provincial contract award

Public Procurement Agency, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador · www.gov.nl.ca/ppa/tenders/awarded/

Contract award reports filed every two weeks under sections 31 and 32 of the Public Procurement Regulations: limited calls for bids, exceptions to open calls (sole source, emergency and others) and some open calls, for every public body that must report.

PDF tables, read with a table parser. Where a fortnight was reissued as REVISED, the revised report replaces the original.

6,328 records, $1.4 billion, dated Sept. 1, 2004 to Feb. 10, 2035. Search them.

Minister's expense claim

Executive Council, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador · www.gov.nl.ca/exec/cabinet/expenseclaims/

Each minister's expense claims paid in six-month periods, with a detail page per travel claim.

PDF text. Every report's lines are checked against its printed total.

2,585 records, $3.4 million, dated Dec. 21, 2018 to Aug. 25, 2026. Search them.

MHA expense

House of Assembly · www.assembly.nl.ca/Members/Expenses/

Member Accountability and Disclosure Reports: every line charged to each MHA's allowances, with limits by category. Annual reports from 2020-21.

PDF text. Every category's lines are checked against its printed Period Activity, and the detail against the summary report.

58,521 records, $7.1 million, dated March 31, 2019 to April 27, 2026. Search them.

Public sector pay over $100,000

Treasury Board Secretariat, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador · www.gov.nl.ca/exec/tbs/home/publications/compensation-disclo

Compensation disclosure lists: everyone paid over $100,000 in a calendar year, by employer, 2022 to 2025.

Excel workbooks, read cell by cell.

34,493 records, $4.4 billion, dated Dec. 31, 2022 to Dec. 31, 2025. Search them.

Federal contract

Government of Canada (Treasury Board Secretariat, open.canada.ca) · open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/d8f85d91-7dec-4fd1-8055-483b7

Proactive disclosure of contracts over $10,000, filtered to vendors with a Newfoundland and Labrador postal code (starting with A).

Bulk CSV. Amendments repeat the whole contract, so each contract is counted once, at its latest value.

8,537 records, $2.6 billion, dated May 11, 2009 to June 30, 2026. Search them.

Federal grant or contribution

Government of Canada (open.canada.ca) · open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-75971

Proactive disclosure of grants and contributions to recipients in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Open data API, filtered on recipient province. Each agreement counted once, at its latest amendment.

29,465 records, $8.7 billion, dated Dec. 31, 1899 to July 8, 2026. Search them.

Federal award notice

Public Services and Procurement Canada (CanadaBuys) · canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-opportunities/award-notices

Federal award notices where the supplier is in Newfoundland and Labrador, August 2022 on.

Bulk CSV. These overlap the contracts disclosure and are never added into totals.

538 records, $856 million, dated Nov. 3, 1998 to Dec. 31, 2040. Search them.

Federal professional services payment

Receiver General for Canada, Public Accounts Volume III · www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/index-eng.html

Federal payments over $100,000 for professional and special services to payees in Newfoundland and Labrador, 2021-22 to 2024-25.

Bulk CSV.

358 records, $690 million. Search them.

Town of Paradise payment

Town of Paradise · www.paradise.ca/government-engage/cheque-register/

Every payment the town made, month by month, from mid-2020.

PDF text. The town's page links some months to the wrong file; each register is dated by its own payment dates.

17,916 records, $120 million, dated July 2, 2020 to Aug. 29, 2025. Search them.

Other sources

SourceUsed for
Report on the Program Expenditures and Revenues of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, 2019-20 to 2024-25Department and program spending, actual against amended and original estimates.
Estimates of the Program Expenditure and Revenue of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, 2026-27This year's budget by program.
Statistics Canada tables 14-10-0064, 17-10-0009, 98-10-0002, 36-10-0450Median wage, population, households, provincial revenue and interest.
Canada Revenue Agency, Form NL428Provincial income tax brackets for the personal receipt.

Publisher report card

How complete, correct and usable each publisher's records are. This grades the publishing, not the spending.

Public Procurement Agency award reports

  • 6.0% of awards reported more than 90 days after the award date
  • 26 printed award dates fall after the report or years before it
  • 4 fortnights reissued as REVISED
  • Open-call awards by departments are on MERX, not in these reports

Executive Council, ministers' claims

  • Every report adds up to its printed total
  • Paul-Pike-June-Nov-2025.pdf: web page total $5,289.46 vs PDF total $15,289.46 (publisher discrepancy)
  • cabinet-expenseclaims-june23-nov23-loveless-e.pdf: web page total $25,157.31 vs PDF total $23,157.31 (publisher discrepancy)

House of Assembly, MHA reports

  • Every category adds up to its printed period activity
  • 8 report links lead to a web page instead of a PDF

Treasury Board Secretariat, compensation lists

  • 19 of the workbooks linked from the disclosure page return "page not found"
  • Names are withheld for police officers (identifiers only), as the Act allows

Treasury Board Secretariat, program expenditure reports

  • 173 of 175 department totals match the printed statement
  • The 2024-25 report prints Labrador Affairs' detail pages empty, with the text #MISSING

Province, small purchases

  • No line-by-line payment data is published at all

Town of Paradise

  • Every payment published monthly with vendor and description
  • The register page links several months to the wrong file

City of St. John's

  • Every payment published weekly
  • Published as scanned images, so it cannot be searched or copied without OCR

Broken links found

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Compensation disclosureNewfoundland-and-Labrador-Health-Services-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureNLHC-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureNewfoundland-and-Labrador-Hydro-and-Affiliates-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureNLC-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureOil-and-Gas-Corporation-of-Newfoundland-and-Labrador-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosurePACSW-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosurePILRB-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosurePPA-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosurePSC-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureRNC-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureThe-Rooms-Compensation-Disclosure-2.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureWHSCRD-Compensation-Disclosure-1.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureWorkplace-NL-Compensation-Disclosure.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureCUDGC-Compensation-Disclosure-2022-1.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureNLESD-2022-Compensation-Disclosure-2022.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureNL-Housing-Corporation-Compensation-Disclosure-2022.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureNLH-and-Affiliates-Compensation-Disclosure-2022.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureNL-Liquor-Corporation-Compensation-Disclosure-2022.xlsx404
Compensation disclosureOil-and-Gas-Corporation-NL-Compensation-Disclosure-2022.xlsx404
MHA expense reportGambinWalshSherrySum2025-26.pdflink returns a web page, not a PDF
MHA expense reportGambinWalshSherryDet2025-26.pdflink returns a web page, not a PDF
MHA expense reportKingMichaelSum2025-26.pdflink returns a web page, not a PDF
MHA expense reportKingMichaelDet2025-26.pdflink returns a web page, not a PDF
MHA expense reportLanePaulElvisSum2024-25.pdflink returns a web page, not a PDF
MHA expense reportLanePaulElvisDet2024-25.pdflink returns a web page, not a PDF
MHA expense reportParsonsAndrew2025-26.pdflink returns a web page, not a PDF
MHA expense reportParsonsPam2025-26.pdflink returns a web page, not a PDF
Ministerial expense claimsPaul-Pike-June-Nov-2025.pdfweb page total $5,289.46 vs PDF total $15,289.46 (publisher discrepancy)
Ministerial expense claimscabinet-expenseclaims-june23-nov23-loveless-e.pdfweb page total $25,157.31 vs PDF total $23,157.31 (publisher discrepancy)