What's new

The change log, by feature.

What each part of tabled. does now and what has changed there, newest first. Grouped by feature rather than by date, so the answer to "what does Watches do" is in one place.

The wire

The public feed of government news releases, open to anyone, no account needed.

  1. Every government on one feed

    FREE

    News releases from Ottawa and every province and territory, newest first, with the government's flag on each card.

  2. Live, without reloading

    The feed checks for new releases every minute. New ones queue behind a pill until you choose to show them.

  3. Pick a government, spelled out

    The sidebar lists each government by its full name. Governments not yet on the wire are shown dimmed rather than hidden.

  4. Search the last thirty days

    Type a word or two and the feed narrows to matching titles, summaries and issuers.

  5. Watch an issue from a card

    Every card carries a Watch issue link that starts a watch on that topic in the app.

  6. RSS for each government

    FREE

    Select one government and an RSS link appears, so the wire can feed a reader or a channel.

  7. Releases that only arrive by email

    Governments that distribute releases by mailing list now reach the wire and your watches the same as ones that publish on the web.

Watches

Describe an issue once. Watches read everything the governments you chose publish and log what is about your issue.

  1. Follow a bill's progress

    NEW

    A plain-language watch can follow a bill through the House. Each stage lands in the log as plain text with the bill's own link.

  2. Open a card to read the whole thing

    Click a log card to read the full summary and every Hansard moment it drew on, instead of a two-line excerpt.

  3. Every item laid out as a card

    Watch feeds show one card per record, with the government's logo, the record's own date and the actions on the card.

  4. Your issue in the House

    When a member raises your issue in Hansard, the watch logs the moment alongside the news releases.

  5. Why a card is there

    Each match says which words and ideas from your issue it matched. Mark a card Not relevant and the watch learns from it.

  6. Judged as whole records

    A release or a Hansard exchange is weighed as one record in context, not as fragments, so fewer near-misses reach the log.

  7. Backfill up to ten years

    PRO

    Set a watch to start today or seven days back on Free. A custom date, the last year or all time, up to ten years back, is Pro.

  8. Any two governments free, all fourteen on Pro

    A free watch covers any two governments, most often a province and Ottawa. Pro watches every government at once.

  9. A watch tells you while it is building

    A new watch shows its backfill progress, and never goes live on a backfill that was cut short. Backfills run in parallel and resume after a restart.

  10. The rail flags the week

    The right rail shows the five most active watches and flags the week's records, in place of a separate Saved view.

  11. Save, dismiss, reorder

    Save or dismiss a card from the log, drag watches into the order you want, delete from the row, and resize the watch column.

  12. Picks up where you left off

    The watch you were reading is restored on your next visit, and your My Tabled layout follows your account to any browser.

  13. Your first watch is set up with you

    A new account is greeted by name, sets up its first watch for real, then is offered a short tour. There are no placeholder watches.

Delivery and integrations

Every watch can deliver to more than one place. Delivery is set per watch.

  1. Slack

    PRO

    Each match posts to a channel your team already watches, with the summary and the source link. Every Pro watch has a private feed link; paste it into a channel and rotate it any time.

  2. In-app log by default, instant email free

    FREE

    A new watch logs in the app. Turn on instant email and one message arrives per release the moment it lands, on any plan.

  3. Daily and weekly digests

    PRO

    One email each morning at 7:00 local time, or a Monday summary of the week, grouped by government. Quiet days send nothing.

  4. Microsoft Teams and text message

    TEAM

    The same delivery for organisations on Teams, and a short text for the few issues that cannot wait for email.

  5. Webhooks

    RETIRED

    The webhook delivery option and the public API references were removed from the watch form and the site. Slack's feed link covers the channel case.

Hansard

Search what was said in the legislatures tabled indexes, and read it at the official record.

  1. House of Commons Hansard

    NEW

    Federal debates are indexed alongside the provincial legislatures. Legislatures without a published member roster get one built from Hansard itself.

  2. Keyword search, every term required

    Search terms show as pills and every term must appear. Results sort by best match, newest or oldest, with a date range under the search bar.

  3. Context search

    PRO

    A setting switches from keywords to search by meaning, so a question in your own words finds exchanges that used different words.

  4. Type-to-filter pickers

    Pick a government or a member by typing. Governments are listed by full name and greyed out until they have published sittings.

  5. Excerpts and sitting summaries

    Results show a short excerpt with a link to the official record and a copyright line. Each sitting has its own summary.

  6. Recent searches

    Your recent Hansard searches sit in their own card and in the Recent list under the side navigation.

  7. Deeper archives

    The Newfoundland and Labrador archive runs back to 2022 in the gallery, and current sittings are polled for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

  8. Better speaker attribution

    Mixed-case and French speaker labels split correctly, and hand-uploaded Hansard PDFs are broken into speaker turns.

Research

Ask a question across the governments you watch and draft a document from the answer. In beta.

  1. A plain editor with a saved-cards rail

    NEW

    A research document is a simple editor. Cards you starred in Watches or Hansard sit in a rail beside it, ready to drop in.

  2. Pick governments and sources

    Choose one or several governments and which sources to read, including your Watches and Saved cards. Attach a record from your own library.

  3. Wide questions get a check first

    A broad or all-government ask is clarified before the search runs. Answers link each source out to the record.

  4. Documents have their own page

    A document created from an answer opens on Documents, where every document you own is listed. The chat rail lists chats alone.

Documents

Every document you own in one list: what Research wrote, what you started blank, and the PDFs you uploaded.

  1. A Documents page in the menu

    NEW

    Documents sits in the side navigation beside Research. It lists your documents newest first, opens each in the editor, and deletes the ones you are done with.

  2. Start from blank

    New document opens an empty editor straight away. Name it from the title at the top; it saves as you type.

  3. Upload your own PDFs

    Upload a PDF and it joins the library for the government you are reading, ready to search and to ask Research about. The list shows it processing until it is readable.

Sources

What each watch reads: the governments' own publications, plus sources you add.

  1. Community sources

    NEW

    Industry associations, business groups and other organisations can be added as sources. Their records reach your watches like a government's.

  2. Custom sources

    PRO

    Paste a URL and tabled works out how to read it. A status light shows green or yellow, the last three records are listed by their own date, and the site's logo fronts the card. In beta.

  3. Governments up top, record types listed

    Governments cluster at the top of the page with the record types each one publishes. Custom-source slots are counted by plan.

  4. Watch a source

    Start a watch from any source card, so everything it publishes lands in your log.

Accounts, plans and billing

Sign up on your own, start on Free or Pro, and manage the plan from inside the app.

  1. Self-serve sign-up

    NEW

    Sign-up asks for your name, email, phone, organisation and role, and goes straight through checkout to your watches and the welcome tour.

  2. Card on file, 7-day Pro trial

    Every sign-up goes through Stripe Checkout. Pro starts with a seven-day trial, then bills monthly in Canadian dollars plus tax.

  3. Plan and billing page

    Choose Free or Pro after sign-up and change or cancel later from the same page. If checkout fails, the page shows Stripe's own reason.

  4. Team plan

    TEAM

    A Team card with Slack, Gmail and Teams marks and a Talk to us form, for organisations that want shared watches and invoicing.

  5. Plan pills that know your plan

    Pro readers no longer see Pro pills on features they already have. Research carries a Beta pill.

  6. Sign in lands on your watches

    Signing in opens Watches, not the public landing page, and the site's sign-in link goes straight to the wire.

  7. Sitting Pass

    RETIRED

    The Sitting Pass and the sitting-period calendar were retired along with the earlier app. Plans are Free, Pro and Team.

The site

tabled.ca, the public front door: the wire, the watch form and the plans.

  1. A stack of example alerts in the hero

    NEW

    The landing page opens on two columns: the headline and the issue field, and a stack of example alerts as they look in Slack, Gmail and Teams.

  2. Set up a watch in three steps

    Issue, governments, delivery. The form shows the plan the choices add up to and hands the draft to sign-up.

  3. Integrations page

    Every delivery option on one page with its plan, plus an integrations band under the wire with a Slack demo.

  4. Contact form and sign-up band

    A contact form at the foot of the page reaches a person, and a sign-up band sits between the wire and the watch form.

  5. The maple leaf

    The wordmark's full stop is now a maple leaf, and the favicon matches.

  6. One domain

    The site is served from the app's own domain, so the wire, sign-in and the app share an origin. The old news subdomain redirects to the wire.