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The Receipts does not run advertising. We do not sell data. We do not use ad-tracking pixels, retargeting scripts, or third-party analytics platforms that build individual user profiles.

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If you contact us by email (corrections, tips, or general inquiries), your message and email address are retained only as long as needed to respond and for our editorial records. We do not add correspondents to mailing lists without their consent.

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Future changes: If we add any analytics, tracking, or data-collection tools beyond what is described above, this section will be updated before those tools go live.

Editorial Standards

Every claim published on The Receipts is sourced to a specific, identifiable document that the reader can verify independently. Government records—legislation, regulatory filings, budgets, auditor-general reports, access-to-information releases—are preferred. Industry disclosures, technical analyses, and institutional reports (central banks, statistical agencies, international bodies) are accepted where government records do not cover the claim.

Media reports are cited as reporting—to establish that an event occurred or a statement was made—not as evidence of the underlying claim. The distinction is always noted.

Every article separates documented facts from editorial interpretation. Where the text moves from what the record establishes to the publication’s assessment of that record, it says so explicitly.

Every article includes the strongest available counter-argument or counter-evidence. This is not a formality. If we cannot articulate a credible opposing position, the analysis is incomplete.

Where an article argues a thesis, it states a falsifier—a specific, testable condition that would change the assessment. If nothing could change our conclusion, it is not analysis; it is advocacy.

The Receipts does not attribute intent. We document structural incentives, documented outcomes, and the gap between the public record and the public narrative. Readers draw their own conclusions about why.

We are cross-partisan by method, not by positioning. The publication has covered federal and provincial governments of different political parties. The standard is the same regardless of who holds office.

Corrections

If you identify a factual error, a broken source link, a misattributed claim, or a stronger counter-argument that was not included, email corrections@thereceipts.ca with the article title and your evidence.

We review every correction request. If a factual error is confirmed, we correct the article and add a dated correction notice at the top. If a source link breaks, we update it. If a counter-argument is stronger than what was included, we may add or revise the relevant section.

We do not commit to a specific response timeline. Some corrections require additional source verification. All confirmed corrections are published transparently on the affected article.

Our corrections record is available at /corrections/.

Right of Reply

Public officials, government departments, and organizations referenced in our reporting are welcome to respond. Email editor@thereceipts.ca with the article title and your response.

If a response identifies a factual error, we correct it under our corrections policy above. If a response offers an interpretation that differs from ours, we may note it at editorial discretion—either inline or as an appended statement. We are not obligated to publish responses that do not engage with the documented record.

Terms of Use

All content on The Receipts—text, data visualizations, charts, images, and design—is © 2026 The Receipts. All rights reserved.

You may link to any article or page. You may quote brief excerpts with attribution and a link to the original. Republication, syndication, or reproduction of full articles requires written permission. Email editor@thereceipts.ca.

Automated scraping, systematic downloading, or use of this site’s content to train machine learning or artificial intelligence models is prohibited without written permission.

Nothing on this site constitutes legal, financial, investment, or professional advice. The Receipts publishes public-interest analysis based on documented sources. Readers should consult qualified professionals for decisions in those domains.

We make every effort to ensure accuracy, but we do not guarantee that all information is current or error-free at any given moment. Our corrections policy exists for this reason.

Contact

Corrections: corrections@thereceipts.ca
Tips: tips@thereceipts.ca
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Last updated: July 2026