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City council voting record data

Since 2008 Toronto has made city council voting data publicly available in a spreadsheet format. Several other cities have followed suit including Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg, Brampton, Calgary and Edmonton. Some, like Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria share the data with interactive web dashboards. Toronto: https://secure.toronto.ca/council/#/openData Calgary: https://data.calgary.ca/Government/Council-Meetings-Voting-Record-Current-Council-Oct/m6sn-2uhw Vancouver: https://vancouver.ca/your-government/council-voting-dashboard.aspx Victoria: https://opendata.victoria.ca/pages/mayor-and-council Currently Ottawa, like many other cities in Canada, has video recordings of past city council meetings. This is an important resource, but at the same time it is also an inaccessible one. It is a major time investment for residents to sort through hours of footage to see how their city councilors vote on any given issue. For the average person the time investment is prohibitive. It is critical that residents of the city have easy access to city council voting data to both stay informed and uphold transparency.