Maksym Stepanenko

Where it started

29.04.2026

Carried to the ninth sprint and set aside

CanBase

A Canadian answer to the registry databases: companies, contracts, grants, lobbyists, sanctions

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What it is

A corporate-transparency platform for Canada, assembled from open data. The database holds 5.9 million entities, 1.26 million contracts, 1.24 million grants, 568 thousand people, 170 thousand lobbyist registrations and almost 19 thousand sanctions records. The project's most honest gap is the names of directors of ordinary corporations: Canadian open data simply does not carry them, so they are reached sideways through charity returns and the lobbyist registry.

Stack

  • FastAPI
  • Next.js 16
  • Postgres
  • Neo4j
  • Redis

How it went

29.04.2026

Carried to the ninth sprint and set aside

14.06.2026

Revived: the data in the Docker volume is intact, ports reassigned around its neighbours on the machine