The New Queen Street Analytics
introducing the future of government relations newsletters
We always had two goals for Queen Street Analytics (QSA):
publish a separate newsletter for each regulated industry, letting readers easily get to their most relevant content
cover the full range of GR intel, including federal and provincial government announcements and regulations, committee meetings, parliamentary discussions, public officials’ social media chatter, lobbying and relevant news media and trade publications
With the huge amount of information being generated by federal and provincial governments, getting there required a process that combines automated data-ingestion, a well-prompted AI stack, and “humans in the loop” to edit the final newsletters.
We spent the last six months building out the necessary workflow, and today, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new Queen Street Analytics.
What is it?
24 separate channels and weekly newsletters, providing separate coverage of industries from agriculture to Indigenous affairs, and from mining to utilities. Below is a snapshot of the 24 channels on our new landing page.
coverage of all the important GR intel in each industry, drawing on thousands of unique text sources each week. We still do our trademark quantitative lobbying analysis, published as a monthly special edition, separately tailored for each industry-channel.
distribution moved from substack to our own site for better scalability.
For more details, check out our new About page.
What’s next?
Right now, we are still invite-only, so you will be among the first to gain access.
At the end of this week, you will receive a welcome email from the new platform. Receiving this email means your three-week free trial to the new Queen Street Analytics has started; no extra steps needed to initiate anything. (Emails will come from no-reply@queenstreetanalyics.org, and no longer from queenstreetanalytics@substack.com. Check spam folder if you don’t receive it by the end of the week.)
During the free trial, you can sign into the platform, change your preferences over which channels to receive as email newsletters (we will have pre-selected email preferences for you, and you will receive the first email newsletters this weekend), and you can access all content across our 24 channels. To this end, we created newsletter content dating back to mid-October. See, for example, this snapshot of our Healthcare channel for the end of 2024:
What do I need to do:
Subscribers can do one of three things at the end of their free trial:
do nothing, remain on the free tier and receive occasional free posts
subscribe for access to all content, and exclusive access to our next product launches
unsubscribe from QSA
Going forward, we will publish one un-paywalled newsletter on each of our channels every month, with the remaining posts on each channel requiring a paid subscription.
Subscription pricing:
A single subscription gives users access to all channels on our site, as well as the full archive.
At launch, pricing will be 19 CAD for a monthly subscription, or 190 CAD for an annual subscription. We will increase those prices over time, but only for new subscriptions, existing ones will be locked into whatever price they signed up at.
We offer discounted group subscriptions for organizations that want to subscribe with multiple email handles.
And lastly, a QSA group subscription is included for free for any organization that subscribes to LobbyIQ.
What else is coming?
This is our development roadmap for 2025:
Additional general-interest channels focused on specific policy issues: our first issue-specific channel will focus on US-Canada trade relations and is set to launch in late February
by March 1st 2025: subscribers can create their own custom newsletters (upgraded subscription required)
by April 1st 2025: subscribers can access to their own executive-quality report-generator, with full user-control (upgraded subscription required)