Our partner The Investigative Journalism Foundation of Canada (IJF) is a non-for-profit media outlet founded in 2020. Its fifteen staff members work remotely from Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec. The IJF’s mandate is to expand the breadth, depth, and the long-term financial sustainability of public interest investigative journalism in Canada. It fulfills this mandate by innovating on the traditional journalism business model, by not only publishing original reporting, but also publishing the raw data on which that reporting relies. The IJF has built and maintains eight public interest databases that store millions of rows of data on who donates to Canadian politicians, who lobbies those politicians and about what, and the activities of the charities sector. The IJF works in close collaboration with academic partners in data science, journalism, and political science at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. Through research and development conducted with these partners, the IJF has refined its data validation protocols and implemented best practices in its data pipeline. This project would establish a partnership between Humber and the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF).