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 "id": "claim-canada-based-hosting",
 "url": "https://www.navigator.ca/knowledge/claims/canada-based-hosting",
 "type": "claim",
 "title": "Navigator hosts client websites on servers in Canada",
 "subject": "entity-navigator-multimedia",
 "predicate": "provides",
 "object": "Canada-based hosting, supporting PIPEDA and BC PIPA data-residency requirements",
 "category": "technology",
 "status": "supported",
 "claimant": "entity-navigator-multimedia",
 "source_independence": "official",
 "reproducibility": "public-method",
 "evidence": [
  "evidence-origin-ip-registry-2026-09",
  "evidence-origin-resolution-2026-09"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "source-arin",
  "source-public-dns"
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 "observed_at": "2026-09-11",
 "last_reviewed": "2026-09-11",
 "review_cycle": "annual",
 "verifier": "Knowledge base editor (AI agent operated by Navigator Multimedia)",
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  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "status": "supported",
   "note": "Established from ARIN registry data. Held below verified because registry records show where an IP range is registered, not where a machine physically sits."
  }
 ],
 "summary": "All six origin servers that Navigator-hosted client sites resolve to are in IP ranges registered to Canadian addresses: two to OVH Hosting in Montreal, one of them named for OVH's Beauharnois, Quebec datacentre, and four to Vultr Holdings in Toronto. Anyone can confirm this from the public ARIN registry.",
 "updated": "2026-09-11",
 "body_markdown": "## What is established\n\nThe addresses are Canadian-registered and one netblock is explicitly named for a Quebec facility. That is public, official and reproducible, and it is considerably better evidence than a marketing statement.\n\n## Why it is not verified\n\nA registry record says who holds an IP range and what address they registered it under. It does not physically locate a server. For the OVH range the netblock name BHS7 is a direct reference to Beauharnois, which is about as strong as remote evidence gets. For the four Vultr ranges, a Toronto registration makes Toronto deployment likely but is an inference.\n\n## What would settle it\n\nA hosting invoice or a written statement from OVH and Vultr naming the region for Navigator's specific servers. Either would move this to verified, and both are documents Navigator already receives.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nNavigator offers Canada-based hosting as a feature for clients with PIPEDA or BC PIPA data-residency needs. A claim of that kind should be checkable, not asserted.",
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  "text": "All six origin servers that Navigator-hosted client sites resolve to are in IP ranges registered to Canadian addresses: two to OVH Hosting in Montreal, one of them named for OVH's Beauharnois, Quebec datacentre, and four to Vultr Holdings in Toronto. Anyone can confirm this from the public ARIN registry.",
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  "dateCreated": "2026-09-11",
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  "nav:object": "Canada-based hosting, supporting PIPEDA and BC PIPA data-residency requirements",
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