Canadian alternatives to Microsoft Exchange Online
Microsoft Exchange Online: For Canadian customers, Microsoft Exchange Online stores data in Canada. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Canadian-owned, data in Canada
Canadian-owned and data stored in Canada, but the servers belong to AWS, Microsoft or Google, or the vendor does not say whose servers they are.
Hosted email (powered by OpenSRS) and resold Microsoft 365
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- iDigital Internet Inc. (Vancouver, BC); mail platform by OpenSRS (Tucows)
- Servers run by
- OpenSRS hosted email on Canadian-hosted infrastructure · Owner not stated
Its resold Microsoft 365 option stores data in Canada but is a Microsoft (US) service, so it is a separate listing.
Not US-owned, data in Canada
Owned outside Canada and the United States, with data stored in Canada.
Zoho Mail (also part of Zoho Workplace)
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Zoho Corporation (Chennai, India)
- Servers run by
- Zoho data centres in Canada · Owner not stated
Canadian accounts sign in at accounts.zohocloud.ca.
If storage in Canada is enough
These are US-owned but can keep data in Canada. They meet most storage rules; they do not meet an ownership test.
Encrypted email and web forms for health practitioners
- Stored in Canada?
- Yes
- Owner
- Hush Communications Canada Inc. (Vancouver), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hush Communications Corporation, a private Delaware, USA company
- Servers run by
- Servers in Vancouver and Calgary operated by Hush Communications Canada Inc. · US company
Sells to Canadian practitioners with a signed Information Manager Agreement (an "Alberta IMA" for Alberta). Data stays in Canada, but the parent is a US company.
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