Bureaucrats told to keep Ontario freedom-of-information requests moving despite Doug Ford's new secrecy rules. By Robert Benzie
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Ontario's Ford government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents. By Allison Jones.
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Two legal battles over Greenbelt records ‘likely’ quashed by PCs’ FOI restrictions. By Aidan Chamandy and Charlie Pinkerton
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"As a wise boss once told me: sources whisper, documents scream. Learn to file freedom of information requests. Ask sources ... for documents to back up what they are saying." By
Steve Lambert
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Feds working with City of Ottawa to ease public service transit woes: access-to-info memo. By @jimbronskill.bsky.social
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A Liberal government bill that would make it easier for police and spies to navigate the online world is running into fierce opposition from major digital companies, civil liberties groups and law professors who say it would open the door to serious privacy infringements.
Some advice to reporters who want to cover politics, from a retiring journalist
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OTTAWA — The vast majority of crime guns traced by the RCMP to identifiable sources in 2023 and 2024 came from within Canada and were not smuggled from abroad, say internal reports prepared by the nat...
OTTAWA — Data from an advanced electric vehicle that falls into the wrong hands could be used to track people or carry out surveillance, an internal government document warns. The Public Safety Canada...
OTTAWA - Three days after the February mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., government officials warned Prime Minister Mark Carney that online sentiment was shifting from collective grief toward "eme...
A Liberal government bill that would make it easier for police and spies to navigate the online world is running into fierce opposition from major digital companies, civil liberties groups and law professors who say it would open the door to serious privacy infringements.
The Ford government’s retroactive FOI changes are expected to prevent the release of highly protected Greenbelt scandal-related documents, including records of the premier’s calls
In the wake of Doug Ford's controversial amendment to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, there has been confusion about what can be made public.
