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New #SecretCanada post: Save yourself a piggyback! The Investigative Journalism Foundation has launched an incredible new database — Open By Default — that contains more than a decade of previously released federal ATIP records. secretcanada.com/news/ijf-foi-d…

Bit late to this, but beyond honoured that Secret Canada was recognized by Investigative Reporters & Editors with the FOI Award and IRE Medal! The judges called it "one of the most ambitious public records projects ever published." 🥹 ire.org/announcing-the… #cdnfoi #SecretCanada

For 18 years, the federal government had a centralized, internal FOI database of request summaries. It was quietly killed in 2008, and its contents deleted because the data was considered "transitory." Remembering CAIRS: secretcanada.com/news/cairs-foi… #cdnfoi #cdnpoli #SecretCanada

Let me give you the TLDR version of how the convo went with editors when Tom Cardoso and I pitched Secret Canada: "Okay so, we want to go all in — LIKE ALL IN — on a massive policy issue: access to information. And we'll need a year and a half to do it. Oh! And a full team...

Feeling so proud and thankful to see all the hard work Robyn Doolittle and I put in (together with a supremely talented team) get recognized like this. SecretCanada.com, you’ve been quite the project. And we’re not done with you yet! #cdnfoi

Here's a head-scratcher: 1. Journalists FOI info on health care worker shortage, get denied. 2. They appeal. 3. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario agrees there's a “compelling public interest,” but says that's not enough. If the public interest isn't enough, what is? theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

“It is not the job of Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario to protect the government from embarrassing itself. Its role is to interpret privacy laws in a manner that benefits the public, not corporations and government agencies.” André Picard on the “sickness” of secrecy: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

If you filed an access request to the Canada Border Services Agency between Sept. 2021 and Nov. 2023 and it's still open, their access unit wants to hear from you. Our latest #SecretCanada blog: Oops – CBSA has effectively lost 12,000 open access requests secretcanada.com/news/cbsa-lost…

This issue is frustrating, because it's crucial, but hard to explain - you end up talking about data formats, and people's eyes glaze over. Maybe we should be livelier and talk about data being released alive or dead. Anyway, this is all about power: /1 theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Can’t make this stuff up: Globalnews.ca asked for ON health care worker shortage figures, was denied, appealed and lost. Meanwhile, The Canadian Press got those same numbers under FOI… FROM THE SAME OFFICE. Kind of makes you wonder about the IPC’s ruling, no? cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Our latest #SecretCanada blog post is a quick Q&A with Michael Harvey, the freshly minted OIPC BC commissioner: secretcanada.com/news/bc-inform… #cdnfoi

It's not perfect, but it's progress: The federal government is advising public servants to begin releasing historical records after designated time thresholds, a significant shift in public policy that for decades has kept information hidden from Canadians.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Years before he made it big with “Nathan For You,” Nathan Fielder made a movie. His directorial debut has never been released – so I set out to find it. Nathan For Me: In search of Fielder’s lost film theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/arti…

When it launched nearly 30 years ago, the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Business hoped to help communities grow. But as it grew to $1.6-billion, Ottawa didn't address warnings about how the system could be gamed by shell companies theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… #cdnpoli

SCOOP: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's former chief of staff lived in a home owned by a sister of Sam Mraiche, a businessman whose dealings with Alberta Health Services are subject to multiple investigations. theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta… w Tom Cardoso Steph Chambers