Treasury Board of Canada, a central agency of the federal government, is Ottawa’s cheerleader for access to information.The institution gathers statistics, sets policy, organizes training, produces manuals, offers guidance, oversees programming, all to support more than 260 other departments in carrying out their legal requirements under the Access to Information Act.
Israel’s far-right Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a secret plan for Gaza as his defence forces continue to bomb, displace...
If you or someone you know has been active in the pro-Palestinian movement, you may have noticed this trend. There...
The pro-active publication of internal documents by governments has long been touted as a cure-all for a dysfunctional access–to-information regime...
In public affairs journalism, all information has a best-before date. Citizens want to know what their governments are up to...
The prospect for peace in the Middle East is farther away than ever, with both Palestinians and Israelis convinced their...
What does the now-defunct Liberal-NDP cooperation agreement teach us about politics? Can politicians rise above partisanship for the common good...
An internal memo for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledges that poverty is on the rise for many Canadians after years...
The federal government in 2004 created a kind of disaster bunker, where dozens of specialists huddle to co-ordinate an emergency...
It’s counter-intuitive, but Ukraine’s surprising incursion into Russia this month may mean that Ukraine is seeking a way to end...
A potential regional war looming, over two hundred citizens taken hostage and 1200 killed during a preventable massacre, and international...
The RCMP has lost one of its handguns - the second time the elusive weapon has disappeared.
Party leaders’ summer tours are like a Rorschach test. Look hard enough and you can see a cunning strategy behind...
RCMP in Nova Scotia ordered a mass incineration of discarded Mountie clothing and kit in the province after a murderer...
The federal government established a short-lived news agency last fall, generating dozens of fake-news items before the exercise wound down...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s fate may have been sealed when, in front of dozens of world leaders at the NATO...
Canada’s official languages commissioner has launched an investigation into CBC/Radio-Canada’s practice of posting unilingual access-to-information documents on its websites. The...
While Canadian media outlets joined with U.S. lawmakers in haranguing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Canada’s military spending, the Wall...
In Canada’s doom-laden realm of freedom of information, where bad news is endemic, a ray of sunshine sometimes pierces the...
The future looks pretty dire for progressive voters in the United States and Canada. Right-leaning parties seem to be poised...
A new oral history of the Village Voice, the weekly rag that goosed American journalism for decades, is a pungent...
Canadians are not whiners by nature, but sometimes frustration about bad service makes us snap. We complain when our flights...
Well, that escalated slowly. Yes, it wasn’t until just before 4 AM early Tuesday morning that the Conservatives’ Don Stewart...
Are international arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu and Hamas’ Sinwar and others one step closer? The criminal case against the...
Time flies when you’re having fun — and so it’s remarkable that it is already the moment to mark three...
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last expedition ship, which was located on the seafloor off Labrador this week, was reviled by his...
A three-year freeze on the sale of used RCMP vehicles has created such huge storage headaches that the Mounties will...
New Brunswick’s election is little more than four months away, but the outcome is no easier to predict than it...
To name or not to name? That’s the question hanging over Ottawa like a bad smell, ever since the National...
With “all eyes on Rafah” following the horrifying deaths of Palestinian civilians in fiery airstrikes by Israel on Gaza, hardly...
A recent media release from a powerful minister proclaimed the Liberal government’s new “trust and transparency strategy.” Anita Anand announced...
An internal review of the RCMP’s control policies for its uniforms, launched after a gunman used official clothing to impersonate...
Both sides of the Gaza war objected strongly when the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) accused their leaders...
Good morning — here is your Saturday newsletter. I have recorded an article voiceover, if you prefer to listen. This...
Inger Hansen (1929-2013), Canada’s first information commissioner, knew something about political tyranny and open government. Hansen forfeited a normal childhood...
The Ontario Liberals had hopes they could win last week’s provincial byelection in Milton, a riding in the Greater Toronto...
Good journalists frequently have barbed encounters with flaks for government ministers and departments, who delay, duck and obfuscate when asked...
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s roadside chat with protesters in the Maritimes this week has raised plenty of questions about...
A few days ago, Pierre Poilievre’s official social media channels shared a fairly generic campaign image of him enjoying the...
Pro-Palestine encampments are springing up on campuses across the United States. But university administrators are responding with heavy-handed tactics, calling...
With the new electoral map now in force and the numbers of months before the next election countable on our...
“Bring us more targets!” the Israel Defence Force (IDF) commanders shouted at intelligence officers. The commanders were directing the artillery...
Remember the Shopaholic book series of the early 2000’s? Author Sophie Kinsella made bank on the overspending adventures of her...