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Across Canada, your right to know is under threat from obfuscatory governments who would rather keep secrets than let you in on their actions.
This project tracks freedom of information requests, refusals, redactions and fees.
See how institutions are keeping your information from you.
Project Redacted: Ontario politicians refuse to release records detailing relationship with self-proclaimed ‘prophet’'
For years, high-ranking Ontario politicians have visited a controversial church north of Toronto embroiled in allegations of sexual misconduct and financial exploitation, Investigative Journalism Bureau reporting has revealed.
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Ontario Ministry of Health refuses to share externally-commissioned review of hospital finances
The Ontario Ministry of Health has commissioned third-party analyses on the financial challenges facing the province’s hospitals. But they won’t share those reports with journalists.
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Freedom of information? Here’s what Ontario’s government doesn’t want you to know
Greenbelt, Billy Bishop Airport, and U.S. Ambassador: What Ontario’s government won’t tell the public.
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Behind the Reporting: What’s at stake in Canadian transparency tussles
One of the best ways to lose friends at a party is to bring up freedom-of-information legislation. Try it the next time you want to escape an awkward social interaction. “Oh, that is so interesting. It makes me think of my last access-to-information request.” If that doesn’t work, just add, “And can you believe what section of the Act they cited?”
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