Access to Information

This morning I sent Suzanne Legault, Canada’s information commissioner, the following letter. Updates will be posted here as...

Canada’s Access to Information Act stipulates that a government institution should disclose information 30 days after a request...

Internal documents show why Canada has not kept its promise to accelerate contentious clinical trials for MS

Less than a week after Tony Clement announces the Harper government’s open government action plan, Tom Spears explains precisely...

David Eaves reviews the government’s open data plans. Access to information was the focus of a submission made by the BC Freedom...

Keeping the public looped in on spending could be a guarantee of quality

The House of Commons law clerk considers Dean Del Mastro’s demand that the CBC turn over documents related to a matter already...

Glen McGregor notes that, while Dean Del Mastro thinks "a lot of Canadians would be really troubled to know that we are spending...

The same minister who helped use the "border infrastructure fund" to build gazebos and public toilets in his riding and left no...

Last month I wrote about the results of an access-to-information request to the Immigration and Refugee Board, which yielded some...