Some Canadians tell Carney Ottawa's spelling protocol should lean…

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Officials scrambled behind the scenes as Trump took aim at bridge…

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Data centre capacity could soar to 20 GW in planned projects:…

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Ottawa to press for return of looted grave goods

Scottish museum holds spiritual artefacts from last of the Beothuks

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A jarring reality gap in access to information

Treasury Board's regressive FOI policy proposals signify two solitudes

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The Duck That Got Away (or Ducks Limited)

80 years later, we can read about how Canada tried and failed to buy an extinct duck.

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Luxury tax on planes, cars yielded over $900M. Now it's been scaled…

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Canada's bad boy of freedom of information

Privy Council Office, Carney's own department, singled out for sharp criticism by info commissioner

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Bid to narrow transparency law 'a move in the wrong direction,' info watchdog says

Information commissioner Caroline Maynard says a federal proposal to narrow the scope of the Access to Information Act is a move in the wrong direction that could exclude “entire swaths of government-...

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Most crime guns traced by RCMP came from within Canada, internal reports say

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...

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Connected vehicle data 'can have intelligence value' to adversaries: federal document

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...

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My two cents: Advice for aspiring political reporters and their editors

Some advice to reporters who want to cover politics, from a retiring journalist

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Two legal battles over Greenbelt records ‘likely’ quashed by PCs’ FOI restrictions

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

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Bureaucrats told to keep freedom of information requests moving despite Doug Ford’s new secrecy rules

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.

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Ford government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence…

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Memo warned PM of public anxiety about mental health, firearms after B.C. shootings

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...

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Feds working with City of Ottawa to ease public service transit woes:…

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The CSIS Leaks That Rocked Parliament Didn’t Tell the Whole Story | The Walrus

What happens when reporters don’t question their sources

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Bill to help authorities probe online activities raises widespread privacy fears

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.

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Solomon says delayed federal AI strategy coming soon, will address impact on jobs

OTTAWA - The federal government's promised new national AI strategy will consider the technology’s impacts on the labour market, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said on Monday.

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Supreme Court affirms law that curbs spy watchdog members' parliamentary privilege

OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the constitutionality of legislation that limits the ability of members of a spy watchdog committee to use their parliamentary privilege to speak out.

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Supreme Court of Canada to hear Churchill portrait thief’s sentence appeal | Globalnews.ca

The man who stole the "Roaring Lion" portrait of Winston Churchill from the Château Laurier in Ottawa will have a chance to appeal his sentence in the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Fear of reprisals, isolation, anxiety: Report documents mental health concerns at CSIS | CBC News

Canadian Security Intelligence Service employees who came forward as part of an external study investigating mental health at the spy agency described a sometimes isolating and bleak environment "lade...

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More drivers speeding in Ottawa school zones after speed camera ban: report

OTTAWA — A report from the City of Ottawa says more drivers are speeding past the limit in certain school zones after speed cameras were banned by the province late last year.

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Supreme Court upholds reversal of death declaration in case of man found to be alive

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed a judge’s decision to annul the declaration of a Quebec man’s death when new evidence indicated he was actually alive and well in Iran. One day in February 2008, Hooshang Imanpoorsaid told his family he was going on a business trip to Toronto. The next day, […]

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Internal memo flags the promise and pitfalls of expanding CSIS's…

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Federal privacy law changes would expand sharing of personal data across government

OTTAWA — The Liberal government proposes making it easier for federal agencies to share and reuse the personal data of Canadians through a major overhaul of the Privacy Act. The act governs how federa...

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Changes needed at Canada Revenue Agency after audit of Muslim charity: report | CBC News

A report by an expert in extremist financing and money laundering says the Canada Revenue Agency's approach to policing terrorist abuse "proved seriously deficient" in the case of a long-running audit...

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Kevin Gausman unbothered, thriving as Blue Jays ace despite two no decisions

TORONTO - If you look up "unbothered" in the dictionary, there's likely a photo of Kevin Gausman.

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