OTTAWA - A former RCMP intelligence official convicted of breaching Canada's secrets law has been granted day parole to help him prepare for his full return to society, including possible

We filed an FOI for refused FOIs. Here’s what we found.

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Scottish museum holds spiritual artefacts from last of the Beothuks

Treasury Board's regressive FOI policy proposals signify two solitudes

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

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

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-...

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...

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...

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

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

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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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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What happens when reporters don’t question their sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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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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...

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...

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

When Rose Kingdon started her broadcasting career more than 40 years ago, she recalled that it was "love at first on air light."

A CBC Indigenous investigation has found the Cold War-era RCMP Security Service had a widespread and intrusive surveillance operation targeting at least 30 legitimate Indigenous political organization...

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OTTAWA — The federal information watchdog says she’s surprised that government proposals for updating the Access to Information Act avoid “the most pressing issue” dogging the system — unacceptable de...

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Challenges with recruitment, training, resources and overall management are hindering the RCMP’s reserve program, even as reservists are being called on more than ever, says an internal evaluation rep...

It was on the second day of the Italian Olympics that Jack McKenzie got the job offer that would have changed his life, if he’d taken it. It was one that he could — as it turned out — refuse. And d…

Advocates of more federal transparency are concerned a federal review of the Access to Information regime will not fix long-standing problems, and that it could even make things worse.

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A rare disclosure of probation records reveals that two days after a repeat domestic violence offender murdered three ex-partners while on probation, his probation officer was given the highest score ...