From betsy powell: The Star’s interview with Umar Zameer on relief, hope and the stigma of being called a ‘cop killer’ — thestar.com/news/gta/the-s…

For 18 years, the federal government had a centralized, internal FOI database of request summaries. It was quietly killed in 2008, and its contents deleted because the data was considered 'transitory.'
Remembering CAIRS: secretcanada.com/news/cairs-foi… #cdnfoi #cdnpoli #SecretCanada

👏👏Shout out to the The Globe and Mail team nominated for the #SecretCanada project in the 'Freedom of Information #Journalism ' category: @Tom_Cardoso, @RobynDoolittle, carys mills, mahima singh , Ming Wong ™️ theglobeandmail.com/topics/secret-…

Absolutely bonkers story here: A court has ruled a tenant can be held liable for taxes that a non-resident landlord fails to pay. So tenants are expected to keep tabs on where their landlords live and pay taxes... theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/va…

This is pretty incredible. Thank you, IRE. Reading 'one of the most ambitious public records projects ever published” is so meaningful to us.

SECRET CANADA: Hot off the press, our monthly report on some notable FOI appeals. secretcanada.com/news/foi-appea…

Like many, I've been a fan of Robyn Doolittle for ages. So, it's a serious understatement to say that I was absolutely stoked to get the chance to share the details about my law firm, Luceo Legal, with her for the Legal Moves piece.
theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

So happy for Anil, but this is sad. He led on the principle that government institutions are custodians for public information and that people are entitled to that information. He really pushed StatsCan to be transparent and accountable to the public. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Dream job alert. One of the best news towns in Canada and a fantastic newspaper:

I found this Robyn Doolittle piece very interesting. Maintenance and Champerty funding allows the Davids to go head to head with the Goliaths in legal suits. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Can't wait to celebrate all of these amazing projects at the NNAs. Special 🍾 to the #SecretCanada team —
Tom Cardoso mahima singh carys mills Ming Wong ™️ Andrew Louis Danielle Webb Renata D'Aliesio
— who leaned all the way in on a project about our country's broken FOI system.

New #SecretCanada post: I scanned public institutions who had fought FOI appeals recently, then FOI'd what our taxpayer-funded entities are paying lawyers to keep information from us: secretcanada.com/news/foi-respo…