An incredible honour for the Secret Canada team 🙏🏼

Revisted this excellent 2013 essay recently from the late Hilary Mantel on how royals, especially royal women, have always been reduced to their bodies.
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Big congrats to Jeremy Agius for his nomination in the Presentation/Design category. Jeremy is one of the brightest and most creative newsroom developers out there. This recognition is richly deserved 🎉

Beyond proud of the #SecretCanada team The Globe and Mail on their well deserved recognition for Project of the Year from NNA/CCJ 🎉

Watch secretcanada.com for more work to come this year 🙌

When I heard Ming Wong ™️ was writing about emojis, I knew we could have some fun with it.

Please enjoy this deep dive into the evolution of emojis and all the ways we misinterpret them - with delightful design and development by Jeremy Agius 🥳

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I’ve never been much of a conspiracy theorist but if The Associated Press AFP News Agency Reuters & other picture agencies are concerned enough to remove it and ask clients to delete it, there are serious questions for Kensington Palace - which was the source of the photo.
These appears to be the issues 👇

The Kate Middleton 'disappearance' saga is an excellent case study in how misinfo/disinfo preys on information vacuums and the eroding trust in institutions. Lots to learn here — and Ellie Hall and Nieman Lab do a thorough job laying it all out 👇
niemanlab.org/2024/03/this-i…

I don’t think the Bejeweled elevator predicted this

Watching one side of the internet freak out about media layoffs this week while another cries for journalism of this magnitude to be free is appalling. This isn’t volunteering for philanthropy — journalists deserve to be paid for their work.

Secret Canada is an investigative project AND a public-service teaching tool. Tom Cardoso shares how The Globe and Mail is using records requests to get readers involved in accountability journalism.

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We’ve launched Canada’s Most Livable Cities, a data-driven analysis of our communities and what makes them great. See the Top 100 - or build your own ranking here: theglobeandmail.com/investing/arti…

My favourite Secret Canada story of the series. Last fall, Tom Cardoso and I put out a call: if you have stories about Canada's broken freedom of information regime, we want to hear from you. The loudest, largest group to reply: FURIOUS HISTORIANS theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

“It’s gratifying, too, to get one person to ask me if I can help them stop drinking, and I say yes and follow it up. That’s more important than any run on Friends. That’s what I hope, when I die, is what people talk about.” RIP Matthew Perry, age 54. theglobeandmail.com/arts/televisio…

A significant development! Alberta’s access watchdog has launched a systemic investigation into the provincial government’s handling of freedom of information requests after reporting by The Globe and Mail’s Secret Canada project. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

SECRET CANADA: Think about all that's happening in Alberta right now. Plans to withdraw from the CPP. The Calgary daycare E. coli crisis. Etc. Now consider: the province is actively trying to make it harder to obtain government records. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

After an end-of-summer hiatus, we're back to updating the Secret Canada blog on a weekly(ish) basis.

This week: How to research a private company's ownership structure using FOI

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