Health care worker shortage data should not be released to the public, Ontario information watchdog rules, by Tu Thanh Ha theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail #SecretCanada
The The Globe and Mail's campaign to fix Canada's broken Freedom of Information regime has merch. How big of an FOI nerd are you? Would you pay $10 or $15 for a tote? DM me if interested. #SecretCanada #ItsYourRightToKnow
And p.s. — The Globe was able to tell this story because the company did business in Newfoundland which 'has the most open freedom of information system in the country.' This type of information is hidden/nearly impossible to get elsewhere. Get angry about that #SecretCanada
#SecretCanada : Information is the bedrock of democracy. Freedom of information laws give you the right to obtain records held by public institutions. This project helps you navigate Canada’s access system, by Robyn Doolittle Tom Cardoso secretcanada.com via The Globe and Mail
Thanks to the persistence of The Narwhal and others, including The Globe and Mail, an Alberta watchdog has agreed to launch a systemic investigation into the Danielle Smith government’s secrecy. via Mike De Souza #cdnfoi #abpoli #secretcanada thenarwhal.ca/oipc-alberta-d…
Every Canadian journalist knows our FOI system is broken.
Today we're launching a project called Secret Canada, The Globe and Mail's answer to a dysfunctional system.
secretcanada.com
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…
Data lovers, buckle up. This is the full deep dive results of our audit of every ministry and department in the country. #SecretCanada
Here is a story that could never have happened in Canada because of our insanely restrictive FOI and privacy laws. #SecretCanada
Not me waking up to messages that Jesse Brown has grossly mischaracterized what #SecretCanada is about on this week's episode of Short Cuts.🫠
Government contracts are public! The law says so. Judges say so. And yet public institutions CONSTANTLY refuse to release them through FOI. In our latest #SecretCanada post, I pull together some of the case law so you can cite it in your next request. secretcanada.com/news/governmen…
And the The Globe and Mail said yes. And when awards season ends in a couple of months, SecretCanada.com is going to continue. Because we really believe in this. So thank you to the NNAs. Thank you to the Globe for going all in. And thank you to our amazing team:
Bit late to this, but beyond honoured that Secret Canada was recognized by IRE and NICAR with the FOI Award and IRE Medal!
The judges called it 'one of the most ambitious public records projects ever published.' 🥹
ire.org/announcing-the… #cdnfoi #SecretCanada
NEW hospitals added to the Secret Canada database! Search prev FOIs sent to Sunnybrook Hospital, SickKids and British Columbia’s Provincial Health Services Authority (which covers many hospitals and health entities in the province). #SecretCanada secretcanada.com/news/more-hosp…
... OH! And a few thou for FOI fees. Plus *several* tens of thousands more to build a website SecretCanada.com. OH!! And we'd like to house this all outside the The Globe and Mail's paywall. OH!!! And one of our primary goals is to help other news outlets get scoops! You in??'
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.
A sticker for your thoughts? #SecretCanada #FuriousHistorians #FuriousJournalists secretcanada.com/news/survey