Tom Cardoso

Norway’s online inventory of public records and Mexico’s fine-issuing transparency watchdog can serve as inspiration for Ottawa

Updates on the latest additions to the Secret Canada database, plus a behind-the-scenes look at the process of filing 400 FOI requests

Federal information commissioner calls for a revitalization of access law in an interview, says that the systems that implement it are ‘not to par’

Justin Trudeau, in the Liberal Party’s 2015 election platform, vowed to make sweeping changes to access to information, but those changes were never adopted

Researchers are often denied decades-old documents because there’s no process for declassifying them and poor records of what’s piled up in government warehouses

Canada’s information laws are supposed to punish public servants that wrongfully keep information secret. But when it comes to laying charges, watchdogs find those laws have no teeth

The privacy commissioner is seeking proposed changes to her office’s funding model that would increase its independence from the government

Requests filed by immigrants to IRCC accounted for nearly 80 per cent of all federal requests last year

Institutions decline to release records in format requested by The Globe, a move experts say suggests a lack of accountability mechanisms in the province’s FOI system

Out of the country’s 53 largest municipalities, most respond to information requests faster than provinces, territories or the federal government. But some are slower than others, or redact documents more heavily