Tom Cardoso

Federal inmates’ risk assessments determine everything from where a prisoner is incarcerated to what rehabilitation programs they are offered. After controlling for a number of variables, The Globe found Black and Indigenous inmates are more likely to get worse scores than white inmates, based solely on their race

The lack of transparency around CEWS has stymied experts, stifled media efforts to hold the government and receiving companies accountable, and kept shareholders and economists in the dark

Six-month initiative to identify potential deportees used technology that has come under intense scrutiny in recent years

Government documents allege Catholic Church officials improperly redirected funds meant for residential-school survivors toward administrative costs and legal fees

The federal government announced it will provide $321-million to aid searches for residential school graves and to help survivors heal from their trauma

A charity set up by the Catholic Church to compensate residential school survivors spent $6.46-million, more than one quarter of its funds, on expenses, returned almost $600,000

Observers draw direct connection between anti-lockdown, anti-government groups and those spreading anti-Muslim and white nationalist messages during the federal election campaign

Organizations and individuals have called for a move to masks with better filtering capabilities, owing to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases

The federal government dropped its legal action against the Catholic Church in 2015 because of ‘low likelihood of success,’ documents obtained by The Globe and Mail reveal

Office of the Information Commissioner logged 6,945 complaints during the 2021-22 fiscal year, an increase of nearly 71 per cent compared to 2020-21

Caroline Maynard told a House of Commons standing committee that every government department is struggling to keep up with its legally required access-to-information duties

Extraordinary 80-year delay Ottawa researcher faced to access RCMP documents shows ‘absurdity’ of Canada’s access-to-information system, says expert

Access experts testifying before a House of Commons committee lambasted the public service, government policies and the Access to Information Act, the 1983 law governing federal access requests

Transparency advocates say Ottawa is using translation and accessibility costs as a convenient excuse not to publish completed access-to-information requests online

President of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association says the regime has suffered due to lack of meaningful updates

Experts warn that the broad nature of Canadian privacy law allows police forces to withhold videos they may not want released

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

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