New substack from me: Spy agency workers say open-office environment makes them lose focus.
https://deanbeeby.substack.com/p/spy-agency-workers-complain-about #cdnfoi #cdnpoli #CSETreasury Board Secretariat announced legislated "review" of Access to Information Act. Don't pop the champagne - the last review five years ago was bogus, an inside job by bureaucrats with little interest in transparency. Plus ca change.
#cdnfoi #cdnpolihttps://canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/modernizing-access-information/reviewing-access-information-act/2025-review-access-information-act.htmlNew substack from me: Info czar rejects call for transparency. Information commissioner stands by decision to withhold data about her office #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
https://deanbeeby.substack.com/p/info-czar-rejects-call-for-transparency
Longer wait times, abandoned calls at RCMP emergency call centres
Evaluation of Mountie 911 service finds chronic staff shortage
Federal government given the Code of Silence Award for its obstructing release of records about residential schools | Centre for Free Expression
Nearly ten years after the publication of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s final report, Canada’s federal government continues to fight Indigenous groups from across the country seeking access to records surrounding residential schools. For this continued denial of access, it has been resoundingly selected as this year’s recipient of the federal Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy.
The dossier Trudeau took to Mar-a-Lago
Facts and figures that turned out to be useless in trade dispute
Reports of crypto-related crime skyrocketing: RCMP access-to-info documents. By Zak Vescara.
https://theijf.org/rcmp-crypto-cases-skyrocketing #cdnfoi #cdnpoli #rcmp
Reports of crypto-related crime skyrocketing: RCMP documents
Most cases involve online investment fraud where charging criminals is almost impossible, police say
New from me: A rare apology from the then-governor of the Bank of Canada, a certain Mark Carney. #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
https://deanbeeby.substack.com/p/mark-carneys-100-apology
Mark Carney's $100 apology
The 10 men who have governed the Bank of Canada since its inception in 1934 have been taciturn types, studiously avoiding the mud-holes of public controversy.
New substack from me: Women candidates close funding gap - Elections Canada report obtained under access-to-info
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanbeeby/p/women-candidates-close-funding-gap #cdnfoi #cdnpoli #elxnscda
Women candidates close funding gap: Elections Canada report
Female candidates for House of Commons edge out males in cash resources
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