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British Columbia's provincial flag flies in Ottawa, July 3, 2020. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press

Noteworthy November appeals decisions show two takes on the public-interest override

Robyn Doolittle

Nova Scotia gets a gold star for FOI response

Robyn Doolittle

A sticker for your thoughts?

Three FOI appeal decisions that will spook you this Halloween

Robyn Doolittle

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A sign for the city of Lethbridge in southern Alberta is shown in this file image. Bill Graveland/The Canadian Press

Last chance at the Cat Ranch

Tom CardosoJune 30, 2023

The first FOI bill was introduced in the House of Commons in 1965.

How Canada’s first FOI bill was introduced, and covered, in 1965

Robyn DoolittleJune 28, 2023

How the RCMP’s response to a Democracy Watch FOI highlights the law’s lack of accountability

Robyn DoolittleJune 22, 2023

30 new Canadian citizens and their flags during a citizenship ceremony at the ISS of BC Welcome Centre in Vancouver, March 29, 2017. Rafal Gerszak/The Globe and Mail

Tips and techniques

How to request your immigration case file

Tom CardosoJune 16, 2023

The Canada flag flies on top of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, March 6, 2023. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

Tips and techniques

That’s so meta: FOI-ing your FOI

Tom CardosoJune 15, 2023

Beverley McLachlin served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2000 to 2017. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)

Beverley McLachlin: ‘A democracy just can’t work without the people having information’

Robyn DoolittleJune 7, 2023

Police tape covers off a block in a south Vancouver neighborhood early on April 7, 2009. John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail

Behind the scenes

Transparency in government isn’t a nice-to-have – it’s law

Robyn DoolittleJune 7, 2023

David Walmsley is the Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail. Glenn Lowson/The Globe and Mail

Editor's letter

Secret Canada aims to force governments to be more transparent

David WalmsleyJune 7, 2023

Peace Tower over West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Feb. 22, 2019. Photograph by Blair Gable/The Globe and Mail

Behind the scenes

Why an FOI rejection ‘radicalized’ this Globe reporter

Tom CardosoJune 7, 2023

A heavily-redacted list of freedom-of-information requests from Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Highways. Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail

Unreadable files, wrongful redactions, outright refusal: The maddening responses to our FOI requests

Tom CardosoJune 7, 2023

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