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5 Mar 2024
🧵 Canadians can now freely access over 2.6 million pages of internal government documents never before made publicly available with our newest dataset, Open By Default. Explore the huge database of internal government documents: theijf.org/open-by-default
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Private health-care companies and major mining operators registered to lobby the Government of Saskatchewan are also major funders of the political parties they’re trying to influence, according to the IJF’s data analysis.
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As fire season approaches, a Vancouver startup wants to work with the Alberta government to prevent lightning strikes, which cause about half of all the wildfires in North America.
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Tory MP Michael Guglielmin’s latest disclosure indicates he owns at least $10,000 stock in Palantir and Tesla, companies both linked to the Trump administration.
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B.C. may join Ontario in banning reselling tickets above face value. StubHub and SeatGeek are lobbying against it, saying such bans worsen the problem they seek to solve.
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On the fifth anniversary of the harrowing discovery of 200 potential unmarked graves in Kamloops, BC, the Investigative Journalism Foundation is cutting through the noise to explain why finding the truth isn’t as simple as digging up bodies.
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Do you have $10,000 to spare? The Saskatchewan Party took in the most political contributions in 2025, but the largest individual, corporate, and union donations went to the NDP.
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Hundred of thousands of dollars pass through cryptically named corporate accounts to Sask. political parties. Here’s our look into the system used to mask the identities of big political donors.
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Dozens of sponsors of this year’s CANSEC defence expo are lobbyists. We look at what top-tier networking opportunities they got for their dollars.
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A transcription tool Ontario approved for doctors lists testimonials from doctors who don’t appear to exist — and has a link to a website that seems to post AI-generated news articles.
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Just a little over a year ago, Gerry Byrne was fisheries minister for Newfoundland and Labrador. Now he’s lobbying the federal government on behalf of local independent fishers.
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The NDP is taking aim at the federal government after the IJF revealed it spent tens of millions on a secret contract with controversial tech company Palantir.
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Canadian media producers say the prime minister has sold out Canadian culture in favour of big U.S. tech interests.
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A vaping industry lobby group is trying to ensure Alberta’s proposal to ban flavoured vape juice to limit rates of youth vaping does not pass.
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As Canada prepares to award its multi-billion dollar submarine contract, offsets are expected to play an important role in who wins. The IJF asked experts how partnering with Canadian companies like Irving Shipbuilding, Cohere and Algoma Steel could give the bidders an advantage.
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A Toronto charity has had its charitable status revoked for “significant and systemic” non-compliance, including about $43 million in private benefits, largely provided to entities connected to a founding director.
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The Canadian government has spent more than $44 million on a secret contract with controversial American tech company Palantir.
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An Indigenous council in the Northwest Territories is lobbying Ottawa about a major Arctic radar and defence project.
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An Alberta conservationist says he was fired after he raised concerns about the loss of native grassland.
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Several Saskatchewan municipalities and First Nations made political contributions to the province’s governing party in 2025, according to finance disclosures from Elections Saskatchewan.
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The Boys and Girls Club of Canada pulled out of a coalition advocating for the government to regulate tech companies weeks before it announced a funding deal with Google.
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