May 5, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Canadians will no longer be asked to pay thousands of dollars to access public information from the federal government.
May 5, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Canadians will no longer be asked to pay thousands of dollars to access public information from the federal government.
April 28, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The federal Liberals say they’ll bring in all the access-to-information promises in their election campaign as soon as possible — some as early as this winter.
April 28, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The Liberals plan to strengthen “as early as this year” the watchdog responsible for keeping government transparent and making public information public — but they’ve given her office less money than she’s gotten since 2009.
April 15, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Tania Kohut, Global News
Months after Global News and several other media organizations requested it under access-to-information legislation, Global Affairs Canada released its 2015 human rights report on Saudi Arabia.
But the department redacted everything in the report related to potentially contentious human rights issues.
I got to talk to Mount Royal University student Matt Sutton about our efforts to get info about federal anti-terror bill C-51, and what happens when you don’t even know the reasons behind specific redactions.
October 19, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The polls hadn’t even closed across Canada when news organizations called a Liberal government – and, within an hour, a Liberal majority.
October 16, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Thousands of pages of correspondence and briefing notes on the federal government’s anti-terror Bill C-51 are so secret the government won’t disclose its reasons for censoring them.
March 31, 2015 – Amy Minsky and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Many of Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault’s recommendations to fix Canada’s strained and aging access-to-information system will be familiar to Prime Minister Stephen Harper: They were part of his platform nine years ago.
May 1, 2014 – Global News
Journos grow thick skins thanks to frequent rejection (and no, not just the social kind). But in the interest of transparency we wanted to elucidate the public bodies we’ve tried to access for this story, only to be refused.