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.
Feds eliminate extra access-to-info fees
Freedom of Information
What the feds don’t want you to see in their Saudi human rights report
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.
Terror documents so secret, feds can’t tell you why they’re secret
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.
Duty to document: What you need to know about reforming access-to-information in Canada
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.
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