Tom Cardoso
@tom_cardoso
Investigative reporter with @globeandmail. Email: [email protected]
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https://tomcardoso.com 23-04-2009 21:32:15
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If you filed an access request to the Canada Border Services Agency between Sept. 2021 and Nov. 2023 and it's still open, their access unit wants to hear from you.
Our latest #SecretCanada blog: Oops – CBSA has effectively lost 12,000 open access requests
secretcanada.com/news/cbsa-lost…
“It is not the job of Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario to protect the government from embarrassing itself. Its role is to interpret privacy laws in a manner that benefits the public, not corporations and government agencies.”
André Picard on the “sickness” of secrecy:
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Here's a head-scratcher:
1. Journalists FOI info on health care worker shortage, get denied.
2. They appeal.
3. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario agrees there's a “compelling public interest,” but says that's not enough.
If the public interest isn't enough, what is?
theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
Let me give you the TLDR version of how the convo went with editors when Tom Cardoso and I pitched Secret Canada: 'Okay so, we want to go all in — LIKE ALL IN — on a massive policy issue: access to information. And we'll need a year and a half to do it. Oh! And a full team...
Bit late to this, but beyond honoured that Secret Canada was recognized by IRE and NICAR with the FOI Award and IRE Medal!
The judges called it 'one of the most ambitious public records projects ever published.' 🥹
ire.org/announcing-the… #cdnfoi #SecretCanada
New #SecretCanada post: Save yourself a piggyback! The Investigative Journalism Foundation has launched an incredible new database — Open By Default — that contains more than a decade of previously released federal ATIP records. secretcanada.com/news/ijf-foi-d…
Further to that Supreme Court mandate letter decision, last week I sat down with Justin Safayeni 🇺🇦, the CBC's lawyer, to chat about the ruling. We talk about all sorts of fun stuff: Constitutional conventions! Standards of review! #cdnfoi #cdnpoli #SecretCanada secretcanada.com/news/supreme-c…