An MLA is calling for the creation of a child and youth advocate in the Northwest Territories to hear the concerns of those involved in the child welfare system. “In the Northwest Territories, the child and family services system holds extraordinary power over children in care with no real independent oversight,” said Range Lake MLA […]

[Editor’s note: This story is a collaboration between the Investigative Journalism Foundation and The Tyee.] Choori Mohamed came to Canada with a dream of finding a job, getting permanent residency and eventually helping his wife and two children emigrate from his home in India. Instead, he said, he went into debt paying $10,000 to secure […]

The IJF has identified nearly 600 Alberta companies responsible for millions of dollars of municipal tax arrears and unpaid leases to landowners. Unpaid oil and gas property taxes have created an increasingly large burden for local governments in Alberta. Rural municipalities reported companies owed $81 million in cumulative tax arrears in 2018. As of the […]

When most Grade 5 students spend their lunch hour playing games or chatting with friends, Legacie Shipman-Rogers is doing something extraordinary: teaching her peers to read and write Braille. At A.A. Wright Public School in Wallaceburg, the weekly Braille Club has become far more than an extracurricular activity. It’s a vibrant celebration of inclusion, led […]

Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now, he was in a hospital after suffering a ministroke. He was shackled to the bed by his hand and foot, he told Romero, and agents […]

JIKANDOR, Liberia (AP) — For generations, families in Jikandor village fished and drank from the river that runs through Liberia ’s dense rain forest. Now toxic pollution is making them leave. They blame the largest gold miner in Liberia, Bea Mountain Mining Corporation. When dead fish float to the surface, they said, they know to […]

Nearly all federal government executives received bonus pay last year even as departments fell short of many of their own performance goals, according to internal records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation through access-to-information requests. The documents show about 98 per cent of federal executives qualified for bonus payments in the 2024-25 fiscal year, the […]

Four years after a mass shooting in Nova Scotia claimed 22 lives, the RCMP have presented 32 awards to officers and staff for their roles in the manhunt and the public inquiry that followed. The awards, approved by RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme in May, are described in documents obtained under the federal access to information law by author and […]

Most of the airtime during the January 14 Kaslo council meeting was taken up by the recently revised Council Procedures Bylaw, which received first and second reading during the December 9 meeting. Council discussed feedback received from the public. The bylaw sets rules for how meetings are organized and how participants are involved. The changes […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October sued the federal government on Tuesday, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U.S. military campaign.” The lawsuit is thought to be the first wrongful death case arising from the three […]

Advocates of more federal transparency are concerned a federal review of the Access to Information regime will not fix long-standing problems, and that it could even make things worse. The Treasury Board Secretariat announced the government review, which takes place every five years, in a news release last June. For a $5 fee, people can […]

Canada continues to tout itself as a “world leader” in tackling ghost gear’s threats to marine life and coastal communities even though funding for the program dried up in 2024.  Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO’s) former investments to address abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear, were axed without explanation by the federal Liberals more than […]