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This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, October 25th.
We’ll start with a group of local journalism initiative stories that show how this initiative is regularly employing access and requests for information in their reporting.
We’ll follow that up with national reports that intersect access and privacy, including continuing fallout from the damning federal auditors report that includes identification of poor federal cybersecurity and separate calls from national chiefs to deem First Nations policing essential.
We have two important reports informed by the actions of whistleblowers in healthcare from Ontario and Alberta.
And we wrap with our regular scan outside Canada’s borders.
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Writing: Shaun Fisk | Production: Patrick Farnsworth | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca
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Bills C-2 and C-4
- Progressive groups rally ‘common front’ to march, challenge elements of Carney agenda
- Bill C-4 privacy enhancements are modest and fail to regulate politicians’ use of social bots
To Protect your rights, ask MPs to:
- Stop Bill C-2
- Amend Bill C-4
LJI Stories and access
- After integrity commissioner called public oversight of his work a ‘political circus’ Caledon stopped his ‘outrageous’ move to silence residents
- https://fipa.bc.ca/nm/after-integrity-commissioner-called-public-oversight-of-his-work-a-political-circus-caledon-stopped-his-outrageous-move-to-silence-residents/
- The Pointer – https://thepointer.com/article/2025-10-11/after-integrity-commissioner-called-public-oversight-of-his-work-a-political-circus-caledon-stopped-his-outrageous-move-to-silence-residents
- Springwater mayor defends integrity amid boundary map dispute
- Ag Sponsorship Request referred to budget talks
- Promises and apologies from Premier as candidates duke it out at debate and forum
- Mining in the spotlight at Yukon election debate
- More collaboration needed, says private prosthetics expert
- Can Legislation Solve Unpaid Airline Work?
Access to information Canada
- Auditor finds gaps in federal government’s cybersecurity shield as threats multiply
- National chief calls for federal government to deem First Nations policing essential
- Canada’s scientific study of oceans may be vulnerable to foreign adversaries: report
- Records reveal what Chrétien told ministers before Quebec referendum
- CBC launches court fight to keep Gem subscriber numbers confidential
- Interest in Canadian flights out of Lebanon last year waned quickly, documents show
- Report points to longer waits, higher fees for Manitoba freedom of information
- Seven obstetrician gynecologists resign from hospital in B.C. Interior
- Nova Scotia government gives Whale Sanctuary Project approval to build coastal refuge
- Documents reveal new witness statements to RCMP about missing N.S. children
Whistleblowers
- Report into Alberta Health Services contracts finds conflicts widely known
- LHSC outlines new anti-fraud measures amid ongoing civil lawsuits
US and International
- Head of South Carolina elections fired after voting machine contract had unexplained $4M overrun
- Iowa superintendent detained by ICE falsely claimed he was a US citizen, indictment says
- Trump’s nominee to lead a watchdog agency hits trouble over MLK and ‘Nazi streak’ text messages
- Trump pick to lead federal watchdog agency withdraws after offensive text messages were revealed
- Australia sharing tips on curbing social media for children before age limit starts in December
This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, October 25th.
We’ll start with a group of local journalism initiative stories that show how this initiative is regularly employing access and requests for information in their reporting.
We’ll follow that up with national reports that intersect access and privacy, including continuing fallout from the damning federal auditors report that includes identification of poor federal cybersecurity and separate calls from national chiefs to deem First Nations policing essential.
We have two important reports informed by the actions of whistleblowers in healthcare from Ontario and Alberta.
And we wrap with our regular scan outside Canada’s borders.
Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, ListenNotes, Podchaser, Boomplay.
Writing: Shaun Fisk | Production: Patrick Farnsworth | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca
You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.
Full Show Links
Bills C-2 and C-4
- Progressive groups rally ‘common front’ to march, challenge elements of Carney agenda
- Bill C-4 privacy enhancements are modest and fail to regulate politicians’ use of social bots
To Protect your rights, ask MPs to:
- Stop Bill C-2
- Amend Bill C-4
LJI Stories and access
- After integrity commissioner called public oversight of his work a ‘political circus’ Caledon stopped his ‘outrageous’ move to silence residents
- https://fipa.bc.ca/nm/after-integrity-commissioner-called-public-oversight-of-his-work-a-political-circus-caledon-stopped-his-outrageous-move-to-silence-residents/
- The Pointer – https://thepointer.com/article/2025-10-11/after-integrity-commissioner-called-public-oversight-of-his-work-a-political-circus-caledon-stopped-his-outrageous-move-to-silence-residents
- Springwater mayor defends integrity amid boundary map dispute
- Ag Sponsorship Request referred to budget talks
- Promises and apologies from Premier as candidates duke it out at debate and forum
- Mining in the spotlight at Yukon election debate
- More collaboration needed, says private prosthetics expert
- Can Legislation Solve Unpaid Airline Work?
Access to information Canada
- Auditor finds gaps in federal government’s cybersecurity shield as threats multiply
- National chief calls for federal government to deem First Nations policing essential
- Canada’s scientific study of oceans may be vulnerable to foreign adversaries: report
- Records reveal what Chrétien told ministers before Quebec referendum
- CBC launches court fight to keep Gem subscriber numbers confidential
- Interest in Canadian flights out of Lebanon last year waned quickly, documents show
- Report points to longer waits, higher fees for Manitoba freedom of information
- Seven obstetrician gynecologists resign from hospital in B.C. Interior
- Nova Scotia government gives Whale Sanctuary Project approval to build coastal refuge
- Documents reveal new witness statements to RCMP about missing N.S. children
Whistleblowers
- Report into Alberta Health Services contracts finds conflicts widely known
- LHSC outlines new anti-fraud measures amid ongoing civil lawsuits
US and International
- Head of South Carolina elections fired after voting machine contract had unexplained $4M overrun
- Iowa superintendent detained by ICE falsely claimed he was a US citizen, indictment says
- Trump’s nominee to lead a watchdog agency hits trouble over MLK and ‘Nazi streak’ text messages
- Trump pick to lead federal watchdog agency withdraws after offensive text messages were revealed
- Australia sharing tips on curbing social media for children before age limit starts in December