Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is in secrecy-by-default mode, opposition critics say after reviewing the content of blue licence plate documents the province had been prepared to fight the release of in the courts. The province’s information and privacy commissioner ordered the release of documents earlier this year on the government’s plan to get the […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government is reversing its decision to go to court to prevent the release of documents about its ill-fated blue licence plates. Lawyers for the government applied for a judicial review of decisions by Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner ordering the province to release documents in response to a freedom-of-information request by […]

Ontario’s Divisional Court has reserved its decision in a case testing the limits of confidentiality in closed-session school board meetings. Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board (HPEDSB) trustee Rachael Prinzen is seeking to overturn two code-of-conduct decisions that found she improperly disclosed in-camera materials to the Minister of Education, resulting in her suspension from […]