"Documents released under Alberta Freedom of Information laws confirm the United Conservative government was talking with the coal industry for years about relaxing a policy that protected the Rocky Mountains from open-pit mines.
The documents also show the province was talking about opening those landscapes to more development generally for at least seven months before letting the public in on its plans."
"Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that courts take a dim view of delay being used to neuter public attempts to understand how important decisions are made.
'The requesting parties have been practically denied access to the information they are entitled to at law and this court will not abet this conduct through the availability of judicial review,' he wrote in a judgment released Friday."
💬 "In March 2020 the information system for dealing with Covid was; I would wheel in a whiteboard and grab a marker and Simon Stephens would read out from scraps of paper, faxes that he'd got from the NHS…" - Dominic Cummings interviewed on Helen Lewis has Left the Chat, on BBC Sounds.
The B.C. government is monitoring the impact of its $10 application fee for #FOI requests, but has no immediate plans to remove it, said recently appointed citizens’ services minister George Chow.
Dover has the highest number of animals privately owned under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, according to #FOI, with two tigers, an amur leopard and more than 25 different breeds of venomous snakes kept in the harbour town.
The #VictoriaPolice force is the subject of new revelations after recently marred by allegations of #corruption, including tainting important investigations and potentially lying to lawyers.
Freedom Of Information (#FOI) documents show that in the last decade, 14 Victoria Police officers have retired or resigned while #UnderInvestigation