On Wednesday we will be launching a Canada-wide appointments database, making it easier to draw connections like the one revealed in this story. Watch for it at theijf.org @theijf.org

Exclusive: Alberta’s chief justice is investigating the conduct of two judges after we revealed evidence suggesting they gave money to the ruling United Conservative Party after being appointed to the provincial court bench. zurl.co/GErEQ #abpoli

We take you inside Big Tech’s playbook for fighting laws that compensate news outlets for their content. Read our investigation with other media outlets into the actions of companies like Meta and Google that run public campaigns and make threats to stop serving news.

American companies own 30 per cent of Canada’s data centres, according to an IJF analysis. Could this leave data safeguards vulnerable to foreign control? Read the implications in our latest story. zurl.co/lGiwB #cdnpoli #data

We uncover how Google paid the media millions to avoid regulations, signing more than 2,000 secret contracts with publishers. A critic calls it “renting your enemy.” Our investigation into Big Tech lobbying continues with other news outlets around the world. buff.ly/SK9YCx2 #BigTechsInvisibleHand

The think tank with close ties to the PMO, and its corporate backers. theijf.org/canada-2020-... @theijf.org

Brett McKay of @theijf.org discusses Alberta's book ban on Front Burner with Jayme Poisson www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Edmonton school libraries plan to remove books by Margaret Atwood and George R. R. Martin after pressure from the Government of Alberta to get rid of “inappropriate” books. IJF reporter Brett McKay breaks down how we got here and what happens next. buff.ly/TZniyGe #abpoli #bookban

Another example of how details of abuse remain hidden in the archives. Through our databases we are bringing important stories to light. @bethanylindsay.bsky.social @theijf.org

A succession of well-connected lobbyists tried for years to bring private online gaming to Alberta, and they are finally succeeding. We reveal the identities of the players in our exclusive investigation. buff.ly/gp6uzJm #abpoli

Contrary to rhetoric from some school administrators, pro-Palestinian university encampments were unlikely to incite violence, we found from a never-released CSIS report. Learn more. buff.ly/1nf4VFO #cdnpoli

The revolving door keeps turning. @theijf.org

British Columbia recently approved Canada’s first-ever unexplained wealth order, a controversial tool used to seize assets obtained through criminal activity. We show how a 2023 murder linked to an East Vancouver home started it all, and why some civil liberties advocates have doubts.

It was a high-powered reception for Liberal Party donors who got a chance to mingle with the prime minister and members of cabinet. We analyzed the guest list and found dozens of registered Ottawa lobbyists. Find out who was there. buff.ly/iGpVpzo #cdnpoli

CAJ condemns targeted killing of journalists in Gaza. Read full statement on CAJ website: https://caj.ca/caj-condemns-targeted-killing-of-journalists-in-gaza

A U.S. defence contractor found responsible for conspiring to torture Iraqi prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison was awarded a multimillion dollar Canadian defence deal. Read up on what this deal entails. buff.ly/WsJYLNu #cdnpoli

Corporations accounted for 39 per cent of donations to Edmonton city council candidates in the first two months of the city’s municipal election campaign—and most of that money went to one candidate. Find out who. buff.ly/ePJx260 #abpoli

Two connected Christian charities in Vancouver had their charitable statuses revoked last fall. Now, newly released documents allege that millions of dollars of misused funds were the reason why. Read what we discovered. buff.ly/mpJJ1LX #bcpoli

Here’s why you need to read the IJF website—an Alberta charity did so last week, and discovered its charitable status had been revoked. Now, they’re trying to get it back. buff.ly/XgYLQLo #abpoli

In 1969, a nine-year-old boy was found hanging at a B.C. Residential School. His death was ruled “accidental”—but his former classmates and community members have been questioning that judgement for decades. We spoke to a survivor from the school in our exclusive investigation.

An Edmonton charity spent its money on philanthropy only once in the first seven years of its existence, according to an audit. Are other charities spending enough money on actual charity? We dig into the tax files—and explain why it matters. buff.ly/NVxQTuv #abpoli

Westinghouse is directly lobbying the prime minister’s office, even as Mark Carney says it’s one of the companies on his conflict of interest screen. Read up on what the company wants. buff.ly/BxAYKTA #cdnpoli

A Russian plane landed at Toronto’s Lester B. Pearson airport in 2022 and has remained there since—but why? We delved into the three-year legal battle around the plane, the Canadian government’s attempts to seize it and what it says about Western sanctions against Russia.

For Rochelle Becker's first story with @theijf.org, she dug into the case against residential school principal Bishop Hubert O'Connor, and we spoke to former judge Wally Oppal, who convicted O'Connor of rape. theijf.org/oconnor-resi...

Migrant surveillance data no longer has to remain in Canada. Why did Canada Border Services quietly make that change? buff.ly/bE7x7ej #cdnpoli

A bishop at a B.C. residential school was found guilty in the 1990s of raping a former student decades prior, but the verdict was overturned over the question of what was considered “genuine” consent. We have an exclusive interview with the judge in that case. buff.ly/MKqQwkz #bcpoli

Online gambling in B.C. is ramping up, and we discovered through a never-released government report that residents are gambling billions of dollars on unregulated sites—costing the province millions. Find out more. buff.ly/gqaAVyf #bcpoli

The company behind University Canada West and other for-profit schools wants provinces to pay to send students to its for-profit medical schools to address the nationwide shortage of physicians. buff.ly/jwa6AgQ #cdnpoli

The company, Global University Systems, is trying to convince four provinces to subsidize tuition for students attending its medical schools in the Caribbean. IJF reporter Monique Kasonga explains more: www.tiktok.com/@theijf.org/...

A public servant's battle with the CRA exposes cracks in how the federal system hires, fires and rehires.

An Alberta search and rescue group lost its charitable status for failing to file tax returns after years of expenses outpacing revenue —right as a demand for rescue services is growing. Read more about this former charity. buff.ly/IGEoUaK #abpoli

What was a high-profile Canadian PR firm doing in Rwanda, and why did it suddenly scrub its website of all details of its office there? We found out in our months-long investigation. buff.ly/2Rjydg8 #cdnpoli

Details like this, not widely publicized, are found weekly in our Power and Influence report. @theijf.org

We've been poring over Prime Minister Mark Carney's long-awaited financial disclosures. We found nine companies the PM had reported financial interests in that have lobbied his office. #cdnpoli

Out of the 567 entities in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s investment portfolio, we discovered only three are Canadian. Find out more in our exclusive analysis. buff.ly/meSXF58 #cdnpoli

Survivors of residential schools and their loved ones are reuniting across Canada to share their experiences, decades after the schools have closed. We spoke to survivors nationwide about how they’ve found community. buff.ly/cZzSOpC #cdnpoli #residentialschools

How did Alberta decide what books were 'inappropriate' in its new school policy? By referencing lists of books banned in the U.S. and searching for the same titles in the province's public school libraries. Full story here:

Exclusive: internal emails show how Alberta came up with its book ban.

Check out this week's "Power and Influence Report" at the theijf.org @theijf.org

One of Canada’s largest oil companies failed to follow through on its own schedule to deactivate thousands of inactive B.C. pipelines—and it faced no financial penalties. Find out what we discovered from new documents in our joint investigation with @thenarwhal.ca. theijf.org/cnrl-broke-d...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent months lobbying American lawmakers to kill Canada’s Digital Services Tax, long before U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to call off all trade negotiations with Canada over the policy. Find out more. buff.ly/Tx9AGJt #cdnpoli #uspoli

Former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps says her firm, Medipro Canada, is owed tens of millions of dollars for helping a medical equipment company win federal contracts during the pandemic. theijf.org/former-deput...

Check out these important stories gleaned from the government's own data, but organized in a way on the @theijf.org site that makes it easy to search and find patterns.

The mayor of Airdrie, Alberta and a group of city staff secretly provided help with developing a proposal for a controversial private health care centre despite the city’s public claim that it did not, the IJF has discovered. Read our exclusive story to find out more. #abpoli

As Canada moves to build more energy intensive AI infrastructure, farmers are concerned data centres pose a threat to farmland and water resources. Find out why. #ai #agriculture #cdnpoli theijf.org/datacentres-...

We’ve learned that conservative activist groups gave Alberta officials examples of “inappropriate” books now facing a ban in K-12 school libraries under new government guidelines. The education minister initially said he was approached by concerned parents. #abpoli #bookban

Prime Minister Mark Carney is the former head of Brookfield Asset Management. But now, Brookfield-linked companies are lobbying him for help with resource development. Is the PM in a conflict of interest? Read more to find out. buff.ly/LgcrLtL #brookfield #markcarney #cdnpoli

#Honda Canada met with 27 different government leaders this year, leading up to its postponement of a highly anticipated $15 billion electric vehicle project in Ontario. It’s likely the company argued against Ottawa’s goals for electric vehicles, according to one industry expert.

Armoured vehicle maker Roshel wants the federal government to reduce its reliance on foreign defence suppliers and buy Canadian instead. Here’s why. #cdnpoli #defence

Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, failed to report more than $550 million worth of financial transactions, according to the Canadian government. We bring you in on the unfolding court battle and the state of cryptocurrency regulation in Canada. #binance #crypto