The Canadian government has spent more than $44 million on a secret contract with controversial American tech company Palantir. zurl.co/QTK6g

An Indigenous council in the Northwest Territories is lobbying Ottawa about a major Arctic radar and defence project. zurl.co/d2YYe

An Alberta conservationist says he was fired after he raised concerns about the loss of native grassland. zurl.co/I3D4E

Several Saskatchewan municipalities and First Nations made political contributions to the province’s governing party in 2025, according to finance disclosures from Elections Saskatchewan. zurl.co/rVJ2N

The Boys and Girls Club of Canada pulled out of a coalition advocating for the government to regulate tech companies weeks before it announced a funding deal with Google. zurl.co/sfMkt

The CRA suspended the Grace Message Tabernacle Inc.’s tax receipting powers a year ago for submitting doctored bank statements. Now, the Ontario church has officially lost its charitable status. zurl.co/79ZSu

Analysts say a Canadian crypto exchange accused of failing to report thousands of criminal transactions is now doing business under a different name. zurl.co/Ai4Um

StubHub is arranging meetings in Ontario to get guidance on the province’s new ticket scalping law, as hundreds of summer concert tickets on the platform are being resold at inflated prices. zurl.co/vnxNI

When a crypto exchange defrauded its customers of US$18 million, the victims wanted to see its founder behind bars. So why are some cases like this resolved by securities commissions instead of criminal courts? zurl.co/NzqlW

A group of university research and development associates is spending the summer helping the Investigative Journalism Foundation improve and enhance its database offerings for the public. zurl.co/9K3jt

A government tribunal labelled hundreds of asylum claims as “manifestly” fraudulent last year, meaning applicants weren’t even allowed to appeal. zurl.co/fO8Mf

A former deputy minister to ex-B.C. premier Christy Clark has registered to lobby the province on behalf of Trans Mountain Canada. zurl.co/2BbGo

V for Vendetta, Blankets, Watchmen: Here are the books banned by the most Alberta school divisions zurl.co/Wjm2c

Correctional Service Canada is exploring AI-assisted software to help manage growing access to information requests for audio and video. zurl.co/qv2dd

The IJF is expanding its editorial staff with the addition of award-winning investigative reporter Katrina Clarke in B.C., and Montreal-based Ghazal Azizi. zurl.co/c5B3S

The federal government has acknowledged internally that it could face lawsuits over its failure to fund water systems used by tens of thousands of homes on First Nations reserves. zurl.co/lFltH

The B.C. government wants to seize the storefront of a Victoria cannabis “compassion club,” even though the club's operators haven’t been criminally charged. zurl.co/D59mF

Former Nova Scotia opposition leader Jaimie Baillie is lobbying in the province for a South Korean munitions company that is promising a “significant investment” in the province. zurl.co/DelFT

The Pig Improvement Company, whose gene-edited pig was approved for consumption in Canada earlier this year, registered to lobby about federal food regulations. zurl.co/WdcHX

Driftpile Cree Nation has registered to lobby Ottawa as it rolls out its own child and family services law and pushes for broader support. zurl.co/rK1bO

A newly released OPP report is renewing attention on unsolved cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people in Ontario as families and advocates continue pushing for accountability, funding and systemic change. zurl.co/qKgBu

The Canadian government is in a sprint to close around 200 aging data centres within three years. Internally, the agency in charge says it might not be possible. zurl.co/JLnl2

After a flurry of legislative changes to enable data centre development in Alberta, Anthropic, AltaLink and more are lobbying about provincial policies zurl.co/wEUgo

An IJF reporter was told that a routine freedom of information request will yield — at best — half the number of results it would have just weeks ago, thanks to Ontario’s new law limiting access to information. zurl.co/R8ovm

The company picked to expand private surgical services in Saskatchewan gave $5,000 to the province’s governing party in 2025, and has contributed more than $35,500 since first being contracted. zurl.co/3vb3Z

An Ontario charity supporting Jewish education had its status revoked last year after auditors raised concerns about an ex-employee receiving a $1.5 million in severance. zurl.co/Z62ZG

How did an ordinary person become part of a nationwide money laundering ring? This week, an interview with an alleged money mule. Jill thought her job was strange. But she had no idea she may have been helping launder money related to illicit weed and potentially other drugs. zurl.co/BtfIV

NextStar Energy, owner of a battery plant that's received billions in government subsidies, registered five new lobbyists last month and updated five existing registrations. zurl.co/mged8

Google, Facebook, Snap and TikTok have lobbied the federal government about the promised online harms law more than 141 times since the start of the year, before a bill has even been tabled. zurl.co/FKJjQ

A Saskatoon-based evangelical charity lost its registration last year because of concerns about how its CEO was spending the organization’s money in Cuba, North Korea and Russia. zurl.co/BQt0R

The CRA says it has referred 10 charity cases to its Criminal Investigations Program over the last decade because of concerns about tax evasion or fraud. None have led to charges. zurl.co/ydxYm

The Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan is lobbying federal officials to move forward a long-running land claim tied to land they claim was illegally surrendered in 1907. zurl.co/tCHP6

In the first three months of 2026 alone, the CRA revoked the registrations of five charities with connections to retired Vancouver lawyer Blake Bromley and his firm, the Benefic Group. Another four were revoked last year. zurl.co/YLlhJ

A Christian lobby group wants Saskatchewan to restrict access to MAID and limit gender-affirming care for minors. zurl.co/lZean

The number of cryptocurrency ATMs in Canada more than doubled in five years. Now, the country is banning them. zurl.co/f4D89

A secret CSIS memo says foreign powers are offering to build infrastructure in northern Indigenous communities in an attempt to gain leverage in the Arctic. zurl.co/37js5

Both of Canada’s submarine supplier hopefuls have faced their fair share of historical scandals and corruption allegations. Can Canada avoid past mistakes as it prepares to award the multibillion dollar contract? zurl.co/oJCkw

Ottawa is launching a review to assess whether it has met its Inuit employment commitments under the Nunavut Agreement and learn what needs to change going forward. zurl.co/AYIqt

Ontario bills have opened the door to for-profit investments in municipal water systems despite government promises to keep water public, according to a new legal opinion. zurl.co/T08em

A company wants B.C.’s help reviving rail on Vancouver Island. But the foundation that actually owns the mostly dormant corridor says the firm has not explained how its plan will work. zurl.co/6Way2

We followed the money from illicit cannabis. It led to real estate, foreign firms and a B.C. company accused of helping make fentanyl. zurl.co/nkwwO

A Vancouver woman signed her home over to the charity that runs her local Sikh gurdwara. Three years later, she was having serious doubts and asked for the donation to be cancelled. zurl.co/fx5TR

The IJF has picked up three nominations in the Digital Publishing Awards, bringing to eight the number of times our journalism has been nominated for recognition in the last two weeks. zurl.co/6aRRV

A journalist who spent nearly a decade reporting on Ottawa has made the jump to lobbying, joining Enterprise Canada’s Parliament Hill team as a senior consultant. zurl.co/aL1Ir

Large numbers of drugs are reported stolen or lost in Canada, in some cases reaching record levels. See what we discovered through access to information requests. zurl.co/fYjPW

Nokia just signed a deal with a Canadian Crown corporation to help it build gigafactories for AI. Federal records show the company reported multiple meetings with Canadian officials ahead of the announcement. zurl.co/0dr2B

Dozens of school districts have removed books to comply with Alberta’s book ban order. Our latest story takes a look at which titles were taken off library shelves and how the ban has been implemented in schools throughout the province. zurl.co/UbSsJ

The retail giant North West Company is lobbying Ottawa on food costs and fuel charges, particularly in rural and remote regions. zurl.co/63J3W

Vancouver said its crackdown on music venues was about safety. But our story with the Vancity Lookout reveals it came after other bars and nightclubs lobbied city councillors to investigate those competing businesses. zurl.co/cV5Bp

A German engineering giant wants a sitdown meeting with B.C. Premier David Eby as it competes for a $20B+ federal submarine contract. zurl.co/5gZx1