With federal spending cuts looming, Indigenous-led searches for missing children are at risk of losing funding. Find out more in our latest story. zurl.co/zhN3U #cdnpoli #truthandreconciliation

A major U.S. lobby group backed by the likes of Amazon, Apple and Google is making its way to Canada, starting with hiring a Montreal-based director. Read the details in our report. #cdnpoli zurl.co/dpwVS

The charity in charge of the Edmonton Oilers 50/50 raffles paid more than $81 million over four years to Win50, a sports betting and gaming company controlled by the Oilers Entertainment Group, according to audited financial statements obtained by the IJF. #abpoli #hockey

The federal government has suspended a Manitoba hotel business from contracting after police charged its owners with human trafficking. Read the details in our story. #cdnpoli #mbpoli zurl.co/31LI5

The Alberta government has proposed changes to its industrial carbon pricing system. Documents show oil and gas lobbyists have been urging similar revisions to the emissions reduction program for years. Read about the lobbying records in our story. #abpoli zurl.co/QVjV7

When you buy an Edmonton Oilers 50/50 ticket, how much money ends up with charity? Check out our investigation to find the answer. zurl.co/5aL6i #abpoli #hockey

A Canadian charity devoted to the philosophy of Ayn Rand had its status revoked by the CRA. Find out why in our latest report. #cdnpoli zurl.co/PLKX3

Female staff at CSIS fled the agency amid reports of sexual assault allegations, claiming the B.C. office is one where workplace harassment went unchecked. Read the details of the report in our story. zurl.co/9MWY5 #bcpoli #cdnpoli

This week, we launched our 13th database that highlights people appointed to major public bodies across the country — people making some of the most important decisions affecting Canadians. Find out more. zurl.co/rMhvc #cdnpoli #democracy

Today we launch our 13th public-interest database — with more than 175K appointments across the country, from judges and ambassadors to the heads of Crown corporations. Find out more. theijf.org/new-ijf-data... #cdnpoli #democracy

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. Watch the video. #abpoli

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

Fisheries and Oceans Canada no longer wants to rely on the U.S. for technical support in its fish-tagging program. Read the details in our story. zurl.co/jIsZR #cdnpoli

A businessman in Calgary is staying on the board of directors for three charities after being fined over $400,000 for breaking securities laws. Find out the details in our latest story. zurl.co/O1ldk #abpoli

A Vancouver-based crypto exchange — Cryptomus — traded millions of dollars with a sanctioned Russian platform according to analysts. And that platform has been linked to cybercriminals. Find out more from our reporter Zak Vescera. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #cryptocurrency

As Newfoundland and Labrador prepares for an election, we examine the role of large corporate donations to the parties. Read the story. zurl.co/hbIu4 #nlpoli

The mayor of the Township of Langley, B.C., promised to transfer $55 million in real estate to a new charity. That never happened – and now he’s ignored a government order to share financial statements with the IJF. Read the latest details in our story. zurl.co/9LCeT #bcpoli

The 911 calls that Alberta rerouted to a non-urgent health line only freed up 19,000 ambulances — far less than the province’s claim of 50,000. And it caused response delays. Our reporter Brett McKay tells you more. #ems #abpoli

North Korea and Pakistan are building up their nuclear programs – and using trade to do it. Find out how Canada is involved and what we uncovered in secret memos. zurl.co/ISeRf #cdnpoli #nuclear

Canola growers have been furiously lobbying federal officials over the last month. Find out why and get the list of the other top lobbyists. #lobbying #cdnpoli zurl.co/FQbA1

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

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.

The 911 calls that Alberta rerouted to a non-urgent health line only freed up 19,000 ambulances — far less than the province’s claim of 50,000. And it caused response delays. buff.ly/a1Pv02s #abpoli #EMS

A Vancouver-based crypto exchange — Cryptomus — traded millions of dollars with a sanctioned Russian platform according to analysts. And that platform has been linked to cybercriminals. Find out more. buff.ly/h4Bd7yk #bcpoli #cdnpoli #crytocurrency

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The RCMP is considering dozens of requests from officers to use AI in their policework, following the Canadian government’s push to adopt the new tech. Find out in our latest report. buff.ly/O19VF7R #policing #cdnpoli

A German defence giant was shortlisted for a multi-billion-dollar submarine contract only a day after it lobbied Canadian federal officials. Find out more in our story. buff.ly/GsXs9z0 #cdnpoli

The city of Vancouver is auctioning off thousands of carbon credits it earned through energy programs — and it could bring in more than $1 million. Find out more. buff.ly/NnLXzTC #bcpoli #energy

Quebec’s IT scandal deepens as procurement experts call on Ottawa to run an audit of two federal contractors that built a billion-dollar digital platform for that province. Find out more. buff.ly/YjVWf8l #cdnpoli #quebec

The chief of staff for Alberta’s energy minister heads up an advertising group that has a CFO who is actively lobbying his ministry. Read what we found. buff.ly/PvENdFX #abpoli

Ottawa considered monetary penalties and “binding legislation” to lower grocery prices. They even considered making “egregious behaviours that harm the food supply chain” illegal. Our reporter Maeve Ellis tells you about the documents she and Zak Vescera found. #cdnpoli

We’ve joined 17 news outlets from around the world to dig into how big #tech companies have tried to stall, delay or kill legislation aimed at regulating them. Stay tuned over the coming weeks as we publish the reports from this nine-month investigation. buff.ly/Ewl6EzM #BigTechsInvisibleHand

Powerful international companies — like Amazon — are backing a small Canadian think tank called Canada 2020. The group has direct links to Prime Minister Carney and his Liberal government. Find out more about the exclusive events they’ve been holding. buff.ly/iHcJkgm #cdnpoli

B.C.’s oil and gas watchdog says its inspectors don’t have the knowledge to manage “long-term contamination” just as its liquefied natural gas export sector ramps up. Read more in the follow-up to our investigative series with The Narwhal. buff.ly/56kDzxn #energy #bcpoli

Exclusive: Ottawa considered monetary penalties and “binding legislation” to lower grocery prices. They even considered making “egregious behaviours that harm the food supply chain” illegal. Our reporters got a hold of government documents detailing the plans. #cdnpoli #canada buff.ly/OZHCGMv

Canada has been quietly cracking down on fake visas according to government documents we found. In turn, that’s helped to reduce the number of illegal border crossings into the U.S. Our reporter Zak Vescera tells you what he found. #border #cdnpoli

Listen to our reporter Brett McKay talking about Alberta’s book ban on the CBC’s Front Burner podcast. And, go to theijf.org to read his extensive coverage. buff.ly/d1SBRct #bookban #abpoli

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Despite economic tensions between Canada and the U.S., Microsoft is lobbying the B.C. government to support an ultra-high-speed rail transportation system connecting the province with Oregon and Washington. Find out more. #cdnpoli #uspoli #bcpoli

Sales of vaping products in Canada are rising dramatically despite extensive government efforts to stop them. We obtained a government report predicting the nationwide market will be worth $3.7 billion by 2028 despite the attempted crackdown. Read more in our story. #cdnpoli

The RCMP has paid out nearly $1 million in compensation for injuries caused by police service dogs. Find out more in our story. #cdnpoli #RCMP

Canada has been quietly cracking down on fake visas according to government documents we found. In turn, that’s helped to reduce the number of illegal border crossings into the U.S. Read why in our exclusive report. #cdnpoli #border

Deloitte warned Ottawa the temporary foreign worker program was badly misused and suggested AI could help fix it. Their report was never released, but our IJF reporter obtained a copy. #cdnpoli

Survivors are sharing their stories after we found a report detailing a large-scale criminal investigation into residential school abuses in B.C. Our reporter Ninah Hermiston tells you what she learned. #bcpoli #residentialschoolsurvivors

Two of the most common charity directors nationwide have been flagged as “ineligible individuals” by the Canada Revenue Agency. Yet somehow they’ve helped lead 73 #charities nationwide. Find out what’s going on. buff.ly/hRGHSyZ #cdnpoli

Six Indigenous boys ran away from Kuper Island Residential School in the middle of the night in 1939. When clergy members of the school were accused of sexual abuse, they were moved out of the province. It took 60 years for B.C. police to take a second look. We uncover the details.

Survivors are sharing their stories after we found a report detailing a large-scale criminal criminal investigation into residential school abuses in B.C. As more information emerges about this decades-old RCMP task force, read more about what survivors experienced. buff.ly/APPG2pD #bcpoli