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OTTAWA — The federal border agency says it began tracking who uses its databases the same year it discovered one of its senior employees had improperly passed on confidential information to immigration applicants, some of whom would become clients of his real estate side gigs. “Since 2016, database usage — including all adds/moves/changes/deletes — are captured, logged, and stored to a repository which is accessible for internal auditing functions. Any new or updated systems are required to record to this system for auditing purposes,” Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) spokesperson...