Alberta government violated freedom of information laws, information watchdog finds

Alberta’s information watchdog has found that the provincial government violated its own freedom of information laws by relying on illegitimate reasons to withhold records, a decision that follows a multiyear reporting effort by The Globe and Mail’s Secret Canada project.The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s 21-month investigation examined how 27 different public institutions in Alberta handled freedom of information (FOI) requests, including multiple requests from The Globe in 2022 and 2023.