News and Announcements
2024
July
New CAIJ report on data brokers and surveillance
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2022
October
New Report on Freedom of Information Requests and Immigration Research
CAIJ has published a new report authored by Kevin Walby and Sanjam Panag concerning freedom of information (FOI) requests in immigration and...
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May
CAIJ Researchers Release Government Records on COVID-19 in Canadian Prisons
The Prison Pandemic Papers, a project led by Dr. Kevin Walby, made previously unpublished government records available through access to...
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January
Upcoming: COVID-19 Behind Bars and Data Activism
CAIJ has a new project on COVID-19 behind bars in Canada and a new project on data activism. Both are SSHRC funded. Stay tuned for more on...
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CAIJ Webinar Series
The Politics of Information Colloquium Series and the Psychedelics: Past, Present, Future webinar series host events every so often. All events on...
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2021
April
New Webinars this Summer
Wed. Apr. 28, 2021 12:00 AM
The Politics of Information Colloquium Series will start up again this summer, along with a new webinar series entitled Psychedelics: Past,...
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2020
December
New CAIJ report on Prisons, Jails and Freedom of Information.
Fri. Dec. 18, 2020 12:00 AM
Members of the CAIJ have published a new report on Prisons, Jails and Freedom of Information.
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June
New CAIJ report on Optical Character Recognition, Tesseract, and Access to Information.
Wed. Jun. 3, 2020 12:00 AM
Members of the CAIJ have published a new report on Optical Character Recognition, Tesseract, and Access to...
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April
New CAIJ report on FOI use in police research.
Mon. Apr. 20, 2020 12:00 AM
Members of the CAIJ have published a new report on FOI use in global police research.
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2019
October
New Volume Published by CAIJ Members
Tue. Oct. 15, 2019 12:00 AM
Kevin Walby and Alex Luscombe recently published Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design (2019, London: Routledge). The...
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MB FOI Audit 2020
Tue. Oct. 15, 2019 12:00 AM
The CAIJ will undertake an audit of Manitoba government agency FOI performance in 2020. Please contact the CAIJ if you are interested in...
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Copies of Access to Information and Social Justice for free!
Tue. Oct. 15, 2019 12:00 AM
Please contact the CAIJ if you would like to be mailed a free copy of Access to Information and Social Justice: Critical Research Strategies for...
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CFP for The Study Up
Tue. Oct. 15, 2019 12:00 AM
The Study Up is a peer-reviewed publication that features critical, investigative research using freedom of information (FOI) disclosures as data....
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