For decades, Martha has used the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act as part of her journalism and investigative work.
Over the years, she has amassed a treasure trove: ATIP documents from her own filings, previously released packages, and custom data sets. Many of these records have been featured in stories she has published online.
As anyone who has done access work knows, sometimes the documents you get answer your questions directly, and sometimes they do not at all. More often, you end up with a grab bag of material on all sorts of topics. Fun times!
Whenever she can, Martha uploads her access documents in the hope that journalism students, fellow reporters, and writers of dissertations or books will find them useful.
Access-to-Information
Access-to-Information documents:
All briefing notes and background materials prepared for Minister Carolyn Bennett in 2017 on the Sixties Scoop, the litigation thereon, as well as any question period notes prepared for the Minister for her use in the House on Commons.
Departmental overview on advancing Indigenous reconciliation, Employment and Social Development Canada.
Briefing note 2019 NHQ 002109 "Study of Indigenous Homelessness in Canada".
Briefing notes, emails, memos, prepared materials, media lines/preparation, including drafts for the Minister and Senior Government Officials before, during, and after the Assembly of First Nations' 39th Annual General Assembly proceeding. Please only include any records that were prepared between July 23, 2018 and August 3, 2018.
Task Force on Arsenic, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Final Report, 1977
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