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The Globe requested records and communications used to produce the statement and its conclusion on the day of its publication. Under the federal Access to Information Act, institutions have 30 days to respond to requests, which can be extended. Defence did not respond to the request nor did it give notice of an extension.

Last year, The Globe published Secret Canada, an investigation into the country's faltering access to information system. Among other findings, Secret Canada showed that government departments, at all levels, routinely flout their legal obligations without consequences and fail to respond to requesters within the required time limits.

In its latest annual report, Defence said it responded to access to information requests within legal time limits 61.7 per cent of the time in 2022-23, a decrease from the previous year. Overall, Ottawa said federal institutions responded within legal time limits to 72.3 per cent of requests that year.

Carbon emissions from logging would be the third highest emitting sector of Canada's economy, if the federal government reported them out separately, according to a new report from groups including Nature Canada.

Hopefully this doesn't get lost in the mix of other scandals (ex. ArriveCan, foreign interference) like it did last time.

A hazardous waste processing facility owned by the Alberta government was granted permission by the same government to operate without mercury monitoring equipment for years, despite such monitoring being a condition of its operating permit.

Earlier this year, B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon admitted that vacancy control protects vulnerable renters from British Columbia’s exploitive rental market.

It was a low-key about-face from an NDP government that has repeatedly disappointed over 100,000 B.C. households at risk of homelessness by insisting that vacancy control measures are not in its housing policy tool box.

Furthermore, without vacancy control, landlords are incentivized to make bad-faith evictions in the pursuit of higher rent, according to Kahlon himself, just this year.

Nevertheless, the NDP government repeatedly rebuffed vacancy control because it was excluded from the recommendations of a Rental Housing Task Force report produced six years ago. Meanwhile, the average rent for a newly listed one-bedroom unit in Vancouver increased $706 per month, or about 37 per cent, from 2019 to 2024.

Buildings in B.C. that are under six storeys will no longer be required to have more than one egress staircase, a change that has firefighters concerned about safety.

B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon announced the change to the provincial building code last week.

He says the change will help with the province’s housing crisis.

Requiring only a single staircase leaves more space for housing units, and makes six-storey buildings viable on smaller lots.

She's now seeking an apology from Nova Scotia Health and the Colchester East Hants Health Centre after Paxton was sent home by two doctors in Truro, only to end up in emergency brain surgery at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.

"For them to basically tell us to leave with a child that can't even walk or say more than a couple of words and is hallucinating … that's not normal, in my opinion," said Weatherbie.

She said on top of the fact Paxton could barely walk or talk, he was vomiting, his forehead was protruding and his tongue was black and swollen. He also had a seizure seven hours earlier, which had never happened to him before.

"I carried him back out to the car, called the IWK and they said bring him straight down. He was in a CT scan under five minutes of being [there]," said Weatherbie.

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) used to assess every single property in Ontario every four years, but the provincial government put that process on hold when COVID hit — and it's not clear when it will begin again.

The provincial non-profit corporation does the assessments and shares those values with municipalities so they can determine property and education taxes. The last provincewide assessment was carried out in 2016.

Ontario never restarted the work, however. Last year, 10 groups — including the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) — wrote to Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy calling on him to resume the process and set a new date.

Bethlenfalvy announced a review of the taxation system and property assessment that will "focus on fairness, affordability and business competitiveness."

China said on Tuesday it plans to start an anti-dumping investigation into canola imports from Canada, after Ottawa moved to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, lifting prices of domestic rapeseed oil futures to a one-month peak.

Canada has followed the lead of the United States and European Union, and announced last week a 100 per cent tariff on imports of Chinese electric vehicles and a 25 per cent tariff on imported steel and aluminum from China.

"China strongly deplores and firmly opposes the discriminatory, unilateral, restrictive measures taken by Canada against its imports from China despite the opposition and dissuasion of many parties," a Commerce Ministry spokesperson said in a statement.

The ministry said China will also initiate an anti-dumping investigation into some Canadian chemical products.

The Alberta government says it's moving ahead this fall with legislation that would require parents to proactively sign up to have their children opt-in, rather than the usual practice of opting out, for sex education.

It's a move that has teachers wondering what problem the province is looking to solve.

Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides, in a statement, said school boards, teachers, superintendents and parents are being consulted.

"We intend to propose legislation this fall and will continue to consult with stakeholders throughout the implementation of these policies," Nicolaides said.

It's not clear what the legislation might look like, but Premier Danielle Smith said in February it would involve parents opting-in their children to each formal lesson on sexual health.

One of the oldest craft breweries in British Columbia is shutting down its main facility and outsourcing production and packaging duties to a nearby brewery, citing a large hike in rent at its Victoria location.

Vancouver Island Brewing, which was established in 1984, will be closing its main brewery plant on Government Street on Nov. 1, while its taproom will stop serving on Sept. 14.

General manager Thom Riley says the decision was driven by a 35 per cent hike in rent at the location.

"It creates a line in the sand for us in terms of our ability to go forward in our current location," he told CBC News.

A pair of Toronto lawyers accused of embezzling nearly $7 million from real estate clients has been found in contempt of court for failing to hand over financial records and answer questions about where the money went.

Singa Bui and her husband Nicholas Cartel face penalties that could include fines or even imprisonment, and will likely also draw misconduct charges from Ontario's professional regulatory body for lawyers, two experts in professional legal discipline said.

"Although they must know what happened to the funds, they have refused to provide this information," Ontario Superior Court Justice William Chalmers ruled in late August.

"Instead of attempting to comply with the orders to the best of their ability, I find that the defendants have taken active steps to hide their finances and to frustrate the court's efforts to determine what happened."

For decades, JNF Canada had received charity status from Canada’s Revenue Agency (CRA), but this August, the CRA officially revoked it.

After an audit, the CRA concluded that the JNF Canada used tax-exempt money to fund Israeli army bases, which is illegal under Canadian law. It also found the organization couldn’t prove how Canadian money was used in Israel, and did not justify why financial records were only kept in Israel, among other disqualifying concerns.

For years dogged by CRA investigators, JNF Canada had pledged to the tax revenue agency in 2021 that it “will not fund projects in the disputed territories.”

But the paper trail simply became more hidden.

Lately, Etkes tells us that it has become more difficult to document JNF Canada’s operations. Tracing how it funds parks and trails in the West Bank often requires risky trips like the one we’re on, encountering Israeli soldiers and extremist settlers. And the organization has become more careful in advertising their involvement on the ground.

JNF Canada is now taking the CRA to court over its decision to revoke its charitable status, claiming the decision was “biased” and “unjust.” But on my tour in the occupied West Bank, I found plenty of the organization’s projects that continue to advance the interests of illegal settlement expansion.

After Premier Blaine Higgs slammed the family of Darrell Mesheau last weekend for naming nurses in the lawsuit over their father's death, Mesheau's son is speaking out.

"I feel that I am forced to speak up," Ryan Mesheau said in an emailed statement to CBC News.

"I became quickly appalled because of the misinformation that Premier Higgs chose to spread in his statements, seeming to use the death of my father for what appeared to be a self-serving attempt to gain political points."

Susan Mesheau, executor of the estate of her brother Darrell Mesheau, filed a notice of action against Horizon Health and two nurses who were on shift at a Fredericton emergency room the night he died.