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News and Announcements

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... Read More


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 Kevin Walby, made previously unpublished government records available through access to... Read More


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... Read More


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... Read More



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,... Read More



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. Read More


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... Read More


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. Read More



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... Read More


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... Read More


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... Read More


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.... Read More



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