#freedom-of-information — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freedom-of-information, aggregated by home.social.
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For Brick of Fentanyl Mother Released with GPS Son Too Montenegro 3 Weeks Discovery https://www.byteseu.com/2058556/ #Abkhazia #CivilRights #congo #CorporateAccountability #DueProcess #FederalReserve #FreedomOfInformation #GeneralAssembly #HumanRights #InnerCity #InvestigativeJournalism #Montenegro #PredatoryLending #PublicInterestLaw #SecurityCouncil #somalia #SubprimeLending #UNDP #UNICEF #UnitedNations #WorldFoodProgramme
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/133269/ The US and Israel need an Iron Dome for the information war #FreedomOfInformation #InFocus #IronDome #Israel #misinformation
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Millions of salmon deaths at Scottish farms disclosed after watchdog’s ruling https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/26/millions-of-salmon-deaths-scottish-farms-apha-ico #Fish #Farming #AnimalWelfare #InformationCommissioner #FreedomOfInformation #Environment #Scotland #UkNews
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Millions of salmon deaths at Scottish farms disclosed after watchdog’s ruling https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/26/millions-of-salmon-deaths-scottish-farms-apha-ico #Fish #Farming #AnimalWelfare #InformationCommissioner #FreedomOfInformation #Environment #Scotland #UkNews
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Millions of salmon deaths at Scottish farms disclosed after watchdog’s ruling https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/26/millions-of-salmon-deaths-scottish-farms-apha-ico #Fish #Farming #AnimalWelfare #InformationCommissioner #FreedomOfInformation #Environment #Scotland #UkNews
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Millions of salmon deaths at Scottish farms disclosed after watchdog’s ruling https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/26/millions-of-salmon-deaths-scottish-farms-apha-ico #Fish #Farming #AnimalWelfare #InformationCommissioner #FreedomOfInformation #Environment #Scotland #UkNews
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Millions of salmon deaths at Scottish farms disclosed after watchdog’s ruling https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/26/millions-of-salmon-deaths-scottish-farms-apha-ico #Fish #Farming #AnimalWelfare #InformationCommissioner #FreedomOfInformation #Environment #Scotland #UkNews
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Ford government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
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Ford government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
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Ford government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
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Ford government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
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Ontario :flagon: government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/25/ontario-government-blue-licence-plates-court/
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Le gouvernement de l’Ontaruo :flagon: contestera en cour la divulgation sous la Loi sur l’accès à l’information des documents au sujet des plaques d’immatriculation bleues// Article en anglais //
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Ontario :flagon: government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/25/ontario-government-blue-licence-plates-court/
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Le gouvernement de l’Ontaruo :flagon: contestera en cour la divulgation sous la Loi sur l’accès à l’information des documents au sujet des plaques d’immatriculation bleues// Article en anglais //
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Ontario :flagon: government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/25/ontario-government-blue-licence-plates-court/
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Le gouvernement de l’Ontaruo :flagon: contestera en cour la divulgation sous la Loi sur l’accès à l’information des documents au sujet des plaques d’immatriculation bleues// Article en anglais //
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Ontario :flagon: government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/25/ontario-government-blue-licence-plates-court/
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Le gouvernement de l’Ontaruo :flagon: contestera en cour la divulgation sous la Loi sur l’accès à l’information des documents au sujet des plaques d’immatriculation bleues// Article en anglais //
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Ontario :flagon: government goes to court to fight FOI disclosure of blue licence plate documents
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/25/ontario-government-blue-licence-plates-court/
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Le gouvernement de l’Ontaruo :flagon: contestera en cour la divulgation sous la Loi sur l’accès à l’information des documents au sujet des plaques d’immatriculation bleues// Article en anglais //
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Ontario court dismisses appeal to block release of Doug Ford’s phone records
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11861069/ontario-doug-ford-cellphone-appeal-lost/
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Ontario court dismisses appeal to block release of Doug Ford’s phone records
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11861069/ontario-doug-ford-cellphone-appeal-lost/
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Ontario court dismisses appeal to block release of Doug Ford’s phone records
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11861069/ontario-doug-ford-cellphone-appeal-lost/
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Ontario court dismisses appeal to block release of Doug Ford’s phone records
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11861069/ontario-doug-ford-cellphone-appeal-lost/
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Labor is making a mockery of its promise of transparent government https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/25/labor-evading-scrutiny-foi-requests-mockery-promise-of-transparent-government #AustralianPolitics #FreedomOfInformation #LaborParty #AustraliaNews
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Labor is making a mockery of its promise of transparent government https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/25/labor-evading-scrutiny-foi-requests-mockery-promise-of-transparent-government #AustralianPolitics #FreedomOfInformation #LaborParty #AustraliaNews
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Labor is making a mockery of its promise of transparent government https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/25/labor-evading-scrutiny-foi-requests-mockery-promise-of-transparent-government #AustralianPolitics #FreedomOfInformation #LaborParty #AustraliaNews
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Labor is making a mockery of its promise of transparent government https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/25/labor-evading-scrutiny-foi-requests-mockery-promise-of-transparent-government #AustralianPolitics #FreedomOfInformation #LaborParty #AustraliaNews
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Ontario government lifts freeze on freedom of information requests
Ontario’s transparency watchdog is confirming a week-long pause on all freedom of information requests, which lasted more than…
#NewsBeep #News #Canada #CA #Fordgovernment #FreedomofInformation #Ontariopolitics #Politics
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Ford says only the media cares about pause on transparency requests
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11860315/ontario-foi-request-freeze-doug-ford/
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Ford says only the media cares about pause on transparency requests
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11860315/ontario-foi-request-freeze-doug-ford/
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Ford says only the media cares about pause on transparency requests
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11860315/ontario-foi-request-freeze-doug-ford/
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Ford says only the media cares about pause on transparency requests
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11860315/ontario-foi-request-freeze-doug-ford/
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Our FOI system is broken — just the way government likes it
The auditor-general can deliver surprises, sometimes even a scandal: political, financial or personal. Political? Think the “sports rorts”…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #anthonyalbanese #auditorgeneral #foi #freedomofinformation #OAIC #RexPatrick #TopNews #TopStories #transparency
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Our FOI system is broken — just the way government likes it
The auditor-general can deliver surprises, sometimes even a scandal: political, financial or personal. Political? Think the “sports rorts”…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #anthonyalbanese #auditorgeneral #foi #freedomofinformation #OAIC #RexPatrick #TopNews #TopStories #transparency
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Met Police Surveillance Exposes Data Requests Surge
The Metropolitan Police made a staggering 700,000+ requests to tech companies in 2025 to access private communications data, helping officers solve crimes, find missing people, and gather crucial intelligence. This massive surge in data requests highlights the force's growing reliance on digital information to keep London safe.
#LawEnforcement #Surveillance #DataAccess #FreedomOfInformation #Ocda
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Albanese’s department among those blocking 80% of FoI requests, scathing report finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/australian-government-rejecting-freedom-information-requests-foi-albanese #FreedomOfInformation #AustralianMedia #AnthonyAlbanese #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics
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Albanese’s department among those blocking 80% of FoI requests, scathing report finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/australian-government-rejecting-freedom-information-requests-foi-albanese #FreedomOfInformation #AustralianMedia #AnthonyAlbanese #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics
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Albanese’s department among those blocking 80% of FoI requests, scathing report finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/australian-government-rejecting-freedom-information-requests-foi-albanese #FreedomOfInformation #AustralianMedia #AnthonyAlbanese #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics
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Albanese’s department among those blocking 80% of FoI requests, scathing report finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/australian-government-rejecting-freedom-information-requests-foi-albanese #FreedomOfInformation #AustralianMedia #AnthonyAlbanese #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics
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Albanese’s department among those blocking 80% of FoI requests, scathing report finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/australian-government-rejecting-freedom-information-requests-foi-albanese #FreedomOfInformation #AustralianMedia #AnthonyAlbanese #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics
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For Brick of Fentanyl Mother Released with GPS Son Too Montenegro Now Indicted https://www.byteseu.com/2033003/ #Abkhazia #CivilRights #congo #CorporateAccountability #DueProcess #FederalReserve #FreedomOfInformation #GeneralAssembly #HumanRights #InnerCity #InvestigativeJournalism #Montenegro #PredatoryLending #PublicInterestLaw #SecurityCouncil #somalia #SubprimeLending #UNDP #UNICEF #UnitedNations #WorldFoodProgramme
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Journalist who exposed racism,bullying and misogyny among top judicial appointments faces £14,000 bill for FOI requests
Barnie Choudhury Pic credit: Barnie ChoudhuryThe Judicial Appointments Commission, the body that appoints the top judges in England and Wales, is pursuing a journalist for an unprecedented bill to try and silence him after a six year investigation exposed huge shortcomings in the handling of applications for new judges, especially from ethnic minorities.
Barnie Choudhury, a journalist on Eastern Eye, a national Asian paper, has pursued the JAC using Freedom of Information requests and covering tribunal cases brought by applicants only to face a £14,200 costs bill from the JAC for daring to challenge the body in a tribunal hearing. The action by the body has been widely condemned by the National Union of Journalists and by newspaper organisations as an attempt to silence him which could have widespread implications for other journalists using FOI requests and covering tribunal cases to root out malpractice.
judge abbas mithyani KC Pic credit: Eastern EyeOne of the cases he covered involved Abbas Mithani KC, a former designated civil judge for the West Midlands and Warwickshire. He was asking the General Regulatory Chamber to rule whether the Judicial Appointments Commission [JAC] and Information Commissioner’s Office [ICO] were wrong to deny him full disclosure to three freedom of information requests he made.
He accused the JAC of “avoiding public scrutiny” and one of its heads of being “guilty of gross negligence and deliberate recklessness”.
The JAC used exemptions under the act, and the ICO upheld its decisions, even though there was an error in the decision-making process, the panel heard. “Their reliance on those exemptions are flawed and incorrect,” said Mithani in his opening statement to the online tribunal.
One exemption under the FOI act which allows public bodies to refuse information on the grounds that it would “prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs” depended on a qualified person to approve this. Through Choudhury’s work the judge discovered the JAC had no qualified person to do this.
His public challenge has been echoed by complaints from a number of anonymous judges who did not want to challenge the body as they did not trust them to treat them fairly.
The judges – South Asian and white – talked of bullying, racism and misogyny as being widespread in the judiciary – when applying for new appointments. But complaints are only accepted if they come from people who publicly say who they are. Some are on on anti depressants, others even contemplated suicide.
Worse, bodies that would have powers to investigate what appears to be widespread abuse of the system have no resources to do so. Their budgets have been hollowed out by previous governments and Labour show no signs of giving them extra resources. These include the Information Commissioner’s Office, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and even Parliamentary select committees who have turned down investigations.
There is push back from inside the judiciary. Notably Judge Kaly Paul from the Justice Support Network who won £50,000 in a settlement after she took from her employer to a tribunal over bullying claims. She wrote to the Commons justice select committee:
“We understand that this cancer of secret soundings: sifting for attitudes, allegiances, composed of gossip and never revealed to the candidate has crept in and proliferated within the system, being used at a far earlier stage in the process than before. It creates bias and undermines the apparent objectivity of scoring from other subjective panel assessment and other information sources,”
What appears to be here is the harassment of a journalist who over a long period has reported and revealed a very bad situation in one of the country’s most important legal bodies.
In my view they have misused laws designed to protect the public and the press using both their rights under the Freedom of Information Act and regulations governing tribunals.
Over 20 years ago I sat on the Lord Chancellor’s advisory committee on implementing the 2005 Act. The whole emphasis was to make it easier for people to obtain information and hold public bodies to account. it is simply called open government. The JAC has abused its position to withhold fundamental material – like how much as been spent on staff and legal costs fighting these judges. We don’t know the full package given to the chief executive of the organisation who resigned, we do now know that at least £212,000 was spent in legal costs to stop challenges from judges.
As for the £14,200 costs the journalist is facing – it goes against the whole grain of the tribunal system where the vast majority of claimants are not charged any costs. Indeed to seems to me to be a device used to intimidate whistleblowers who have annoyed public bodies and the NHS ( examples include Alison McDermott exposing bullying at Sellafield, and a leading cardiologist at St Helier hospital who exposed patient safety issues. It seems vindicative and aimed to ruin an individual.
Sir James EadieI note the JAC is employing one of the most expensive KC known as the “Treasury Devil” – the colloquial title for the First Treasury Counsel (Common Law), a leading barrister retained to represent the UK Government in major civil litigation, often in the Supreme Court. Currently, this key legal role is held by Sir James Eadie KC. He is the man who fought the judicial review to stop the government paying any cash to 3.6 million 50s women pensioners who felt cheated by the system and also took on the Scottish government.
As for Barney himself there is an excellent description of where he stands in an Eastern Eye article.
” The problem with me is that I’m a campaigning journalist who isn’t scared or overawed by authority. It’s always been this way. My bosses say I’m a maverick. I argue that every organisation needs one. My family worry that I don’t know when to back down with authority figures. That problem is exacerbated by the fact I’m brown. Sadly, some white people just don’t get that we of colour can be as intelligent as they are.”
As for the JAC it doesn’t comment on individual cases but there was a telling response from one of their lawyers during the Mithani case.
JAC’s barrister Natasha Simonsen told the hearing “Some very serious allegations have been made, and they are rejected in their entirety,” Simonsen said.
“The allegations are not only against the JAC but also against that JAC’s legal advisers, the GLD and perhaps me as well.
“These are matters we take extremely seriously.
“If the tribunal considered any of that relevant then we would wish to respond in writing to those specific allegations.
“Mr Thomson and his colleagues in the JAC, and my colleagues at the GLD are extremely hard working civil servants who have strived consistently to do the right thing at every stage of the proceedings.
“There is absolutely no desire to cover things up or suppress information.
“What there is is a concern to protect personal information, including sensitive or special category information for both applicants of judicial office and panel members.
“There is also a concern to ensure the appointments system is not prejudiced by disclosure of scoring frameworks which may be unable to be reused in subsequent exercises.”
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Donate yearly #BarnieChoudhury #easternEye #freedomOfInformation #judgeKalyPaul #judicialappointmentsCommission #news #sirJamesEadie -
Transparency is the bedrock of trust, but absolutism in #freedomofinformation is a mistake. We need robust access to hold power accountable, yet that right must yield when it puts lives or personal privacy at genuine risk. The goal isn't maximum disclosure, but meaningful accountability. #Accountability #DataRights
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Transparency is the bedrock of trust, but absolutism in #freedomofinformation is a mistake. We need robust access to hold power accountable, yet that right must yield when it puts lives or personal privacy at genuine risk. The goal isn't maximum disclosure, but meaningful accountability. #Accountability #DataRights
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Transparency is the bedrock of trust, but absolutism in #freedomofinformation is a mistake. We need robust access to hold power accountable, yet that right must yield when it puts lives or personal privacy at genuine risk. The goal isn't maximum disclosure, but meaningful accountability. #Accountability #DataRights
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Freedom of information is the bedrock of accountability, but it must be a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. Unchecked access can endanger national security and infringe on privacy, so we need a system that demands transparency without inviting chaos. #freedomofinformation #transparency #accountability
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Freedom of information is the bedrock of accountability, but it must be a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. Unchecked access can endanger national security and infringe on privacy, so we need a system that demands transparency without inviting chaos. #freedomofinformation #transparency #accountability
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Freedom of information is the bedrock of accountability, but it must be a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. Unchecked access can endanger national security and infringe on privacy, so we need a system that demands transparency without inviting chaos. #freedomofinformation #transparency #accountability
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/78793/ For Robbing a Bodega Owner on Amsterdam Ave Epps Got 5 Years Co-D Expecting to Plead #Abkhazia #Amsterdam #CivilRights #Congo #CorporateAccountability #DueProcess #FederalReserve #FreedomOfInformation #GeneralAssembly #HumanRights #InnerCity #InvestigativeJournalism #Netherlands #PredatoryLending #PublicInterestLaw #SecurityCouncil #Somalia #SubprimeLending #UNDP #UNICEF #UnitedNations #WorldFoodProgramme
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For Robbing a Bodega Owner on Amsterdam Ave Epps Got 5 Years Co-D Expecting to Plead
For Robb…
#Netherlands #Nederland #NL #Europe #Europa #EU #Amsterdam #Abkhazia #civilrights #Congo #CorporateAccountability #DueProcess #FederalReserve #FreedomofInformation #GeneralAssembly #HumanRights #InnerCity #InvestigativeJournalism #PredatoryLending #PublicInterestLaw #SecurityCouncil #Somalia #SubprimeLending #UNDP #UNICEF #UnitedNations #WorldFoodProgramme
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MoD has no system to detect civilian harm caused by military, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/05/mod-no-system-detect-civilian-harm-caused-by-military-study-shows #MinistryOfDefence #Military #UkNews #Charities #FreedomOfInformation #HumanRights #WarCrimes #Politics
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MoD has no system to detect civilian harm caused by military, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/05/mod-no-system-detect-civilian-harm-caused-by-military-study-shows #MinistryOfDefence #Military #UkNews #Charities #FreedomOfInformation #HumanRights #WarCrimes #Politics
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MoD has no system to detect civilian harm caused by military, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/05/mod-no-system-detect-civilian-harm-caused-by-military-study-shows #MinistryOfDefence #Military #UkNews #Charities #FreedomOfInformation #HumanRights #WarCrimes #Politics
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MoD has no system to detect civilian harm caused by military, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/05/mod-no-system-detect-civilian-harm-caused-by-military-study-shows #MinistryOfDefence #Military #UkNews #Charities #FreedomOfInformation #HumanRights #WarCrimes #Politics
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Group preparing legal challenge to Ford government freedom of information clampdown
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Group preparing legal challenge to Ford government freedom of information clampdown
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Group preparing legal challenge to Ford government freedom of information clampdown
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Group preparing legal challenge to Ford government freedom of information clampdown
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Hundreds showed up in the rain on Saturday at a #FightFord protest at Queen's Park in Toronto. Three political parties showed up: Mike Schreiner, Chris Glover, and Stephanie Smyth all condemned many of the corrupt and anti-democratic practices of the Ford government. #EnvironmentalDefense also gave a great speech, and public healthcare advocates.
Here's a few pictures, I'll add more in a reply.
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Hundreds showed up in the rain on Saturday at a #FightFord protest at Queen's Park in Toronto. Three political parties showed up: Mike Schreiner, Chris Glover, and Stephanie Smyth all condemned many of the corrupt and anti-democratic practices of the Ford government. #EnvironmentalDefense also gave a great speech, and public healthcare advocates.
Here's a few pictures, I'll add more in a reply.
#onpoli #canpoli #osap #healthcare #freedomofinformation -
Hundreds showed up in the rain on Saturday at a #FightFord protest at Queen's Park in Toronto. Three political parties showed up: Mike Schreiner, Chris Glover, and Stephanie Smyth all condemned many of the corrupt and anti-democratic practices of the Ford government. #EnvironmentalDefense also gave a great speech, and public healthcare advocates.
Here's a few pictures, I'll add more in a reply.
#onpoli #canpoli #osap #healthcare #freedomofinformation -
Hundreds showed up in the rain on Saturday at a #FightFord protest at Queen's Park in Toronto. Three political parties showed up: Mike Schreiner, Chris Glover, and Stephanie Smyth all condemned many of the corrupt and anti-democratic practices of the Ford government. #EnvironmentalDefense also gave a great speech, and public healthcare advocates.
Here's a few pictures, I'll add more in a reply.
#onpoli #canpoli #osap #healthcare #freedomofinformation -
Ford government makes freedom-of-information clampdown law