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Sharon Day, the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Edmonton Public Library (EPL), is joining the Centre for Free Expression’s (CFE) Advisory Board.“We are delighted that Sharon Day is joining our Advisory Board,” said James L. Turk, Director of the CFE. “She is one of the leading champions of intellectual freedom in Canada and has played a major role in developing CFE’s Intellectual Freedom Learning and Development course, which is now used for staff training by more than 200 public libraries across Canada.”

An Ontario school board that refused to release information on its small art collection because of supposed safety concerns has been selected as the municipal winner of the 2025 Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy. 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government has been selected as the provincial winner of the 2025 Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy after Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner found the province broke its own freedom of information laws. 

Canada’s federal government has once again been selected as this year’s recipient of the federal Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievements in Government Secrecy after statistics showed federal institutions delivered the worst on-time performance ever for timely response to access to information requests in 2024-2025.

Lita Barrie, Chair of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations/Fédération canadienne des associations de bibliothèques (CFLA-FCAB) is joining the Centre for Free Expression’s Advisory Board, replacing Andrea Cecchetto, the outgoing CFLA/FCAB Chair.