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The Centre for Free Expression (CFE) at Toronto Metropolitan University announced today that Dr. Kenneth Gariepy is joining its Working Group on Intellectual Freedom. The Working Group guides CFE’s work in assisting libraries across Canada in promoting and defending intellectual freedom and in resisting demands for censorship.

The Centre for Free Expression (CFE) at Toronto Metropolitan University announced today that Sean Giesbrecht is joining its Working Group on Schools and Intellectual Freedom. The Working Group guides CFE’s initiatives in promoting and defending intellectual freedom for school libraries and curriculum materials and in resisting demands for censorship.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), the public agency responsible for delivering community and acute care services to more than a quarter of B.C.’s population, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the municipal Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy for its routine breaking of access to information laws during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Doug Ford’s Ontario government has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the provincial Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy for its continued failure to prevent senior employees from using their personal email accounts to also conduct public business.

Nearly ten years after the publication of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s final report, Canada’s federal government continues to fight Indigenous groups from across the country seeking access to records surrounding residential schools. For this continued denial of access, it has been resoundingly selected as this year’s recipient of the federal Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy.