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Record number of permanent residents accepted amid push to bring more immigrants to CanadaCanada accepted 97.5 per cent of economic permanent residents in 2021, up from 80.6 per cent in 2005
Donations from affluent urban ridings grease the wheels of politics, new analysis suggestsRidings in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and other major Canadian cities topped the list of total donations over $200
Opposition parties slam Liberals for continuing to allow lobbyists at fundraisersGreens, BQ say IJF investigation on cash-for-access events shows need for public financing of parties
How Big Oil’s most powerful lobby group works the backrooms on Parliament HillIn the second installment of a larger collaboration between Canada’s National Observer and the Investigative Journalism Foundation, we look at the lobbying activities of Canada’s chief fossil fuels lobbying organization.
Opposition parties condemn Trudeau for military exports to authoritarian regimesNDP, Greens, and BQ question Trudeau’s human rights record after IJF reveals government exports $1.3 billion of arms a year to autocrats
Oil giants lobbying the federal government got $2.6 billion in taxpayer dollars over the past 11 yearsData obtained in a joint investigation by Canada’s National Observer and the Investigative Journalism Foundation shows that federal and provincial government funding to Canada’s largest oil companies is on the rise.
Justin Trudeau selling record number of weapons to authoritarian countriesTrudeau exports an average of $1.3 billion annually compared to Stephen Harper’s $161 million
Liberals quietly allow lobbyists to attend cash-for-access fundraisers despite pledging to stopMost lobbyists who attended the fundraisers were registered to lobby the federal department whose minister was a special guest at the event
Unions, farmers and oil firms: who lobbies cabinet members the mostMeet the lobbyists with the most access to Justin Trudeau’s cabinet
