An advocacy organization for Canadian media wants federal bills about online harms to address the problems caused and funded by online advertising. The City of Edmonton registered a lobbyist to continue to pressure the province to pay it $80 million in property taxes after the premier told municipal leaders to raise the issue in pre-budget talks. And a food rescue charity wants to work with the Government of Ontario to help save and repurpose the 1.1 million tonnes of food that end up in the province’s landfills each year.

Those are just some of the insights from the IJF’s roundup of lobbying registrations at the federal level and in every province across Canada. Each week, the IJF publishes data from our four lobbying databases showing who wants laws changed and who is asking for government money. Think of it as your weekly dose of public policy news before it becomes news.