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Today, we’re launching the Investigative Journalism Foundation. We’re building a new journalism model. Data-driven. Radically transparent. Laser-focused on serving the public and speaking truth to power. Here’s what you need to know🧵: theijf.org

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Super proud of

and Michael Wong's series which has been picked up by 61 other media outlets (and counting). Check out the original piece here: theijf.org/donations-from

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Our political donations stories have been published 61 times across the @CdnPressNews wire in the past week, including in @globalwinnipeg, @VancouverSun and @calgaryherald.

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Check out the full list of Ontario riding stories on the

website:

Donating to the cause: Where federal political parties raise the most cash National and local...

You can also find our Ontario stories published in

@VillageMedia

’s local papers, including

and

Our political donations stories have been published 61 times across the

@CdnPressNews

wire in the past week, including in

and

These stories are two of the 15 stories the IJF produced on non-urban Ontario ridings. These stories are a part of our wider series with

@LNdatahub

on which ridings are the most lucrative areas for federal parties’ fundraising.

Wellington—Halton Hills, which includes Halton Hills, Ont., and several townships, saw the highest total donations during this time period. Out of our Ontario ridings series, Timmins–James Bay, a more rural riding, saw the lowest total donations.

Donors in Timmins–James Bay contributed $303,000 to political parties over five years, new analysis...

Wealthy urban ridings, especially those represented by higher-profile politicians, offered the most lucrative fundraising terrain for Canada’s federal political parties in the five years following...

As a part of our collaboration with

, we looked at how much donors in suburban and rural ridings across Ontario donated to federal political parties in the five years after the 2015 election. Here's our first story for Wellington—Halton Hills:

Donors in Wellington–Halton Hills contributed $1.4 million to political parties over five years,...

Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies

@CrimSL_TO

Jan 24

Economic permanent residency applications in Canada are being accepted at the highest rate since at least 2000. But what is the bigger picture? #CrimSL Director Audrey Macklin comments on Canada's immigration targets. / via

@ijfmedia

Record number of permanent residents accepted amid push to bring more immigrants to Canada

Canada accepted 97.5 per cent of economic permanent residents in 2021, up from 80.6 per cent in 2005

Global Investigative Journalism Network

@gijn

Jan 24

🇨🇦 Canada’s newly launched Investigative Journalism Foundation —

“Canada’s ProPublica” is sharing the databases behind its hard-hitting stories

— is aiming to expand investigative journalism in the country by building public interest, shareable databases. Learn more from

@SarahScire

in this

@NiemanLab

piece:

niemanlab.org

The Investigative Journalism Foundation hopes to follow the money — and leave the door wide open for other journalists.

Kate Schneider

@kteschneider

A great story from my colleague

. Especially fascinating when considering the contrast between Canada’s full embrace of high-skilled immigration and the UK government’s new push to restrict immigration, including some high-skilled.

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Economic permanent residency applications in Canada are being accepted at the highest rate since at least 2000, an analysis by IJF reporter @hannahc245 shows

: theijf.org/record-number-

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Hannah

As Canada is bringing in the most new permanent residents ever, IRCC is also accepting the highest percentage of applications processed. My story for

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Economic permanent residency applications in Canada are being accepted at the highest rate since at least 2000, an analysis by IJF reporter @hannahc245 shows

: theijf.org/record-number-

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To read the full story, check out the link in our bio: theijf.org/subscribe

“They’re just creaming off the most qualified people,” said Matthew Jeffery, a Toronto-based immigration lawyer, about Express Entry. “The skilled worker refusal rate has dropped a lot as a result of that.”

In the first year of the Express Entry program, the acceptance rate for high skilled applicants increased from 86.3 per cent to 90.2 per cent. By 2021, the programs using Express Entry had among the highest acceptance rates of all immigration categories, at 98.2 per cent.

In 2015, IRCC introduced the Express Entry program, a pre-screening system for skilled workers with foreign or Canadian work experience. The highest rated applicants from that program are invited to apply for permanent residency.

The acceptance rate for economic applicants has risen steadily in recent years as the federal government introduced narrower acceptance criteria while pushing hard to increase immigration, particularly among high skilled applicants who can economically benefit the country.

In 2021, 378,200 people or 97.5 per cent of those who applied to be economic permanent residents, were accepted. In 2005, just 80.6 per cent of applicants got in.

Economic permanent residency applications in Canada are being accepted at the highest rate since at least 2000, an analysis by IJF reporter

shows 🧵:

Record number of permanent residents accepted amid push to bring more immigrants to Canada

Canada accepted 97.5 per cent of economic permanent residents in 2021, up from 80.6 per cent in 2005

Oxford Politics and IR

@Politics_Oxford

Jan 20

Canada's Justin Trudeau is selling record number of weapons to authoritarian countries. MPhil student

@kteschneider

reports an eight-fold jump in income from weapon sales to authoritarian countries since Stephen Harper’s tenure as PM. Read

🔍buff.ly/3ZOB41s

To read the full story, check out the link in our bio and subscribe to the IJF: theijf.org/subscribe

From 2009 to 2019, CAPP’s in-house lobbyists averaged 117 meetings per year. That figure more than doubled to reach an all-time high of 269 meetings in 2020 –– more meetings than business days in the year.

Line graph with title: In 2020, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers disclosed 269 communications with the federal government, an all-time high. Subtext: Number of communications with the federal government CAPP self-reported between 2009 and 2022.

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ICYMI: In the second installment of the IJF’s collaboration with

@natobserver

@XavierRicherVis

and

@Woodsideful

analyzed the lobbying activities of Canada’s chief fossil fuels lobbying organization. Read the full story here:

How Big Oil’s most powerful lobby group works the backrooms on Parliament Hill

In 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...

Ottawa Citizen

@OttawaCitizen

Ottawa is a hot spot for political donations, new analysis suggests

Ottawa is a hot spot for political donations, new analysis suggests

ottawacitizen.com

My latest story with

is live! Using the IJF's donations data combined with other riding-level data (census, elxn results), our analysis found that in general, donors in wealthy ridings represented by higher-profile MPs donated the most to federal parties👇

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Wealthy urban ridings, especially those represented by higher-profile politicians, lead the country in total donations to Canada’s federal political parties in the 5 years after the 2015 election, according to an analysis by @LNDatahub and the IJF (THREAD) theijf.org/donations-from

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Thank you

@globalwinnipeg

for picking up this story! We're proud to publish it in collaboration with

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Winnipeg South Centre ranked 13th out of 338 ridings nationwide in terms of total donations greater than $200 made to federal political parties, electoral district associations and 2019 election candidates. trib.al/XwGzZ4n

In collab with

, the Local News Data Hub's newest series "Donating to the cause: Where political parties raise the most cash" looks at which ridings donated the most to federal parties in the 5 years after the 2015 elxn – here's what we found 🧵

Donating to the cause: Where federal political parties raise the most cash National and local...

Want to learn more about how we did the analysis? Check out the methodology for this series on the

’s site:

HOW WE DID IT Donating to the cause: Where federal political parties raise the most cash

What is the Local News Data Hub? The Local News Data Hub is committed to i) shoring up local journalism across Canada by supplying newsrooms with data-informed stories ii) training student data...

The rest of the city-level stories in our political donations series are available on the

’s website:

Donating to the cause: Where federal political parties raise the most cash National and local...

The Vancouver version is also available on our website:

Vancouver is a hot spot for political donations, new analysis suggests

In our collaboration with

@LNDatahub

, the IJF looked at the top 17 ridings in the 95th percentile of total donations over $200 and created city-level stories to encompass all of these ridings. Here's the Toronto version:

Toronto is a hot spot for political donations, new analysis suggests

Political donations can help buy donors access 👉 “You might get a phone call returned faster. You might get invited to the exclusive little meet and greet … at some large donor's house [or a] backyard barbecue,” said former Ontario finance minister Janet Ecker

Ottawa Centre, home to Parliament Hill and many public servants, lobbyists and public policy stakeholders, led the country with $5.9 million in donations compared to the national average of $853,000

A bar chart titled “Top 17 ridings in total donations greater than $200” that shows the top 17 ridings in total donations from after the 2015 election to the end of 2020. In order, from the top is: Ottawa Centre ($5.9M), University–Rosedale ($5.4M), Toronto--St.Paul’s ($4.1M), Calgary Centre ($4.0M), Don Valley West ($3.4M), Vancouver Quadra ($3.3M), Ottawa–Vanier ($3.1M), Vancouver Centre ($2.7M), West Vacnouver Sunshine Coast--Sea to Sky ($2.6M), Victoria ($2.6M), Saanich-Gulf Islands ($2.5M), Notre-Dame-de-Grace--Westmount ($2.3M), Winnipeg South Centre ($2.3M), Vancouver Granville ($2.3M), Eglinton-Lawrence ($2.3M), Oakville ($2.2M), Edmonton Centre ($2.1M)

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IJF reporter

@kylzhu

and IJF developer Michael Wong found that the top ridings, which include many of the country’s richest neighbourhoods, in most cases also had voter turnouts higher than the 2019 national turnout👇

Donations from affluent urban ridings grease the wheels of politics, new analysis suggests

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Ridings in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and other major Canadian cities topped the list of total donations over $200

Kate Schneider

@kteschneider

Jan 17

Great to hear my latest investigation with

Is PM Trudeau a stealth warmonger? Co-host David Pugliese explains why it is so difficult to wrap one’s head around military spending. And Jordan Peterson’s latest drama over a banal request from the...

discussed on

@CANADALAND

's Short Cuts hosted by

@JesseBrown

and accompanied by

@davidpugliese

's excellent commentary! You can check out the episode here (discussion starts around 9:50):

canadaland.com

#849 G.I. Justin

Reading ⁦

⁩’s great morning newsletter as always and there’s a lovely mention of ⁦

⁩’s ⁦

@robroc

⁩ today. You can listen to Roberto’s full podcast here: thebigstorypodcast.ca/2023/01/16/who

Jan 16

Want to read the original article? You can do so below on the IJF website:

Unions, farmers and oil firms: who lobbies cabinet members the most

Meet the lobbyists with the most access to Justin Trudeau’s cabinet

Jan 16

“One of the things we do, regularly, everyday, is we harvest lobbying data, not only from the federal government but from every province, and we standardize it and put it in a public facing database so that anyone can go and see who has lobbied who.” -

@RobRoc

@thebigstoryfpn

Jan 16

“We undertook this investigation, first of all, because one of our main topics is lobbying, and more generally, the influence of money in politics, and we have the data for it.” -

@RobRoc

@thebigstoryfpn

on the IJF’s work to make lobbying data more accessible.