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Req # A-2020-0026
(1) The number of lifers, on their first parole hearing, who have been granted day parole since Jan 1/2016. (ii) The number of lifers, on their first parole hearing, who have been granted full parole since Jan1/2016. (iii) The number of lifers, by month, granted day parole since Sept 1/2019.(iv)The number of lifers, by month, granted full parole since Sept 1/2019.Organization: Parole Board of Canada
October 2020
Nothing to report this month
Organization: Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board
Req # A-2020-00007
Requesting: a) Document describing the criteria for washrooms for the public or elections employees that would make a location ineligible and eligible for being a polling place. b) For the last two federal elections, any records of Elections Canada paying for mobile toilets for polling places. c) For the last two federal elections, any records of complaints about washrooms of polling places.Organization: Elections Canada
September 2020
Req # A-2020-00026
Obtain a copy of any document, including any kind of cost estimate, that Elections Canada possesses that will let me see how much the next election will cost, should the next federal election be called, for example, in 2020 or 2021, in the event that the opposing parties bring down Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. Also including all extra costs due to the covid-19/coronavirus pandemic for the next federal election (including any briefing notes prepared for the Chief Electoral Officer on a potential federal election in the short-term with this Liberal minority government in 2020 or 2021).Organization: Elections Canada
September 2020
Req # A-2020-00019
Per the Criminal Records Act, PBC reviews record suspension applications, investigates and makes decisions about granting record suspensions to Canadians who have convictions. Beyond the majority of such convictions, the Criminal Records Act lists specific offences-current and historical-in two Schedules to the Act (Schedule 1 and Schedule 2). Since March 13th,2012 individuals seeking record suspensions for Schedule 1 offences became ineligible unless exception criteria in the Act are met. Schedule 2 offence convictions may still be granted a record suspension the offence did not involve a child. Since 2012 and up to the present, by year, how many record suspensions for :1 )Excepted Schedule 1 convictions and 2) Schedule 2 convictions have been granted by the PBC? This information is requested in aggregate in the format of PBC's choosing but readable as a .pdf or excel document (examples) as derived from its records.Organization: Parole Board of Canada
September 2020
Nothing to report this month
Organization: Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board
Req # A-2019-00092
Provide a complete copy of each of the notes below from the section on briefing notes for Elections Canada on the Open Government website: Update on a phishing situation to divert a paycheque to EC-2020-01-23 Ref. No.: 2019-100761; Termination of Elections Canada contract 05005-19-0290 and request for financial compensation 2020-01-23 Ref. No.: 2020-101031; Uncollectable debt – Redacted (2) 2020-01-30 Ref. No.: 2019‑100732; Reply to a question in writing 122 2019-12-19 Ref. No.: 2019-100913; New application for registration for a political party – Wexit Canada – now eligible 2020‑01-07 Ref. No.: 2019-100931; Application for registration for a new political party – Parti Patriote 2019‑10-04 Ref. No.: 2019-100377.Organization: Elections Canada
August 2020
Req # A-2020-00002
Provide the 2019 and 2020 records, including briefing notes, and contingency plans, to shift voting to electronic ballots; to shift how individual election riding contests are run without physical polling places; to shift campaign and advertising rules should public health in the context of social isolation or other emergencies change elections campaigning; to shift toward counting electronic ballots and challenging those results; and to shift the needed protections throughout such election voting changes. The COVID-19 crisis in particular has had in other jurisdictions an effect either in their looking at or adopting new ways of voting.Organization: Elections Canada
August 2020
Req # A-2020-00009
Provide any emails to or from anyone at Elections Canada containing a reference to “October 26th” of 2020, and any emails to or from anyone at Elections Canada referring to an election in October of 2020. The range of dates for search of these records is from September 2019 until present. Clarification: only include records of EXCOM members that pertain to a potential Fall election.Organization: Elections Canada
August 2020
Req # A-2020-00011
Provide a complete copy of the briefing note below from the lists of briefing notes on the Open Government website: Documents to support the consultation process on religious obligations and fixed-date elections 2020-05-22 Ref. No.: 2020-101766 Agency: Elections Canada, Sector: Policies and civic education.Organization: Elections Canada
August 2020