Investigative Journalism Foundation

Alberta’s government is shutting down the addictions treatment program at the Henwood Treatment Centre in Edmonton. (Brett McKay)

Recovery Alberta is closing the addiction treatment program at Henwood Treatment Centre in Edmonton, the IJF has learned. The decision to end the program came as a shock to staff and hundreds of Albertans seeking addiction treatment, and the l...

A CNRL spokesperson said "clean-up and remediation activities were completed, resulting in no impact to the environment." (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press).

This investigation is a collaboration between The Narwhal and the IJF.

A major Canadian oil and gas compa...

Canada's embassy in the U.S., headed up by Ambassador Mark Wiseman (right), hired a New York strategy firm to help it with its social media presence in the U.S. earlier this year. (Embassy of Canada to the U.S./Linkedin)

Canada’s embassy in the U.S. hired a lobby firm led by a former Republican director to help it influence American audiences through social media, U.S. f...

Former Governor General Mary Simon speaks at an Order of Canada investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall in May 2026. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

An audit of Canada’s top civilian honour found “exceptionally low” trust in its nomination process and an overloaded system that contributes to a years-long backlog.

That April 2026 audit of the Order of Canada found nominat...

A briefing note from the IJF's Open By Default database shows the companies behind a cluster of data centres that have been the subject of protests in Vancouver asked Prime Minister Mark Carney for the federal government to be an 'anchor tenant' for the development. (The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck)

Developers of proposed Vancouver data centres asked Prime Minister Mark C...