HeyJaredDurant’s Rants
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Access to Information at the Canada Infrastructure Bank: some deletions within 3 days (opens the original)
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Lately I’m down the rabbit hole of access to information law and policy. What a fascinating yet frustrating place to be. This morning there is significant uproar about policies within the Ontario government to delete Teams chats after 30 days. If that’s a scandal, hold on to your caps folks. I’ve got this in my Google Drive.The federal Canada Infrastructure Bank's Information Management Procedure, released under ATIP, sets out exactly how fast CIB records disappear by design.Under §3.7, any CIB
Access to Government Information and Democratic Accountability (opens the original)
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As a general purpose civil litigator and investigator most of my career, I haven’t spent much professional time digging through government records. That’s a skill I obtained due to studying history during my undergraduate degree. I have been exercising those atrophied muscles lately while requesting and reviewing documents from various governments obtained through Access to Information/Freedom of Information requests. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/ima
Alto High-Speed Rail: Things Lawyers Should Watch (opens the original)
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I have not been publishing this newsletter because I’ve written over 50 articles about the Alto project on another substack, the Canadian High Speed Rail files. That’s a lot of writing since I first learned about this project and its impacts on my community at the end of March 2026. I publish those articles elsewhere to spare your inboxes. I initially became somewhat obsessed by the project because I live directly in its path and (since talk of a 401 route) so does the community where I grew up.
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