Public health and safety are just not a priority on the federal transparency front

Access to crucial viral Ebola data has been denied for more than 12 years.

Governments have been much too secretive with access-to-information and media requests, and have started seeing public health outbreaks as a reason to postpone granting access to documents, writes Ken Rubin. Pexels photograph by Pavel Danilyuk

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

May 27, 2026

OTTAWA—The eyes of the world have been on the small luxury cruise ship MV Hondius that some worry carries the beginning of another worldwide pandemic.

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