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In accordance with the Access to Information Act, the government proactively publishes titles and reference numbers of memoranda received by ministers and deputy heads.

Briefing note titles may be partially or fully redacted in accordance with the legislation; for example, if the titles contain information related to national security, personal information, or Cabinet confidences. Learn more about exemptions and exclusions.

If you find a title of interest, you may make an access to information request in order to obtain the records.

All institutions subject to the Access to Information Act are required to post summaries of completed access to information (ATI) requests within thirty calendar days after the end of each month.

Download a dataset of Completed Access to Information Request Summaries from federal institutions below.

Requests focusing on personal information or third-party proprietary information are not included in these datasets. Not all federal institutions post their Completed Access to Information Request Summaries on the Open Government Portal and such information is not captured in the datasets.

In addition to the downloadable dataset, a link is available below as a resource …

This dataset is for the Status of Partner led Projects with ratings of Red, Yellow and Green. It provides the monthly count, target and Year to date values for every month.

This dataset provides information on a monthly basis for the following Critical Incident Indicators: # of critical incidents impacting legacy email systems, % of time critical incidents in legacy data centre facilities are restored within established service level standards, # of critical incidents impacting legacy data centre facilities, % of time critical enterprise internet outages are restored within established service level standards and % of critical incidents under SSC control resolved within established service level standards.

Syrian refugees who have arrived in Canada as part of the Government of Canada's commitment to resettle Syrian refugees. Datasets include Syrian refugees who have received settlement services.

Please note that in these datasets, the figures have been suppressed or rounded to prevent the identification of individuals when the datasets are compiled and compared with other publicly available statistics. Values between 0 and 5 are shown as “--“ and all other values are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5. This may result to the sum of the figures not equating to the totals indicated.

Province wide dataset of all physical locations which have been assigned a civic number by Municipalities and First Nations Communities. Data download also available via GeoNova: https://nsgi.novascotia.ca/WSF_DDS/DDS.svc/DownloadFile?tkey=fhrTtdnDvfytwLz6&id=70

File contains all issued marine aquaculture leases along the coast of Nova Scotia. Fisheries and Aquaculture also provides a mapping tool for this data at: http://novascotia.ca/fish/aquaculture/site-mapping-tool/

The Nova Scotia Road Network (NSRN) is the authoritative source for road centerlines in the province. This 3D coverage contains addressed roads and non-addressed roads and has several descriptive attributes to define a roadway such as number of lanes, surface type, and road class. The NSRN is used to contribute the Nova Scotia portion of the federal National Road Network (NRN). The NSRN is available in the UTM projection with the following two datums: • UTM/NAD83v3 & CGVD28 horizontal & vertical datum. • UTM/NAD83v6 & CGVG2010 horizontal & vertical datum. (This version is currently only available via the NS Geographic …

The Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture is the lead regulatory of rockweed leasing and licensing. This file illustrates all the issued rockweed leases along the coast of Nova Scotia. Fisheries and Aquaculture also provides a mapping tool for this data at: http://novascotia.ca/fish/aquaculture/site-mapping-tool/

The Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture is the lead regulatory of aquaculture leasing and licensing. This file illustrates all the issued landbased licenses within Nova Scotia. Fisheries and Aquaculture also provides a mapping tool for this data at: http://novascotia.ca/fish/aquaculture/site-mapping-tool/