Xavier Richer Vis

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Investigations, investigations (tag), data journalism

About Xavier Richer Vis

Xavier is a Toronto-based journalist and newsroom coder with the Investigative Journalism Foundation. He first joined the IJF as a data-scraping volunteer and was a member of the IJF’s first cohort of summer reporters. A graduate of McGill University and Goldsmiths, University of London’s masters in computational journalism program, his work has also appeared in Wired.

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Investigation: Big Oil lobbyists outgun environmentalists with access to the most powerful federal ministries

A joint investigation by Canada’s National Observer and the Investigative Journalism Foundation has found oil and gas industry lobbyists far outgun their environmental counterparts in the battle for influence over climate legislation.

The Influencers

News | February 7th 2023

Investigation: Big Oil’s most powerful lobby group held more meetings with feds in 2020 than any other year on record

In the decade before the pandemic, representatives of Canada's biggest oil and gas lobby averaged 117 meetings with government officials each year. In 2020, that number hit an all-time high of 269 — more meetings than there were business days in the year.

The Influencers

Investigations, Energy, Politics | January 11th 2023

Investigation: Oil giants who ‘make more money than God’ lobbied the federal government and got $2.6 billion in taxpayer dollars

The number of tax dollars funnelled to 11 of Canada's biggest oil and gas companies more than doubled over the past two years, a joint investigation by Canada’s National Observer and the Investigative Journalism Foundation reveals.

The Influencers

Investigations | January 9th 2023