Democracy watchdog barks at province over 800,000 deleted emails

A democracy watchdog has slammed the Alberta government over 800,000 emails deleted by political staffers and managers.
Duff Conacher, co-founder of Democracy Watch, called it a “clear abuse” of the power public bodies have to destroy records, due to the sheer volume of deleted emails and who erased them.
The issue stems from a series of two 2016 freedom of information requests made by the official Opposition. 
What they discovered were sparse inboxes and sent email folders belo