This corpus investigate the business sections of seven Canadian newspapers over a period spanning from 2001 to 2008 in English and in French. The newspapers are: The National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Gazette, La Presse, Le Devoir and Le Droit. For comparison purposes, a corpus made of Canadian bank's annual reports was also used. With the use of the monolingual concordancer WordSmith 6.0, we looked at the following keywords: transparency, opaque and their French equivalents. The results were treated in several Excel files.