Right. You took it off-line.
The Globe and Mail wrote a piece called “Inside the charity network that...helped wealthy donors get big tax breaks—and their donations back”. The only reason that article was possible is that the information was online and searchable. They didn't have to ask you for permission to look at it.
There was no harm done by leaving it online, yet suddenly you took it off-line. What harm was done by leaving that information online so that members of the public could carry out their own investigations, as The Globe and Mail and Vivian Krause had done?