CBC blew more than $70,000 for a Strombo party
I’m with Wells when it comes to Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s hotel bill to attend an important security conference in Munich. Nonetheless, despite the reasonable argument put forward by M. Wells,...
View ArticleDFAIT’s “smoking gun” memo to block ATI requests
Among Parliamentary Press Gallery journalists (and many others), the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade is notorious for being one of the worst — if not the worst — government...
View ArticleForeign Affairs Minister ignores Information Commissioner’s recommendations
Hot off the presses: A letter from the Information Commissioner of Canada, Suzanne Legault, informing me that she agrees with me on a complaint I made three years ago about the way the Department of...
View ArticleCommon sense? From bureaucrats?
You may have seen posts here about my “win”, such as it is, with the Information Commissioner when it comes to DFAIT. Here’s the resulting column that went across our chain today … Only in the odd,...
View ArticleWaiting for years: Canada’s oh-so-broken access to information system
Canada’s Access to Information (ATI) system was broke long before Stephen Harper became prime minister in 2006 but the Conservatives, like the Liberals before them, have failed to fix the system that...
View ArticleHarper government “most transparent” in history. NOT!
“Our Government is the most transparent government in Canadian history. There has never been a time when Canadians have had as much access to government information.” - Treasury Board President Tony...
View ArticleMcGill University seeks to ban its own student journos from filing ATI...
A disturbing piece in the McGill Daily … In December, McGill filed a motion with the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec against 14 McGill students, seeking to disregard several Access to...
View ArticleThe numbers on the federal Access to Information Act (2012)
Some data and numbers for the federal government’s performance under the Access to Information Act (ATI). This data may have been around for a while but I just stumbled across it today and think a...
View ArticleIn Alberta, the opposition scores direct hits using Access to Information laws
There are four important by-elections underway right now in Alberta. The vote is on Monday. The Premier, the Health Minister, and the Education Minister have their names on ballots in three of the four...
View ArticleCBC blew more than $70,000 for a Strombo party
I’m with Wells when it comes to Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s hotel bill to attend an important security conference in Munich. Nonetheless, despite the reasonable argument put forward by M. Wells,...
View ArticleDFAIT’s “smoking gun” memo to block ATI requests
Among Parliamentary Press Gallery journalists (and many others), the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade is notorious for being one of the worst — if not the worst — government...
View ArticleForeign Affairs Minister ignores Information Commissioner’s recommendations
Hot off the presses: A letter from the Information Commissioner of Canada, Suzanne Legault, informing me that she agrees with me on a complaint I made three years ago about the way the Department of...
View ArticleCommon sense? From bureaucrats?
You may have seen posts here about my “win”, such as it is, with the Information Commissioner when it comes to DFAIT. Here’s the resulting column that went across our chain today … Only in the odd,...
View ArticleWaiting for years: Canada’s oh-so-broken access to information system
Canada’s Access to Information (ATI) system was broke long before Stephen Harper became prime minister in 2006 but the Conservatives, like the Liberals before them, have failed to fix the system that...
View ArticleHarper government “most transparent” in history. NOT!
“Our Government is the most transparent government in Canadian history. There has never been a time when Canadians have had as much access to government information.” - Treasury Board President Tony...
View ArticleMcGill University seeks to ban its own student journos from filing ATI...
A disturbing piece in the McGill Daily … In December, McGill filed a motion with the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec against 14 McGill students, seeking to disregard several Access to...
View ArticleThe numbers on the federal Access to Information Act (2012)
Some data and numbers for the federal government’s performance under the Access to Information Act (ATI). This data may have been around for a while but I just stumbled across it today and think a...
View ArticleIn Alberta, the opposition scores direct hits using Access to Information laws
There are four important by-elections underway right now in Alberta. The vote is on Monday. The Premier, the Health Minister, and the Education Minister have their names on ballots in three of the four...
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