NEW NS Right to Know Website

We have a new website, consolidating our blog and our main website in one place.

http://nsrighttoknow.ca/ now points to our new site.  Please refresh your browser if you still see the old site.

http://nsrighttoknow.ca/rtk-news/  points to the RTK/FOI blog.

It will be a couple days before everything works perfectly, so please bear with us.

No need to FoI, just ask, says Richmond Council - Richmond & Twickenham Times

 

 

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No need to FoI, just ask, says Richmond Council - Richmond & Twickenham Times

via "freedom of information" - Bing News on 14/07/11

An influx of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests has prompted a council request for people to call their councillors first. Councillor Geoffrey Samuel, deputy leader of Richmond Council , asked people to try other avenues when they had questions for the ...

 

 

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Quote of the Day - Clay Shirky

"News has to be subsidized because society’s truth-tellers can’t be supported by what their work would fetch on the open market... Markets supply less reporting than democracies demand." 
-- Clay Shirky, Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic, July 9, 2011 via The Technium, Found Quotes, 8

Gov, defend open public records - Chicago Sun-Times

http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/letters/6463192-474/gov-defend-open-public-records.html
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Donald Lenihan: Canadians Share Accountability Concerns With the Developing World

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/donald-lenihan/government-transparency_b_894172.html