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Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia (RTKNS) is a non-profit organization. Through advocacy and education, RTKNS encourages the use and development of freedom-of-information legislation to foster a better informed and more politically active electorate in Nova Scotia and to improve the quality of public and private decision making in the province.
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Newsworthy FOI Requests
Your FOI Experience:
Have you ever filed a FOI request? What has been your experience? Has the information you sought been forthcoming, or did you find the bureaucracy working against you? How do you think the Act can further be strengthened, so that it serves its purpose better? Let Us Know!
Blog Archive
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2008
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August
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- UNC Journalism student files FOI request in EMS case
- Closed session at USG meeting violates FOI laws - ...
- Goucher 'frustrated' by secrecy over Cornwallis do...
- Freedom of Information request silly maneuver
- Anna Bligh shields her cabinet in revamp of FOI la...
- Good news for diners: restaurant health inspection...
- Taxpayer foots salary bill for relatives of 42 pol...
- The host server for the RTKNS website is now back ...
- The high cost of surveillance in Flintshire (UK)
- Access to information law in Guatemala requires ur...
- Health Department has lost a two-year battle to ke...
- Freedom (of Information) Isn't Free - EYE WEEKLY
- The Web Host for the NS Right to Know site appears...
- Journalist's FOI request about himself in Tribunal...
- FOI uncovers safety concerns at Jandakot : thewest...
- RCMP scrambled after taser airport death as reveal...
- "There’s no doubt about the importance of having g...
- Gone Fishing! (figuratively that is) Back in Mid-A...
- RIGHT TO KNOW: Teacher, superintendent contracts, ...
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Links
- Accountability Initiative (India)
- The Art of Access
- Centre for Law and Democracy
- Canadian Government Expenses (Bine Consulting)
- Open Parliament
- Know How They Vote (NS Legislature)
- Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators
- Find Your Nova Scotia MLA
- RTKNS Photo Albums
- NS Provincial Government Food Safety Reports
- NS Select Committee on Participation in the Democratic Process
- NS Democracy 250
- House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI)
- Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC)
- Independent Diplomat
- National Whistleblowers Center
- right2info.org : The Right to Information: Good Law and Practice
- National Freedom of Information Blog
- Apathy is Boring
- Empire Center for New York State Policy
- Maine Freedom of Information Coalition (MFOIC)
Fellow Bloggers
- iSolon.org
- Michael Geist
- BBC Open Secrets
- Open and Shut (Australia)
- Waye Mason - Citadel Schools
- JournaListed - Heather Brooke
- David T.S. Fraser - PrivacyLawyer
- Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Freedom of Information News
- Heather Brooke - Your Right to Know (UK)
- Open Secrets: A BBC blog about freedom of information by Martin Rosenbaum
"Without the FOI, the establishment would have been able to hide even more than it does now. Instead of making it harder for people to get information from public bodies on how they are run, it should be made easier."-- Norwich North UK MP Ian Gibson (Oct 2006) on raising FOI fees
If the public is "to participate more [in government] than just via the ballot box, then they need proper access to information"-- Joanne Caddy, (Nov 2001), "Why citizens are central to good governance", OECD Observer,