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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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- Hampstead not alone in council minutes policy: mayor
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- Snaptu: Blooming ridiculous: MPs question new 'flo...
- Tory MPs pay back £125,000 more - BBC News
- BBC - Open Secrets: FOI and the BBC: The next round
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- Info commissioner cites personal reasons as he ret...
- AP News : Expenses blackout: UK lawmakers' claims ...
- At least three councillors calling for more disclo...
- MPs 'disingenuous' over expenses - BBC News
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- Slashdot | Newspaper Crowdsources 700,000-Page Inv...
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- Federal patronage paving rural N.S. roads, blogger...
- BBC NEWS | MPs' expenses made public online
- Britain's unravelling - World - Macleans.ca
- Implementing Ghana`s RTIDon`t raise people`s expec...
- The Sault Star - EDC open to settling issue with D...
- Snowblog - Today's revelations will increase suspi...
- BBC NEWS | Row over blacked out MP expenses
- NM&L (Spring 2009): The right to bare arms data
- Transparency is censored in mockery of open govern...
- FoI might have exposed abuse, says Information Com...
- Report findings on death, injury at Sask. job sites
- Right to Know Coalition NS Notice of Annual Genera...
- BBC NEWS | MP 'claimed for own firm's flat'
- Obama blocks list of visitors to White House
- Jon Slattery: KMG political editor uses FoI to rev...
- Rob Evans: FoI ruling against Guardian is 'outrage...
- The Delaware Business Ledger - Markell signs open ...
- Information Commissioner calls for instinctive cul...
- Leading E-Government Countries May Lag Behind On 2.0
- Personal Democracy Forum Conference | Personal Dem...
- SWSDA TO DISAPPEAR! - New entity required to be of...
- Are our MPs chisellers? We'll never know
- Guardian loses Fol bid to name misbehaving judges ...
- TheStar.com | Opinion | Taxpayers have a right to ...
- Slashdot | How Should a Constitution Protect Digit...
- Brown adjusts FOI to allow greater secrecy for roy...
- UCL - The Constitution Unit - Freedom of Informati...
- The heart of Government is pretty much exempting i...
- Council Subcommittee Held Secret Meetings - Compla...
- Daily Kos: A Victory for Democracy and Open Govern...
- Lawsuit prompted by secrecy of Epcor spinoff
- West Virginia: Norquist: Limit spending, but not i...
- TheStar.com | Ontario | $2,700-a-day consultant bi...
- A smelly $54m problem - Nova Scotia News - TheChro...
- Vancouver becomes role model for open source ( - S...
- Check out iSolon.org: a policy institute committed...
- Prying open D.C. government Opinion Articles - Jon...
- BBC - Open Secrets: Government plans FOI restrictions
- Changes to UK document secrecy laws - Editors Weblog
- Freedom of infomation has come of age | Richard Th...
- video from 2008 - Heather Brooke, journalist and a...
- Freedom of information? It's a state secret - Heat...
- eGov monitor - A Policy Dialogue Platform | Promot...
- UK Council accepts FOI breaches but says it is com...
- Web inventor to help Downing Street open up govern...
- UK Government cuts 30-year rule and looks to exten...
- The Corruption of Britain - Forbes.com
- TheStar.com | Canada | If Harper fixed his moat wo...
- Bill Tieleman: BC Rail FOI requests turn up Nation...
- DND lifts secrecy, readies PR blitz on construction
- Ont. health agency scrutinized for contract tender...
- Thanks to the Parties and their candidates for tak...
- Secrecy undermines faith in professionals (NB)
- York region - Vaughan mayor's hummer rental, iPod ...
- Commercially sensitive documents exposed by FOI in...
- Stamp it 'Secret' and you're safe - Welland Tribun...
- EDC's response to FOI requests make it look like i...
- Expert: Halifax sewage plant decision violates fre...
- City Loses FOI Appeal - Cityline | Hartford News
- Uncovering the next scandal (UK - Economist)
- MPs brought disgrace upon themselves, says Lord Fa...
- Elitist culture of secrecy must end, says Lord Fal...
- Dallas City Gov to begin purging email older than ...
- Renewed push for FOI law in the Philippines << Dev...
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- Nova Scotia Liberal Party NS response to FOI Letter
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- PC Party NS response to FOI Letter
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- 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,