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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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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!
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- Vancouver's GIS data now available to public
- Support for FOI changes (Tasmania) - ABC News Article
- Music to Accompany Right to Know Week
- Know How They Vote - NS Legislature
- Freedom of information is your right - Hamilton Sp...
- Radical Transparency For Political Survival
- Adoption records becoming accessible
- Health Ministry IS the most secretive
- Connecticut court opens door for patients to see p...
- FOI FYI » Blog Archive » Happy International Right...
- Privacy Commissioner Investigating Canadian Mortga...
- EPIC Celebrates International Right to Know Day
- Attorney General proclaims right to Know Week in P...
- THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT: FIRST STEPS TOWARDS...
- Canada on top when it comes to access to informati...
- PRUSAnet CAPAPA Celebrates Right to Know Day Acros...
- Right to Know Week 2009 - Information Manager of t...
- Critics fear FOI staff cuts by B.C. government wil...
- Open Government Promotes Economic Growth and Effec...
- Exercise your right to know
- Groups Renew Call for Passage of foi Bill
- Right to Know Day kicks off
- CIJ calls on governments to enact FOI law
- Transparency Directives Transform Privacy at DHS -...
- Use your right to probe government says info boss
- Halifax council uses secret meetings for public bu...
- Few journalists make use of Access to Information Law
- Yale accused of violating open-records law
- BC Government Conceals Flathead Documents As World...
- #Quote: No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny:...
- Road Map for Financial Recovery: Radical Transpare...
- Ledyard FOI request at impasse
- Chicago-Kent College of Law Establishes the “Cente...
- Grits 'sanitized' access requests | Canada | News ...
- Republic | Blog » Blog Archive » Royal FOI ban mus...
- Halifax stink under provincial investigation
- Analysis: City Hall fails secrecy test
- CDT Testifies Before Congress on Use of Technology...
- City of Vancouver Launches Open Data Portal
- Are the media subject to PIPEDA?
- BBC Wales bosses' costs published
- FOI Oklahoma: Open Government Pledge signers advan...
- FoI conclusive certificates | Australian Politics
- 'Secrecy culture' rules in Victoria
- Some OLG Sault spending appears to be 'unacceptabl...
- Ontario lottery board resigns due to spending scan...
- Parliament must require CRTC to serve public inter...
- FOI guide for journalists « Stewart Argo
- Landmark FOI cases to bring new era of scrutiny
- Montana Corrections Dept. argues privacy concern o...
- Information act shows leaders why we need more ope...
- N.L. privacy watchdog welcomes court challenge - C...
- State: privacy of employees trumps records request
- Gov 2.0: Obama Team Details 'Open Government' Prog...
- Shape of things to come? - Southampton Uni slaps I...
- The FOI Advocate: Two Different Approaches to Emai...
- FOI battle goes to Texas high court : KOHM FM
- The Coming of Government 2.0
- OTS refuses FoI request on strategic partner asses...
- Obama's Secrecy Record Is Mixed
- US Government Slightly Less Secret
- OpenTheGovernment.org Issues New Secrecy Report Card
- Be a student of open government
- Malta moves on FOI Act implementation / News / Hom...
- Public's right to know protected by AG's open-meet...
- Information Commissioner's staff are mystery shopp...
- EPIC - White House Announces New Transparency Poli...
- Freedom of information requests cost BBC GBP3m | M...
- UK Freedom of Information Blog: Using the FOI Act ...
- Editorial: FOIA opens public business to all people
- ICO publishes guidance on some exemptions from FOI...
- Open and Shut: The public broadcaster and enthusia...
- Old Cabinet papers 'to stay secret'
- FOI Oklahoma: FOI advocates chide OKC officials fo...
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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,