You have the right to know
You have the right to know: "•The FOIPOP Review Office is the independent oversight body responsible to accept ... Nova Scotia, the first province in Canada to enact access legislation, ...
"
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
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.
Posts
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
-
▼
2009
(735)
-
▼
October
(95)
- Two significant Ontario FOI cases from 2009 « All ...
- Hospitals ask Ontario to include them in FOI law |...
- Kathy Corrigan: BC government should be upfront ab...
- ONTARIO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | Ontario's Hospitals...
- Quote of the day: "The greatest menace to freedom ...
- FOI and the third sector - when disclosure is less...
- UK Freedom of Information Blog: Identity of person...
- FOI requests refused as agencies lose info
- FOI documents go missing
- What was illegally dumped still kept from public
- Firing shrouded in secrecy
- UK Freedom of Information Blog: BBC4 Law in Action...
- FOI Oklahoma: Barring bulk copies of electronic co...
- Agencies criticised over FOI requests
- Trying to get the facts on FOI
- A transparent tribal government
- The FOI Advocate: Virginians Want Ethics Investiga...
- Newcastle university refuses to disclose executive...
- Alan in Belfast: Council accountability, transpare...
- UK Freedom of Information Blog: Identity of person...
- BBC - Open Secrets: The Mad Hatter's time lesson
- The FOI Advocate: Virginians Want Ethics Investiga...
- Nicholson blasted over privacy act
- Promise vs. Performance
- Planned bill would speed response to FOIA requests
- FOI changes to ensure transparency: Giddings
- FOIA Ombuds-Woman Named
- FOI Friday: Ten things we've learnt this week than...
- Paper trails are past tense: let's put it all online
- CALABARBOY: US HOUSE PASSES FOI AMENDMENT TO HIDE ...
- JOB – Freedom of Information Advisor – £29k/£39k –...
- Va. Coalition highlights transparent government
- Taking a page from Chretien
- Futile FOI Fights
- RAH Freedom of Information request to cost $120000
- Paul Waugh | Blogs | Evening Standard
- Open and Shut: Ministers not so high on the hog
- Freedom of Information (foi) Act requests reveal s...
- Canadian Universities Too Closed Minded on Open Ac...
- Harper government refuses to expand information, p...
- Open government group to honor Freedom of Informat...
- All my trips were legitimate - Harney
- Your Right To Know » Blog Archive » When Heather m...
- Despite promises, government hasn't done much to i...
- Cambridgeshire cops get coy with FOI • The Register
- Transparency Roundup
- NASS assures on FOI, information responsibility bills
- FOIA Ombudsman Promises Sunshine
- Access to information : Journalist calls for passa...
- UK: Tracking government information on transparenc...
- Taking sunshine for granted
- The FOI Advocate: Illini Fighting Release of Admis...
- Freedom of information — oxygen of democracy
- Research on Freedom of Information and Electronic ...
- Virginia Coalition for Open Government announces a...
- TNR Debate: Too Much Transparency? (Part I) | The ...
- Critics: National Archives lax in records manageme...
- Consultant's fees facing heat - Winnipeg Free Press
- Documents Revealed Through Freedom of Information ...
- BBC - Open Secrets: The impact of whatdotheyknow
- Teacher and School Employee Salaries Posted On See...
- GN e-mails not private: commissioner - Northern Ne...
- Renew resolve on our right to know
- Secrecy can be overcome
- Secrecy can be overcome
- Right To Know Fun Walk a great success
- Vancouver's mayor guilty of same NPA secrecy
- A rare chance to hold PM to his word
- Live every week like it's Sunshine Week
- Richard Taylor | Kevin Wilkins Replaces Ruth Joyce...
- FOI court challenge evaporates
- Now's the time to make our democracy work
- Harry's Place » Freedom of Information Act Does No...
- Whatdotheyknow.com - Freedom of Information - RedP...
- Show taxpayers under-$25k deals
- The Art of Democracy
- Democracy Club: Transparency through volunteering
- Open and Shut: More disclosure might lead to less ...
- OMB to issue transparency directive within a few w...
- FOI, Broadcast legislation list among priority Bil...
- After years of campaigning we win expenses transpa...
- FOI salary case heads to court
- You have the right to know
- Open-government conference to
- Democracy is the victim when secrecy rules
- Senators, AP seek more public info, fewer secrets
- NDP gets failing grade for refusing to make info p...
- Open government
- NASS should pass FOI Bill ---NUJ president
- BBC - Open Secrets: Veolia and the reverse-FOI
- Access to information is a right, not a privilege ...
- Supreme Court tackles freedomofpress issues Nova S...
- Stabroek News Broadcast FOI bills to be tabled thi...
- FOI failures hurt the public
- The Three Laws of Open Government Data
-
▼
October
(95)
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,