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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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- Snaptu: Transparency, not targets, will make a bet...
- Will there be FOI prosecutions at CRU? :: Climate ...
- Open Your Eyes News » Privacy law helps the Canadi...
- No role for politicians in FOI process
- MP tries in vain to uncover mystery behind secret ...
- Privacy law helps the government hide (TimesColoni...
- The FOI Advocate: Celebrating Unsung Heroes in the...
- White House Visitors Logs: Who Came To See Preside...
- Secrecy scandal as Scottish Government Ministers f...
- Muddying the waters over torture
- Extend FOI to financial bodies says Labour
- Records on kidnapping exempt from foi Act
- Secret files to be opened earlier under new laws
- FOI FYI » Blog Archive » Minnesota library pressur...
- Health service tops FoI queries
- Snaptu: Digitization of Older Canadian Parliamenta...
- Four questions
- Princess Politics: FOI
- Jersey FOI law to end secrecy culture
- Skakun pleads "not guilty" to FOI charge
- UK Freedom of Information Blog: SIC survey finds p...
- Mint went into damage control over missing gold
- BBC Open Secrets Hacked climate emails and FOI
- CRU raw data loss not an accident
- Ministers thought hard about Tourism BC decision, ...
- Annual meeting could help parks commission win bac...
- People's understanding of their FOI rights has fallen
- FOI FYI » Blog Archive » Sunshine Week to feature ...
- Republic | Blog » Blog Archive » Stop the royal FO...
- Supporter of RTKCNS: Linden MacIntyre Wins the 200...
- Groups encourage Campbell to bring BC Ferries back...
- Vancouver councillor seeking email retention polic...
- Officials learning about FOIA updates
- Case Report – IPC blesses manual processing of FOI...
- Westbrook town clerk's visitors' log faces FOI review
- Senate bill on right to information
- Owls and Roosters: Secrecy trumps transparency as ...
- MP claims FOI requested documents 'lost'
- Open and Shut: Tasmania FOI envy- in Michigan
- NIPSS Participants Call for Passage of FoI Bill
- Say what you mean
- State agency's decision a victory for openness in ...
- Freedom of Information laws a waste of resources, ...
- Transport Minister John Baird says he didn't pande...
- Editorial: Open e-mails
- The minister is protected, but from what?
- Hollywood: Never Mind the Transparency, Here's the...
- Bond kept on hot seat over pay at BC Ferries
- Legislating In Secret Irks GOP, But Insiders Say I...
- Why Yes Minister is as true as ever
- Your Right To Know » Blog Archive » Public locked ...
- The FOI Advocate: South Carolina Local Governments...
- Ghana: Rejoinder: Coalition on Right To Informatio...
- BBC - Open Secrets: Immigration risks and FOI
- Tories accuse government of breaking FoI laws (Epo...
- No accountability behind board's booty haul
- Selangor to have Freedom of Information Enactment
- Feds Charge $522,000 For One FOIA Request
- Obama's Open Government Directive Nears Release
- UK Freedom of Information Blog: Extension of FOI A...
- Artist, Open Government, and Civil Liberties Group...
- FleetStreetBlues: FOI Friday
- Raitt accused of expense abuse
- Privacy Act shields AECL salaries
- Open and Shut: "There should be a law against it"
- B93 News: FOI Request for Hospitals
- City auditor's independence questioned
- Talk About Local » What should government do to he...
- FOI Friday: Ten things we've learnt thanks to the ...
- Tories blasted for secrecy on stimulus cash
- Montreal's Scandals in Mayoral Race Revive Sin Cit...
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (Re), 2009 CanL...
- Look Who's Been Lobbying The White House -Forbes.c...
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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,