'Snail mail' FOI law outdated: commissioner - CBC.ca
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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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- Information Commissioner's Annual Report 2010/11
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- Group wants judge to force N.S. to fess up about H...
- 'Snail mail' FOI law outdated: commissioner - CBC.ca
- Government FoI requests reach record high (UK)
- The Freedom of Information Act on its 45th anniver...
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- Accountability Initiative (India)
- The Art of Access
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- Find Your Nova Scotia MLA
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- NS Select Committee on Participation in the Democratic Process
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- House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI)
- Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC)
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- right2info.org : The Right to Information: Good Law and Practice
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- Apathy is Boring
- Empire Center for New York State Policy
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Fellow Bloggers
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- 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,