UncategorizedFreedom and accountabilityDavid Eaves considers the implications of Richard Colvin’s accusations. On this issue of access and accountability, Gil Shochat...
UncategorizedThe phone call came from inside the houseMike Blanchfield reads a government website. Possibly violating national security in the process. The Treasury Board says that the...
UncategorizedTwirling, twirling towards transparencyVic Toews, yesterday . "This has been the most open government in the history of Confederation and our government is committed to...
OttawaDND again denies first, discloses laterThis morning’s interesting Globe and Mail story on a secret military project called Polar Breeze catches my attention for...
OttawaWhat are they thinking in Kandahar? We could tell you, but...Word last night from Roland Paris at the University of Ottawa, with whom I recently travelled in Afghanistan and who sent an...
OttawaMarleau, now with less hairThe information commissioner, who had upset some observers with his apparent passivity in the early innings of the Harper...
UncategorizedTesting governments’ commitment to transparencyThe Canadian Newspaper Association released its fourth annual Freedom of Information Audit . The report reveals what anyone who...
UncategorizedWaiting ... and waiting ... for CIDA to do its jobNormally I don’t get that sentimental about anniversaries, so I hope readers will forgive me for missing an important one...
UncategorizedAccess to Delays and Evasion at CIDAIn April 2007, some 16 months ago, I submitted an Access-to-Information request to the Canadian International Development Agency...