howdtheyvote.ca

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A loss for data and democracy

Earlier this month, Cory Horner shut down one of my favourite bookmarks, howdtheyvote.ca. Cory explains his decision here.

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The House: Further reading

For their assistance when I was putting together last week’s piece on the House—and for the indispensable sites they respectively maintain—I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Michael Mulley of openparliament.ca and Cory Horner of howdtheyvote.ca. I also must thank Ned Franks, both for his writing on Parliament and omnibus legislation and his perspective.

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The post-paper era

David Eaves writes to the Parliamentary committee studying open data.

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Information needs to be free

The magazine’s Rethink issue—Warning: sideways design may blow your mind—includes this story on the open data and open government movements. The ideas discussed there may or may not change everything.