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		<title>The Age of Unaccountability</title>
		<link>http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/11/21/the-age-of-unaccountability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Bron</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christiane Oiumet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been trying to find a topic to write about these past two weeks, but haven’t found something that really inspired me into outrage. I&#8217;ve just become too jaded. There have been stories of incompetence and abuse of authority – the rising aviation accident death rate due to Transport Canada’s refusal to act as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning information technology silk purses into sows&#8217; ears (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/08/06/turning-information-technology-silk-purses-into-sows-ears-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Bron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turning information technology silk purses into sows&#8217; ears (part 2) Two days ago I posted on the sad state of affairs in government vis-à-vis information technology and management. I finished by suggesting that what is needed is an IT czar at the deputy minister level, with similar resources. Well, as if by magic, a story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning information technology silk purses into sows&#8217; ears</title>
		<link>http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/08/04/turning-information-technology-silk-purses-into-sows-ears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Bron</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Page]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the dead of summer, accountability news is at its low point. There have been a few stories of interest, though. About four weeks ago, the Globe and Mail ran apiece about what the author called Canada’s “accountability deficit.” In it, she describes the incredible inefficiency of government information management practices – the quirky, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handling of the Champlain Bridge report an interesting case study in ineptitude</title>
		<link>http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/07/19/handling-of-the-champlain-bridge-report-an-interesting-case-study-in-ineptitude/</link>
		<comments>http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/07/19/handling-of-the-champlain-bridge-report-an-interesting-case-study-in-ineptitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Bron</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Rae]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[De la Concorde overpass collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denis Lebel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal government’s treatment of information about the Champlain Bridge is an interesting case study about government communications, bureaucratic (and political) arrogance, and the general contempt held in Ottawa (and Quebec City) for the public. In case you haven’t heard the story, it went down like this: Transport Canada minister Denis Lebel said that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access to information abuses show that Governments are still hoarding their secrets</title>
		<link>http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/07/04/whistleblower-comment-on-the-news-access-to-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian Bron</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andre Marin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean Chretien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ontario Ombudsman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Somalia Inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suzanne Legault]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been a series of stories about how the federal and provincial governments continue to abuse access to information laws (also known as freedom of information). These laws are supposed to give Canadians access to government records – records made by people whose salary they pay. Of course, this isn’t happening the way it [...]]]></description>
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