Today I have a range of stories on freedom of information / access to information in Canada. As the first article I have below, says, it’s getting more and more absurd. At the federal level, departments and agencies are using every strategy they can to avoid giving out information – no matter how major or [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/03/13/media-update-for-march-13-2011/
A blow against personal accountability, and some obliviousness to it: I cover two different stories about personal accountability today. The first is about Dr. Charles Smith, the pathologist whose flawed and sometimes intentionally misleading testimony about the causes of infant deaths ruined dozens of lives. The province has had to pay out $5.5 million in [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/02/11/media-update-for-february-11-2011/
In today’s news, it was revealed that the Ontario Provincial Police are investigating several Ontario bureaucrats – no politicians involved in this one, much to the provincial Liberals’ relief. It seems that they were accepting kickbacks for contracts they awarded. Anyone who thinks this practice is isolated is probably naïve: the heavy dependence on de [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/08/09/media-update-for-august-9-2010/