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  • Tim Bousquet
    news editor of The Coast and a strong advocate for open and accountable government.
    - archive of Tim's articles


  • The Hon. John M. Reid, QC
    former Information Commissioner of Canada


  • Dean Beeby
    Ottawa Deputy Bureau Chief at Canadian Press


  • Lee Cohen
    Canadian lawyer specializing in immigration and human rights matters


  • Alasdair Roberts
    - Rappaport Professor of Law and Public Policy, Boston's Suffolk University Law School
    - author of Blacked Out : Government Secrecy in the Information Age


  • Dr. David Flaherty
    Privacy and Information Policy Consultant
    - former BC Information and Privacy Commissioner


  • Bob Culbert
    Independent Producer


  • Wayne MacKay
    - Professor of Law at Dalhousie University
    - Vice Chairman of the Centre for Human Rights in Montreal
    - former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
    - former President of Mount Allison University
    - Member of the Order of Canada


  • Stephen Kimber
    - Rogers Communications Chair in Journalism at the University of King's College - award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster


  • Brian Flemming
    - International lawyer, teacher, lecturer and newspaper columnist (Halifax Daily News)
    - former policy advisor to Prime Minster Trudeau
    - former member of the Board of Directors of the CBC
    - Member of the Order of Canada


  • Tom Mitchinson
    former Assistant Access and Privacy Commissioner for Ontario


  • Andrew Culbert
    Producer of the Series: The Fifth Estate
    CBC Television


  • Linden MacIntyre
    Host of Series: The Fifth Estate; Author of The Bishop's Man
    CBC Television


  • Barry Tuckett
    former Ombudsman and Information and Privacy Commissioner of Manitoba


    • The Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia


    Advocating, Educating, and Mobilizing the Citizens of Nova Scotia to Exercise Their Rights to Information

    The 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.

    Your FOI Experience:

      Have you ever filed a FOI request? What has been your experience? Has the information you sought been forthcoming, or did you find the bureaucracy working against you? How do you think the Act can further be strengthened, so that it serves its purpose better? Let Us Know!


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  • NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING / TELECONFERENCE

    Date / time: Friday, July 15, 2011, 10:00 a.m.
    Location (in-person participation): Suite 1800, 1801 Hollis Street, Halifax

    Call in instructions (telephone participation): TBA
    Agenda:
    1. Annual report of the President (Darce Fardy)
    2. Annual financial report of the Treasurer (Indranil Dutta)
    3. Other annual reports (communications and government relations (Donna McCready), membership (Joanna))
    4. Election of Directors for 2011-12
    5. Towards establishing a FOI Fees Fund (Charles Cirtwill)
    6. Fundraising
    7. International developments (Toby Mendel)
    8. Other business

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  • NOTICE OF DIRECTORS' MEETING / TELECONFERENCE

    Date / time: Friday, July 15, 2011, 10:00 a.m.
    Location (in-person participation): Suite 1800, 1801 Hollis Street, Halifax

    Call in instructions (telephone participation): TBA
    Agenda:
    1. Appointment of officers for 2011-12
    2. Whether to adopt a policy of asking active members to make a standard annual cash donation to RTK (pursuant to By-law 2).
    3. Other business

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  • Available: Minutes from the 2010 RTKCNS Annual General Meeting

  • Know How They Vote (NS Legislature)

  • Music to Accompany Right to Know Week

  • All articles on the lowering of the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information fee (August, 2009)

  • Province lowers Freedom of Information fee - DoJ Press Release (August 14, 2009)

  • NS Supreme Court Says Development Authorities Are Public Bodies Subject to FOI


  • Darce Fardy on the Carter Center: America's Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information (April 28-30, 2009)



  • "...those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government."

    - US President Barack Obama: From his inauguration speech Jan 20 2009
    ( video available from Whitehouse.gov edited by RTKNS)

  • Mail from D250: A Response to Darce from Democracy 250

  • NS Election Oct 14 2008 - Candidate Views on Accountabilty and Transparency

  • NS Election June 2009 - Party Views on Accountabilty and Transparency

  • Right to Know Coalition NS AGM Minutes 2009










    • Nova Scotia Legislature Hansard Search


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