Sorry for the lack of posts this week, blog was offline for a bit. (For geeks out there, I now have a company managing my blog for me and we we’re moving from a shared hosting service to a virtual private server – I should have less down time in the future – very excited). [...]
Entries tagged as “politics”
Census Update and other chuckles
Good Statistical Data: We fund it in Africa, but not in Canada
It turns out that the Canadian government is a supporter of collecting good statistical data – especially data that can be used to alleviate poverty and address disease. There’s only one catch. It can’t help Canadians. As the fall out from the canceling of the mandatory long form census continues to grow – today the [...]
Open Canada – Hello Globe and Mail?
Richard Poynder has a wonderful (and detailed) post on his blog Open and Shut about the state of open data in the UK. Much of it covers arguments about why open data matters economically and democratically (the case I’ve been making as well). It is worthwhile reading for policy makers and engaged citizens. There is [...]
The Prime Minister, The Press and The Fear Disintermediation
Last week the Prime Minister announced that he would use YouTube to answer citizen submitted questions. Over the past seven days thousands of Canadians have submitted and voted on questions that they would like to Prime Minister to answer. Is this novel or new? Not really – on a smaller scale politicians have been doing [...]
Withholding FOI requests: In the Private Sector, that’s fraud
It was with enormous interest I read on the Globe’s website about a conservative Ministerial Aide “unrealeasing” a document requested by The Canadian Press through an Access to Information request (The Access to Information Act ensures that citizens can request information about the government’s activities). A federal cabinet minister’s aide killed the release of a [...]
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