Note: I’ll be on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin tonight talking about Government 2.0. Why does open data matter? Rather than talk in abstract terms, let me share a well documented but little known story about how open data helped expose one of the biggest tax frauds in Canada’s history. It begins in early [...]
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Case Study: How Open data saved Canada $3.2 Billion
Real Renewal – Creating a post-boomer Liberal Party
Taylor Owen and I published an op-ed entitled “Real Renewal” in today’s Toronto Star. You can comment on the piece here. —- OPINION How about real Liberal renewal? Nov 20, 2008 04:30 AM David Eaves Taylor Owen In the weeks since one of its worst ever electoral performances, the conversation within the Liberal Party of [...]
Afghanistan: Tears are not enough, but neither are troops
Taylor Owen and Patrick Travers had a nice op-ed published in Saturday’s Toronto Star. Entitled, “2011 is a date, not a goal” it drives to the heart of the debate we aren’t having on Afghanistan. It increasingly feels that in referencing the “Afghan Mission” the “mission” part has been lost somewhere. It is as though [...]
My “top 10″ 2007 blogging moments: #4
July of 2007 – the 10th anniversary of blogging comes and goes and no one in the Canadian media notices. Of course given that the traditional media spent as much of 1994 to mid-2007 as they could ignoring the internet, this should surprise no one. So Taylor and I take matters into our own hands [...]
electoral reform: maybe people just don’t care
Yesterday, the Toronto Star had this fun story about the upcoming referendum on electoral reform. My favourite part was the beginning: To find out what people think about the Ontario referendum being held a month from today, the Toronto Star stopped some 50 people at Yonge and Bloor Sts. Just one person knew about it. [...]
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