No matter where they are, many student unions are the same
In New Zealand, the largest national student lobbying organization doesn’t particularly like opening it’s meetings to the media. There excuses sound oddly familiar to me too! ‘We need safe space’...
View ArticleUBC sets up very, very open interviews for Dean of Education candidates
Final two contenders asked to give a public speech, take questions from the audience
View ArticleDo you know where your student fees are going?
Most student unions aren't transparent about your cash
View ArticleHas the Canadian Federation of Students lost its way?
Student group seems distracted and afraid of transparency
View ArticleQ&A with student leader Adam Awad
Canadian Federation of Students head talks transparency
View ArticleSteve Jobs is NOT dead.
Let me repeat that…not dead. Still very much alive…and hopefully will be for many years to come. But for a brief moment last night, apparently, readers of the Bloomberg wire service might have thought...
View ArticleRights and Democracy: Transparency
This afternoon we taped tonight’s edition of TVO’s The Agenda With Steve Paikin. The topic for most of the hour was the recent controversy at Rights and Democracy. (Click the “Rights and Democracy” tag...
View Article‘Hold to clarify my amended response is the one I want used no figures’
Ministerial aide Ryan Sparrow helpfully suggests a new slogan for the next Conservative re-election campaign. Bureaucrats calculated the value of the advertising campaign and prepared an answer the...
View ArticleA teachable moment
Asked about the matter in Question Period this afternoon, Diane Finley explains her office’s commitment to transparency and clarity in all things. Mr. Speaker, the reporter was provided with the...
View ArticleBritish sensibility
David Eaves lauds David Cameron’s new commitment to transparent accounting. After a brief video announcement from Prime Minister David Cameron about the importance of the event, Francis Maude, Minister...
View ArticleTransparency theatre
As suggested here yesterday, Justin Trudeau rose after Question Period yesterday afternoon and asked for unanimous consent to pass four motions related to the disclosure of MP expenses. As predicted,...
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Information laws be damned, our Mounties ain’t talking
Pawel Dwulit/Canadian Press Transparency, the buzzword, is enjoying a moment. There’s no end to breathless talk of open governments, naked corporations and radical transparency of all kinds. The...
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The Alberta NDP’s convenient peek into the shadows
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley pictured in her office in Edmonton Alberta, September 15, 2015. Photograph by Jason Franson In early May, Rachel Notley’s NDP marked one year since their...
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