http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Right-To-Know-Week-September-28-October-2-2009-tp1786p1801.html
I'll be on the panel at the town hall on 'Citizens' Engagement and State Accountability' on Monday.
It's not on the site right now as I replaced one of VisibleGovernment.ca's board members, and they're updating their material.
--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Tracey P. Lauriault <
> From: Tracey P. Lauriault <
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Right To Know Week - September 28 - October 2, 2009
> To: "civicaccess discuss" <
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> Anyone going to this?
>
> I will try to go to the Panel on the 30th. It would be
> great to get some notes for the one on the 28 and the 29th.
>
> Cheers
> t
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM,
> Ted Hildebrandt <
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> wrote:
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> Right To Know Week - September 28 to
> October 2,
> 2009
>
http://www.righttoknow.ca/>
>
> Welcome to
> the Right to Know website! The purpose of Right to Know
> Week is to raise
> citizen awareness about their right to access information
> under the control of
> government institutions. In 2009 Canadian Right to Know
> Week will take place
> from September 28th to October 2nd.
>
> This year marks
> the fourth year that Canadians have celebrated Right to
> Know Week, and
> there are a great number of events planned all across
> Canada. Internationally,
> Right to Know Day began in Sofia, Bulgaria at an
> international meeting of access
> to information advocates who proposed that a day be
> dedicated to the promotion
> of freedom of information worldwide. Right Know Day is now
> celebrated annually
> by over 60 different countries on September
> 28th.
>
> This website is a
> portal to all jurisdictions across the country mandated to
> address complaints
> about access to information.
>
> Also, from David Akin's blog
http://davidakin.blogware.com>
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>
http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2009/9/15/4322628.html>
>
> "I was pleased to be invited
> to be a panelist for one of
> the sessions that will be part of the "Right To
> Know" conference, to be held
> Sept. 28-Oct. 1 and organized by the Office of the
> Information Commissioner of
> Canada.
>
> It's all part of
> Right To Know
> Week across
> the country.
>
> There's lots of
> great sessions for those
> interested in this important issue.
> My session will be on
> Monday, Sept. 28 from 7
> p.m. to 9 p.m. The conference will be held at the Canadian
> War Museum here in
> the nation's capital.
> Suzanne Legault, the
> interim information
> commissioner, will make some opening remarks before my
> panel discussion which is
> centred on "Citizens' Engagement and State
> Accountability." My good friends
> David McKie of CBC Radio and Jeff Sallot, now of Carleton
> University and
> formerly of The Globe and Mail, will also be on the panel.
> We'll be joined by
> Andy Kaplan-Myrth, a lawyer and VP of VisibleGovernment.ca,
> Ben Leapman, one of
> the journalists who contributed to the (UK) Daily
> Telegraph's terrific work on
> unearthing the outrageous expenses of British
> parliamentarians, Kerry Pither, a
> human rights and civil liberties advocate. Lucy van
> Oldenbarneveld, host of CBC
> News at Six in Ottawa, will be moderating the
> panel.
> The conference
> is free! So please tell
> one and all about
> it."
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Ted
> Hildebrandt
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