http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/The-Walrus-The-Dark-Country-on-Canadian-transparency-tp1933p1939.html
Thanks for posting that, Tracey. I wrote a blog post on the article, and Canada's Access to Information process in general, here:
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> From: Tracey P. Lauriault <
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> Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] The Walrus - The Dark Country (on Canadian transparency)
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> Received: Monday, January 11, 2010, 10:44 AM
> The Dark CountryThe Afghan
> torture scandal. The Arar
> affair. Adscam. The Bush years. Given so many cautionary
> tales, why are
> Canadians still letting the government hide public
> information?
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2010.01-national-affairs-the-dark-country/>
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> Yesterday; at Mike's corner store in Ottawa's
> Chinatown with my son to pick up some milk and gingerale, I
> saw the Walrus on the Magazine rack! Wot! Really! at
> Mike's?
>
>
> Ever since my 15 yrs old son saw Brother Mouzone in the
> Wire order that the Atlantic Monthy, New Yorker and Harpers
> be included with his library reading books, as he site in
> the bad ass streets of Baltimore, and after declaring that
> the most dangerous thing in America was an educated black
> man followed by a sinister wooohahahaha laugh and grin; my
> son has requested those magazines. Canadian Geographic
> just does not cut it! I do, from time to time pick those up
> with the odd Caramilk, but also feel obliged to throw in the
> Canadian equivalent - The Walrus from time to time.
>
>
> So I purchased my CanCon mag at Mike's. Then at home,
> while eating his favorite perogis with all the fixin's
> and drinking his Canada Dry, he said, with his mouth full,
> "hey mom, they are taking about access to data in the
> Walrus! You might like that!"
>
>
> Sure enough, there it was!
>
> The article is very insightful and helps understand why
> prorogation and silence are deadly to democracy!
>
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> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
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