The Sir Robert Bond Papers

In a report on his investigation, Citizen's Representative Barry Fleming said that while deputy minister Ted Lomond had directed the de...

Politics and policy are much more complicated things than they appear to many people. Change is possible, but effective change can only com...

Anyone who cracked out the champagne over the bill that would purportedly shed light on Nalcor's embedded contractors might want to spit...

Right off the start, let's affirm that Nalcor was created by an administration that was, from the time it took office, notorious for its...

The idea of open data has been around for a while. In government, it means that government would make information like census data,  stat...

The public sector unions' attack on freedom of information is finally in front of a judge.  The unions want to  block disclosure of the...

"How do you deal with a government computer system that is hopelessly out of date it wants you to 'update' your Internet brows...

Starting a little over a hundred years ago,  the Government of Newfoundland  publishing a list of public servants by name, showing their job...

Shortly after he took office a month or so ago,  newly appointed information commissioner Donovan Molloy told CBC there had been a " su...

There's no small irony that NAPE is fighting to increase public disclosure of government spending while other public sector unions are b...

To understand why access commissioner Ed Ring's ruling issued last Monday was troubling, you have to know some back story. Ring was ru...

On Friday morning, Memorial University political scientist Amanda Bittner told a CBC Radio audience that the Telegram’s government-compiled...

As it turns out, the "commentary" on access from information and privacy commissioner Ed Ring is tied to a lawsuit coming from the...

Access to documents from government are one thing. Understanding what they say is quite another. CBC requested batches of documents from...

James McLeod has released the data he compiled to produce his Saturday story on the number of people in the provincial public service who m...

Years ago,  a couple of enterprising reporters at CBC submitted what was then a request under the Freedom of Information Act for informatio...

A couple of recent post are reminders of how important it is to take a look at issues in the province from another perspective. On June 10...

From Tuesday’s throne speech , here’s another little passage buried away, that could prove to be one of the most significant parts of any th...

Tuesday’s video is available at parcnl.ca. Your humble e-scribbler is Number 2 on June 25.  At the front end of the Number 1 video is ...

If you want your SRBP fix this Wednesday morning check out the Privacy and Access Review Committee hearings at 11:00 AM. They are streamin...