The Sir Robert Bond Papers

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

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...

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...

The teachers' union doesn't want the public to know the names of public servants in Newfoundland and Labrador. The news late on Th...

Two recent stories about the province's access to government information and privacy laws. Both of them are essentially nonsense. Sh...

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...

The Liberals proposed a motion during last week’s private member’s day that the government repeal Bill 29 . Meanwhile, at the Telegram, ...

It was only a matter of time before the government that says more and more about less and less figured out that its best mouthpiece was Ste...

According to a major Telegram story on Monday morning, the provincial government won’t be able to release some information about Muskrat Fa...

As laughable as it is for the Premier’s Office to insist former Premier Kathy Dunderdale received only 46 e-mails in a single week and sent...

How odd that the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador – arguably the busiest job in the province, bar none -  received only 46 e-mails in a...

A tale out of Ottawa reveals the extent to which access to information problems crop up in lots of places. CBC News asked for a copy of a...

Premier Tom Marshall confirmed on Thursday that the provincial government will be doing the review of the provincial information and privac...

On Monday ,  Premier Kathy Dunderdale blew off any questions in the House of Assembly about Bill 29 with the comment that the centre for Law...

This week, people across Canada who are interested in the public right to access government information mark a thing called Right to Know We...

On the front page of Wednesday’s Telegram was another instalment in James McLeod’s blockbuster on the provincial government’s policy of ce...

Not only does the provincial government now censor public documents called orders in council, they can’t get their own scheme right. Publ...

The justice department is the lead department enforcing the provincial access to public information law. As such, it’s a pretty serious in...

The temperature in the House of Assembly is not even cooled down and Tory legislator Paul Lane (Mount Pearl South) is likely to find himself...