Your Right To Know

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Commons officials more focused on furthering "immediate interests of MPs" than "propriety in public expenditure." […]

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You choose the public authority that you would like information from, then write a brief note describing what you want to know. We then send your request to the public authority. Any response they make is automatically published on the website for you and anyone else to find and read. You pay taxes, and then government does things with the money. All sorts o […]

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If you enter your annual earnings in Tax Tracks, you quickly see an estimate of how much you pay in taxes, and that amount is then broken down by income, sales, gas and other taxes. Then you'll see that the bulk of your taxes are allocated to core government programs, such as K-12 education, health care and human services, higher education, courts, pris […]

"For the past four years, Ontario has been buying brand drugs for well below the going rate. But an elaborate payment system has been set up to prevent anyone else from finding out exactly how much the government has been paying. Now, that information might be on the verge of becoming public. And drug companies, fearing national and even international r […]

"[Lanier] thinks we must prevent technology companies from reducing us to binary versions of ourselves in the form of Facebook profiles and Twitter updates. ... The tension between the individual and the crowd that Lanier sees in the workings of Wikipedia have always been at the very heart of political theory; from Rousseau to John Dewey. ... [T]he only […]

"The item that used to be yours when you brought it home from the store is now only contingently yours, subject to ongoing regulation." […]

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