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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The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. As a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama's administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by th […]

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Heather Brooke is an award-winning writer, journalist and activist. Her unprecedented five-year campaign for the full disclosure of MPs’ expenses led to a full-scale reform of the Parliamentary expense system. Heather is the author of The Silent State (Heinemann) and Your Right to Know (Pluto Press). She is is an honorary professor at at City University’s De […]

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 […]