BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) released a report yesterday showing secrecy in government is even a bigger problem that we thought. A February report from BC’s Information and Privacy Commissioner’s described what he called, “an unacceptable pattern of government-wide failure to respond to access requests in as timely a fashion as it [...]
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Report finds government stonewalling on FOI requests
May 8th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · BC Election 2009
The Case Against STV
May 5th, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform
More from our BC Commentary special on STV: The Case Against STV By David Schreck Will STV “make your vote count”? Actually, BC-STV can make your vote worth less and make your MLA less accountable. Our existing first-past-the-post (FPTP) system is not perfect, but it is better than BC-STV. Inequality is inherent in BC-STV. The [...]
Tags: accountability·David Schreck·FPTP·STV & electoral reform
Seniors' care concerns should be taken seriously in this election
May 1st, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Health care
Access to residential care beds for seniors was dubbed “an election hotspot” by CTV early last week, and for good reasons. The party that forms government after May’s election will have to deal with the pressures that the aging population would put on the already strained system of seniors’ care in BC. Fundamentally, providing an [...]
Tags: accountability·health care costs·home and community care·hospital·Jeremy Tate·Liberals·Marcy Cohen·NDP·platform·residential care·seniors
Government report on welfare leavers at odds with narrative
May 1st, 2009 · Seth Klein · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Poverty, inequality & welfare
Kudos to the Tyee’s Andrew MacLeod for extracting a long delayed report on welfare leavers from the provincial government. The report can be downloaded here. Andrew’s Tyee article about the report can be found here. The report uses tax data of BC welfare leavers between 2000 and 2005 to see how people have done. Comparing [...]
Tags: accountability·Andrew MacLeod·release of information·welfare
Government compliance with legal obligations far from good
February 15th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · BC Election 2009, Transparency & accountability
BC’s Freedom of Information Commissioner released his annual report last Friday. These reports are a pretty good indication of how open and transparent our government is. The Commissioner is unhappy and he says so in tough language: The stark fact is that the government’s overall record of compliance with its legal obligations under FIPPA is [...]
