Transparency
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The lack of transparency at City Hall makes it very difficult to ever know exactly what’s going on in any project. An announcement of a billion dollar over-run... more
By Clive Doucet
April 5, 2019
The government, the media and all the power brokers who benefit from the False Majority governments created by First Past the Post (FPTP) simply do not want... more
By James OGrady
May 13, 2016
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is lacking in Public Accountability. We, The People of Ontario, have little to no voice or oversight on our government,... more
April 7, 2016
Prime Minister Trudeau's mandate letters to ministers (which he thankfully made public for the first time ever) importantly remind them that the PM’s... more
December 10, 2015
(Queen’s Park): The Liberal government must say no to backroom deals, says Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner.
“From special deals for... more
September 14, 2015
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is introducing a fairer, more transparent billing model for the municipalities it serves across the province. The new model... more
August 14, 2014
Even at my age, I simply had to do something about this undemocratic government that rides roughshod over us Canadians, with 39% of the popular vote. So I... more
By Qais Ghanem
April 12, 2014
Dear Mayor Jim Watson & Ottawa City Council,
Friday at the hydro rally, the enclosed petition was signed by property taxpayers.
On behalf of taxpayers, we... more
By OTAG
April 7, 2014
(from a posting to the green-news email list:)
I made Council's coordinator, Dawn Whelan, aware of a number of discrepancies in the record of Council's... more
December 12, 2013
I understand that the blog Bulldog Ottawa, managed by former Ottawa Citizen editor Ken Gray, has been cut off from the timely dissemination of press releases... more
By Joe Banks
October 9, 2013
Science is supposed to be the objective arbitrator between ideological extremes in our democracy.
Some people readily consume information at face value. Others... more
By Celeste Cote
September 17, 2013
Late last night I notified the board of directors of the Edmonton-St. Albert Conservative Association of my difficult decision that I was resigning from the... more
June 7, 2013