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Cleaning up and making governments and corporations more accountable to you, and making Canada the world's leading democracy! (For details, click here) Media and Public Appearances (October 1993 - February 2012) Set
out
below is a list of
links to Democracy Watch's media and public
appearances from 2012 and past years.
I. 2012 Media Appearances in reverse chronological order TV Radio Newspapers, Magazines and Web Media NOTE: Some links will take you to a media webpage that is not controlled by Democracy Watch. In some cases, the article or interview will no longer be available, or only available to subscribers. 2012 Public Appearances are set out below the Media Appearances 72 media appearances in 2012 (including 9 national appearances) 2012 -- 1 TV appearances so far (including 0 national TV appearances) January 27 -- Global News (Ontario) re: WEBSITE ARTICLE: Ontario Liberals being undemocratic and secretive in budgeting process, unlike minority government should be (CBC.ca and 18 other media outlets across Canada, all publishing CanadianPress.com wire article, January 27, 2012 -- See article also on GlobalNews.ca)
2012 -- 16 radio appearances so far (including 0 national radio appearances) February 1 - CFRA Ottawa (Michael Harris afternoon show) re: NEWS RELEASE: Groups urge Senate to question whistleblower watchdog Mario Dion, and to end 5-year muzzling of civil society (January 30, 2012) January 27 - 10 radio stations across Ontario re: WEBSITE ARTICLE: Ontario Liberals being undemocratic and secretive in budgeting process, unlike minority government should be (CBC.ca and 18 other media outlets across Canada, all publishing CanadianPress.com wire article, January 27, 2012 -- See article also on GlobalNews.ca) January 27 - News 88.9 Saint John, News 91.9 Moncton (early afternoon show) re: NEWS RELEASE: Five years after requirements became law, has Treasury Board ensured that all federal government institutions provide legally-required whistleblower protection? (January 26, 2012) January 26 - VOCM Radion (Newfoundland and Labrador) re: NEWS RELEASE: Five years after requirements became law, has Treasury Board ensured that all federal government institutions provide legally-required whistleblower protection? (January 26, 2012) January 18 - News 88.9 Saint John, News 91.9 Moncton (early afternoon show) re: NEWS RELEASE: Federal Conservatives must commit to strengthening access-to-information, ethics, lobbying, political finance, financial administration, public consultation and whistleblower protection laws and enforcement to fulfill their international Open Government Partnership (OGP) membership requirements (January 17, 2012) January 17 - CFAX Radio (Victoria, B.C.) re: NEWS RELEASE: Federal Conservatives must commit to strengthening access-to-information, ethics, lobbying, political finance, financial administration, public consultation and whistleblower protection laws and enforcement to fulfill their international Open Government Partnership (OGP) membership requirements (January 17, 2012) January 16 - CBC Radio (Early Edition show in B.C.) re: B.C. Premier Christy Clark hires former corporate lobbyist as her chief of staff, raising serious conflict of interest issues
NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES and WEB MEDIA 2012 -- 55 print and web media appearances so far (including 9 national appearances (including Yahoo News Canada reprints of articles)) WEBSITE ARTICLE: MPs must work together to make changes to restrict power of party leaders (Canada.com and 11 Postmedia News newspapers across Canada, January 31, 2012) NEWS RELEASE: Groups urge Senate to question whistleblower watchdog Mario Dion, and to end 5-year muzzling of civil society (January 30, 2012) -- To see related iPolitics.ca article, click here -- and also posted on PEJ news WEBSITE ARTICLE: If MPs were covered by Access to Information Act, secret spending and partisan activities would be revealed (HuffingtonPost.ca, January 30, 2012) LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: If Auditor General had audited MPs as she should have, Duceppe situation would have been cleared up years ago (Hill Times, January 30, 2012) January 30 -- Hill Times re: Elections Canada hides details of investigations in hundreds of cases WEBSITE ARTICLE: Ontario Liberals being undemocratic and secretive in budgeting process, unlike minority government should be (CBC.ca and 18 other media outlets across Canada, all publishing CanadianPress.com wire article, January 27, 2012 -- See article also on GlobalNews.ca) LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: If Auditor General had audited MPs as she should have, Duceppe situation would have been cleared up years ago (Globe and Mail, January 25, 2012) WEBSITE ARTICLE: Governments across Canada, such as the City of Hamilton, continue to fail to operate openly by disclosing information the public has a right to know (Hamilton Spectator, January 19, 2012) -- To see related Spectator editorial, click here January 16 - Hill Times re: letter from reader mentioning Democracy Watch's open government campaign January 10 - VancouverObserver.com re: Donations from oil companies tainting Canadian government decision-making January 4 - YorkRegion.com re: police budget for region does not have to be negotiated entirely in secret, and public has a right to know some details WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal Conservatives have so far broken almost all their 2006 election open government promises, and their international Open Government Partnership (OGP) commitments -- will Conservatives' final April 2012 OGP Action Plan also break their commitments? (Canada.com and 13 Postmedia News newspapers across Canada, January 3, 2012) -- To see related news release, click here
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