“I was disappointed but the judge made her decision, and her decision is what it is.” -David Coon Article by: JACQUES POITRAS Photo by: JOE MCDONALD/CBC A private for-profit nursing-home company with plans to triple its operations in New Brunswick has won the legal right to keep details of its government contracts secret.Justice Judy Clendening says Shannex Inc. does not […]
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“This government doesn’t want this information to come out, otherwise why would they put so much time, effort and money into keeping financial information into corporate nursing homes secret?” -David Coon Article by: MICHAEL ROBINSON Photo by: BRUNSWICK NEWS ARCHIVES A judge with the Court of Queen’s Bench has dismissed Green Party Leader David Coon’s appeal of Senior and Long-Term […]
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Article by: SHANE MAGEE Photo by: SHANE MAGEE/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT The Gallant government does not have a good track record with transparency. It has also bungled several important files, from public finance to health-care outsourcing. This is why we’re skeptical of the Liberals’ latest venture: to streamline the task of responding to all right-to-information requests into the mandate of a […]
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“The problem we’ve got is information that should be released isn’t being released and the culture that’s developed is to force people to go through right to information to get what they’re seeking, so of course the workload is going to be huge to respond to that,” – David Coon Article by: SHANE MAGEE David Coon, leader of the provincial […]
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