Class materials

News Databases Factiva is a full-text news database used to search larger Canadian news outlets and many outside Canada, including the New York Times and Washington Post. Eureka is a full-text news database used mostly to search regional news outlets, including the Chronicle Herald and CBC online [...]

Here are some resources on FOI and for filing your requests. And if you scroll to the bottom, a bit of fun. Forms Form for requests to Nova Scotia government departments Form for requests to Dalhousie University Form for requests to Halifax Regional Municipality Form for requests to Halifax [...]

Full Nanos poll Full Ekos poll NHLSalaries Sample size [...]

Nova Scotia Property Online Registry of Joint Stock Companies https://www.pvsc.ca/en/home/findanassessment/searchbyaddress.aspx Property Online [...]

Here are the links to the other accountability resources we covered in class (aside from the salary disclosure information): Nova Scotia lobbyist registry: https://novascotia.ca/sns/lobbyist/search.asp Federal lobbyist registry: https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/eic/site/012.nsf/eng/00035.html Federal [...]

The following are the assignments. Each will be added as it is assigned: FOI assignment NewsAssignment1 [...]

The Syllabus can be obtained at this link: [...]

Here is the web page for the public sector salary disclosure for 2016: http://www.novascotia.ca/finance/en/home/publications/PSCD/pscd2017.aspx You can convert PDF files to Excel using Cometdocs at cometdocs.com. A free account allows five conversions per week. This zip file contains all of the [...]

Here are some of the links from the Jour3004 class on Tuesday Sept. 12, 2017, as well as some additional links: Search completed federal access to information requests: http://open.canada.ca/en/search/ati Search completed Nova Scotia FOIPOP requests: https://foipop.novascotia.ca/foia/#/home City of [...]

Credit card data Ottawa parking tickets, 2012 Ottawa health inspections Winnipeg Census Tracts shapefile Winnipeg household income Schema.ini file Tim Hortons Locations Halifax Schools Winnipeg Railway Buffer polygon [...]