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20241123 Access and Privacy Online

Show Notes for Saturday November 23rd. Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM. Writing: Shaun Fisk  | Production: Patrick Farnsworth  | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.   Full Show Links Nova Scotia Election Segment 2024 Election Questionnaire NS https://fipa.bc.ca/2024-election-questionnaire-ns/ Your Political Privacy https://fipa.bc.ca/get-help/your-political-privacy/ Your Political Privacy – Nova Scotia https://fipa.bc.ca/get-help/your-political-privacy/provincial-election-privacy-nova-scotia/ Canadian Provincial Stories […]

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20241109 Access and Privacy Online

Show Notes for Saturday November 9th. Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM. Writing: Shaun Fisk  | Production: Patrick Farnsworth  | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.   Full Show Links US Election Segment AP Race Call: Montana voters approve constitutional amendment enshrining abortion rights  https://fipa.bc.ca/ap-race-call-montana-voters-approve-constitutional-amendment-enshrining-abortion-rights/  Debate over abortion rights leads to expensive campaigns […]

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20241102 Access and Privacy Online

Show Notes for Saturday November 2nd. Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM. Writing: Shaun Fisk  | Production: Patrick Farnsworth  | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.   Full Show Notes: Office of the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools  https://osi-bis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OSI-BIS-Press-Release.pdf   https://osi-bis.ca/osi-resources/reports/?report-type=final-report […]

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2024 Election Questionnaire NS

The last day of voting in the Nova Scotia provincial election is on Tuesday, November 26th. We sent questions to political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on November 6th. Their deadline to respond was November 19th. Here are the responses and the date we […]

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2024 Pathways to Precarity

New for 2024, FIPA conducted a major research activity investigating the exponentially high rates of Access to Information and Privacy requests (“ATIP requests”) received by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) as compared to all other government institutions. Given broad direction to explore and investigate with extended advisors Jerika Caduhada documented the findings. According to […]

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20241026 Access and Privacy Online

Show Notes for Saturday October 26th. Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM. Writing: Shaun Fisk  | Production: Patrick Farnsworth  | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.   Full Show Notes:  2024 Election Questionnaires  https://fipa.bc.ca/2024-election-questionnaires/ https://fipa.bc.ca/2024-election-questionnaire-bc/ https://fipa.bc.ca/2024-election-questionnaire-nb/ https://fipa.bc.ca/2024-election-questionnaire-sk/ Business owners in disaster areas should be wary of possible scams  https://fipa.bc.ca/business-owners-in-disaster-areas-should-be-wary-of-possible-scams/   October is Cybersecurity Awareness […]

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20241019 Access and Privacy Online

Show Notes for Saturday October 19th. Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM. Writing: Shaun Fisk  | Production: Patrick Farnsworth  | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.   Full Show Notes: Indigenous population of incarcerated women still rising despite calls to action https://fipa.bc.ca/indigenous-population-of-incarcerated-women-still-rising-despite-calls-to-action/   Investigative Journalism Foundation – https://theijf.org/   https://theijf.org/indigenous-population-of-incarcerated-women-still-rising-despite-calls-to-action   Union of BC Indian Chiefs […]

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20241012 Access and Privacy Online

Show Notes for Saturday October 12th. Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM. Writing: Shaun Fisk  | Production: Patrick Farnsworth  | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.   Full Show Notes: Cyber breach at B.C. First Nations Health Authority exposed TB tests, insurance data  https://fipa.bc.ca/cyber-breach-at-b-c-first-nations-health-authority-exposed-tb-tests-insurance-data/   Police officer receives reprimand for database search on […]

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2024 Election Questionnaires

Fall 2024 sees three provincial elections in Canada.  The last day of voting is coming up in: British Columbia on Saturday, October 19th New Brunswick on Monday, October 21st Saskatchewan on Monday, October 28th Nova Scotia on Tuesday, November 26th Cultures of secrecy, efforts to evade accountability, and a general lack of transparency all erode trust in incumbent […]

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2024 Election Questionnaire BC

The last day of voting in the British Columbia provincial election is on Saturday, October 19th. We sent questions to political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on October 7th. Their deadline to respond was October 16th. Here are the responses and the date we […]

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2024 Election Questionnaire NB

The last day of voting in the New Brunswick provincial election is on Monday, October 21st. We sent questions to political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on October 7th. Their deadline to respond was October 16th. Here are the responses and the date we […]

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2024 Election Questionnaire SK

The last day of voting in the New Brunswick provincial election is on Monday, October 28th. We sent questions to political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on October 7th. Their deadline to respond was October 23rd. Here are the responses and the date we […]

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