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  1. As ACTA talks resume, new leak confirms fears about threat to online free expression
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders urges ACTA negotiators not to sacrifice Internet free speech and access to online information to the desire to combat piracy and the counterfeiting of copyrighted works
  2. Decision not file charges in CIA video destruction deals new setback to right to information
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The decision not to file charges against any of the CIA officers who destroyed 92 videos of interrogations in secret CIA prisons has dealt a new blow to the search for truth in a matter of public interest and to the public’s right of access.
  3. Finding Answers
    The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
  4. Getting the Goods
    Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
  5. Labour Left Out
    Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  6. Public Consultation: A Citizens Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  7. The Secret Secret
    Of Wikileaks and Literacy

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Only those with proper clearances can participate in discussions that affect significant aspects of our lives. Certain technological achievements, our collective ethical decisions (torture, secret prisons, air strikes, etc.), our collective behavior towards other nations and peoples (foreign policy discussions) and more are often obscured by state secrecy. Like the medieval clergy, those holding classified clearances are the sole legitimate interpreters of the 'really important' knowledge. In effect, they are a caste that guides our political and technological cosmologies.
  8. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.

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