Fred Vallance-Jones

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My latest article..Unprecedented level of secrecy surrounds costs and work on $80B warship project ottawacitizen.com/news/national/… via @ottawacitizen

I have this image of the secretary standing on the border, sheaf of paper in his hand, sweeping it back and forth. Spelling is important.

Thanks to Peter Mansbridge for his generous commitment to the next generation of investigative journalists with endowed awards at @ukings, @JSchool_CU and @UBCJournalism. We are deeply grateful and excited for the careers this will spark.

Thank you for this visionary encouragement to the next generation of investigative reporters & writers who are doing award winning work @ukings - Peter Mansbridge Creates Award for Investigative Journalism and Writing at King’s ukings.ca/news/peter-man…

@RhondaBrown5 Be safe

Surreal experience as my family and I evacuate from our neighborhood. The Tantallon wildfire is quickly moving threatening hundreds of homes. #nswildfire

@billlaheykings @ukings @CPAWSnovascotia @NSwilderness A fine looking crew on a fine day. Recovering from a virus, but hoping for next year.

The @ukings gang after lunch at Fox Lake in Blue Mountain & Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area. @CPAWSnovascotia @NSwilderness

Seymour Hersh's new book 'Reporter: A Memoir' is a truly inspiring chronicle of investigative reporting in this troubled time for news media. Chapt. 9 'Finding Calley' should be required reading at every J-school. nytimes.com/2018/06/13/boo…

@JamesGIS @Tim_Bousquet The dashboard has never had a download option, as far as I know. When they went to weekly reports, the stats provided were cut back, even if some more detail was provided in epidemiologic summaries in pdf form. Now, we go to monthly reports, with the dashboard updated weekly.

@JamesGIS @Tim_Bousquet Data dissemination seems to be the issue here. Nova Scotia was never the best at this, TBH, even at the height of COVID. Release was restricted in many ways (e.g. massive geographies) and cross referencing of variables was difficult if not impossible.

The "send me anonymous messages" thing has got to be a data collecting scheme, no?

@LynnDenault Oh, and you can have a round trip on one fare, with a transfer.

@LynnDenault There is a cross-harbour ferry between Halifax and Dartmouth, part of the transit system. You get the best views of the city, and on a mild summer evening it's 12 minutes of bliss.

This experience never gets old.

John Dean, bookended by Woodward & Bernstein. What a long, strange trip it's been.

@TerryCookeHCF @HamCommFdn It’s a great program. And there are lots of great choices for the rest of her degree.

@Fvjones @HamCommFdn Anything but journalism! (-: Foundation year program. She loves literature, looks like a perfect fit.

After 2 years of being careful, returned from a work trip to Edmonton & this! Ugh. Worst possible timing with our @HamCommFdn AGM today & big announcement tomorrow. Will be joining remotely. Thankful to be boosted & therefore relatively mild symptoms. This isn’t over. Stay safe.

@TerryCookeHCF @HamCommFdn Give me some warning and I'll definitely make time. I'm excited a Cooke is coming to King's! What will they be studying?

@Fvjones @HamCommFdn Thanks Fred. Gotta be ready to drop my kid off at your school in August. Hope to see you.

@RetroCanada Well, that's the idea. One can argue over exemptions, but the default being public is the principle. I'd be happy to just get somewhere closer to ideal. I think governments have decided this does them little real political damage, and they act accordingly.

I don't think it would be overstating it to say that in practical terms, the access-to-information regime is near collapse. I am coming around to the view that a complete overhaul is the only solution.

I know something like this has 0 chance of happening, and I am sure the practical details would be challenging. But something has to happen. The current situation is untenable in a democracy.

I teach my students how to use ATIP and many ask why they would bother. I don't blame them, when some requests can take years to complete (I know this from the 2017 News Media Canada FOI audit, that still had letters trickling in in 2021) and even the most basic may take months.