Have you submitted another Information Request to the CBC this hour?
Dan Say
What is the reason for hiring Ghomeshi
and the CBC PromoGit Guy?
What are the lengths of pieces being played
on CBC radio in 1995, 2005, and 2007-1
and what year were they written and recorded?
Don't you want to know more about 'Your CBC"
including the costs and makeup for the TV newsanchors?
[ It might be Joe Clark, the blogger, a CBC Guild member,
Ian Morrison of Friends of Cdn Broadcasting, or more likely
Ken Rubin of behalf of thousands of others. ]
# Inside the CBC (p3 of 13)
Friday, December 28
Single source floods CBC's Access to Information office
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A single source has logjammed CBC's Access to Information office. Of
the 500 ATI requests received since September 1, a whopping 450 came
from a single source.
This volume means that CBC now has to bring in a
consultant to enhance workflows and hire more people to work in its
ATI office.
The CBC had not anticipated this kind of volume, having based its
estimate on the volume of ATI requests received by organizations about
its size and with a similar scope. (For instance, 500 requests are
more than the number of requests typically received by the Department
of Industry. For an entire year.)
But clearly, nobody could have forseen that a single person or group
has filed 90% of the requests, causing this logjam.
Under ATI law, the Corp can not release any identifying information
about the requester.
Had this individual or group not filed 450 requests in the first three
months, the volume would have been equivalent to what other Crown
Corporations have been receiving.
Meg Angevine, the CBC's Access to Information Coordinator, says as a
result of the requests, the CBC can not meet its goal of providing
responses within 30 days.
The CBC has hired an ATI consultant to give advice on reorganizing its
office and workflow. In the interim, it is actively trying to hire for
more positions in the office.
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Dan Say
any AtIR requssts.
And since the press release from the AtI office was the same
in French, it might have come from across the Ottawa River.
The AtI office is in Ottawa, by the way.
As the the individual application it could be anyone. The
word will get out in a few months, probably.
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Daniel Turp, MNA for Mercier (Quebec member of assembly)
files a AtIR (FOI) in November 2007 about the dumbing down
of Radio Two (Chaine Culturelle, now Espace Musique)
on the SRC French side
See http://www.danielturp.org/pdf_accueil/novembre/Espace-musique-Deman
de-d-acces-a-l-information_2007-11-05.pdf
He's saying
Could you send me any document containing information about the number of shots,
productions, co-productions and recordings, as well as the money spent for this
purpose by the Channe culturelle de 2001 ` 2004 and music here-from Espace Musique
for different categories of Music (classical, song, jazz, world music and emerging music)
and presenting the case Appropriate, the information on an annual basis?
and so on.
Madame, monsieur,
Pour donner suite ? une suggestion formul?e dans une lettre du
26 septembre 2007 de la premi?re directrice d'Espace-musique,
madame Christiane Leblanc, j'ai le plaisir de vous pr?senter une demande
d'acc?s ? l'information en application de la Loi sur l'acc?s ?
l'information (L.R. 1985, c. A-1) qui est
applicable ? la Soci?t? Radio-Canada depuis le 1er septembre 2007.
1) Pourriez-vous me transmettre tout document contenant de
l'information sur le nombre de captations, de
productions, de co-productions et d'enregistrements ainsi que les
sommes d?pens?es ? ce titre par la
Cha?ne culturelle de 2001 ? 2004 et par Espace-musique de 2004 ? 2007
pour les diff?rentes cat?gories de
musique (classique, chanson, jazz, musiques du monde et musiques
?mergentes) et pr?sentant, le cas
?ch?ant, ces renseignements sur une base annuelle? Pourriez-vous me
transmettre tout document
contenant une ventilation de ces donn?es en fonction du nombre de
captations, de productions, de co-productions et d'enregistrements
effectu?s et des sommes d?pens?es au Qu?bec et ? l'ext?rieur du Qu?bec,
et s'agissant du Qu?bec, ? Montr?al, ? Qu?bec et dans les autres
r?gions du Qu?bec??
2) Pourriez-vous me transmettre tout document contenant de
l'information sur le nombre de captations, de
productions, de co-productions et d'enregistrements effectu?s durant
les saisons estivales 2004, 2005, 2006 et 2007 pour les diff?rentes
cat?gories de musique (classique, chanson, jazz, musiques du monde et
musiques ?mergentes)? Pourriez-vous me transmettre tout document
contenant une ventilation de ces donn?es en fonction du nombre de
captations, de productions, de co-productions et d'enregistrements
effectu?s et des sommes d?pens?es au Qu?bec et ? l'ext?rieur du
Qu?bec, et s'agissant du Qu?bec, ? Montr?al, ? Qu?bec et dans les
autres r?gions du Qu?bec? [ et plus ]
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Notes on the (FOI) Canadian Access to Information system
Canada's Access To Information Act - Online Database
X-URL: http://www.onlinedemocracy.ca/CAIRS/CAIA-OD.htm
Your ticket to searching
requests made under
Canada's Access to
Information Law
A comprehensive guide to investigative journalism, research
techniques, [11]Digging Deeper also contains a chapter on using
access-to-information and freedom-of-information laws, as well as an
introduction to computer-assisted reporting. David McKie is one of the
co-authors.
[12]David McKie, CBC Investigative Unit
Phone: (O) 288-6523 (C) 290-7380
About the author of this page. David McKie is an award-winning
journalist who is a member of the CBC's investigative unit. David uses
access to information for many of his stories, including a series on
adverse drug reactions and their affects on children
([13]http://www.cbc.ca/news/adr/ ) and seniors
([14]http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/seniorsdrugs/. He teaches
computer assisted reporting and research techniques at Carleton
University's school of journalism. You'll find his research techniques
syllabus at: [15]http://http-server.carleton.ca/~dmckie/ David also
trains journalists within the CBC to use the federal Access to
Information Law and the provincial freedom of information laws.
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