Monday, September 28th:
Town Hall: Public Engagement and State Accountability
Location:
Fredericton: Room 2, Ludlow Hall,
UNB Faculty of Law, 7 pm
Join us for a panel discussion about the right to information and public engagement.
Our panellists will discuss the new provincial right to information legislation, the changing role of the media in the Internet era of Twitter and the blogosphere, and provincial experts will explain the new provincial policies and practices on public engagement. Christian Whalen of the Ombudsman’s Office; Dan McHardie, web journalist for CBC Fredericton; Leah Levac, expert in public engagement processes; and Arnold Kearney, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and responsible for public engagement programs, will lead the discussion.
At 8 pm, we will join via videoconference a national debate in
Ottawa on the same issues.
Tuesday, September 29th: Public Forum: Personal Health Information
Location:
Fredericton: Room 2, Ludlow Hall,
UNB Faculty of Law, 7pm
Access to personal health information is becoming more and more important with the dawn of the development of the electronic health record.
The Dean of the Faculty of Law, David Townsend, the Atlantic Region Outreach Officer with the federal Privacy Commissioner, Sandy Hounsell, and the Chief Privacy Officer with the Department of Health, Fran White, will participate in a discussion panel on these issues, followed by a question period. Coffee and reception to follow courtesy of the Faculty of Law.
Admission is free.
Tuesday, September 29th: Abousfian Abdelrazik to Speak at UNB
Location:
Fredericton: Room 303, Tilley Hall, UNB, 7pm
The Fredericton Peace Coalition is hosting Abousfian Abdelrazik, who will speak about the six years he spent in forced exile in
Sudan during his stop in
Fredericton on Tuesday, September 29th at 7 pm at Tilley Hall, Room 303, UNB.
Abdelrazik, who is still considered a known terrorist by Canadian authorities despite never being charged with a crime in
Canada, was imprisoned in
Sudan allegedly at the request of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
He will speak about his incarceration, torture, and the year he spent living in the Canadian Embassy before he was finally repatriated.
His experiences raise a number of deeply troubling concerns about state accountability, the rule of law and the role of the media and society in the face of the international war against terrorism.
Wednesday, September 30th: Workshop for Right to Information Coordinators
Location:
Fredericton: Hugh John Fleming Forestry Centre, 3 pm
Judy Wagner, Legislative Coordinator of the Executive Council Office will officiate a workshop for provincial Right to Information coordinators. Kim Bustin, former Director of Enterprise, Risk and Information Management with the Atlantic Lotto Corporation will speak about best practices and balancing right to information and privacy functions, followed by an open discussion with Dan McHardie, a journalist and frequent user of right to information processes, on how the media and government departments could better work together in the interests of state transparency and accountability.
This workshop is free but requires registration.
Please contact our office at 453-2755 to register.
Thursday, October 1st: Film Night
Location:
Fredericton : Tilley Hall, UNB, 7 pm
Please join us for the premiere Right to Know Week film presentation.
The New Brunswick Public Interest Research Group, UNB Campus, in collaboration with the Office of the Ombudsman, will present the film The Lives of Others—a 2006 German film by Florian Heckel von Donnersmark, winner of the
2007 Academy Award
for
Best Foreign Language Film
and Best Film and Best Screenwriter at the 2006 European Film Awards.
Admission is free.
Friday, October 2nd: Continuing Legal Education Session: Right to Information, Privacy, and Municipalities
Location:
Moncton: Université de Moncton, Faculty of Law, 10 am and 1 pm
Co-hosted by the Office of the Ombudsman and the Canadian Bar Association—NB Branch’s Municipal Law Section, this session is aimed at municipalities and will provide an overview of the new Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which will soon apply to municipalities. Registration for the session is $60, with reduced fees available for students (without workshop materials).
Please contact Ginette Arsenault at the CBA NB Branch office at 1-866-452-7818 for more information and registration details.
