There's nothing exceptional about this trend in Canada. I do wonder, however, how much is due to poor information management practices - also a problem across Canada, I'd bet. Whether that's deliberate would be an interesting thing to study #FOI #Manitoba

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-government-foi-times-9.6944309

Manitoba government taking longer, charging more for freedom of information requests: report | CBC News

The Manitoba government has been taking longer to respond to freedom of information requests and collecting more money from people filing them, newly released figures show.

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Another council's in trouble for #FOI delays.

But a busy FOI Friday suggests plenty of requests are getting answered:
https://clairemiller.net/2025/10/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-17-10-2025-foifriday/

Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 17/10/2025 – #FOIFriday - Words + Numbers

​Is there a world record for sending Freedom of Information requests? Crikey News wants to see how many requests it can make in a day - to try and get in before the Australian Government makes it harder to do. More locally, another council has been given an enforcement notice for poor FOI performance. This

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This week’s #FOI Friday took so long, there’s now a new public body subject to the FOI Act.

Get some ideas for requests to send them and everyone else already covered:
https://clairemiller.net/2025/10/freedom-of-information-in-the-news-week-ending-10-10-2025-foifriday/

Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 10/10/2025 – #FOIFriday - Words + Numbers

This week's FOI Friday took so long, there's now a new public body subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Services run by Greater Anglia are the latest to transfer into public ownership (as of Sunday (October 12)). Which means it joins the growing list of rail operators you can make FOI requests about trains

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I'm gonna mimir, dammit! I can't believe the ABC - I just can't! Trying to rehide this after 50 yrs is not ok! We need to know how many victims were abused by the child predators Richard Neville interviewed. Was the police called or what?! Was one a friend of Alan Jones? #FOI #auspol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:crquu3blyn4b2adgj5hhb66p/post/3m32wkabrc22d


a cat is walking on a wooden f...
Seems appropriate to put this here & cc in @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social bcos allegedly the fellas who scored the tape of R. Neville interviewing active pederasts back in the 70's have been threatened by the elite & could have this removed. Upload for safe keeping? #FOI #Auspol youtu.be/T27F8qspkI8?...

Listen To Australia's Dark Evi...
Listen To Australia's Dark Evil From 1975!

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Dans un entretien, Lauren Berlant souligne et affirme que l'optimisme cruel n'est pas l'objet lui-même, mais plutôt la relation :
« Une relation d'optimisme cruel est un dilemme dans lequel votre attachement à un objet vous soutient dans la vie, alors que cet objet est en réalité une menace pour votre épanouissement. On ne peut donc pas dire qu'il existe des objets qui ont la qualité d'être cruels ou non cruels, c'est la relation que vous entretenez avec eux qui compte. Peut-être qu'être en couple n'est pas une relation d'optimisme cruel pour vous, car être en couple vous donne le sentiment d'avoir un ancrage dans le monde ; alors que pour d'autres personnes, être en couple peut être d'une part un soulagement de la solitude, et d'autre part la présence envahissante d'une personne qui doit supporter le fardeau de satisfaire tous vos besoins. Ce n'est donc pas l'objet qui pose problème, mais la manière dont nous apprenons à être en relation. »

(en) https://societyandspace.com/material/interviews/interview-with-lauren-berlant/

#attachement #optimisme #psychologie #sociologie #foi #espoir #Berlant #LaurenBerlant #couple #relations #hétérosexualité #dominationMasculine #famille #croyances #valeurs #patriarcat #hétéronormativité #sureté #soin #pouvoirDeSoi #lobbyLGBT

Interview with Lauren Berlant | Society and space

Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, has generated a path-breaking body of scholarship that has opened up and reinvigorated interdisciplinary conversations about citizenship, sex, law and neoliberalism for over two decades. David Seitz, a Toronto-based writer and Ph.D. candidate in human geography and women’s and gender studies at…

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