Training citizens to watch the watchmen: Documenters Canada brings transparency to your neighbourhood public meetings

Author Leah Borts-Kuperman
The idea is being embraced and spreading to other Canadian cities

Why It Matters

With the decline of local journalism and mainstream media resources, it becomes difficult to truly understand what happened at local public meetings. This is one solution to help solve that problem.

"Now these folks know, and  … when there's development in their neighborhood, they're going to know that they can go and take part in that.”

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