Advocacy of public interest issues has defined my working life. Captured here are some of the written results of that advocacy work drawn from articles, studies, columns, submissions and representations.

Investigations and Writings

• Digging for Data Over The Years (click here) is a 2010 edited collection on DVD bringing together much of the past investigative work of Canadian public interest researcher Ken Rubin as presented through print media stories. The DVD, which is available for purchase, also contains an array of magazine and newspaper articles written by Ken Rubin, primarily on access matters.
  
  
• Publications Order List (click here) brings together the past studies by Ken Rubin on information access, privacy, citizen participation and consumer reports, including on Canada's food system.
  
  
• Hill Times Column on Open Government has for the past decade had public interest researcher Ken Rubin commenting on matters ranging from asbestos export disclosures to different Prime Minister's secrecy practices. Columns can be found on the Hill Times web site or on the Digging for Data Over The Years DVD.

Submissions and Representations

• Parliamentary/Legislative/Commission and International Presentations (click here) have largely focused on access to information and consumer protection issues. For a brief highlight of FOI legislative appearances, click here. For what it is like being a parliamentary witness, click here.
  
  
• Legal Representations as a citizen advocate include appeals made at the federal and provincial levels. For a reference to federal legal cases where Ken Rubin is a named party, click here. Those cases can be found as well on the Federal Court of Canada web site. For an earlier commentary of what it is like to be a lay litigant (and still is) click here.

• Digging for Data DVD
  
  
• Parliamentary submissions
  
  
• FOI legislative appearances
  
  
• Testifying To What's Wrong with the Accountability Act
  (Hill Times, June 5, 2006)
  
  
• Court and Appeal representations
  
  
• A Layperson's Experience with Legal Interventions
  (Lawyers Weekly, September 9, 1994)
  
  
• Publication Order List