I’ll be trying to make the unknowable country a little more known on Monday. (Graphic by Canadian Bar Association Alberta Branch)

What does living in an unknowable country mean for those trying to increase access to government data and information? I tried to answer that question on Friday, during a speech at the Open Data Summit in Vancouver.

I’ll be posting the text of that speech online early next week. But I’ll also be sharing some of those thoughts with the Canadian Bar Association Alberta Branch. I’m scheduled to talk with the branch’s privacy and access law section (south) in Calgary this coming Monday.

Meanwhile, my weekly summary of news about the people, the press and the powerful in Canada will resume next week.