As This Year Comes to a Close 2025-12-19
Introducing the FOI Assist Seminar Series (2026) 2025-12-12
FOI Assist Seminar Series (2026): Registration Link for Seminar #1 2025-12-11
New Ontario Privacy Impact Assessment Guideline 2025-11-13
Personal Liability for FOI Mistakes 2025-10-20
Data Sharing Agreements 2025-09-12
Drafting Privacy Impact Assessments in 2025 2025-08-28
IPCO Instructs Requestor to Resubmit FOI Request 2025-07-24
Reasonable Search Affirmed 2025-06-25
FOIPN Presentation: Frivolous and Vexatious Requests 2025-05-30
FOI Assist is at Science North! 2025-05-26
Requests for Continuing Access 2025-04-30
Transitory Records 2025-03-31
New IPCO Guidelines for the Law Enforcement Exemption 2025-02-24
When are Personal Phone Records Subject to FOI? 2025-01-27
Growth, Change, and Gratitude 2024-12-19
Bill 194 Receives Royal Assent 2024-12-03
Avoiding Fee Estimate Pitfalls: Lessons from IPCO Order MO-4569 2024-11-29
Career Opportunity at the Ministry of the Attorney General 2024-11-11
Privacy Breach Letter Template for Public Institutions 2024-10-08
FOIPN Presentation: Privacy Breaches and Best Practices 2024-10-04
The Privacy Breach Management Toolkit 2024-09-23
Changes to IPCO’s Appeal Process 2024-08-29
RFP Submissions Aren’t Public Information 2024-07-25
Sharing Information in Situations Involving Intimate Partner Violence 2024-06-24
Bill 194 mandates Privacy Impact Assessments 2024-05-31
The $5 Application Fee: Sorry, No Refunds! 2024-04-29
University of Toronto’s Sunlight Project 2024-03-25
FOI reaches the Supreme Court of Canada: the Mandate Letter Decision 2024-02-07
Seeking Expert Insights: Video Redaction for FOI Requests 2024-01-25
The Public Interest Override Doesn’t Apply to Excluded Records 2024-01-12
Reflections 2023-12-22
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario limiting appeals 2023-11-15
Career Opportunity at Chatham-Kent 2023-11-14
IPCO Launches Public Consultation on Appeal Procedures 2023-10-31
FOI Tactics for Thriving 2023-09-20
Accept Freedom of Information Requests Online with FOI Assist 2023-08-30
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Employees Vote to Unionize 2023-07-31
Alternative Fee Systems for Publicly Available Information 2023-07-21
AMCTO 2023: What a great time! 2023-06-30
“Fixing a Broken Access to Information System” on The Agenda 2023-06-27
“Inside Canada’s Broken Freedom of Information System” 2023-06-09
FOI Assist is a Proud Sponsor of the 2023 AMCTO Conference in Niagara Falls 2023-06-08
Are Body-Worn Camera Recordings “Labour and Employment” Records? 2023-05-31
15 Tips to Make FOI a Breeze 2023-04-28
New Features: Email Notifications and Time Tracking 2023-03-20
Annual Statistical Report is due March 31 2023-02-21
New FOI fee led to drop in number of requests in B.C. 2023-01-31
Transition 2022-12-22
Can a requestor refuse to provide their name? 2022-12-14
Multi-Factor Authentication is now supported 2022-11-17
Informal Requests 2022-11-09
Canada’s biggest newspapers set their sights on Freedom of Information 2022-10-11
“Access Delayed, Access Denied” 2022-10-06
The Absurd Result Principle 2022-09-29
When is Purchase Agreement Information Exempt as Third Party Information? 2022-08-22
Public Employees’ Right of Privacy 2022-07-27
Farewell to AMCTO 2022 Niagara Falls 2022-06-15
Hello from AMCTO 2022 2022-06-13
AMCTO Municipal Monitor (Q2 2022) 2022-06-09
2022 AMCTO Conference: Getting Ready! 2022-06-07
The “Other Acts” Exclusion 2022-05-26
New FIPPA/MFIPPA Reference Card 2022-04-27
Third-Party Personal Information 2022-03-21
General Records Requests vs. Personal Information Requests 2022-03-07
Action plan for large FOI requests 2022-02-28
Forwarding or Transferring Requests 2022-02-04
Charging Fees When No Records Are Found? 2022-01-24
Looking Forward 2021-12-20
Why Charge an Application Fee for Each FOI Request? 2021-11-04
Should your institution accept FOI requests online? 2021-10-14
The “Law Enforcement” Exemption (FIPPA s.14 / MFIPPA s.8) 2021-09-08
FOI Software: “Off The Shelf” or Custom Built? 2021-08-30
FOI Requests Dropped Sharply During COVID-19 2021-07-20
Interim Fee Estimates are Optional 2021-06-16
Should You Include a Time Extension in Your Interim Fee Estimate? 2021-05-26
Splitting up an FOI Request 2021-04-28
An Introduction to the FOI Appeal Process 2021-04-14
Updated FOI Request Process Poster Now Available 2021-03-17
New Podcast from the Ontario Privacy Commissioner 2021-03-09
“Reasonable effort” to locate a record 2021-02-16
Video: Introduction to Records Management 2021-02-04
Announcing the release of the FOI Assist software 2021-02-02
Are Your Written Notices Defective? 2021-01-27
The Year Gone By, and the Year Ahead 2020-12-22
“List Of Farms” FOI Requestor Identity Revealed 2020-12-10
How To Keep Your FOI Files Organized 2020-11-30
Federal Health Minister Criticized For Deriding Freedom of Information 2020-10-26
Are Correction Requests Subject To The 30-Day Deadline? 2020-09-16
The “Advice or Recommendations” Exemption (FIPPA s.13 / MFIPPA s.7) 2020-08-28
Ontario Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim breathes new life into the official IPCO Blog 2020-07-30
Patricia Kosseim assumes the role of Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner 2020-07-03
Can an institution consult a sample of affected persons rather than notifying everyone? 2020-07-02
Assigning searches to internal staff 2020-06-24
Applying the public interest override to employment information 2020-05-21
Patricia Kosseim is Ontario’s Next Privacy Commissioner 2020-04-28
Can You Get COVID-19 From Mail? 2020-03-30
“Freedom-of-Information requests shunted to sidelines during virus crisis” 2020-03-27
COVID-19 Applicable Exemptions 2020-03-26
Abandonment Issues 2020-02-25
Question from a Journalist 2020-01-27
Become Ontario’s Next Privacy Commissioner 2020-01-21
The Top 10 FOI Assist Articles of 2019 2019-12-18
The Public Interest Override 2019-11-27
Year-End Statistical Reporting doesn’t have to be scary 2019-10-22
Filing an FOI request is not defamation 2019-09-25
The Affected Person Process 2019-09-10
Here’s what an FOI app can do for you 2019-08-08
FOI Assist Tech Demo #1: Interim Fee Estimate Tool 2019-07-22
An Introduction to Freedom of Information 2019-06-24
FOI In The News: Government rejects Senate changes to ATIA; “culture of secrecy” and more 2019-06-17
Highlights from the “Reaching Out to Ontario – Waterloo” event 2019-06-10
Reaching Out to Ontario – Waterloo 2019-05-27
When is labour and employment information exempt from disclosure? 2019-05-22
FOI In The News (May 8, 2019) 2019-05-08
Why do requestors ask for electronic versions of records? 2019-04-30
FOI In The News (April 23, 2019) 2019-04-23
Do institutions have to disclose electronic versions of records? 2019-04-15
“I thought we deleted that!” Metadata and Hidden Data 2019-04-04
Decoding the names of FOI decisions 2019-03-28
Update: FOI Flowcharts have been sent (copies are still available) 2019-03-27
Receiving an FOI Request from a Lawyer 2019-03-20
Requests for Personal Information with the Consent of the Individual 2019-03-20
Verifying the Identity of the Requestor 2019-03-11
The FOI Request Process Poster 2019-02-25
Leave no paper trail? 2019-02-20
How many FOI requests should my institution expect to receive? 2019-01-31
The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Manuals 2019-01-16
When is an FOI request frivolous or vexatious? 2018-12-12
Exemptions vs. Exclusions: What is the difference? 2018-12-05
The 2018-2019 Annotated Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Acts by David Goodis 2018-11-30
To whom can a head delegate his or her powers and duties? 2018-11-23
A response to The Toronto Star (and to “FOI reform” articles in general) 2018-11-15
Stop the clock! How different actions affect the deadline 2018-11-07
Get your head straight – what is the role of your institution’s head? 2018-11-01
Say what? Clarifying and narrowing requests 2018-10-24
Resources for FOI professionals in Ontario 2018-10-15
How to count time and how to determine the initial 30-day deadline 2018-10-10
“The State of FOI law in Canada” on TVO’s The Agenda 2018-10-03
Do I have to respond to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request? 2018-10-03
What are the requirements of a valid Freedom of Information (FOI) request? 2018-10-03
Is my organization legally obligated to respond to FOI requests? 2018-10-03
What happens if my institution misses the deadline? 2018-09-26
The Journey Begins 2018-09-20
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