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