Tag: News
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FOI Assist is a Proud Sponsor of the 2023 AMCTO Conference in Niagara Falls
FOI Assist is a Proud Sponsor of the 2023 AMCTO Conference. And of course, we will be there! If you are attending the conference, come by and visit FOI Assist in booth #10.
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Are Body-Worn Camera Recordings “Labour and Employment” Records?
There is currently an appeal underway before the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPCO) which raises an important issue relating to body-worn camera footage and which may have greater implications over how we apply exemptions and exclusions to records in general. As reported by Tom Cardoso and Robyn Doolittle in the Globe & Mail,…
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New FOI fee led to drop in number of requests in B.C.
I’m interested in the significant drop in the number of requests, and wonder what to make of it.
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Canada’s biggest newspapers set their sights on Freedom of Information
It now looks like last week’s cover article in The Globe and Mail was just an opening salvo.
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“Access Delayed, Access Denied”
Freedom of Information (FOI) was the subject of a cover story in the Globe and Mail this morning. Under the cover heading “Access Delayed, Access Denied”, a reference to the famous legal maxim “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied”, Globe journalists and FOI veterans Tom Cardoso and Robyn Doolittle report on the delays currently plaguing Canada’s…
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The Absurd Result Principle
It was a privilege to speak last week to all of the attendees of the Freedom of Information Police Network (FOIPN) Fall Conference at the Belleville Police Service Headquarters in Belleville, Ontario. I was asked to deliver a presentation on the Absurd Result Principle, a legal principle with a long history in the Canadian and…
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