Tag: News
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“Fixing a Broken Access to Information System” on The Agenda
TVO’s The Agenda hosted Brooks Fallis, physician; Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim; and Robyn Doolittle and Tom Cardoso, the investigative reporters behind The Globe and Mail’s Freedom of Information series Secret Canada yesterday to discuss the state of Canada’s Freedom of Information (FOI) system.
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“Inside Canada’s Broken Freedom of Information System”
Today’s Globe and Mail article presents an opportunity to assess your own Freedom of Information program. Is your institution generally able to respond to requests within 30 days? Are your FOI staff forced to rush through files, potentially leading to errors, missed deadlines, and needless appeals?
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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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