FIPA is privileged and grateful to attend the CBA Privacy and Access Law Conference 2025. Legal Researcher Ryan Rutley is part of SESSION 1.1: 3rd party information exemption – practical tips to protecting your organization’s confidential information Executive Director Jason Woywada is part of SESSION 4.1: Trivial, frivolous, vexatious, outrageous! – The state of frivolous […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, November 1st.   We’ll lead with troubling implications for Canadians and who the nation’s intelligence agencies is working for. Reporting informed from access to information reveals that lobbying by the company formerly known as Trans Canada Pipelines has succeeded and gives them ongoing access to CSIS.  We’ll […]

The following was submitted in abridged form to the Finance Committee reviewing Bill C-4 as a brief. A big FIPA thank you to Gage Smith for his legal research and drafting on this analysis. Intro  Part 4 of Bill C-4 would significantly alter the legal framework regulating federal political parties’ (FPPs) management of personal information. […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, October 25th.   We’ll start with a group of local journalism initiative stories that show how this initiative is regularly employing access and requests for information in their reporting.   We’ll follow that up with national reports that intersect access and privacy, including continuing fallout from the damning federal auditors report that includes identification […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, October 18th.   We’ll start on Canada’s national front with some big examples of access providing insight into this Governments reaction to international pressures. There’s troubling actions from the nation’s intelligence agency as they act without regard to privacy, plus one Federal minister who seems prepared to […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, October 11th.   We have important legislative updates — from Ottawa’s ongoing border bills to new reforms in New Brunswick and consumer protections in Quebec.  Across the provinces, the fallout continues over Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal, while privacy and surveillance make headlines from local hockey rinks to federal […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, October 4th.   It’s another big week on the privacy and access front. Nova Scotia has introduced new legislation that its commissioner warns may actually weaken transparency. We’ll follow that with access stories from across Canada, many powered by the Local Journalism Initiative.  On the privacy side, […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, September 27th.   We hope everyone’s had a great Right to Know Week.  It’s been a big one — with privacy commissioners at both the national and provincial level releasing major findings, and a wave of stories that give us plenty to dig into.  We’ll begin here […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, September 20th.   This week we have a lot of stories from both the Canadian Press and the Local Journalism Initiative informed by access to information — including new details on Canadian military procurements, RCMP body cameras, and whistleblowers raising alarms about New Brunswick Power.  On the […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, September 13th.   We’re back after a late-summer break, and while we were away, the news didn’t stop. In today’s review, we’ll cover major Canadian access-to-information and whistleblower stories, a worrying update on the Nova Scotia Power cyberattacks, and a hard-hitting Associated Press investigation into how American […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, August 23rd.   We start with a flip-flop from Alberta, where public backlash has forced Premier Danielle Smith to walk back plans to stop disclosing government expense receipts.  Our access and privacy scan across the country brings us stories ranging from the everyday challenges Canadians face trying […]

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, August 16th.   We start with our privacy scan — from a major airline cyberattack exposing sensitive travel documents, to new scam alerts, and an urgent warning about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.  There is an exercise in contrasts with access to information stories including commitments for greater […]