Everything tagged: Access to information

Theme: Unresolved: Balancing Access and Privacy in the Digital Age

Right to Know Week will be celebrated across Canada the week of September 25 to October 1.

Nominations will be accepted until September 5, 2017.

British Columbia will become the first Canadian province to legislate a duty to document, Finance Minister Michael de Jong announced today.

From March 21-23, 2017, over 200 Canadian and international experts and advocates in the fields of access to information, open government, and government transparency, will gather in Ottawa.

The Government of Saskatchewan is taking steps to improve access to information and protection of privacy in the province.

The Government of British Columbia announced yesterday that it would start proactively releasing several categories of records regularly requested through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) has named Jayme Poisson of the Toronto Star as the recipient of the Greg Clark Award. She will use the stipend to better understand the access to information process.

Canada’s Information and Privacy Commissioners and Ombudspersons have called on all levels of government to protect and promote privacy and access to information rights when embarking on information sharing initiatives aimed at improving government services.