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On October 28, 2025, the Court of Appeal of Alberta affirmed that the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (the OIPC) acted unreasonably in narrowly construing the teaching and research records exclusion in the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). The decision reinforces the chambers judge’s application of the Su...
On Friday, the Nova Scotia legislature introduced Bill 150, a new statute that consolidates the province’s public sector access and privacy laws and introduces key modernization reforms. Below are some quick highlights from the bill.
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On March 7, 2025, the Saskatchewan Court of King’s Bench affirmed the withholding of file path information from a requester who sought the information under Saskatchewan’s provincial freedom of information statute.
The Court described the information as “file path addresses/links and barcodes within the documents that describe the process of accessing information/da...
On September 15, the Court of Appeal for Ontario dismissed an appeal seeking a Charter remedy for lost evidence in a criminal matter.
The Crown withdrew charges against the appellant after he absconded to the United States and was convicted on separate charges, making a return to Canada unlikely until 2040. Also, the complainant used a pseudonym, and the police lost...
In December of last year, Arbitrator Abramsky upheld a grievance that challenged the reasonableness of system monitoring conducted by an employer, though only to the extent the employer’s workplace monitoring policy (which is required in Ontario) did not provide clear enough notice. She accepted the employer’s argument that employee personal use of workplace systems is a matt...
