Tools

Here is a tipsheet (PDF) a that I currently distribute at FOI seminars to help journalists and others get started using the federal Access to Information Act; and here’s one (PDF) about using Ontario’s FOI laws.

This deeper dive tipsheet (PDF) includes more detail about the 2019 ‘reforms’ to the Access to Information Act, and how they impact the requester.

The British Columbia Freedom of Information and Privacy Association has also prepared primers (video and text) on using FOI laws in general, with special reference to B.C.’s law.