Blog Archive (Year: 2025)
5 Ways to Protect Your Privacy
Welcome to the Saskatchewan IPC’s blog! Here you’ll find tips, information, instruction, stories, and commentary on what’s going on in our office or in the access and privacy community at large. We also hope to invite guest bloggers to post their thoughts on here too. So to kick off this blog, here are five ways... read more
How to Conduct an Effective Search for Records
So you have received an access to information request and you know it is not going to be easy to locate responsive records. What do you do? Here are some tips for you. First: You develop a search strategy and document everything. A search strategy could include: Searching for records in multiple formats (i.e. electronic,... read more
Act on your “Right to Know”
As taxpayers, it can feel like you write blank cheques to the public institutions that serve you. But Saskatchewan citizens represent more than a mere well-spring of funds; they bear the responsibility of holding public bodies to account. To achieve this end, you might be interested to know: why a particular contract was awarded by... read more
School is in Session
Are you: New to the access and privacy field? Working in access and privacy but looking for additional training? Completing access and privacy tasks such as access to information requests or complaints into alleged breaches of privacy as a “side of the desk” job but have no real experience in it? Navigating the access and... read more