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New Paper – Records Retention Scheduling II: Retention Schedule Development

Sheila Taylor’s latest chapter, “Records Retention Scheduling: Retention Schedule Development”, was published in the June 2021 supplement to Carswell’s Records and Information Management subscription-based service. This is the second of three chapters on Records Retention. What’s the chapter about? This chapter address records retention schedule development, including the research of legislated records retention and broader

October 16, 2021 No Comments

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New Paper – Records Retention Scheduling I: Terminology and Concepts

Sheila Taylor’s latest chapter, “Records Retention Scheduling: Terminology and Concepts”, was published in the November 2020 supplement to Carswell’s Records and Information Management subscription-based service. What’s the chapter about? It introduces records retention scheduling terminology and concepts, illustrates how records retention scheduling is records and information management best practice, highlights the benefits of records retention

February 17, 2021 No Comments

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McGuinty Liberals Broke Ontario’s Archives and Recordkeeping Act

In the just released report – Deleting Accountability: Record Management Practices of Political Staff – A Special Investigation Report – Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (Ann Cavoukian) says high-ranking staff in Dalton McGuinty’s liberal government illegally deleted documents tied to the $585M gas plant scandal. The Commissioner’s investigation was prompted by NDP complaints that key liberal political

June 6, 2013 No Comments

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Observations from The Canadian Institute’s Forum on Records Retention & Electronic Information Management

It was my privilege to co-chair this forum on Records Retention & Electronic Information Management from May 28-29, 2013 with Susan Nickle of Wortzman Nickle Professional Corporation. The Canadian Institute assembled an excellent group of industry experts to explore records retention and diverse electronic information management topics such as cloud computing, outsourcing data storage and processing,

June 3, 2013 No Comments

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Forum on Records Retention & Electronic Information Management — May 28-29, 2013 — Toronto

On May 28 and 29, Susan Nickle, co-founder of Wortzman Nickle Professional Corporation (an e-discovery law firm), and I will co-chair The Canadian Institute’s Forum on Records Retention & Electronic Information Management.

The forum is designed to provide records and information management (RIM) professionals and in-house legal counsel with innovative risk management strategies to manage and enforce records retention policies.

In addition to co-chairing duties, I will be presenting on the topic “In-Depth Strategies to Mitigate the Risk of Your Records Retention Policy Being Terminated at the Implementation Stage” (May 28, 10:00 am).

Mention my name when you register and you will receive an additional $200 discount.

May 24, 2013 No Comments

Carbon Dated: The Last Carbon Paper Company in Canada

The Toronto Star recently profiled Form-Mate, the last carbon paper manufacturer in Canada. Like most people, I haven’t used carbon paper for many years. In fact, many younger people have probably never encountered this relic from our typewriter generation at all, or experienced the original, pre-email version of “cc:” (“carbon copy”). Before we had the “print

March 18, 2013 No Comments

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