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Blacklock’s- Act Quicker To Hide Records

Federal managers have issued new guidelines for concealing records effective January 26 including permanent deletion of chat posts within 15 days. The policy follows Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election pledge that Access To Information was “quite important.”

“What’s changing?” read a notice issued by managers in one department, Veterans Affairs. “Teams channels including private messages deleted after one year. Teams chats including Copilot messages deleted after 15 days, currently deleted after 30 days. Outlook deleted items: emails permanently deleted after 30 days in the deleted items folder.”