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675patientsrecords viewed without authorizationPHIPA Decision 341: Access Is Not Authorization
A $3,000 penalty, and what Ontario healthcare employers should do to prevent incidents like it.
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1Missing Policycan become a privacy investigationIs Your Clinic PHIPA Compliant? A 2026 Guide
Being compliant isn't the same as assuming you are. A practical, twelve-point compliance checklist for Ontario healthcare providers.
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4Partsin the IPC's AI scribe checklistWhat Ontario Health Organizations Need to Know About the IPC's 2026 AI Checklist
AI scribes can save real administrative time — but adopting one is a privacy, governance, security, and accountability decision, not just an IT one. Here's what the IPC's checklist actually asks for.
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6Categoriestrigger mandatory IPC reportingWhen Must a PHIPA Breach Be Reported?
Notifying the affected patient and reporting to the IPC are two separate obligations, on two separate tests. Here's the distinction health information custodians need to know.
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Privacy Compliance
PHIPA, PIPEDA & FIPPA/MFIPPA privacy programs that protect data and survive an audit.
What you gain
Policies, governance, and breach & access workflows your staff can actually follow.
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Immigration Advisory
End-to-end applications and refusals — strategy to filing, by a Barrister & Solicitor.
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A strategy and documentation that put your strongest case forward.
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Contract Drafting & Review
Plain-language review and drafting that finds the risk before you commit.
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A plain-English risk summary, redlines, or a clean agreement.
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Notary & Commissioner
Accessible notarization and commissioning, in person or virtually where permitted.
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Your notarized document, usually in 15–30 minutes.
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Most firms tell you what the law requires. We build the system that proves you followed it.
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We Advise
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The policies, workflows and documents, built.
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We Defend
A record you can put in front of an auditor.
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A relationship that stays as your risks change.
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Ihinosen Alufohai
Founding counsel — leading every engagement from first consult to defensible hand-off.
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We provide legal services in Privacy Compliance, Contracts, Immigration, and Notary matters.
Yes. Most consultations can be conducted remotely by phone or video.
Fees depend on the service required. We provide transparent pricing before work begins.
Yes. We assist clients across Canada and internationally where permitted.
Businesses, healthcare providers, clinics, non-profits, and organizations handling personal information.
Yes. We assess breaches, advise on reporting obligations, and recommend corrective actions.
Yes. We offer customized privacy and compliance training for organizations.
Yes. We can draft, review, and update privacy policies and procedures.
A PIA identifies privacy risks and recommends measures to reduce them.
To identify risks, clarify obligations, and protect your interests.
We review and draft business, employment, service, consulting, and confidentiality agreements.
Yes. We help clients negotiate terms and reduce legal risks.
Yes. We can explain your rights, obligations, and available options.
We assist with visitor visas, study permits, work permits, restoration applications, and other immigration matters.
Yes. We review refusal reasons and develop a strategy for reapplication or reconsideration.
No. However, we work to present the strongest possible application.
Yes. We assist eligible individuals with restoration applications.
Yes. We assist with religious worker work permit applications.
Affidavits, declarations, certified true copies, travel consent letters, and more.
Yes, where legally permitted.
Valid government-issued photo identification.
Yes. Mobile appointments may be available upon request.
Yes. We can certify eligible documents as true copies.
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Timelines vary depending on the complexity of the matter.
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