EDMONTON — Service Alberta Minister Stephanie McLean says her department will work with the privacy commissioner on a probe into 800,000 deleted government emails. McLean says emails pertaining to government decisions must be kept for posterity, but the rest can be deleted. She says staff are urged to delete non-essential emails. “We encourage officials to delete emails that are not records of decision, and emails, for the most part, do not constitute record of decision,” she said. The numbers also revealed that Notley’s then chief-of-staff Brian Topp had just one email in his sent folder and 78 in his in-box.

Source: National Post October 31, 2017 21:08 UTC