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Health Minister SUED

CBC | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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A researcher in Victoria is suing Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid and the province over their handling of a health data privacy breach last summer...

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Why Are We in Such a Hurry to Forget Veterans?

Jeff Rose-Martland | Posted 01.29.2013 | Canada
Read More: Holiday Season, Remembrance Day, Veterans Affairs Canada, Veterans, Privacy Breach, Dennis Manuge, Veterans Issues, Christmas, Call to Action, Veterans Among US, Harold Leduc, Scandals, Thank a Soldier, Dave Murphy, Sean Bruyea, Canada News
Jeff Rose-Martland

Every year, we put on a poppy, read a few feel-good stories about the surviving Second World War veterans, and maybe observe a moment of silence on the 11th. But veterans' news stories disappear almost immediately and are replaced with tales of holiday consumer-orgies. We should not be so quick to forget them.

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Is Veterans Affairs Canada Targeting This Family?

Jeff Rose-Martland | Posted 11.23.2012 | Canada
Read More: Sisip, Anthony Manuge, Louise Bird, Privacy Breach, Veterans Affairs, Vac, Minister of Veterans Affairs, Sisip Class Action, Privacy, Veterans, Dennis Manuge Veteran, Dennis Manuge Lawsuit, Canada News
Jeff Rose-Martland

Retired Corporal Dennis Manuge is the driving force behind the SISIP class action lawsuit over pension clawbacks. Last year, Manuge revealed that, in 2009, the Minister of Veterans Affairs was briefed on private details of his medical conditions and finances. Now, the former mechanic with the Royal Canadian Regiment says VAC also breached the privacy of his brother, Anthony.

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Trying To Bust Through B.C. Ministry of Health's Wall of Secrecy

Vincent Gogolek | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Privacy Breach, Foi, Rcmp, BC Politics, BC Government, Bc Freedom of Information and Privacy Association, British Columbia, Privacy, Ministry of Health, Cabinet Shuffle, Margaret MacDiarmid, Christy Clark, Data, Canada British Columbia News
Vincent Gogolek

Citing a whole range of exceptions from legal privilege to law enforcement to personal privacy, the ministry refused to release any of the records we requested. This, despite the fact that our request should have little or nothing to do with lawyers or police! An RCMP investigation shouldn't mean that every record held by the ministry is automatically off-limits to FOI requests.

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