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Canada - March 5 2012
BC FOIPPA was amended this Fall and it is now mandatory for a public body (such as a hospital) to complete a privacy impact assessment, and submit it to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for review, if the public body intends to engage in a “common or integrated program or activity” (for example, a designated project between a health authority and a private sector organization involving the use of personal information) or a “data-linking initiative” (for example, an initiative involving personal information from separate databases being combined for a new purpose).
Canada - March 5 2012
In British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland, there is legislation providing a general statutory cause of action (civil claim) for a breach of privacy in certain circumstances.
Canada - March 5 2012
The B.C. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner recently upheld the decision of the Emergency and Health Services Commission to withhold from CUPE certain records which had been sought under BC FOIPPA pertaining to a labour dispute between paramedics and the Commission.
Canada - March 5 2012
On October 13, 2011 the First Nations Health Council and First Nations Health Society (now the Interim First Nations Health Authority) signed a landmark legal agreement with the federal and provincial governments that will ensure B.C. First Nations have a major role in the planning and management of health services for First Nations through a new First Nations health governance structure.
Canada - March 5 2012
This case involves a challenge under sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to the provisions of the Criminal Code that create an absolute prohibition against physician-assisted dying.
