Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
Social workers need permission to access parents’ medical records: B.C. Appeal Court
Court gives B.C. government 1 year to bring law into constitutional compliance The B.C. Court of Appeal has struck down a section of the province’s child protection legislation that allowed social workers to access a parent’s medical records without their consent, a search warrant or a court order. A three-judge panel said a section of B.C.’s Child, Family and Community Service Act is unconstitutional, finding the legislation lacked safeguards to protect parents’ deeply personal medical information. The ruling, posted Monday, says the act allowed child welfare workers with the Ministry of Children andRead more
Luge athlete claims life-altering Whistler head injury was culmination of coach’s ‘selfish’ abuse
Garrett Reid, 19, claims coach bullied him for diminished performance after suffering head injury in crash An athlete who was left with a long list of “catastrophic” injuries after a run at the Olympic luge track in Whistler, B.C., more than three years ago has filed a lawsuit claiming the incident was the culmination of years of harassment, bullying and hazing by a coach who put his own goals over a teenager’s safety. Garrett Reid, now 19, has claimed coach Matthew McMurray was abusive towards him while he was racing for the national NextGen team in 2018Read more