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Ca: Health records found at Fort Simpson dump may have been stolen: report

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Dissent

Katherine Barton reports a long-awaited update to a 2018 incident where the investigation was delayed due to backlog:

The Northwest Territories’ privacy commissioner’s investigation into medical records allegedly recovered at the Fort Simpson landfill in 2018 point to someone stealing the files from a health and social services building in the community.

CBC North first reported on the hundreds of health records found at the dump in December 2018, when a local Canadian ranger, Randal Sibbeston, said he found the records in a bankers box at the salvage area.

Read more on CBC.


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