{"id":62310,"date":"2017-01-07T21:15:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T21:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/?p=62310"},"modified":"2017-01-07T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T21:15:56","slug":"veterans-affairs-vows-corrective-action-over-envelopes-that-outed-medical-marijuana-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/veterans-affairs-vows-corrective-action-over-envelopes-that-outed-medical-marijuana-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Affairs vows &#8216;corrective action&#8217; over envelopes that outed medical marijuana users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Affairs Canada says it&#8217;s notifying the Office of the Privacy Commissioner after veterans were recently sent a letter in an envelope that outed them as medical marijuana users.<\/p>\n<p>The letter from Veterans Affairs arrived in a Medavie Blue Cross envelope with a window that made the bolded words &#8220;Re: Cannabis for Medical Purposes&#8221; visible on the envelope\u00a0for anyone to see.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans and their families <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">expressed\u00a0concern about the letters<\/a>, saying it breached their privacy. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Veterans Affairs said it had reviewed the case of the letters from Medavie Blue Cross.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The review has determined that a material breach of privacy has occurred,&#8221; Sarah\u00a0McMaster,\u00a0a\u00a0press secretary for\u00a0the Veterans Affairs minister, said in an\u00a0email\u00a0to CBC.<\/p>\n<p>McMaster\u00a0said the department is taking &#8220;corrective action&#8221; with Medavie Blue Cross so that letters sent to veterans in the future &#8220;respect and protect their privacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are about <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">3,000 veterans across Canada<\/a> who use medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/vac-medavie-blue-cross-medical-marijuana-envelopes-update-1.3925959?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Affairs Canada says it&#8217;s notifying the Office of the Privacy Commissioner after veterans were recently sent a letter in an envelope that outed them as medical marijuana users. The letter from Veterans Affairs arrived in a Medavie Blue Cross envelope with a window that made the bolded words &#8220;Re: Cannabis for Medical Purposes&#8221; visible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-62310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}