Victim 'furious' over health-record snooping wants changes to Alberta's prosecution limit

Kirk McEwing was near death four years ago, stricken with kidney failure from a serious illness.
Without his knowledge, as he lay in a hospital bed trying to recover, the wife of a longtime friend went into the province’s electronic health database to look up his private medical information.
McEwing was not one of her patients. Though she worked in a doctor’s office, she had no medical reason to view his files. It seems she pried only because she was curious.
While the illness eventu