Manitoba overrules rural school board plan to deprive older students of health-care privacy | Unpublished
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Publication Date: August 5, 2026 - 19:28

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Manitoba overrules rural school board plan to deprive older students of health-care privacy

August 5, 2026

A policy in southeastern Manitoba schools that requires staff to ignore provincial law entitling youth 16 and up to make their own health-care decisions must be repealed, the province's education minister says.



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