workplace death of her younger brother has found herself on a provincial watchlist.Nicole Gnazdowsky used the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) Act to access files from an incident with former Liberal premier, and the MLA for her area, Iain Rankin.What she found was that her personal information and photo were included in a government “person of interest” file.Now, Gnazdowsky wonders why the province didn’t tell her it had a file on her, and what being a “person of interest” even means.How she got here dates back 21 months.So while I spent the past year making sure that @nspowerinc saw a day in court for killing my brother, as @NS_LabourSkills was intentionally not doing that … @IainTRankin, @RCMPNS and @NS_Justice spent that time creating files on ME that include things like this: #nspoli pic.twitter.com/AABGk1y4Jn— Nicole Gnazdowsky (@NicoGnaz) July 18, 2022Andrew Gnazdowsky was “one of those people that walks into a room and you can just feel that his presence is there,” his sister said.“We were absolutely best friends. (He was) my best friend in the world.”Before his death, he was doing well in life.“He had so many friends and he loved his dogs, and he just bought a house in Rothesay in New Brunswick.
He was really just starting to pull everything together,” Gnazdowsky said.Andrew died at a Nova Scotia Power dam in Sheet Harbour on Oct.
16, 2020, when he drowned while trying to get a piece of floating surveying equipment.He was an engineer in training for a company out of New Brunswick, that was hired for work on hydro dams for Nova Scotia Power.Part of his job was overlooking a piece of equipment that monitored underwater elevation.
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