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A former North Westside Fire Rescue chief, who was suspended for withholding information and giving misleading information to the media before he was eventually fired, has lost his case with the BC Human Rights Tribunal, which dismissed his claim that the Regional District of Central Okanagan (RDCO) discriminated against him because of his post-traumatic stress disorder.

Jason Satterthwaite had argued his PTSD was among the reasons the RDCO and its former manager of fire services, Ross Kotscherofski, suspended and later terminated him, according to a recently published decision by the tribunal.

However, the tribunal found Satterthwaite provided "scant" evidence on how his PTSD was a factor in either the suspension or the termination.

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