Indigenous women traumatized by birth alerts continue to be haunted by them long after the alerts were first entered into the health-care system, says Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe) — and she's ...

Birth alerts are notifications sent by children’s aid societies to hospitals when they believe a newborn may be needing protection You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

The Ontario government is directing children's aid societies to stop sending "birth alerts" — the controversial practice of notifying hospitals about newborns they believe may need protection, which ...

WINNIPEG — The Province of Manitoba has announced it will end the controversial practice of birth alerts and will instead referring vulnerable mothers and their children to social services and ...

Several Canadian provinces are still issuing birth alerts, a practice that B.C. government lawyers have called “illegal and unconstitutional” and that advocates say constitutes “surveillance of ...

2:01 Advocates call for change for Indigenous children in foster care A health-care and justice organization is renewing its call to end birth alerts in Nova Scotia, a controversial practice that ...