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 ...

Saskatchewan will stop issuing “birth alerts,” a controversial practice Indigenous leaders have long called discriminatory. The province becomes the latest Canadian jurisdiction to scrap the system, ...

New Brunswick has become one of the last provinces to end its use of birth alerts, a controversial practice that involves alerts being sent to hospital authorities to make them aware of “potential ...

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 ...

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 ...