OPINION L’AUTRE RAFLE DE BÉBÉS

VALERIE ANDREWS ET ART EGGLETON RESPECTIVEMENT DIRECTRICE GÉNÉRALE D’ORIGINS CANADA*, ET MEMBRE DU SÉNAT DU CANADA L’annonce récente faite par le gouvernement fédéral d’un règlement de 800 millions pour les survivants de la « rafle des années 60 », ces enfants autochtones qui ont été retirés de leur réserve et de leur famille et placés […]

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Province considers opening up P.E.I. adoption records

By Tom Steepe, CBC News Posted: Nov 02, 2017 1:16 PM AT The P.E.I. government will be consulting with Islanders about whether to open up adoption records. “We were hearing from many people all over P.E.I. about the issue and how personal it is to them and how sensitive this issue is to them, so […]

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P.E.I. advocates call on government to allow for open adoption records

Katie Smith katie.smith@theguardian.pe.ca Published: Nov. 3, 2017, 9:41 p.m. Adopted Islanders might soon have answers to their past. After meeting with advocates and concerned Islanders, the minister of family and human services said the province is reviewing the legislation surrounding adoption and hope to start the public engagement process come January. Tina Mundy said the […]

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Time to acknowledge the other baby scoop

By VALERIE ANDREWS ART EGGLETON Mon., Oct. 30, 2017 Many Canadians are unaware that in the immediate postwar decades, federal and provincial governments forced hundreds of thousands of “unwed mothers” to give up their babies by means of forced or coerced adoption. The recent announcement by the federal government offering a $800 million settlement for […]

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New rules on access to birth registration now in effect

By: PAMELA COWAN, REGINA LEADER-POST Published on: January 3, 2017 New regulations will make it easier for adult adoptees and birth parents in Saskatchewan to connect, but not everyone is interested in doing that. The regulations, which came into effect on Jan. 1, make birth registration information more readily accessible for adult adoptees —18 years […]

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Former ‘unwed mothers’ call for public inquiry into forced adoptions

GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, May 17, 2016 9:29PM EDT A half-century after they were hidden away in maternity homes then forced to give up their babies for adoption – sometimes without holding them even once – a number of former “unwed mothers” want public acknowledgment of the trauma they […]

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Inquiry into postwar adoption policies can start healing process

Hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers were systematically and often violently separated from their babies simply because of their marital status By VALERIE ANDREWS Many Canadians are unaware that in the immediate postwar decades, federal and provincial governments funded draconian adoption policies that harmed unmarried mothers across Canada. This is being referred to by scholars […]

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Manitoba adoption records have just been unsealed, allowing thousands to unravel their pasts

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Unravelling-family-secrets-311023721.html

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Tilson would support probe of forced adoptions from the ‘60s

October 31, 2013 By Bill Rea While it’s not really a federal issue, Dufferin-Caledon MP David Tilson has said he would support the idea of a parliamentary committee looking into cases of forced adoption in the 1960s. The Globe and Mail reported last Wednesday that several women were on hand for a meeting in Ottawa […]

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United Church weighs next steps after internal report on forced adoptions

KATHRYN BLAZE CARLSON The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Oct. 30 2013, 10:12 PM EDT The United Church of Canada – the first major Canadian institution to probe claims that women were coerced into surrendering their babies decades ago – has completed an internal review, but says it’s not ready to decide whether to back […]

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