Manitoba’s Department of Health may be in charge of the funding, but the Progressive Conservative government has decided talking about reproductive health care — including abortion — remains a women’s issue.
Day: January 13, 2021
Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin has offered a state apology to the survivors of mother and baby homes, where unwed women were forcefully separated from their children. We discussed the trauma of these institutions with survivor Anne Harris and Colm O’Gorman, executive director of Amnesty International in Ireland.
After the cancellation of nationals, Paul Poirier and partner Piper Gilles said there is still a small chance they’ll compete at the world championships in Stockholm in March — if the championships even happen, and under the right protocols. Otherwise, he and Gilles are content to start focusing on next year’s Beijing Olympics.