“This will be our last baby,” says Shene Catholique-Valpy, a mother of four living in Yellowknife and one of 75 N.W.T. mothers sent to Alberta to give birth. “It was a traumatic experience, and I can’t imagine having to do it again.” ‘This will be our last baby,’ says Shene Catholique-Valpy, a mother of four living…
Having experienced anti-Black racism herself while growing up in the same area, Natasha Shakespeare feels heartbroken that her 13-year-old is suffering from the same 30 years later: targeted for abuse at school because she’s Black and receiving inadequate support from school leaders in response.
Cheryl Franko, who was pregnant with her first child, was initially worried about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine and whether it could potentially harm her baby.Cheryl Franko holds six-week-old Emmylou outside of her home in Edmonton. (Julia Wong/CBC)An Edmonton woman who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant has a school project to thank for her decision…
Charles Qirngnirq was a hunter and a mechanic for his mother, Leona Qirngnirq, before he was shot by police in 2016. Lawyers at the inquest underway in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, intend to argue it was a homicide.The hamlet of Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, population 1,300. Charles Qirngnirq was a hunter and mechanic, an inquest jury heard…
Langley, B.C., mother Kerryann Lewis has been found not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of her seven-year-old daughter, Aaliyah Rosa, who was found dead on the bathroom floor of her mother’s apartment in 2018.Aaliyah Rosa, 7, was found dead in her mother’s apartment in Langley, B.C., on July 22, 2018. Kerryann Lewis was…
Hope Swinimer’s name has become synonymous with wildlife rehabilitation in Nova Scotia and beyond, and her fervour for the field has had a marked impact on how people think about the natural world.Hope Swinimer holds an injured American marten at Hope for Wildlife on June 18, 2021. Swinimer has always been fascinated by the endangered…
A mother allegedly tried to shoot her neighbor’s puppy but missed and struck her five-year-old son. Angelia Mia Vargas, 24, fired multiple times at the dog that was running loose in her neighborhood in north Houston over the weekend. Using a small caliber pistol, Vargas fired three shots at the puppy around 2.15pm near 700…
When I learned I was pregnant with my son, I started asking myself, “What does it mean to be an Mi’kmaw mother?”Alisha Knockwood says when she learned she was pregnant with her son Simon she began to reflect on what it means to be a Mi’kmaw mother. (Submitted by Alisha Knockwood)This First Person article is…
A mother who left her two year-old daughter to die in a hot car while she got paralytic with a friend has been jailed for 14 years. Lacey Mazzarella, 35, was handed the sentence Wednesday after pleading no contest to the September 2019 killing of her daughter June Agosto in West Carson, California. Mazzarella –…
Parents of children in an intensive autism therapy program are begging the Nova Scotia government for more support, saying gaps in their therapy will affect the current cohort of kids for the rest of their lives.Tausha Butler is worried about how her son Daxon, right, will fare in school as he’s just learning how to…