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Background: Adoption Information Disclosure Act – WIki
- IMPORTANT–Contentious adoption law struck down, Law Times, November 3, 2007
- Curtain lifts on decades of forced adoptions for unwed mothers in Canada, National Post, March 9, 2012
- The Shame is Ours: Forced Adoptions of the Babies of Unmarried Mothers in Post-war Canada, Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, July 2018
- ‘Shameful period in Canada’s history’: Report released on forced post-Second World War adoptions, CTV, July 19, 2018
- ‘Dickensian’ Good Shepherd institutions covered up dysfunction in Canadian society, as late as the 1960s. National Post, June 13, 2019
- Adoption gone wrong. BC Catholic, September 23, 2020
- ‘Perfect storm’ forced 300,000 mothers to give up their babies. BC Catholic, September 23, 2020
- New film grapples with ‘one of the biggest secrets’ in Canadian history, BC Catholic, October 1, 2020
- Apology for Past Adoption Practices: Church apologizes for separating unmarried mothers from their children in maternity homes.United Church of Canada,, November 20, 2020
- The legacy of forced adoption: 300,000 unmarried Canadian women had to give up their babies, CBC, ND 2021
- Provincial borders blocking access to open adoption records for some Canadians, CBC, April 16, 2021
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Mum’s the Word documentary features activism of P.E.I. adoptees, birth parents.
The Guardian, March 4, 2020
New film sheds light on forced adoptions in church-run homes, Broadview, July 6, 2020
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Also see: Indigenous Canada
A Typical Response
A big Bastard thanks to Lori Pringle for researching and compiling Canada access laws.
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Updated: November 6, 2021
