Sask. Court of Appeal keeps TRC and MMIWG report excerpts as evidence in birth-alerts class action

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that excerpts from reports by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are admissible evidence in a proposed class action over birth alerts. The province had sought to exclude them. Birth alerts were flags social or health workers put on files of pregnant women considered high-risk. Government data show they were most often issued for Indigenous women, and babies were often later taken into care. The excerpts are admitted only for deciding whether to certify the lawsuit as a class action.