Court lets two national reports be used in birth alerts case

Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal ruled in a lawsuit about birth alerts. Birth alerts were warnings social or health workers put on files of pregnant women seen as high-risk. Government data show most were for Indigenous women. Babies were often later taken into government care. The court said parts of two national reports can be used as evidence: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The province opposed this. They will be used only to decide if the case can become a class action, a lawsuit for a large group.