Recent media coverage about midwives, midwifery, and health care

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March 3, 2010
Northern Alberta midwife dies at 101
CBC
"Northerners are mourning the death of longtime Fort Chipewyan..."

February 25, 2010
Midwifery regulations in place this spring
Daily Gleaner
"New Brunswick's long delayed midwife regulations will be in place..."

February 24, 2010
Midwife rules in the works
Times & Transcript
"After much anticipation and delays, Health Minister Mary Shryer announced..."

February 18, 2010
Canadian midwife off to help in Haiti
The Westerly
"A new local to Tofino is traveling to Port-au-Prince, Haiti with two non-governmental organizations..."

January 29, 2010
Getting in touch with her body
North Bay Nugget
"Lilian Lathangue is listening to her body. There will be no hospital beds..."

January 23, 2010
Midwife revisits African villages where she once worked as a nurse
The Record
"Elsie Cressman is a woman of few words but big actions..."

January 21, 2010
Birth centre to be built in Winnipeg
CBC News, Manitoba
"Manitoba will build it's first-ever out-of-hospital birth centre in south Winnipeg..."

January 20, 2010
Emmaline Paul is first home birth of 2010
Cottage Country Now
"Bracebridge - The first home birth of the year came to new parents Stuart and Rebecca..."

January 17, 2010
Quake just a bigger reason to stay, says local midwife in Haiti
Edmonton Journal
"As Canadians are urged to head toward the embassy in Port-au-Prince..."

January 7, 2010
First Midland baby of 2010 delivered at home
The Midland Mirror
"The first baby born in Midland in 2010 came into the world not in a hospital, but in his parents’ family room..."