Two men switched at birth receive apology from Manitoba’s premier
On Thursday, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew invited Richard Beauvais and Edward Ambrose to the Legislative Building to receive an official apology for being switched at birth 69 years ago in Winnipeg. Ambrose said he feels Kinew’s apology “comes from the heart.”
Canada
Mar 21
Manitoba premier Kinew apologizes to men switched at birth in 1955: ‘Long time coming’
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has formally apologized on behalf of the province to Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais, two men who were accidentally switched at birth at a hospital in the town of Arborg in 1955. Marney Blunt looks at how the error was discovered, and the range of emotions from both men and their...
Global National
Mar 21
‘It must be atoned for’: Manitoba premier offers formal apology to men switched at birth in 1955
The Province of Manitoba has formally apologized to two men who were switched at birth almost 70 years ago. Marney Blunt reports.
Mar 21
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Global National
Mar 21
‘We want answers so bad’: 2 Manitoba men switched at birth make emotional plea
Two men from northern Manitoba were brought to tears Friday morning as they tried to put into words how it felt to discover they were switched at birth.
Canada
Aug 26, 2016
Two Manitoba men discover they were switched at birth
On Jan. 31, 1975, Leon Swanson was born at what was then known as the Norway House Indian Hospital. Three days later, David Tait Jr. was born in the same remote hospital located about 800 kilometres north of Winnipeg. More than forty years later, a DNA…
Canada
Aug 26, 2016
Women discover at age 72 that they were switched at birth
Two women living in Minnesota discovered at age 72, through the genealogy website 23andMe, that they were switched at birth.
World
Jun 13, 2018
Men who learned they were switched at birth call on Federal government to hold an investigation
The two men who revealed Friday they had been switched at birth in 1975 are calling on the Federal government to hold an investigation into what happened to them some 40 years ago.
Canada
Aug 26, 2016