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While a national organization seeks to track cases of forced sterilization of Indigenous peoples across Canada, Inuit women in the North say the practice hasn't ended. Karyn Couperthwaite, who lives in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, N.L., delivered her second son via C-section nine years ago. At the time, she said she asked for tubal ligation – a surgical process that would tie her fallopian tubes and prevent future pregnancies. When her family decided to have a third child, she made an appointment to have the ligation reversed. That's when she said she found out that her tubes hadn't been tied – they'd been removed instead. Her doctor made the discovery while reading notes in her medical file from the surgeon who performed the operation, she said. "He had to give me news that I didn't have my fa...

A Yukon woman is raising the alarm about the cost and difficulty of accessing abortion medication in the territory.Jane Doe says she had to seek an abortion through the emergency room, because the Opal clinic — the territory's only dedicated abortion services provider — is only open one day a week, for four hours. Jane Doe is a pseudonym. CBC is not disclosing her identity for personal safety reasons.That day, she says, she was left waiting, watching other patients come and go, until a female doctor was on shift — even though she hadn't asked to be seen by a female doctor.At the time, Doe was working in a rural community. She'd travelled to Whitehorse on the weekend seeking a medical abortion to end a pregnancy. She says the doctor advised her to go to the Opal Clinic. The receptionist and...