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Third-year Laurentian University midwifery student Abigail Roseborough of Kenora had been scheduled to start a placement in Thunder Bay next Monday.
However, because Laurentian is restructuring under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, the School of Midwifery is being cut, so her placement is gone. She is now looking to switch to a midwifery program at McMaster in Hamilton or Ryerson in Toronto.
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“Nobody in our faculty expected our program would be cut during a global pandemic where the demand for midwives, especially in the North, is there,” the Indigenous student said during a Zoom press conference Monday. “These cuts came out of nowhere and they left so many Indigenous students feeling deflated … Laurentian made a promise to us – to educate us, to protect us and we wouldn’t be affected.”