{"id":223227,"date":"2026-09-24T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/223227\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:38:13","slug":"switched-at-birth-manitoba-men-receive-settlement-from-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/223227\/","title":{"rendered":"Switched at birth: Manitoba men receive settlement from province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Manitoba men who were switched at birth in 1955 recently received a settlement from the Manitoba government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two Manitoba men who learned decades later they were switched at birth have received a settlement from the Manitoba government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais were each paid $250,000 by the province, according to a recent financial information disclosure for the 2025-26 fiscal year released by the province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ambrose and Beauvais were born on the same day in 1955 in Arborg, Man., but went home with different parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhat happened was a miscarriage of justice. No one can give them back the years that were lost but we hope the settlement brings some closure,\u201d Justice Minister Matt Wiebe said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Beauvais, who was raised Metis, took a test with an at-home ancestry kit he got as a gift in 2022. The results came back saying he was Ukrainian and Jewish. That same year, Ambrose\u2019s sister also did an at-home ancestry kit and found she had a brother living in British Columbia, who turned out to be Beauvais.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ambrose was raised Ukrainian throughout his life but became a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation in 2024 after learning of his heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pair received a formal apology from Premier Wab Kinew in the Manitoba legislature in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from CTV\u2019s Jon Hendricks and The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Manitoba men who were switched at birth in 1955 recently received a settlement from the Manitoba government.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[147,17],"class_list":["post-223227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}