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Jonathon Naylor Editor University College of the North says the Progressive Conservatives are wrong to claim the province's northern midwifery training program has been cancelled. But the official opposition is standing by its statement and blaming not UCN, but the NDP government. The Reminder published portions of a PC Party news release on the matter Wednesday. UCN quickly contacted us to say the midwifery program is still in fact running. UCN says its midwifery program has 13 full-time students, including 12 in class and one in clinical-ed in Thompson. Further, UCN said, this spring/summer there will be as many students in placements as last winter _ eight _ including Winnipeg, Thompson, Brandon and southeastern Manitoba. Place students For the fall, work is underway to place 12 students across Manitoba and another in Saskatchewan. Contacted with this information, Greg Burch, a spokesperson for the PCs, stood by the party's allegation. He said whereas there used to be eight students in The Pas and Norway House, today there are none _ 'a matter that is now the subject of litigation, in fact.' 'No students studying in the north = collapse of the northern midwifery program,' Burch added in an e-mail.
