Saskatchewan's NDP Blames Rural Health Care for a Pregnant Woman's Death

The NDP says Chelsea Bear, a mother pregnant with twins, died along with one of her babies after seeking care in Meadow Lake, and that the rural health-care system failed her. Global News Canada reports that the case has prompted the party to call for changes to rural health care in Saskatchewan. The death of a pregnant woman and one of her twins is the kind of event that turns a system's gaps into a political argument; whether the province accepts that framing is a separate question the case now puts to it.