Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Norman Barkman (left) and Luke Monias were switched at birth 40 years ago, DNA tests have revealed. | John Woods/CP 
  
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 WINNIPEG — Two men from a remote Manitoba First Nation received "shocking and unbelievable" news this week that they were switched at birth 40 years ago and were raised by each other's families. 
  
 Luke Monias and Norman Barkman said Friday they want an investigation into what caused the mix-up at a federally run hospital in Norway House in June 1975. 
  
 "I just want to know what happened 40 years ago. It's hard,'' Barkman said Friday between long pauses, his voice breaking. "I just want to know what happened." 
  
 "I would like some answers for me and my family," Monias said. 
  
 Provincial Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson held a news conference in Winnipeg to explain that DNA tests show the men were given to the wrong families after their mothers gave birth. 
  
 The two were born on the same day to families from Garden Hill, a fly-in community 400 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. 
  
 Growing up, they were often told they looked more like the other boy's family, Monias said. 
  
 "I thought it was like a joke or rumours. I didn't take it seriously until recently." 
  
  
  
 Norman Barkman (left) and Luke Monias (centre) look down at a photo of Rebecca Barkman. 
  
  
  
 Last summer, needing to know once and for all who his actual parents were, Monias contacted Robinson for help. It was agreed that DNA tests would be done. The "shocking and unbelievable" results came back earlier this week, said Robinson, who represents the area in the legislature. 
  
 He said that the mix-up has affected many people in Garden Hill. Parents, siblings, children and other relatives are now learning that the person they thought was related to them is, in fact, not. 
  
 "The mental, physical and spiritual well-being of both men has been deeply affected by the loss of their proper identity," Robinson said. "The effects on their immediate and extended families is just as serious. It's also had a huge effect on the community itself." 
  
 He said Barkman and Monias want the federal government to initiate an immediate investigation into the events surrounding this "grievous error, and I support them." 
  
 "The lives of Luke, Norman and the families have been irreversibly torn apart by this error, an error that cannot be simply overturned at this late time." 
  
 An emailed statement from federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said she was very concerned to learn about the switch. 
  
 "I have asked my department officials to look into the matter immediately and to reach out to the families involved," she said. 
  
 "I can assure Canadians that Health Canada will look into the concerns that have been raised by Mr. Barkman and Mr. Monias." 
  
 Answers won't come soon enough for at least two people: the biological father of Monias is deceased as is Barkman's biological mother. 
  
 Monias said he and Barkman remain good friends. 
  
 "He's like my brother. He's still my brother, no matter what." ||||| Luke Monias and Norman Barkman fought back tears on Friday as they spoke of trying to come to terms with the news that they were switched at birth. 
  
 "It's hard. I just want to know what happened," a soft-spoken Barkman told a reporter-filled room at the Manitoba legislative building in Winnipeg. 
  
 They were joined by Eric Robinson, Manitoba's aboriginal and northern affairs minister, as they called upon the federal government to launch an investigation into how this could have happened. 
  
 Previous Next "I would like some answers for me and my family," said Monias. "The good is that now I know the truth." 
  
 Canada's health minister says officials are looking into how two men were switched at birth 40 years ago in a northern Manitoba hospital that, at the time, was run by the federal government. 
  
 In a statement sent to CBC News late Friday afternoon, Health Minister Dr. Jane Philpott said she is "very concerned to learn of this issue." 
  
 "I have asked my department officials to look into the matter immediately and to reach out to the families involved," she said. 
  
 "I can assure Canadians that Health Canada will look into the concerns that have been raised by Mr. Barkman and Mr. Monias." 
  
 Grew up as close friends 
  
 Robinson called the two men's situation "a case of stolen identity of two innocent children." 
  
 "I've heard of a lot of stories in my lifetime, but I've never heard of anything like this occurring," he said. 
  
 "The mental, physical and the spiritual well-being of both men has been deeply affected by the loss of their proper identity, and the effects upon their immediate and extended families is just as serious." 
  
 Monias and Barkman were born on June 19, 1975, at the federally run Norway House Indian Hospital and grew up as close friends in Garden Hill First Nation, a northern fly-in community. 
  
 The men always felt as if they belonged in each other's families, and many people commented on how much more they resembled each other's families, rather than their own. Their suspicions eventually drove them to have DNA tests. 
  
 "I thought that it was a joke, rumours. I didn't take it seriously until recently," said Monias. 
  
 The test results came back on Nov. 10, confirming Monias and Barkman were somehow switched and each went home with the other's parents, Robinson said. 
  
 The healing process is now just beginning and it's going to take some time in order for that to take its course. - Eric Robinson 
  
 "I didn't believe it until I saw the paper [document] and that's when it hit me the most," said Barkman. 
  
 "It was shocking and unbelievable but all too true," Robinson added. 
  
 "Mr. Barkman and Mr. Monias are now calling on the federal government to initiate an investigation into the events surrounding this grievous error, and I support them in that endeavour. The lives of Luke, Norman and the families have been irreversibly torn apart by this error. 
  
 "The entire community of Garden Hill has been affected to a large degree by this — by whatever happened at the Indian hospital back in June of 1975." 
  
 Healing is 'now just beginning' 
  
 Barkman's biological mother is deceased but Monias' biological mother, Rebecca Barkman, is alive and took part in the DNA tests, Robinson said, adding that Monias has children, whom he hasn't yet told. 
  
 The news is still fresh in their minds, even if the idea was in the back of their heads for a long time, Robinson said. 
  
 Norman Barkman (left) and Luke Monias (middle) sit beside Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson on Friday. (CBC) "The healing process is now just beginning and it's going to take some time in order for that to take its course." 
  
 Part of that healing will come with some recognition from the federal government, said Monias. 
  
 "I want an apology letter about the mistake that happened." 
  
 Chief Arnold Flett of the Garden Hill First Nation said he and community members are shocked to hear about what happened. 
  
 "It's unbelievable that something like that happened and that today that we know it's actually true," Flett said. 
  
 "To think of Norman and Luke, growing up in different families, and how do they adjust? That's probably the question that a lot of people in the community are thinking about. How do we move forward with this?" 
  
 Other cases possible? 
  
 When asked if he's worried there may be other cases, Flett said it was hard to say. 
  
 "If there is, at least we know what the outcome of this one is and also how others can deal with this issue," he said. 
  
 "I believe that up to this point, as families, they've grown to love each other as family. So you can't break that, but you just have to adjust to the new families that they have." 
  
 Robinson was asked if he was concerned about practices at the hospital, and if there is a possibility something could have happened to somebody else. 
  
 "I think that's what my friends from Garden Hill are indicating, and that's what they hope will be resolved from an investigation — that perhaps maybe we're going to open up another whole era," he said. 
  
 "You know, it's been one thing after another, whether it's residential schools, whether it's the [First Nations children] that were adopted out in the 1960s." 
  
 Robinson said he had difficulty sleeping last night, his mind spinning "and thinking about, you know, could this have happened to other people as well." 
  
 Robinson said he has already spoken to federal Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett "and she assured me that she would be co-operative in any activity that may occur with the federal government." ||||| Forty years ago, on the eve of summer, at Norway House at the top of Lake Winnipeg, an eight-hour drive north of the Manitoba capital, two baby boys were born. 
  
 The elated young couples soon took their newborns home to Garden Hill First Nation, a fly-in community then just 1,500 or so inhabitants strong. There, on the type of rugged landscape much of the world regards as quintessentially Canadian, the little boys, Luke Monias and Norman Barkman, grew up so close that they considered themselves brothers. 
  
 Only this week, now middle-aged, did the men learn that a dreadful mistake was made in the hours after their births on June 19, 1975. 
  
 The Barkman and Monias babies were sent home with the wrong families. 
  
 “I would like some answers, for me and my family,” Luke Monias told a news conference Friday at the Manitoba legislature. 
  
 Provincial Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson said the men were the victims “of stolen identity.” 
  
 And the mistake has an impact far beyond two devastated men who have had their “lives irreversibly torn apart,” he said. 
  
 Each man has a parent still living. Between them, there are almost 10 siblings still alive. Monias has five children, Barkman one. Their small, tight-knit community has been rocked by the news. 
  
 “It’s something I can’t even imagine,” said Robinson, a survivor of residential schools who was born at the same Norway House hospital years earlier. “I’ve heard a lot of stories myself in my lifetime, but I’ve never heard of anything like this.” 
  
 If the results of DNA tests that confirmed the mix-up were shocking, there was a part of Barkman and Monias that wasn’t wholly surprised. 
  
 Since adolescence, when a young man’s features take shape and genetic inheritance makes itself known, there had been persistent jokes, rumours and suggestions in the community that something was amiss. 
  
 “They kind of brushed it aside,” Robinson said. But the rumours persisted. And the men’s own suspicions grew. 
  
 People said they resembled each other’s families more than their own. Barkman said his brother, looking at Monias, said “it seems like I’m looking in the mirror.” 
  
 For years, Monias said, “I didn’t take it seriously.” But the unsettling suggestions continued. 
  
 “I guess it got to a point in recent years where it was getting intolerable,” Robinson said. The men needed “confirmation one way or the other for their own piece of mind.” 
  
 Monias approached Robinson this summer asking help in seeking the truth. With co-operation from both men’s surviving parent, DNA tests were undertaken. 
  
 On Tuesday, the results arrived, proving the long-running suspicions true. 
  
 “I didn’t believe it until I saw the paper,” Monias said. “That’s when it hit me.” 
  
 At least, he said, he at last knows the truth. Now, he would like to get to know the Barkmans, his biological family, much better, he said. 
  
 Two men want the federal government to investigate what happened at the Norway House hospital back in June 1975. Robinson is concerned that more than this one mix-up might have occurred. “Could this have happened to other people as well?” 
  
 Robinson said he and the Garden Hill chief have discussed having a feast in the community to honour the two men and reassure them of their place and that they’re “not ostracized.” 
  
 “I really commend the bravery of both these gentlemen for stepping forth and wanting to know the truth, not only for their own sanity but for the good of their families.” 
  
 For Luke Monias and Norman Barkman, one thing hasn’t changed. |||||
Student:
Two childhood friends made a startling discovery that has changed everything they thought they knew about themselves and their families: They were switched at birth. The CBC reports Luke Monias and Norman Barkman were born on the same June day in 1975 at the Norway House Indian Hospital in Manitoba. They were so close growing up they considered themselves brothers, reports the Toronto Star. But "persistent jokes, rumors, and suggestions" dogged them throughout the years. The CBC reports people would always point out how much more Monias and Barkman looked like each other's family than their own. But what was suspected for decades was finally confirmed by a DNA test Tuesday. "I didn’t believe it until I saw the paper," Monias tells the Star. "That’s when it hit me." Now the two want answers and an apology from the Canadian government, which was operating the hospital when the mixup happened, the CBC reports. "The mental, physical, and spiritual well-being of both men has been deeply affected by the loss of their proper identity," a local official who has taken up Monias and Barkman's cause tells the Huffington Post Canada. The trio are worried the hospital may have done the same thing to other children, per the CBC. Canada's health minister says she's "very concerned" and has asked officials to look into it. But despite the major revelation, there's one thing that hasn't changed for Monias and Barkman. "He’s still my brother," Monias says. "No matter what." (This mom thought the hospital gave her the wrong baby. She was right.)