A retired Supreme Court of Canada justice has launched the Michel and Yolande Bastarache Foundation to help New Brunswick families with sick children — a mission fuelled by a promise to his late wife and his own personal experience.
Foundation fulfil’s promise Michel Bastarache made to his late wife
Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 03, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Michel and Yolande Bastarache decided they want to help families with sick kids — an experience they knew all too well. (Submitted by Michel Bastarache)
A retired Supreme Court of Canada justice has launched a foundation to help New Brunswick families with sick children — a mission fuelled by a promise to his late wife and his own personal experience.
Michel Bastarache of Moncton said that after leaving his profession, he started thinking about what he would do with his assets.
His siblings were about his age, so he thought it wouldn’t make sense to give them a lot of money, he said during an interview on Shift.
And Bastarache’s two children, Jean-François and Émilie, had died.
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