Manitoba’s Minister of Health, Uzoma Asagwara, took to TikTok last week with a series of light-hearted videos promoting recent changes in provincial healthcare, including the rollout of plastic health cards and free birth-control coverage.

In one reel, Asagwara strolls through the Legislature dressed in a cardboard costume shaped like a package of birth control pills and an IUD marked “Free,” highlighting the province’s expansion of no-cost contraception. Another video shows them wearing a sandwich board with a cardboard health card labelled “Heather Stefanson,” a jab at the former PC government’s use of paper cards. In a third, the minister flashes a mock “Healthcare Retention and Recruitment Office” ID, complete with a QR code directing viewers to explore frontline healthcare careers.

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