Primer on practice shifts required with Canada’s Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families Act
Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, has drafted a primer on important legislation coming into force January 1, 2020.
Wind Speaker: C-92 will present a radical adjustment for mainstream child welfare agencies
Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond spoke with Windspeaker about upcoming changes to child welfare laws in Canada.
Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre congratulates BC on implementing a key Call to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The summary report highlights some of the issues raised at the November dialogue, including a technical review of the bill, a primer with more detailed explanation of DRIPA, and a summary of some of the key discussion at the session.
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond receives honorary degree from Carleton University
Congratulations to Aki-kwe on this remarkable accomplishment!
APTN: B.C. Indigenous rights law aims to make First Nations full participants
Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond was quoted by APTN News on the implementation of new UNDRIP legislation.
Editorial: Confronting Myths About Indigenous Consent
The Centre fully supports UNDRIP legislation. Centre advisor Dr. Roshan Danesh offers an important editorial on the upcoming legislation soon to be tabled in BC.
Globe & Mail: Reconciliation’s reckoning: For Indigenous people in Northern Ontario, election season brings disenchantment and defiance
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, was interviewed in the Globe and Mail on the Liberals’ scorecard on Indigenous relations.
The Life and Legacy of Chanie Wenjack
Secret Path Week is a national week to remember the death of Chanie Wenjack, a young Anishinaabe boy who died trying to run away from residential school and reunite with his parents. Chanie’s story sparked national conversation about the standards and practices of Residential Schools. During an inquest following his death, a jury of settlers […]
National Student Memorial Register honours children who died in residential school
The National Truth and Reconciliation Centre (NCTR) recently held a ceremony honouring the reveal of the National Student Memorial Register, which lists the names of 2,800 students who never returned home from residential schools. The register is intended as a reminder of the lives of the children that were lost as a result of the […]
Liberals prove they don’t value Indigenous kids as much as other children
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe) Professor of Law, UBC Director, Residential School History and Dialogue Centre Is the life and well-being of an Indigenous child in Canada valued as much as other children? That in 2019 we must still confront this question may be shocking to some. But we shouldn’t be shocked. Again and again we […]