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 […]
CBC: Trudeau government seeks judicial review in decision to compensate First Nations kids
Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is quoted in a recent CBC News story about the child welfare decision.
CBC: Scheer says he’d seek ‘judicial review’ of First Nation child welfare compensation
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the Centre’s Director, was recently quoted in CBC News.
CFax: Orange Shirt Day recognizes the harm caused to First Nations students in residential schools
Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond was featured in a CFAX Radio segment on the origins of Orange Shirt Day, and Survivor Phyllis Webstad’s story.