CBC: Pope accepts invitation to Canada to meet with Indigenous groups, Vatican says
IRSHDC Academic Director, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-Kwe, comments on Pope’s proposed visit with Indigenous groups
CBC: N.B. employees told to stop making Indigenous title acknowledgments, but won’t face repercussions if they do
Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre Academic Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-Kwe comments on N.B’s Attorney General Ted Flemming ambivalence toward a new directive to stop making First Nations title acknowledgements.
Challenging Ideology: Looking at Historical Museum Practices Through an Indigenous Lens
A webinar series that explores Indigenous knowledge, recommendations and current practice in museums and archives.
CBC: Residential school survivors frustrated Wilson-Raybould not consulted on scrapping of 2015 compensation appeal
IRSHDC Academic Director, Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, quoted in article about residential school survivors’ response to lack of Consultation with then-Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould.
CBC: Wilson-Raybould wasn’t consulted on freeing Catholic Church from residential school compensation deal: source
IRSHDC Academic Director, Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, questions government’s lack of Consultation with then-Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould.
NPR: Communities plan to search for more Indigenous children’s remains in Canada
IRSHDC Academic Director, Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, says technology has validated and corroborated what the testimonies and residential school survivors said.
Globe & Mail: How the Catholic Church was freed from obligation to residential school survivors
IRSHDC Academic Director, Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, comments on the records for a campaign filed by the Catholic Church to be released from the obligation to pay millions owed to residential school survivors.
CBC: Advocates shocked by Catholic list claiming $28M of ‘in-kind’ help for residential school survivors
IRSHDC Academic Director, Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, comments on the Catholic Church’s claim of $28M in in-kind compensation.
Youtube: Honouring the Children – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2021
IRSHDC Academic Director, Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, speaks about reconciliation and justice at the Baha’i Community of Canada Office of Public Affairs.
Globe & Mail: Indigenous rights advocates urge Trudeau to accept ruling on compensation order: ‘Judgment is clear, fair and unambiguous’
IRSHDC Academic Director, Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, commented on a Federal Court ruling finding a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s decision to uphold a complaint of discrimination re: Ottawa’s child-welfare services was reasonable.