The Centre and the staff are often featured in news and publications at the local and national level.
Toronto Star: Systemic racism in Canada’s healthcare system persists
Academic Director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is quoted, and her report In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in BC Health Care cited.
Times Colonist: Indigenous podcast links youth to culture
Jess Boon, Community Outreach Co-ordinator of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, shares the practical and philosophical intentions of the podcast project, engaging the community during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and validating youth’s agency to tell their truths.
CBC: Judges urged to speak up after Anishinaabe woman faces misogyny, racism during Winnipeg court hearing
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, Academic Director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and law professor at UBC, comments on racism in the judicial system.
Georgia Straight: Paula Bhamji: TD, let us be—a mother’s plea for acceptance of her multiracial children
Open letter cites report, In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in BC Health Care, by Academic Director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond Aki-kwe.
Toronto Star: New UBC podcast links Indigenous youth and Knowledge Keepers in conversation
Jess Boon, Community Outreach Co-ordinator of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, shares the practical and philosophical intentions of the podcast project, engaging the community during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and validating youth’s agency to tell their truths.
The Tyee: Darwyn Deserved a Better Death
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, Academic Director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, advocated for in-person care for a high-needs teen.
North Shore News: New UBC podcast links Indigenous youth and Knowledge Keepers in conversation
Jess Boon, Community Outreach Co-ordinator of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, shares the practical and philosophical intentions of the podcast project, engaging the community during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and validating youth’s agency to tell their truths.
CBC: Ottawa backs Indigenous child welfare law after Quebec court declares parts of it unconstitutional
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, Academic Director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, wants the federal government to appeal the Quebec Court of Appeal’s decision that found Bill C-92—the Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families—constitutional apart from two key sections.
Vancouver Magazine: 2022 Power 50 List
The Centre’s Academic Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe) has been named one of Vancouver’s 50 most influential people in the Vanmag 2022 Power 50 list, curated by Vancouver Magazine.
CBC: Crown-Indigenous relations minister ‘absolutely open’ to review of survivor compensation deal
December 21, 2021 Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Academic Director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, identifies requirements for review of the compensation deal between Catholic entities and Residential School Survivors.