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UBCIC and Heiltsuk Nation Announce Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond to Intervene in BC Human Rights Case Against Vancouver Police Department Over Racial Profiling and Wrongful Detainment
June 16, 2021
UBCIC and Heiltsuk Nation Announce Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond to Intervene in BC Human Rights Case Against Vancouver Police Department Over Racial Profiling and Wrongful Detainment
12-year-old’s handcuffing continues history of Indigenous distrust in police: former child representative
Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, gives her input on a recent incident at a Vancouver BMO, involving a 12-year old girl and her grandfather.
An Opera and Symposium: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
The 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau is being commemorated by UBC Opera January 27 to February 2.
(De)colonial Spaces of Memory Activism
Dr. Tricia Logan, head of Research and Engagement at the Centre, will be offering a talk on the role libraries, archives and museums can play in decolonization.
Centre under construction until April 2020
The Centre will be under construction from January through April 2020, but the exhibition and lower level will be open to the public.
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.
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!
Stepping Down?, Virtual Kidnapping & Firing Over a Tweet
The centre’s Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond made a guest appearance on The Jon McComb Show to discuss UNDRIP implementation after new legislation is introduced.
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.
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
Credit: Macleans 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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
Canada’s residential schools were houses of pain, but survivors want these buildings to be saved
Research done by Tricia Logan, the Centre’s Assistant Director of Research and Engagement, was featured in The Globe & Mail.
So we don’t forget what happened in those schools’: Remembering Indigenous children on Orange Shirt Day
The Centre’s Orange Shirt Day activities were featured in a CBC News article.
Schools need to take the lead on educating impacts of residential schools
The Centre was featured on CBC Radio’s Early Edition with Stephen Quinn.
RCGS, Orange Shirt Society launch Paths to Reconciliation
The Centre was recently featured in Canadian Geographic.
Orange Shirt Day at UBC seeks to open conversations and honour residential school survivors
The Centre’s Orange Shirt Day activities were featured in the Ubyssey.
What can you do this Orange Shirt Day?
Here’s a short list brainstorming some of the activities you can take part in this September 30th for Orange Shirt Day.
Community-focused and Indigenous-driven: Despite setbacks, UBC’s Residential School History and Dialogue Centre is delivering on promises
The Centre was recently featured in the Ubyssey.