Media Coverage
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.
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.
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.
Liberals prove they don’t value Indigenous kids as much as other children
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe) Professor of Law,...
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.
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.
BC Bans ‘Birth Alerts,’ Promises More Family Supports in Bid to End Apprehension of Newborns
Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-Kwe, is quoted in a recent Tyee story talking about the practice which affected Indigenous parents disproportionately.
B.C. ends controversial policy that removes newborns from families
Changes to British Columbia’s birth alert system are “effective immediately,” and actioned from recommendations by Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-Kwe, as well as others.
‘A shifting landscape’: amidst understaffing and policy changes, Indigenous Strategic Plan is further delayed
Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond was quoted in a recent article by the Ubyssey (Vol.10, Issue V) on Reconciliation and the Indigenous Strategic Plan.
Giant Indigenous Peoples Atlas floor map will change the way you see Canada
Education and Programming Lead Charlene Bearhead was recently quoted in a CBC story about the new Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada’s giant floor map.
Jody Wilson-Raybould to release ‘timely’ and ‘must-read’ book during election campaign
Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond was quoted in a CBC story about Jody Wilson-Raybould’s forthcoming book by UBC Press.
UN Human Rights Office calls for examination of MMIWG inquiry’s genocide claim
Centre Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond recently spoke to CBC about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls final report.