by Amei-lee Laboucan | Oct 11, 2019 | News
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...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | Oct 9, 2019 | News
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...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | Oct 8, 2019 | Media coverage, News
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...