by Amei-lee Laboucan | Jun 28, 2021 | Highlights, News, Press releases
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at UBC has released a new discussion paper exploring considerations for addressing missing children, unmarked burials and mass graves at residential schools. The paper, Considering the legal...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | Jun 17, 2021 | Highlights, News
The Centre welcomes the passing of Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The bill will affirm the UN Declaration as a universal human rights instrument with application in Canadian law. Building on support for former...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | May 30, 2021 | Highlights, Media coverage, News, Press releases
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe) is the director of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and a professor of law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, at the University of British Columbia. This piece was originally published in the Globe and Mail...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | May 28, 2021 | Highlights, News
Photograph of Kamloops Indian Residential School, undated. From the Oblate Fathers (Deschatelets) – Les Oeuvres Oblates de l’Ontario collection at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (10a-c000432-d0007-001). The UBC Indian Residential School...
