by Amei-lee Laboucan | Sep 16, 2019 | News
There’s always work to be done on the road to reconciliation, and the development of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) has been an integral step in the process. Though measures have been taken for its acceptance in Canada,...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | Sep 16, 2019 | Media coverage, News
The Government in British Columbia has cut a child welfare program, referred to as “birth alerts.” “Used in hospitals for decades in B.C. and in other provinces and territories, these alerts are issued, without the consent of the expectant parents, where...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | Sep 10, 2019 | Media coverage, News
Head of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and professor of law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond speaks to the UBC Indigenous Strategic policy. “I continue to see the need for an Indigenous vice president whose...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | Sep 6, 2019 | News
“Ottawa must pay tens of thousands of dollars to every First Nations child who was placed in the on-reserve child welfare system, following a Friday ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that also provides compensation to some of their parents...
by Amei-lee Laboucan | Aug 29, 2019 | Event, News
September 30 is Orange Shirt Day, in honour of residential school Survivors and reconciliation. Show your support by wearing orange.
