The B.C. government introduced new legislation today aimed at addressing systemic racism in B.C. UBC experts are available to comment.
May 2, 2022
Federal Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion said today that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau contravened a section of the Conflict of Interest Act by pressuring former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould to halt criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. UBC experts are available to comment.
Aug 14, 2019
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a UBC law professor, a former judge and B.C. representative for children and youth, commented to CBC about changes to the criminal justice system in favour of […]
Apr 17, 2019
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, head of UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre. spoke to CBC about a program aimed at keeping Indigenous families together. “I’m very excited about the role that [doulas] will […]
Apr 11, 2019
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a law professor at UBC, spoke to CTV about the conditions set out by Jody Wilson-Raybould and the SNC-Lavalin affair. A similar article appeared in Huffington Post […]
Apr 5, 2019
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, director of UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, said in a CBC article that offering Jody Wilson-Raybould the Indigenous Services portfolio was inappropriate.
Mar 7, 2019
The National Post quoted Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a professor of law at UBC, in an article about the Liberal government’s claims they are protecting jobs at SNC-Lavalin.
The Canadian Press quoted Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, about the order by Trudeau to allow Jody Wilson-Raybould to testify. […]
Feb 27, 2019
CBC reported that Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, senior associate counsel at Woodward and Company LLP and a professor at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law, will appear at the justice committee […]
Feb 26, 2019
CBC quoted Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, director of UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, in an article about Trudeau’s decision to disband the team of ministers charged with mending Canada’s […]
Jan 15, 2019
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC, spoke to Maclean’s for an article about Trudeau’s First Nations “framework.” She said the government […]
Oct 25, 2018
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, discussed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People on CBC Radio’s Early Edition before […]
Oct 15, 2018
The Canadian Press interviewed Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, director of the UBC Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and B.C.’s former children’s advocate. Turpel-Lafond said the current child welfare system […]
Oct 9, 2018
CBC Indigenous interviewed Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, about Ottawa’s plan to introduce legislation to enshrine Indigenous rights in federal […]
Sep 12, 2018
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, a renowned Indigenous Canadian judge, lawyer and advocate for children and Indigenous restorative justice, has joined UBC as the inaugural director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) and as a professor with the Peter A. Allard School of Law.
Apr 26, 2018
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