Turpel Lafond

• Discredited Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond returns honorary degree from N.B. university

  Former judge and law professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, whose claims of Indigenous ancestry have been discredited, has returned another honorary degree.

  Canada

  Apr 21, 2023
  
• Turpel-Lafond returns honorary degree granted by Simon Fraser University in B.C.

  A statement from SFU president Joy Johnson says Turpel-Lafond opted to return the 2016 award after the university told her it was under review.

  Canada

  Mar 30, 2023
  
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• Turpel-Lafond ‘satisfied’ with identity, past work

  Former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says she's satisfied in her "past work, identity and self-worth" after having a reward revoked.

  Politics

  Mar 9, 2023
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• University of Regina strips Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond of honorary degree

  In a Monday statement, the University of Regina said it had rescinded an honorary doctor of laws degree it bestowed on Turpel-Lafond in 2003. 

  Canada

  Feb 13, 2023
• Sexual violence in care ‘disturbing’: B.C. advocate

  A new report from British Columbia's representative of children and youth says an alarming number of girls have been the victims of sexual violence while in the care of the provincial government.

  Oct 4, 2016
• Ministry of Children and Family Development react to scathing report

  Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond made it clear in a scathing report earlier this week that the Ministry of Children and Family Development is failing Aboriginal children.

  Nov 9, 2013