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The National Centre for Indigenous Laws was made a reality at UVic with $13 million from the BC government and $5 million from the Law Foundation of BC.

The National Centre for Indigenous Laws was made a reality at UVic with $13 million from the BC government, $9.1 million from the federal government and $5 million from the Law Foundation of BC.

A donor award supports doctoral student Leigh Joseph鈥攅thnobotanist and small business owner鈥攁s she examines the potential for traditional foods and medicines to prevent and manage Type 2 diabetes.

John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at UVic, is a 2020 recipient of the Governor General's Innovation Award, announced today. Borrows talks about how Indigenous laws and protocols are helping to protect First Nations during the COVID-19 pandemic and how Indigenous laws and the new Canada-US-Mexico Agreement will provide a healthier and an economically stronger future for First Nations.

Paul Whitinui (School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education) is an Indigenous M膩ori scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand and is available to media to discuss this week鈥檚 announcements that the Washington Redskins and the Saanich Braves, under increasing public and financial pressure, will change their nicknames.

John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at UVic, is a 2020 recipient of the Governor General's Innovation Award, announced today. Borrows talks about how Indigenous laws and protocols are helping to protect First Nations during the COVID-19 pandemic and how Indigenous laws and the new Canada-US-Mexico Agreement will provide a healthier and an economically stronger future for First Nations.

When UVic student Simone Blais was invited to attend a 2016 summit in Toronto for Indigenous and racialized students at the start of the Black Lives Matter movement, she jumped at the opportunity. It was a profound experience, one that compelled her to question the usefulness of post-secondary education. But Blaise has since used her experiences outside of the classroom to build on her studies.

After a serious motorcycle accident that left him temporarily paralysed, Keenan Andrew left his career as a stone mason behind and returned to his long-held passion to work with children and youth. He began his post-secondary education at 29 years old.

Donor funding expands a lab鈥檚 research, and teaching and outreach programs in community-driven applied conservation science.

Indigenous leader Ry Moran becomes Canada鈥檚 first-ever Associate University Librarian鈥擱econciliation at UVic Libraries. In this new role, Moran will be looking to partner with Indigenous communities and work to directly address the need to help preserve and sustain Indigenous knowledge, as well as introduce Indigenous approaches to knowledge into the daily work of the Libraries.

Ry Moran, an Indigenous leader who guided the creation of a national archive that includes thousands of stories from residential school survivors, is appointed as the inaugural associate university librarian 鈥� reconciliation at UVic. It is the first position of its kind at a Canadian university.

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Can Indigenous diplomatic legal principles help lead communities away from gender violence? Jasmine Dionne, a UVic PhD student in political science, is working with the Cree and Metis community of Saka Wiyiniwak (Cree for 鈥淏oreal Forest Peoples鈥�) in Northeastern Alberta to reimplement Indigenous legal principles, as part of a three-year scholarship, announced this month by the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. She is one of only 16 Canadian doctoral students receiving a $180,000 award.

Two UVic researchers named top 25 "Storytellers" in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's annual competition. They show Canadians the impact of their research in just three minutes.

In a significant step for Indigenous health research in BC, a new provincial network will provide Indigenous peoples with the ability to have more control over what and how research is conducted to improve health and wellness in their communities.

番茄社区 experts are available to media to discuss various aspects of the current Wet'suwet'en-Coastal GasLink dispute including protests and blockades, broader issues of Indigenous law and governance structures, environmental review processes, the impact of colonial policies and where the public discussion should go next.