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Advancing justiceAuthor: Maytree Foundation
This podcast is part of a series that explores the interface between human rights, poverty, racism, and the criminal justice system. In each episode, you will hear from researchers and practitioners to deepen your understanding of the issues and explore the historical roots of the present-day realities, the challenges associated with the lack of race-based data, issues specific to Indigenous communities, lack of access to justice, as well as potential solutions and promising practices. -------------- Law Society of Ontario Accredited EDI: This program contains 3 hours and 35 minutes of EDI Professionalism content. -------------- Find full transcripts of the conversations, other contributions to the series, and links to resources on the Maytree website at https://maytree.com/what-we-focus-on/advancing-justice/. Language: en-ca Genres: Government, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian Criminal Justice System: in conversation with Laura Arndt
Episode 8
Thursday, 24 February, 2022
For our eighth episode of “Advancing justice,” we will examine the relationships between human rights, racism, and the criminal justice system from the perspective of Indigenous people. --------- Approved EDI Professionalism: 0 hour(s) and 30 minute(s)Accreditation Criteria Session Approved Under: 6.0 --------- Joining Maytree president Elizabeth McIsaac for this discussion is Laura Arndt. Laura Arndt can speak to these issues from many perspectives. Laura is a Mohawk woman. She is a daughter, niece, and granddaughter of Indian Residential School survivors. Laura is the former Director of Strategic Development at the Office of the Ontario Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth and is currently completing her PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Laura is the Chair of Indigenous Studies at Centennial College but has taken a secondment from that role to be the Chief Operating Officer of the Survivor’s Secretariat which is investigating the unmarked graves associated with the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School near Brantford Ontario. You can find the transcript of the conversation at https://maytree.com/maytree-podcasts/advancing-justice-podcast/. You can read her contribution to the Advancing justice series, Indigenous Peoples and the Injustice of Justice,” at https://maytree.com/publications/indigenous-peoples/. For other contributions to the series and links to resources, visit the Maytree website at https://maytree.com/what-we-focus-on/advancing-justice/.
