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Indigenous Human Rights
The Indigenous Human Rights podcast is produced by Pro Bono Students Canada's Indigenous Human Rights Program. We're a group of law students shining a light on the experiences of Indigenous people at human rights tribunals across Canada. Listen and learn what it's really like to fight for your rights in the colonial legal system. Our podcast is sponsored by Thomson Reuters, PBSC's National Research Partner.
Episodes
12 episodes
Jamie McGinnis: Discrimination on Public Transit – Nakogee v. North Bay Transit
A new episode from the Indigenous Human Rights Podcast! Our hosts, Daniel Jolic and Brianna Brumen, talk to lawyer Jamie McGinnis from the Human Rights Legal Support Centre, who represented the Nakogees at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario i...
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Jennifer Hawn and Andrew Camman: Discrimination in the Workplace – Kenney v. Thames Valley District School Board
A new episode from the Indigenous Human Rights Podcast! Our hosts, Daniel Jolic and Brianna Brumen, talk to Jennifer Hawn and Andrew Camman, the lawyers who represented Billy Kenney at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal in his quest for justice....
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Jen Danch: Human Rights 101 – An Overview of the Tribunal System
Our first episode from the latest season of the Indigenous Human Rights Podcast! Our hosts, Daniel Jolic and Brianna Brumen, talk to Jen Danch, a human rights lawyer at Swadron Associates. Ms. Danch previously served at the Ontario Human Rights...
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37:18
Cindy Blackstock: Fighting for Equality in Family and Child Services
An episode from the back catalogue! We talk with Dr. Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitxsan First Nation, the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, and a professor at McGill University’s School of Social Wo...
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30:48
Sheryl Lightfoot: UNDRIP and Human Rights Tribunals
An episode from the back catalogue! We talk to Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot, a citizen of the Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe (enrolled at the Keweenaw Bay Community), a professor at the University of British Columbia, and one of the world’s leading exper...
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32:59
Mr. C: Limitation periods at human rights tribunals
In our third episode of Season 2, we talk to lawyer Alanna Tom about her experience representing Mr. C, an Indigenous man, at the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. Mr. C filed his human rights complaint late but Ms. Tom was able to convin...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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35:49
Farewell Fallon and Flint: Reflecting on what we've learned and imagining a better future
In this episode, hosts Fallon and Flint announce that they are graduating from law school and moving on from the podcast. Fallon and Flint reflect on what they have learned from our guests over the past two years, and they share how they hope t...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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24:55
Expert Witness: An inside look at the human rights tribunal system
Welcome to Season 2! We talk to Dr. Bruce Miller, a sociocultural anthropologist who has testified as an expert witness in some of the most important Indigenous human rights cases in Canada. Dr. Miller tells us what an expert witness is, what h...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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38:47
Garry McKay: Racially profiled and arrested for having a nice bike
To round out our first year as podcasters, we talk to Cree and Métis lawyers Mandy Wesley and Amanda Driscoll about their experiences representing Garry McKay, an Oji-Cree man who was arrested by a Toronto Police officer who said he thought tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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32:48
Gladys Radek: She was followed by a mall security guard. Then she proved systemic discrimination
In our third episode, we speak with Gladys Radek, a long-time advocate for Indigenous women and girls. In 2001, Gladys was grabbing a coffee at a mall when a security guard demanded to know where she was going. Gladys filed a complaint with ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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28:02
Crystal Smith: A mother's fight to protect the right to smudge
In our second episode, we talk to Crystal Smith, a member of the Tsimshian and Haisla Nations and a mother, artist, activist, and teacher. She tells us about the time her landlord tried to evict her for smudging in her apartment with her ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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35:08
Deborah Campbell: Acts of resistance in the colonial human rights system
In our first-ever episode, we talk to Cree and Métis-Cree lawyers Amber Prince and Myrna McCallum about their experiences representing Deborah Campbell, an Indigenous mother who took the Vancouver Police to the BC Human Rights Tribunal. In 2019...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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