For Access to Justice Week, 2023, we’re profiling Debra Febril, a lawyer in CLAS’s BC Human Rights Clinic. Debra works to make the human rights complaints process more accessible for Indigenous Peoples.
Q: Tell us about yourself!
A: My Nisga’a name is Tsit’tuutsgum Ts’winhl Kaax Xsaak. […]
Image: from https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/national-day-truth-reconciliation.html
September 29th, 2021, by Debra Febril, HRC Advocate
The Truth:
On October 14, 2020, I went out with my spouse and 4-year-old son to grab a few things for our new apartment in the big city. We had just moved from a remote northern […]
By Aleem Bharmal, QC, Human Rights Lawyer
The BC Human Rights Clinic is representing an Indigenous mother in the case RR v Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society (VACFSS) which is set to proceed to hearing at the BC Human Rights Tribunal from […]
Last week, news broke that an Indigenous man and his 12 year-old grand-daughter were arrested and handcuffed by Vancouver police. They had gone to a Bank of Montreal branch to open the girl’s first bank account, but a staffer apparently became suspicious and called […]
