Office of Indigenous Initiatives
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Pegah Jamalof elected Students’ Union president and CEO for 2021-22
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Pegah Jamalof has been elected as Wilfrid Laurier University’s Students’ Union president and CEO for the 2021-22 term. The results were officially announced shortly after 10 p.m on Jan. 29 via Zoom, after a Bingo with Twan event that started at 8 p.m. Jamalof won the election with 63.85 per cent of the votes with…
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Laurier to offer new course on Canada’s criminal justice system and its interaction with Indigenous peoples
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Wilfrid Laurier University has launched a new course, Gladue Principles: Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian Criminal Justice System, which will be offered for the first time starting on Jan. 15, 2021. The 1999 Supreme Court of Canada decision, R. v. Gladue, acknowledged that the Canadian criminal justice system is systemically discriminatory in its treatment of…
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