Cindy Blackstock Awarded SSHRC’s highest honour

Published: 1 December 2022

Today, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the five winners of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) 2022...

Leading McGill scholars celebrated for sharing their work with the media

Published: 20 April 2022

Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier has announced the 2022 winners of the Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media. The prize was created to recognize exceptional scholars...

Experts: Laurent Commission on Children's Rights and Youth Protection

Published: 4 May 2021

Quebec is being called on to turn "anger into action" in a landmark report into the province's youth protection services, two years after the death of a seven-year-old girl in Granby shocked the...

LANCET | Cindy Blackstock: Advocate for First Nations children

Published: 27 February 2018

She has been called “Canada's Martin Luther King”, the “conscience of the nation”, and a “national hero”, but Cindy Blackstock bristles at the accolades. “The only reason my job exists is because...

Opinion: Reforming child welfare first step toward reconciliation

Published: 2 August 2017

Cindy Blackstock is professor of social work, McGill University, and executive director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.

Universal Children’s Day (November 20)

Published: 21 November 2016

Cindy Blackstock, School of Social Work, McGill University...

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