/newsroom/taxonomy/term/9016/all en /newsroom/channels/news/cindy-blackstock-awarded-sshrcs-highest-honour-343906 <p>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 Impact Awards.</p> <p>ƻ����Ժ’s Cindy Blackstock, one of Canada’s most important social work scholars and an indefatigable advocate for Indigenous children’s rights and welfare, has won the SSHRC Gold Medal, the federal agency’s highest honour. The Gold Medal is awarded to an individual whose sustained leadership, dedication, and originality of thought have inspired students and colleagues alike.</p> Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:51:03 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 288541 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/leading-mcgill-scholars-celebrated-sharing-their-work-media-339157 <p>Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier has announced the 2022 winners of the <a href="/newsroom/principals-prize">Principal’s Prize for Public Engagement through Media</a>. The prize was created to recognize exceptional scholars who share their knowledge with the media and the public, whether about sustainability, politics, music, science and engineering or COVID-19.</p> Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:55:30 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 288093 at /newsroom /newsroom/cindy-blackstock Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:21:04 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 271899 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-laurent-commission-childrens-rights-and-youth-protection-330814 <p>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 public and raised questions about the system. The report, released on May 3, calls for a wide range of changes, including increased funding for preventive programs aimed at helping children in distress, an independent commissioner to oversee the youth projection system and a charter of children's rights.</p> Tue, 04 May 2021 20:20:49 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 263302 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/lancet-cindy-blackstock-advocate-first-nations-children-285425 <p>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 racism against First Nations children has been used as a cost-saving measure. I don't want that job to exist—now or ever.” Blackstock is the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, a charity that, for 20 years, has lobbied for First Nations children to have equitable access to health and social welfare services.<br /></p> Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:14:47 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 33017 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/opinion-reforming-child-welfare-first-step-toward-reconciliation-269202 <p><em>Cindy Blackstock is professor of social work, ƻ����Ժ, and executive director, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.</em></p> Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:49:34 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32126 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/universal-childrens-day-november-20-264269 <h3><strong><a href="/socialwork/people-real/faculty/cindy-blackstock">Cindy Blackstock</a>, School of Social Work, ƻ����Ժ</strong></h3> <div> <blockquote> <p><em>“International Children's Day recognizes the rights and contributions of children worldwide including the right to non-discrimination.<br /> As Canada celebrates, the federal government fails to comply with three legal orders by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and a unanimous House of Commons Motion to cease racial discrimination against 165,000 First Nations children and youth.<br /></em></p></blockquote></div> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:27:18 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26412 at /newsroom