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Indigenous lawyer to receive honorary UNBC degree SHARE ON: Dr.Val Napoleon (Photo by UNBC) A Northern BC Indigenous lawyer and professor will be receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UNBC during the 2021 virtual convocation. Dr. Val Napoleon is a lawyer, professor and researcher who co-established the first-in-the-world Indigenous Law Degree program at the University of Victoria in 2018. “I am from northern B.C. where I have spent so much of my working life,” said Dr. Napoleon, “This honorary degree is a recognition from the north and of northern people so it really touches my heart.” The Indigenous Law Degree program provides students with two law degrees over four years an Indigenous law degree and a common law degree. ....
University of Northern British Columbia community will have access to free menstrual products beginning this fall. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Mar 12, 2021 4:52 PM PT | Last Updated: March 14 Social work student Emily Erickson helped with the successful campaign to make menstrual products free at UNBC s Prince George campus in northern B.C.(UNBC / handout) comments Beginning this fall, students and other members of the University of Northern British Columbia community will have access to free menstrual products in select washrooms at the Prince George campus. This is excellent news, said Abby Dooks, director of external affairs at the UNBC Graduate Students Society. It s heartwarming to see it come to fruition like this. ....
Free menstrual products will soon be offered at UNBC myprincegeorgenow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from myprincegeorgenow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“We want to bring menstrual products to campus and make them available free-of-charge for students and other people who access the university who are menstruating to end period poverty and end the stigma they may be experiencing,” said Emily Erickson, a student currently completing a practicum at the Northern Women’s Centre. “Period poverty is something menstruating people experience when they don’t have the proper tools, such as menstruation products, to manage their periods.” Menstrual products are expensive and some people are forced to forgo buying other essentials to purchase them, Erickson said. “We don’t want people to have to choose between coming to class or staying home because they don’t have proper products to make their day comfortable and sanitary,” she said. “Everyone has the right to feel clean and comfortable.” ....
UNBC could become first Canadian University to offer free menstrual products in bathrooms SHARE ON: Photo submitted by Abby Dooks/UNBC After a new initiative, the University of Northern BC could become the first University in the country to offer free menstrual products on its campuses. Known as the Period Promise Campaign, started by the United Way, aims to tackle the issue of period poverty – many people who need to use these products cannot afford them. The Northern British Columbia Graduate Student Society has been advocating for UNBC to provide free menstrual products in all of its washrooms, but the project still has a little ways to go. ....