Senator Yvonne Boyer

About the Honourable Senator Yvonne Boyer

Senator Boyer is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario with her ancestral roots in the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Red River.

In the Spotlight

Issues

Coerced Sterilization

As a youth in Saskatchewan and as a nurse in the healthcare system, Senator Boyer saw firsthand the discrimination and coercion faced by Indigenous women. Today, she is part of a Senate committee that is investigating the roots and solutions to this unspeakable racism.

Issues

Prison reform

The mental-health crisis in our prison system has to be addressed in society at large—with compassion, care and culturally astute initiatives.

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Lisa Shepherd @MetisArtisan·

Scissors pocket in carmine, gold and white. With gratitude to Naomi Smith for teaching me the raised beadwork stylings of my great grandmothers.

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Donald Worme @DonaldWorme·

Alisa Lombard for SWL Legal, submissions today opposing an application by the College of Physicians & Surgeons & the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association removing themselves as proposed defendants in the Proposed Class Action re: forced sterilization of Indigenous females.

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Remembering our sisters, mothers, daughters, aunties and grandmothers on this 6th of December, marking the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, the 30th anniversary of the murder of 14 young women at l’École Polytechnique de Montreal in 1989.