Survivors call on Ottawa to pass bill to criminalize forced or coerced sterilization image/svg+xml February 24, 2026
Senator Boyer urges MPs to pass law criminalizing forced sterilization image/svg+xml February 24, 2026
Press Conference: Indigenous Group Urges Passage of Law Criminalizing Forced Sterilization image/svg+xml February 24, 2026
IC Magazine: Whose Bodies Matter? Canada’s Quiet Genocide of Indigenous Women image/svg+xml December 15, 2025
Radio-Canada: How can Indigenous women have children after being forcibly sterilized (French article) image/svg+xml October 29, 2025
CBC News: Report outlines how Indigenous survivors of coerced sterilization can pursue new pregnancies image/svg+xml October 27, 2025
Toronto Star: She was pressured into sterilization in her early 20s. Years later, she got the process reversed — and wants to help others avoid the same fate image/svg+xml October 23, 2025
National News Watch: Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile image/svg+xml October 9, 2025
A legacy of colonialism: Senate Bill S-228 aims to criminalize the forced sterilization of women | via @iPoliticsCA image/svg+xml August 7, 2025
The Penticton Herald: Survivors of forced and coerced sterilization gather to start the journey of greater understanding and healing image/svg+xml March 22, 2025
Alberta Native News: Survivors of forced and coerced sterilization gather to start the journey of greater understanding image/svg+xml March 18, 2025
Radio-Canada: First gathering to denounce forced sterilizations of Indigenous women (French article) image/svg+xml March 11, 2025
APTN News: Survivors of forced sterilization hold first gathering to support healing image/svg+xml March 8, 2025
CTV News: Quebec Court of Appeal allows Atikamekw women’s class action against health board for forced sterilizations image/svg+xml February 22, 2025
Prorogation sank Senators’ bills, but some see a silver lining amid frustration image/svg+xml January 29, 2025
Canadian Senator calls for end to forced sterilization at U of R public lecture image/svg+xml December 11, 2024
New registry seeks to determine the national scope of forced sterilization of Indigenous people image/svg+xml November 1, 2024
New group seeks to determine national scope of forced sterilization of Indigenous people in Canada image/svg+xml October 23, 2024
Senate bill tackling forced sterilization overhauled, advanced after advocate disquiet image/svg+xml September 24, 2024
Doctors who perform coerced sterilizations need to be held criminally liable, says senator image/svg+xml March 28, 2024
Canada Considers Law That Will Designate Forced Sterilization as a Criminal Offense image/svg+xml March 9, 2024
Bill to make forced and coerced sterilization a criminal offence before Senate committee image/svg+xml February 29, 2024
Victim of forced sterilization in Ottawa to support law that would penalize doctors image/svg+xml February 29, 2024
Canadian police won’t investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman image/svg+xml September 27, 2023
Métis senator calls for coerced sterilization to be a Criminal Code offence image/svg+xml August 14, 2023
Indigenous women in Canada forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped image/svg+xml July 12, 2023
The Decibel (Globe and Mail Podcast): The fight to end forced sterilization of Indigenous women image/svg+xml May 13, 2022
‘I felt pressured to say yes’: Indigenous women tell Senate committee they were coerced into sterilizations after giving birth image/svg+xml May 5, 2022
Moving the Needle on Wicked Problems Podcast - Encountering Racism in Politics image/svg+xml April 14, 2022
The Hill Times: ‘I think action is going to be taken’: stakeholders still awaiting big moves on scrapping racism in health care image/svg+xml December 8, 2021
Canada’s first Inuk governor general, Mary Simon, sparks hope for new relationship image/svg+xml July 6, 2021
Research into Forced Sterilization In Quebec. Not "ultimate goal" but new research could lead to lawsuit image/svg+xml May 20, 2021
Eagle Feather News: Senator, lawyers continue fight against coerced sterilization image/svg+xml March 2, 2021
The Globe and Mail: Residential School Survivor appointed Canada's first Indigenous Poet Laureate in Parliament image/svg+xml February 9, 2021
Federal, provincial officials discuss ways to counter anti-Indigenous racism in health care image/svg+xml January 27, 2021
The Law School Show: Legislating in the Upper Chamber: The Honourable Senator Yvonne Boyer on Advocating for Indigenous Rights in the Senate (podcast) image/svg+xml January 1, 2021
National Association of Friendship Centres: Urban Indigenous Online Forum On Systemic Racism in Healthcare image/svg+xml November 6, 2020
Globe and Mail: Emergency Meeting Spurs Calls to Address Systemic Racism in Health Care image/svg+xml October 16, 2020
CTV News: Joyce Echaquan's death highlights systemic racism in health care, experts say image/svg+xml October 6, 2020
Montreal Gazette: Indigenous woman records racist slurs by hospital staff before her death image/svg+xml October 6, 2020
Globe and Mail: Indigenous woman records slurs, taunts of Quebec hospital staff before her death image/svg+xml October 6, 2020
El drama de las mujeres indígenas esterilizadas en Canadá (Spanish Article) image/svg+xml July 4, 2020
APTN: Senator asks feds why family’s Jordan’s Principle application was denied image/svg+xml June 18, 2020
APTN: Senator responds to allegation of forced exam on child by physician image/svg+xml June 12, 2020
CBC News: Rally at Sask. Legislature calls for 'immediate' end to coerced sterilizations image/svg+xml November 26, 2019
The Globe & Mail: B.C. MP urging Trudeau government to lay out its plan to address forced, coerced sterilizations of women image/svg+xml November 21, 2019
The Globe & Mail: Senator urges Trudeau to include ending forced, coerced sterilizations of women in mandate letters image/svg+xml November 12, 2019
Vice: Indigenous Women in Canada Are Still Being Sterilized Without Their Consent image/svg+xml September 9, 2019
CTV News: House committee 'deeply disturbed' by reports of coerced, forced sterilization image/svg+xml August 6, 2019
London Abused Women's Centre: Digital Advertising Campaign to Reduce Sex Trafficking Reaches 10,500,000 image/svg+xml July 24, 2019
The National Observer: New complaint of coerced sterilization foreseeable and preventable: lawyer image/svg+xml April 5, 2019
Toronto Star: Amnesty calls for accountability on coerced sterilization of Indigenous women image/svg+xml November 12, 2018
Toronto Star: Indigenous women coerced into sterilizations across Canada image/svg+xml November 1, 2018
Bill S-228 (sterilization procedures): Senator Boyer speaks at 3rd Reading image/svg+xml October 1, 2025
Bill S-228 (sterilization procedures) - Senator Boyer's 2nd Reading Speech image/svg+xml June 11, 2025
Senate Question Period: Upholding constitutionally protected Indigenous rights image/svg+xml June 5, 2025
Senate Question Period with The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. image/svg+xml November 26, 2024
Bringing Michif, the language of the Metis Nation, to the Senate of Canada image/svg+xml November 10, 2023
Bringing Michif, the language of the Metis Nation, to the Senate of Canada image/svg+xml November 10, 2023
Question on Bill S-232 - the Health Centred Approach to Substance Use Act image/svg+xml March 22, 2022
Third Reading of Bill C-15: An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples image/svg+xml June 16, 2021
Third Reading: Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code image/svg+xml May 5, 2021
Calling on the Senate to study the forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women image/svg+xml March 18, 2021
Question Period: Indigenous Consultation & development of distinctions based heath care legislation. image/svg+xml February 17, 2021
Speech on S-207, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code - Mandatory Minimums image/svg+xml November 3, 2020
Amending the Women and Gender Equality Act (Bill S-209): Senator Boyer lends her support image/svg+xml February 26, 2020
Question Period: U.N. report on the sterilization of Indigenous women: Senator Boyer's question to Senator Harder image/svg+xml December 12, 2019
Administrative segregation of prisoners (Bill C-83): Senator Oh references Senator Boyer image/svg+xml June 12, 2019
Question Period: Sterilization of Indigenous women: Senator Boyer's question to Senator Harder image/svg+xml June 5, 2019
Question Period: Sterilization of Indigenous women: Senator Boyer's question to Minister O'Regan image/svg+xml April 30, 2019
When will the Government finalize and sign its treaty with the Metis Nation - Saskatchewan? image/svg+xml December 16, 2024
Bill S-250 - Panel 6: Native Women's Association & LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) image/svg+xml March 22, 2024
Bill S-250 - Panel 4: First Nations Health Authority & Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists image/svg+xml March 22, 2024
Bill S-250 at Committee Stage - Panel 3: Officials from Dept. of Justice and Indigenous Services image/svg+xml March 22, 2024
Bill S-250 at Committee Stage - Panel 2: Nicole Rabbit (Survivor) & Alisa Lombard (Lawyer) image/svg+xml February 29, 2024
Bill S-250 at Committee Stage - Panel 1: Senator Yvonne Boyer (Sponsor of the Bill) image/svg+xml February 29, 2024
Human Rights Committee: Studying: the forced and coerced sterilization of persons in Canada image/svg+xml April 26, 2022
Questioning the Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal about his nomination to the SCC image/svg+xml June 23, 2021
Question Period: Reports that Joyce Echaquan had been sterilized against her will. image/svg+xml May 25, 2021
Examining Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code image/svg+xml March 18, 2021
Senator Boyer's questions at committee for Dr. Whales and Senator Mégie: Bill C-7 (Medical Assistance in Dying) image/svg+xml February 3, 2021
Senator Boyer's questions at committee: Bill C-7 (Medical Assistance in Dying) image/svg+xml February 1, 2021
LCJC examines, Bill C-7 (MAID), Question for Sean Krausert, “We need to assist people in living, not in dying” image/svg+xml November 24, 2020
Bill C7, MAID. Prof. Jocelyn Downie, provides her expertise on how the legislation can be improved image/svg+xml November 24, 2020
LCJC examines, Bill C-7, MAID. Sen. Boyer asks question to Andrew Galley, CMHA image/svg+xml November 23, 2020
Bill C-7, MAID Sen. Boyer's concerned about Indigenous peoples having adequate access to healthcare image/svg+xml November 23, 2020
LCJC examines, Bill C-7, Medical Assistance in Dying. Sen. Boyer asks question of Min. Lametti image/svg+xml November 23, 2020
Jordan's Principle: Question by Senator Boniface on behalf of Senator Boyer about Indigenous access to legal funding image/svg+xml June 17, 2020
Trans Mountain Pipeline (Bill S-245): Senator Boyer's question to Senator Black image/svg+xml May 5, 2018
Vulnerable Targets: Trans Prisoner Safety, the Law, and Sexual Violence in the Prison System image/svg+xml December 1, 2019
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Prisoners’ Rights to Health within the Prison System: Missed Opportunities image/svg+xml December 1, 2019
Development of a collaborative research framework to foster IKT: the example of a study conducted by and with a First Nations, Inuit and Métis community and their academic research partners image/svg+xml November 22, 2019
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Women’s Health: A Rights-Based Approach image/svg+xml December 12, 2017
External Review: Tubal Ligation in the Saskatoon Health Region: The Lived Experience of Aboriginal Women image/svg+xml July 11, 2017
First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health and the Law: A Framework for the Future (PhD Thesis, 2011) image/svg+xml April 15, 2011
Using the UN Framework to Advance and Protect the Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada image/svg+xml December 12, 2010
Comparative Analysis of Canadian Law, Aboriginal Law and Civil Law: Traditions in Selected Civil Law Jurisdictions image/svg+xml December 1, 2007
First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health Care: The Crown’s Fiduciary Obligation image/svg+xml June 24, 2004
JSGS Public Lecture ~ Ending forced and coerced sterilization in Canada image/svg+xml December 10, 2024
A message from Senator Boyer on the National Day For Truth And Reconciliation. image/svg+xml September 30, 2024
2021 Annual Lecture for the McGill University Research Group on Health and Law - The intersect of health and the law; an Indigenous journey image/svg+xml September 15, 2021
Two Hundred and Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Village of Merrickville, Ontario image/svg+xml June 4, 2018