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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 ...

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 new...

“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 purcha...

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 wa...