The Star’s Tanya Talaga named 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer – Thestar.com

Award-winning author will focus on issues of Indigenous youth suicide in communities in Canada and beyond in prestigious national lecture series. Previous lecturers have included Martin Luther King Jr., Margaret Atwood and Stephen Lewis.

April 27, 2018

Toronto Star investigative journalist and national bestselling author Tanya Talaga will deliver the prestigious 2018 CBC Massey Lectures on Indigenous youth suicide — an issue very close to her heart.

Titled All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, her five lectures, which will be recorded live across the country this fall, will be based on her research and reporting as the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy on issues of Indigenous youth suicide in communities in Canada and beyond.

“The lectures will begin this year in Thunder Bay and I believe this is a first for the Masseys. It was extremely important to me to start where my mother’s family came from,” said Talaga, a 20-year-veteran at the Star, whose book, Seven Fallen Feathers, about the lives and deaths of seven Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay, was the winner of this year’s RBC Taylor Prize.

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