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. “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. “My grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation and all my grandmothers before her came from north of Lake Superior. Previous lecturers include civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., writer Margaret Atwood and Stephen Lewis, a former politician, broadcaster and diplomat.

Source: thestar April 27, 2018 14:03 UTC