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ASPP-funded author wins the 2010 Governor General’s Award for French-language non-fiction
By: Kel Morin-Parsons, Manager of ASPP Michel Lavoie’s C’est ma seigneurie que je réclame : la lutte des Hurons de Lorette pour la seigneurie de Sillery,1650-1900, is the winner of the 2010 Governor General’s Award for French-language non-fiction...
Indigenizing the academy: Insurgent education and the roles of Indigenous intellectuals
Jeff Corntassel, University of Victoria Guest Contributor This blog post is part of the Federation Equity Issues Portfolio’s ‘Transforming the Academy: Indigenous Education’ series, which will be the focus of the Portfolio’s programming at Congress...
Leading on equity and diversity matters: Yes we can, and yes we will!
Malinda S. Smith, Vice-President, Equity Issues Canada’s rapidly changing demographic reality is shaped by globalization, migration and diversity. Our population growth is driven by racialised (visible) minorities and Aboriginal people. Currently...
A call for dialogue: Race, representation and media
Patrick Case, Director, Human Rights and Equity Office, University of Guelph Guest Contributor A recent magazine article on Asian students has stirred a heated debate about balancing freedom of expression with protecting Canadians from discrimination...
Teaching Equity Matters – Race, space and the law, Part II
Angela P. Harris, Berkeley Law School Guest Contributor In Part I of this reflection on teaching race matters I examined a successful story of co-teaching race and the law in Brazil with Denise da Silva. In Part II I draw on an unsuccessful story...
Between militarization and litigiousness: Canada's policy choices in the fight against cybercrime
According to a February 2010 survey sponsored by the antivirus software company Symantec, 79% of respondents in 14 countries believed that cybercriminals will never be brought to justice. As the risks linked to the use of Internet and its...
Teaching Equity Matters – Race, space and the law, Part I
Angela P. Harris, Berkeley Law School Guest Contributor These reflections are based on a workshop I conducted on “ teaching race and the law” at the University of Alberta this past October. I hope these reflections will be useful to those teachers...
Multiculturalism, Multicultiphobia and Pluralism
Phil Ryan, Carleton University Guest Contributor Politics is in part a battle over the meaning of words. Imagine, for example, a parallel universe where United States fundamentalist Pat Robertson’s definition of feminism had become dominant:...
Thunder in her soul – Remembering Patricia A. Monture
Malinda S. Smith, Vice President, Equity Patricia Monture Her Mohawk name was ‘Aywahande,’ or “the one who speaks first or gets things going with words.” Professor Patricia (‘Trish’) Monture, the brilliant and accomplished Haudenosaunee lawyer...