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Everything is alive and everyone is related: Indigenous knowing and inclusive education
Jean-Paul Restoule, OISE, University of Toronto Guest Contributor This blog post is part of the Federation Equity Issues Portfolio’s ‘Transforming the Academy: Aboriginal Education’ series, which will be the focus of the Portfolio’s programming at...
Big Thinker Keith Ambachtsheer on CBC's The House
This past spring we hosted pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer for our Big Thinking lecture on Parliament Hill. Last weekend on CBC Radio One, Keith leveraged his informed and reliable take on Canada's pension system to offer an analysis of recent...
The language of equity and diversity in the academy
Malinda S. Smith, Vice-President, Equity Issues “The term diversity is ubiquitous in university mission statements, strategic plans, recruitment brochures, and university websites.” This observation led two scholars to analyse more closely how the...
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...