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Advocating Social Justice and Human Rights
Congress 2021 blog edition The University of Alberta Career Corner’s “Careers in Social Justice and Human Rights'' webcast featured professionals working in areas of social justice and human rights, who shed light to the audience on new perspectives...
Indigenous-led Conservation: A Pathway to Reconcile with our Indigenous Community
Congress 2021 blog edition In the first of Congress 2021’s Big Thinking series, titled “Yáázǫ Kéorat’ı̨ (We see the daylight),” member of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative The Honorable Ethel Blondin-Andrew shed light on how clean water, good...
Hope for an Unsolvable Social Injustice
Congress 2021 blog edition Congress 2021 has taken off with full force. On Thursday morning, opening keynote speaker Dr. Peter Mackie gave an inspiring talk highlighting how people and relations are key to ending homelessness. Dr. Mackie, Reader at...
Toronto’s COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Demonstrates Racism is Alive and Well in Canada, Expert Says
If you’re among the one in three Canadians who still don’t believe racism is a serious problem in our country, you don’t have to look further than our response to the COVID-19 pandemic for proof that inequity remains deeply rooted here. Dr Frances...
“The stories came from myself, too.” Markoosie Patsauq and the beginnings of Inuit literature in Canada
National Indigenous Languages Day offers a prime opportunity to talk about the first Indigenous novel ever published in Canada, written by an Inuk whose family was among those forcibly relocated to the High Arctic in 1953, and who helped lead the...
Canada’s hidden cooperative system: The legacy of the Black Banker Ladies
Democracy in the classroom: Struggles for mental equilibrium, trust and knowledge
Recent events in the United States are a stark reminder of how currents of racist hatred and thinking can lurk, concealed in the privacy of people’s thoughts until called-upon or provoked. There are folks who maybe had the misfortune of being raised...
Dr. Shirley-Anne Tate – Congress 2021
We asked Professor Shirley Tate, Canada Research Chair in Feminism and Intersectionality at the University of Alberta, about her hopes for Congress 2021. Professor Tate's feminist approach to the critical analysis of race, power, and dispossession...
