Topic: Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization

Why Indigenous Resurgence is Needed at Universities

An interview with Lynn Lavallee

Universities in Ontario and across the country have, on the surface, committed to supporting reconciliation, Indigenization, and decolonization. Are those commitments helping […]

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From Big to Bold Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Andrea A. Davis

Scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has, both historically and in the present, done harm to Indigenous and Black communities. In […]

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A river bed

Indigenous knowledge offers solutions, but its use must be based on meaningful collaboration with Indigenous communities

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The front of an engineering building on a university campus.

Canadian engineers call for change to their private ‘iron ring’ ceremony steeped in colonialism

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A person stands and speaks to a group around a table.

Collaborative Indigenous Research is a way to repair the legacy of harmful research practices

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From Ryerson to Toronto Metropolitan University: What can we learn from the renaming?

With the new name comes a model for other renaming processes in the realm of reconciliation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston Ryerson University […]

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Are there ever really ‘financial reasons’ to fire faculty? Laurentian University, academic freedom, and the disciplining of the professoriate

Honor Brabazon, St. Jerome’s University

The 2020–21 academic year saw two incidents of Ontario professors being effectively fired: the termination of 116 of the 345 professors at […]

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Want to decolonize education? Where classes are held matters

The grand opening of the redeveloped Merchants Corner in Winnipeg’s North End in April 2018. (University of Winnipeg/Flickr), CC BY-NC-ND Murray Sinclair, […]

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