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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...
Thunder in her soul – Remembering Patricia A. Monture
Malinda S. Smith, Vice President, Equity 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, educator, writer and...
Lawyer, professor, Mi’kmaq woman: Equity matters in my experience
Patricia Doyle-Bedwell, Dalhousie University Guest Contributor This blog post is part of the Federation Equity Portfolio’s ‘Equality Then and Now’ series, marking 40 years since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Look for more on this topic...
Indigenous knowledge, anti-colonialism and empowerment
Waziyatawin, University of Victoria Guest Contributor Indigenous knowledge recovery is an anti-colonial project. It is a project that gains its momentum from the anguish of loss of what was and the determined hope for what will be. It springs from...
Equity and Collective Bargaining in Canadian Universities
Linda Briskin, York University Guest Contributor Interventions to promote employment and pay equity often focus on legislation. However, collective bargaining is a significant although often invisible instrument for promoting workplace equity. Unions...
Employment Equity or Affirmative Action in Canada?
Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University Guest Contributor The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) held its first forum on equity issues in February 2009. When you consider that this forum helped to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of...
Equity (Still) Matters
Malinda S. Smith, University of Alberta Vice President, Equity Issues Equity matters. It matters in our homes, in parliament, on corporate boards and in the halls of academe. Equity matters to individuals as an expression of our desire to be treated...