Frances Widdowson probably isn’t someone most Canadians recognize. I’m here to tell you why they should. In terms of Canada’s intellectual culture, Frances Widdowson matters because she is a classic and prolific academic. In a time when demagoguery easily flourishes, …
Frances Widdowson, Co-Author of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry
Frontier interviews Frances Widdowson in a Conservation on the Frontier.
Reaping Postmodernism’s Violent Whirlwind
Part Three of a Four Part Series In December 2008, Denis Rancourt was suspended from his tenured professorship in physics at the University of Ottawa—an action that resulted in his termination a few months later. This occurred after a five-year …
Naming Book Titles: I Will Die on This Hill
Part Two of a Four Part Series On November 5, 2022, I was fortunate to participate on “The Cost of Academic Dissent” panel with Joshua Katz, Amy Wax, and Elizabeth Weiss, at Stanford University’s Academic Freedom Conference. In my presentation, …
Fighting Back Against Big Brother’s Love
Part One of a Four Part Series In the last part of George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the main character, Winston Smith, is arrested by the Thought Police and subjected to a long interrogation process by O’Brien, a member of …
A Lamentable Tale of Two Colonies
During the whole of recorded history, the empire has been the most constant and common form of political organization. A basic, self-evident feature of all empire-building has been the successful occupation of the lands of the local, Indigenous inhabitants by …
A Narrative Reversal Like No Other
Punching Holes In A Story That Doesn’t Hold Water Although many Canadians are finally beginning to doubt the narrative fed to them over the course of a year of grim media reportage of “unmarked graves” and missing and murdered Indigenous …
Residential Schools and Unmarked Graves: Is open inquiry possible?
Rodney Clifton, Brian Giesbrecht and Frances Widdowson discuss the Kamloops Cemetery controversy. Moderated by Paul Viminitz. Saturday, July 10, 2021 Over the last few months, hundreds of unmarked graves of people connected to residential schools have been identified. It …
New Book: Indigenizing the University: Diverse Perspectives
Diverse perspectives from a variety of disciplines examine the multiple aspects of university Indigenization. CALGARY, AB, March 1, 2021 – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new book, Indigenizing the University: Diverse Perspectives edited by Frances …