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Grey Matter: Social Media Weaponized Against Professors – Professor Frances Widdowson
When did wokeism begin capturing academic institutions? Find out from someone on the inside.
U of L President Cancelled this Widdowson Lecture: How Wokeism Threatens Academic Freedom
"Originally, the U of L announced it would allow Frances Widdowson’s talk to proceed under the principle of free expression, but university officials later changed their tone. U of L President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Mike Mahon issued a statement on the event, saying,...
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 battle with university...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
The Threat to Academic Freedom, Freedom of Inquiry and Academic Standards
In September 2018, the Office of Academic Indigenization provided Mount Royal University (MRU) faculty with a document entitled “Indigenizing Mount Royal’s Curricula: A Call For Engagement.” This document affirmed MRU’s “commit[ment] to indigenizing its curricula to...
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry – With Frances Widdowson
Listen to Frances Widdowson on CJOB here (60 minutes).
Frances Widdowson, Co-Author of Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry
Frontier interviews Frances Widdowson in a Conservation on the Frontier.