Let me get this straight. The University of Sudbury abandons its 50-year-old #IndigenousStudies program, stating its intent to pursue a French-only institution moving forward. #LaurentianUniversity takes all the courses but not the fulltime #indigenous faculty that have been...
told to expect termination notices soon. @LaurentianArts then sends out email to soon to be terminated Indigenous faculty 2 see if they want to sessional for their own courses. This reminds me of what happened to nish trappers back in my community in...
The 1960s. The ministry took away trap lines from ojibwe families & reissued them to settler trappers in the area. The settler trappers then hired the trappers that the traplines originally belonged to, exploiting their labour, locking them out of their own cabins...
#settlercolonialism at its finest. All is apparently perfectly legal in this #CCAA “Laurentian 2.0” restructuring phase. It may be lawful but it is neither just nor ethical & sound governments, Boards/administrators simply don’t do this. Thinking of my colleagues #FundLu #saveLU
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